Project Details
Projekt
The Black Coalition for Rights: an intersectional alliance
Applicant
Professor Dr. Sergio Costa
Subject Area
Sociological Theory
African, American and Oceania Studies
African, American and Oceania Studies
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 496295891
This project interrogates how emerging intersectional alliances overcome structural challenges to articulate struggles for justice focusing on contradictory yet interconnected claims concerning gender, race, and class issues, among others. To examine this broad question, the project zooms in on a concrete case: the Black Coalition for Rights, created in 2019 in Brazil to advocate against racism and sexism, as well as for democracy and social justice. In line with the broader objectives of the Research Unit which seeks to investigate innovative forms of collaboration while simultaneously developing more equitable collaborative research, the project will be conducted with scholars and civil society actors based in Brazil within symmetrical and non-extractivist formats of cooperation (participative research methods, joint workshops, co-authored publications, etc.). At the analytical level, this project examines the discursive and political practices employed by the Black Coalition for Rights to reconcile seemingly incompatible interests of various social movements and organizations with diverse regional and social backgrounds joined by the Coalition such as Quilombolas (Maroon communities), Black movements, women’s organizations, and LGBTIQ+ collectives. Theoretically, the project contributes to contemporary debates on the (contingent) linkages between intersectional positions in the social structure and political preferences. At the level of politics of knowledge, it relies on a close cooperation between scholars from Brazil and Germany with the Black Coalition for Rights for discussing and improving the instruments used by the Coalition to generate and reproduce the knowledge required for its political incidence. Concretely, the project will contribute to producing, disseminating, preserving, and storing this knowledge in collaborative archives.
DFG Programme
Research Units
International Connection
Brazil
Cooperation Partners
Dr. Fernando Baldraia; Professorin Dr. Flavia Rios
