Insurgent Stories
Research on rebellions, insurgencies and future ancestors
My name is Alexandre Belmonte, and this is my professional website. I am a professor of American History 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 comparative analysis between the indigenous and Mediterranean worlds, investigating connections between insurgencies, cosmologies, memory regimes, and modes of writing history.
Research
Rebellion, contestation and revolts in imperial contexts: native experiences and imagination of possible ancestral futures.
Ethnography of a house of resistance built by dreams, memories and future practices in the quilombo of Natividade (TO).
Project that highlights the cave paintings of Piauí and challenges hegemonic narratives about the settlement of the Americas.
Visual and analytical collection on everyday practices of resistance and rebellion in urban landscapes in Brazil and around the world.
Urban Ethnographies
Dona Romana
Capivara Mountains
