India´s Postcolonial thought. A space conquered by the critique of the western thought.

• Grant number: 13/10089-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: October 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Thomas Patrick Dwyer
• Grantee: Mariana Faiad Batista Alves
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Drawing initially on the work of Bhabha, Spivak and Guha, aiming to go further and explore other authors, this research aims to grasp the Indian intellectual critique to the western thought, intending to find a way to turn this critique into a Brazilian critique as well. Following the position India and Brazil have conquered into the world economy in the past few years, this research considers the possibility that a social theory built upon a critique of the western thought could participate and contribute into the path Brazil and India are building as "emerging countries". Those three authors are credited for at least consider the possibility - and therefore the urgency - of an emancipated social theory, developed under the idiosyncrasies of India, without disregarding the place that belongs to India in the world history. The critique of the western social theory opens up a place for new social thought; an intellectual creativity in tune with the influent position India (and Brazil) is acquiring in the world economy. Within the Brazilian academic agenda, that critique does not hold such a relevant space and that might be the reason why the social sciences ongoing in Brazil have not realized the importance of a dialog with India. In this sense, this research will attempt to raise some awareness regarding the importance of a critique to the western thought - such as the one raised by Indian scholars - in the Brazilian social thought which would also collaborate for the construction of a fertile dialogue between Indian and Brazilian social sciences.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ALVES, Mariana Faiad Batista. The attrobutes of violence: riots in postcolonial India. 2018. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.