Benei Lab

National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Ile-de-France (FR1) · France

ERC-funded
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ERC Advanced Grant · 2023

Moving Bodies and Memories of African Slavery in South America

The MOVING project is aimed at developing an ethnographic and multi-disciplinary methodology to study the bodily traces of Africa-originated slavery enduring in post-slavery and diasporic contexts. The project is rooted in an anthropology of the memories of slavery that the PI has been conducting mainly in Colombia for the past fifteen years, and in her previous work on bodies, senses, emotions and nationalism in India. As importantly, the PI is a certified practitioner of a conscious, embodied movement methodology which she has been integrating into her academic practice, as field researcher and in teaching and supervision. Taking research into new theoretical and methodological…

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