Università Roma Tre

The objectives of the training activity are a) to retrace some conceptual nodes of the ethno-anthropological debate and research, from the overcoming of the concept of race to the formulation of the concept of culture, up to the deconstruction of the contradictions of culturalism, from the point of view of a new ethnography of contemporary worlds; b) to provide critical elements to deal with themes and problems related to contemporary globalisation as a complex interweaving of local and transnational processes; c) to develop the perspective of political anthropology studies, in the analysis of the historical contradictions linked to the concept of ethnic identity as well as in the reflections that define the sphere of multiculturalism, placing them in relation with the realities of migration and in the study of the different forms in which old and new racisms, together with other practices of exclusion, articulate new processes of social construction of difference.