Cristiano Nunes Alves

Visiting Scholar

Cristiano Nunes Alves is PhD in Geography (2014) from the University of Campinas (Brazil), also participated in University of São Paulo’s Postdoctoral Program in Geography (2017), and in the PhD Professional Development course in Geography at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris, France (2011–2012). Currently is professor at the State University of Maranhão (Brazil), teaching both undergraduate and graduate Geography courses and coordinating the “Núcleo de Estudos em Território, Cultura e Planejamento” [Center for the Study of Territory, Culture and Planning] (MARIELLE FRANCO-UEMA). Have been developing researches in urban geography and epistemology of geography on subjects such as cultural circuits, music and phonographic production, communication and information, social movements, modernizations in the Amazon region, and housing. Is postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics/City University of New York (CPCP-CUNY).

Participating Years

2022–2023

Revolutionary Arts

Wary of making politics an aesthetic in disguise, radical theory and practice have nevertheless embraced all kinds of artistic provocations and traditions in every form and genre. At the same time, the possibility for fundamental change demands a range of interpretive encounters that might elicit meanings for people whom Julius Scott, writing about a different time, described as “disenchanted people casting about for new options.”