Cultural Displacements as Political and Identity acts: Brief Essays on Some Brazilian Cases

Abstract

We begin with the concepts of identity and difference to try to point some relationships existing between the social construction of identities and its geographical and regional link. As to delimit the conceptual and interpretative use, this text, written purposefully in essay format, restrains the bibliography to authors in the area of Cultural Studies. We depart from a brief presentation and description of some Brazilian situations. Our objective is to exemplify how social appropriation and reproduction of the concepts of identity and difference may help to build an identity and, therefore, to intervene in social reorganization. Our study is inserted in what has been called southern studies, that is, studies thinking and produced from southern epistemologies. Although the authors used also dialogue with other fields of study, we try to explore the analysis by thinking from the south. Departing from the cases we present we intend to contribute with expanding the studies on the objective/subjective relationship between identity and territory.

Keywords

• Identity, difference, territory, cultural acts, southern epistemologies, southern studies, global south, Latin America, South America, Brazil