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Silvina Silva Aras
School Tutor (History)

Research

I am interested on the following topics:

Cultural Studies, Racism and Empire studies, Sensorial Studies, Language and Translation Studies, African Cultural Studies, Frenchspeaking African Culture and Arts, French popular Culture, African Intellectuals from 1950's to 1980's, African Popular Music, World Music, Festival of Arts, Exotism, Postcolonial Studies and Subaltern Studies.

And more recently: Self-Ethnography, Art and Academia, Senses Studies.

I am currently working on a small project about Southern epistemologies and discussions about the origin of the concept of "decolonial". Key words: Global South, Southern epistemologies, South-South exchanges, Africa and Latin America, anti-colonial narratives and programs from the Global South and from the Global North.