Marcelo C. Rosa

Marcelo C. Rosa is a Professor of Sociology in the Programme of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society at the Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University (CPDA/UFRRJ) in Brazil. He is also the coordinator of the Research Laboratory on Non-Exemplary Sociology. From 2018 to 2022, he was the head of Sociology at the Brazilian Agency for Higher Education and Graduate Studies (CAPES). In the last three decades, Professor Rosa has conducted research projects on landless social movements in Brazil and South Africa. These projects have evolved into a long-term project on how lives in, and with land in southern countries challenge current hegemonic Euro-American theories in the Social Sciences. Currently, he is developing a theoretical and methodological gesture provisionally called ontoformative ethics. This work instigates researchers to generate, from their empirical findings, innovative forms of collective existences that are not necessarily dependent on modernity, and its narratives.