Research Group on Space, Politics and Social Emancipation

The Research Group on Space, Politics, and Social Emancipation is part of the Geography undergratuate program and the Graduate Program (master) in Sciences of Society (PPGCS) at the Federal University of Western Pará. It investigates the political dimension of geographical space, more specifically the Geography of Social Struggles.

We are organized into two research lines:

Line 1 – The spatiality of social conflicts: territories, environments, and scales
To investigate the spatial dimension of social conflicts through the analysis of the logics behind the construction of territories and environments, and the multi-scalar dynamics of social subjects.

Line 2 – Corporealities and intersectionalities in the Amazon
Intersectionality implies recognizing that social markers do not operate in isolation, but instead build layers of vulnerability and strength. It is the racialized and dissident bodies of peripheral, Indigenous, peasant, and quilombola peoples in the Amazon that have revealed the limits of hegemonic epistemologies, while at the same time creating new ways of existing and resisting in territories, as well as narrating and inhabiting the world.

Within research, we are currently coordinating a national project funded by CNPq, focusing on the struggle for Indigenous territories in Pará, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Rio Grande do Sul.

In extension activities, we engage in science communication in Geography and related fields through NEPES's YouTube channel (NEPES Geografia). See a brief summary of our results in the video "Indigenous Territories and Other Forms of Social Appropriation of Nature".

In teaching, we regularly promote the Élisée Reclus Study Group and the Geography, Gender, and Sexuality in the Amazon Study Group (GESA).

NEPES supports and is part of the Network of Researchers in (Socio)Environmental Geography (RPGSA).

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