Presenting the program
The Postgraduate Program in Languages and Knowledge in the Amazon (PPLSA), at the Master's level, is linked to the University Campus of Bragança, of the Federal University of Pará, and it aims to provide continuing training and foster the investigative practice of professionals with higher education diplomas, who are capable of working in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, in management and specialized cultural intervention, with the primary objective of studying, from endogenous and exogenous movements, the various representations and practices that have made up and are making up the various configurations of the cultures of/in the Amazon, by understanding the different discursive formations, in different languages, and their corresponding social and historical conditions of production, with the following fundamental objectives:
I - to investigate the different forms of discourse, in different languages, about and in the Amazon Region;
II - to map and understand the epistemological imbrication of local knowledge and universal knowledge, based on the tension between international, national and regional, colonial and post-colonial components;
III - to establish the decentralization of the production of knowledge about the Amazon;
IV – to propose critical studies of the local reality;
V – to propose interdisciplinary practices for studying local realities;
VI – to encourage proposals for co-participation between academia and the community in resolving social and cultural tensions and conflicts.