Arab, African, Asian, and South American themes, narratives, and representations of diasporic communities
About us
Registered at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, in Portugueses) in 2009, the group aims to develop research and promote academic knowledge and critical reflection on Arab, African, Asian, South American and their diasporas, including issues related to migration, refuge, statelessness, interculturality, intersectionality and translingual. In addition, the group stimulates initiatives in the area of education and cultural production, in partnership with the UN and other international bodies.
It is a transdisciplinary research group, with emphasis on literature, linguistics, history, sociology, and law.
It has 8 research lines: 1) Decoloniality and epistemologies of the South; 2) Migration and Refuge in South America, Arab countries, Africa and the Global South; 3) Travel narratives as metaphors for the quest for knowledge; 4) Orientalism, post-colonial studies, decoloniality and imaginative geographies: inventions of an Orient, of Africa and of non-Western spaces; 5) Comparative national experiences: Latin America, Africa and Asia; 6) Religion, ethnic identities and hybridisms: origin narratives, discipline of bodies and trans-regional experiences; 7) Translation and analysis of manuscripts and works in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Kiswahili, Tamil, Konkani, Portuguese and Spanish; and 8) Contemporary art in the Middle East: between cultural, linguistic, religious tradition and transnational flows.
Researchers
This research group is formed by more than 40 researchers from Brazil and from countries such as Senegal, Syria, Lebanon, Mozambique, and Morocco, among others.
Publications
Among the various publications linked to the group are Migrant Literary Expressions, Languages of Survival: Migrations, Interlanguages, Narratives and Representations, Altercience: Critical Proposals and Creative Processes for Knowledge, Arab Presence in South America, and Delight of the Foreigner in Everything that is Astonishing and Wonderful: A Study of a Baghdali Travelogue, by Prof. Dr. Paulo Daniel Elias Farah, co-edited by the National Libraries of Algiers, Caracas and Rio de Janeiro and by the BibliASPA Editions.
Theses and Dissertations
More than 60 theses and dissertations by researchers linked to the researcb group have already been defended. Currently, there are more than 90 ongoing research projects at the Master's, Doctoral, and Post-Doctoral levels.
