Ataya: The HUMA Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
13:00-14:00 SAST 

Speaker: 
Marcelo C. Rosa (Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University, Brazil)

➤ Project/Paper: TBD 

Topic: The seminar presents a book project addressing the limits of the social sciences in dealing with other-than-modern subjects. The central argument revolves around and critiques the explanatory centrality of a single modern colonial ontology to analytically validate every collective existence in our research, especially in sociology. Inspired mainly by an assessment of ontoformative gestures assembled in the works of third-world and non-white feminist scholars, the project and the presentation will focus on the necessary ontological politics to study land claims in South Africa.

About the speaker: 

Marcelo C. Rosa is a professor of Sociology at the Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University, where he is the Head of the Research Lab on Non-Exemplary Sociology. He is also a visiting Research Fellow at HUMA-Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town.

 

 

How Ataya works: One presenter and their work – in exchange with the audience. Each Ataya session engages with selected work by the presenter (a text, artwork, performance, even food). The presenter introduces their work and grounds the subsequent discussion with the participants. For best engagement, we recommend participants to view the work (made available in advance on our website) before the session. More on the Ataya Series


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