Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023): Cenas das vidas culturais indígena, afro-brasileira, africana e timorense em tempos contemporâneos

Life has become increasingly complex in contemporary times. The cultural scenes of people living in the Americas, Africa and Asia have reflected quite conflicting socio-political dealings and reconfigurations in the relationships between these people. It is through these dealings that they are recomposing their ethnocultural autonomies, their perceptions of gender, sexual orientation, and the defense of the inviolable freedom of conscience and beliefs as well as the free exercise of religious cults. They are also redefining their behavior in relation to the environment, food security, climate change, democracy, citizenship, and exposing on debate urgent issues such as prejudice, discrimination and intolerance in the face of sociocultural differences. These people are also promoting (re)thinking about the relationship between diversity and inequality that persist among peoples. Naturally, it is relevant to deepen the debate on current global historical processes by weaving (re)compositions of the scenes of contemporary cultural life. These aspects are loaded with meanings and sensitivities and it gives rise to interdisciplinary perspectives allowing researchers and scholars from different areas of knowledge, from diverse ethnocultural and social origins to dialogue about scenes of Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, African and Timorian cultural lives in contemporary times. This “2022 Special Dossier” aims to provide a framework of approaches, trends and methodological, historical, epistemological, aesthetic, hermeneutic and related areas, which allows the composition of a transdisciplinary scenario and helps the reader to apprehend the contemporary universe of the people of the Americas, Africa and Asia.

Organização do dossiê: Itamar Rodrigues Paulino (Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará),  Salome Nyambura (Kenyatta University),  Augusto da Silva Júnior (Universidade de Brasília).