Insurgent History
Research on rebellions, insurgencies and ancestral futures
My name is Alexandre Belmonte and this is my professional website. I am a Professor of History of the Americas at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), where I conduct research on indigenous rebellions, colonial archives, and peripheral epistemologies. In recent years, I have dedicated myself to a comparative analysis between the Indigenous and Mediterranean worlds, investigating connections between insurgencies, cosmologies, memory regimes, and ways of writing history.
Research
Rebellion, contestation and revolts in imperial contexts
Intersections between colonial history and lived experience in Tocantins, observing the marks of mining, slavery, and land conflicts.
Dialogue between Andean and Mediterranean rebellions, thinking of mountains as spaces of refuge, political imagination, and sovereignty.
Capivara Mountains
Insurgent Mountains
Amazônia and Cerrado
Project that highlights the cave paintings of Piauí and challenges hegemonic narratives about the settlement of the Americas.
Ethnography of a house of resistance built by dreams, memories and future practices in the quilombo of Natividade (TO).
Iniciativa de valorização dos saberes indígenas, articulando debates sobre a presença na universidade e mapeamento de pinturas rupestres.
Andean Altiplano
The Word and the Earth
Dona Romana
Investigation into labor and insurgencies in Potosí and Charcas, mapping the everyday strategies of subjects under imperial coercion.
Visual and analytical collection on everyday practices of resistance and rebellion in urban landscapes in Brazil and around the world.
Practical workshops in paleography and source interpretation from the 16th to 19th centuries, building collective research tools at the university..
Insurgent Archives
Colonial Paleography
Urban Ethnographies
Identification of colonial and post-colonial documents, treating everyday records and oral narratives as archives of memory and conflict.
Analysis of Seferis's poetry in dialogue with classical tradition, reflecting on exile, ruins, and traumatic memory.
Dialogue between Andean civilizations and the Hellenic world, analyzing comparable responses on sacredness, territory, authority, and cosmology.
Latin America and Greece
Giorgos Seferis
