Insurgent History
Research on rebellions, insurgencies and ancestral futures
I am Alexandre Belmonte, Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences of Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), where I teach Ancient and Colonial American History. My academic background is interdisciplinary, encompassing history, modern languages, anthropology, archaeology, and philosophy. In recent years, I have pursued comparative research on the Latin American and Mediterranean worlds, with a particular interest in rebellions, their narratives and processes of memorialization, as well as the ways in which history is written. I also work in Modern Greek Studies, particularly on the writings of Giorgos Seferis. This website brings together information about my academic career, research, publications, and teaching activities.
Research
Rebellion, contestation and revolts in imperial contexts
Ethnographic research and fieldwork with colleagues from the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), in Porto Nacional, examining the legacies of mining, slavery, and agrarian conflicts.
Exploring mountains as spaces of refuge, political imagination, and precarious sovereignty.
Serra da Capivara
Insurgent Mountains
Amazônia and Cerrado
A project exploring the scientific, touristic, and educational potential of Serra da Capivara, in Piauí, a site that challenges dominant narratives about the peopling of the Americas.
An ethnographic study of a house of resistance built through dreams, memories, and practices of imagining the future in the quilombo of Natividade, Tocantins.
An initiative to recognize and promote Indigenous knowledge, fostering discussions about the presence of Indigenous students in universities and the challenges they face in remaining there.
Andean Altiplano
The Word and the Earth
Dona Romana
Research on labor and rebellions in the colonial Central Andes.
A visual and analytical archive of everyday practices of resistance and rebellion in urban landscapes in Brazil and around the world.
Practical workshops on paleography and the interpretation of sources from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, developing tools for collaborative research in universities and public schools.
Insurgent Archives
Colonial Paleography
Urban Ethnographies
An archive of colonial and postcolonial manuscripts, everyday visual records (photography and video), interviews, and narratives as repositories of memory.
An analysis of Giorgos Seferis's poetry in dialogue with the classical tradition, reflecting on exile, ruins, and traumatic memory.
A dialogue between Indigenous South American civilizations and the Hellenic world, comparing ancient and modern expressions of thought, sacredness, territory, authority, and cosmology.
Saint George
Latin America and Greece
Giorgos Seferis
Research on Saint George as a symbol of protection and on the diverse traditions of devotion inspired by the saint.
Insurgency
Research on rebellions, insurgencies and possible ancestral futures
Contact
Resistance
alexbelmonte@gmail.com
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