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CULTURE AND NATURE Classic and contemporary approaches to the concepts of culture and nature. Nature and culture: the production of nature. The environment as an element of culture and nature. Critique of nature / society and culture / environment dualisms. Sociology and Environmental Rationality; Eco-development and other alternatives uses of nature. Societies and configurations of territories and environment. Modes of life, local territory regimes and diverse political processes. |
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CULTURE AND POWER Cultural representations and the establishment of hegemonies in domestic or international scope. Mechanisms of representation used by cultural goods such as literature, cinema and music. Reception of cultural goods by critics in the light of a transdiciplinary theoretical instrument of deconstructive character. The consolidation of hegemonies through culture. Symbolic relations of power. The politics-theater. |
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CULTURE, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Culture and identity. National identity. Contemporary identities: gender, sexuality, religion, politics. Ethnicity and processes of construction of contrastive and situational identities. Ethnic emergence, state policy and social movements. |
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EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SOCIETY Education and culture are different concepts in time and space. Monocultural education and challenges of educational practices based on the humanization, dialogue and emancipation of the subjects. Art in Education: Interterritoriality and interdisciplinarity. Planetary education, structured under a Paradigm of Complexity. |
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HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNSHIP II Structure and Function of Higher Education. National Curricular Guidelines for undergraduate courses. Policies for the evaluation of higher education: ENADE and other references. Research as teaching practice in higher education. Extension as teaching practice in higher education. Teaching and learning planning. Internship and teaching in Higher Education: dialoguing with theories and practices. Teaching in higher education. |
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INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERART STUDIES Language and representation. Sign (linguistic) and text. Verbal and non-verbal text. Intertextuality (s). Semiotic approaches of the arts (Intersemiotic translation and ekphrasis). Comparatism as a methodological perspective. Dialogues between literature and other arts. Cultural studies and other transdisciplinary discourses involving texts in various arts. |
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KNOWLEDGE, TRADITIONAL PRACTICES AND LEARNING Production of traditional knowledge and its reproduction through learning among indigenous peoples, extractivists, and riverine people in the Amazon. Perspectives that treat learning as a diffuse phenomenon that occurs from social practices. Presentation of theoretical and ethnographic studies of environmentally and socially situated practices of knowledge production and reproduction. |
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MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL HERITAGE Theoretical and methodological paradigms on the concept of Heritage. Reflection on the place and practices of materiality and immateriality in social relations. History, memoirs and heritage. Intersections between Geography and Tourism and heritage studies. Heritage and the Amazon. Art, museums and heritage. |
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NARRATIVE, IMAGINATION AND CULTURE Theories of History, Literature and Cultural Studies. Cultural images of the Amazon and narratives of locally born writers or from the foreigner´s point of view. Historical questions, interdisciplinary frontiers and dialogues, written and oral narratives that problematize the disciplinary field and national identity: official versions and case studies and categories. Intangible heritage and collective identities from resistance movements and narrative insurrections. |
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POST-COLONIAL STUDIES The struggles of national liberation and the establishment, from the intellectuals of the former colonies, of a broad debate on colonialism and the resistance that crosses subjects and diverse themes: history of science, literary criticism, anthropology of colonialism, cultural studies , decolonial sociology, education and popular communication. The class addresses the classics that gave rise to these debates. |
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SPECIAL TOPICS ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY Dialogue between disciplinarity and multidisciplinarity. Different types or degrees of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Contributions of interdisciplinarity in the field of science and teaching. Interdisciplinary training. Art as an interdisciplinary field. The city as an interdisciplinary space. |
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SPEECH AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATION Representation of social events and social actors in postmodernity. Discourse on globalization and social change in society. Fragmentation of identity. Culture in postmodern society. Time and space in modernity. The postmodern condition. The rise of modernism as a cultural force. The glocal (Global + Local) and social facts: language, religion, art, work and festivals. |
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THEORY, ART HISTORY Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Art and the History of Art. Aesthetics in the Greek World (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle). Aesthetics in I. Kant and G. Hegel. The History of Anonymous Art by H. Wöllflin. Historical Materialism and the History of Art. Psychology in art. Postmodernity in art.
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TOPICS ON CULTURE AND ARTISTIC LANGUAGES Reflection on more significant transversal topics of artistic phenomena of the contemporary society. Artistic production analyzed from the aesthetic and cultural point of view, linked to the political tensions (gender, ethnicity, groups and communities), social (class inequalities), ecological, as well as the insertion in the cultural industry and the contradictions of the art in contemporary capitalism. |
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