Presentation

The Federal University of Mato Grosso makes available to the Brazilian of Mato Grosso and neighboring society, another Graduate Program approved by CAPES in July 2007. The strengthening of UFMT Graduate Program meets the fundamental policy of decentralization of knowledge production in the Country. The new media the global processes of circulation and immediate dissemination of the knowledge produced in the world shake the old practice of concentration in privileged centers of qualified training, scientific research and intellectual production.

UFMT assumes its obligations and potentialities as a higher education institution in its entire range of competencies, including scientific research and stricto sensu Graduate Education.

The Graduate Program in Contemporary Culture Studies (Master and Doctorate – ECCO), belonging to the Interdisciplinary Area of CAPES, also meets the requirements of the transformations of society and science itself.

In contrast, in the region, in the last 40 years, we have an avalanche of transformations of all sorts caused by mass migration and occupation, which are intertwined by the global processes of global movement of people, goods and values. The social and cultural implications are incalculable. It is the task of this Program to probe, describe, evaluate, and criticize these processes in their global or transnational dimensions and in their local particularities.

In this connection, science itself has been confronted with the limitations of its disciplinary organization to deal with the new social scenario and some areas of research such as culture. Due to this manifest tendency of articulation or interaction of various disciplines is that this Program proposes a thematic formation and problematization in the field of culture. It also privileges the specific phenomena that constitute contemporaneity, aiming to meet the need to think about the place in the close relationship with what happens to the world, or to think about the world through the bias of the singularity that crosses us.

In this regard we believed that UFMT is in a position to assume its obligations and potentialities as a higher education institution in its entire range of competencies. Thus, the doctoral course in Contemporary Culture Studies, in association with the existing master’s degree, aims to meet the emergence of thinking about the conditions of production and the paths that are designed for this region, whose own processes derived from the massive migration and occupation are intertwined with the transformations of the world order.

The social and cultural implications are incalculable. Professionals in the Humanities and Social areas, in Brazil and Latin America, regardless of the disciplinary field in which they operate, are constantly urged to deal with the questions posed, for example, by the processes of commercialisation of culture, media of traditional practices, emergence of new rituals of social linking, as well as being challenged to invent other possibilities of thinking the resulting reality of the referred transformations. A thematic and problematic formation in the field of culture in this region, be it Mato Grosso, the Midwest or Latin America, comes to meet the need to think about itself in the close relationship with what happens to the world and to think about the world through the bias of the singularity that crosses us.