Master of Cultural Studies

Graduate course approved by Res. C. S . UNR No. 238/2009, modification approved by CS UNR No. 399/2015 and approved by the National Commission for University Evaluation and Accreditation (CONEAU) Res. No. 449/17.

Director: Dr. Sandra Valdettaro

Academic coordinator: Dr. Monica Bernabé

Technical secretary: Lic. Maria S. Chiponi

:: RATIONALE: The Master's Degree in Cultural Studies proposes an interdisciplinary curricular path articulated from the following thematic axes: itineraries of contemporary daily life; media and imaging devices; urban experiences; citizen integration policies within the framework of tensions between the global and the local; reconfiguration of national imaginaries from the new regional cartographies; memory politics and museification phenomena; intercultural relations; circulation of bodies and stories of the social; representation strategies; invention of subjectivities; interventions, actions and performances in the field of art. In short, she seeks the articulation of hermeneutical keys for a critical phenomenology of the present.

The first objective of the Master in Cultural Studies points to the creation of a scientific field of work for the construction of bridges between the social sciences, the humanities, the theories on contemporary technological languages, among other perspectives. It responds to an impulse that runs through different disciplines and that calls for dialogue to unravel the meanings of cultural productions, in terms of valuing their contribution to human and social development. The paradigm generated by Cultural Studies proposes, on the one hand, to elucidate the modalities of construction of social ties, and, simultaneously, to identify the unresolved tensions of a community and that articulate different strategies of imaginary construction. In this sense, the topics associated with social representations around the themes of memory, identities, citizenships, new social movements, gender issues and narratives of the present, will become the central axis of the Master's Degree. in Cultural Studies.

One of the most significant events in recent decades has been the reopening of the debate on modernity in the light of postmodern thought that emerged in the context of the transformations of large cities and global economic restructuring. This global rearrangement of cultures impacts differently in the metropolis and in the peripheral societies. At this point, our practice of Cultural Studies reaches a particular and specific dimension in Latin America, a continent of intense hybridization but low integration. It is important, then, to grant a Latin American dimension to Cultural Studies in order to articulate global theoretical and cultural manifestations with those of a local and regional nature. It is about the configuration of a situated knowledge, that is, the production of knowledge from the territoriality constituted by the geo-political vectors of MERCOSUR.

The conflictive and polemical character that appears in the process of the construction of social subjectivities together with the cooperative aspects potentially present in all social conversations, summon the strongly interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies. In this way, the interrogation about the intersections between the individual and the social-community, between the public and the private, between fiction and reality, between the national, the regional and the global, will be the nodal nucleus from the which a specific object of study will be built.

In the context of perplexity that characterizes social knowledge today, and assuming the need to transcend an ever-growing fragmentation of knowledge, the impotence of any single-disciplinary point of view to address the complex hybridizations that characterize the cultural production of knowledge becomes evident. our region. Cultural Studies allow a significant approach to the processes at different levels -cultural, political, economic, artistic- involved in the social arrangements that have been developing intensively in today's world.

The key themes that the Postgraduate Program in Cultural Studies proposes to articulate are the itineraries of contemporary daily life, the media and image devices, urban collective experiences, the design of new citizenships within the framework of tensions between the global world and the local, the reconfiguration of imaginaries based on regional cartographies, the politics of memory and the phenomena of museification, the relationships between intercultural worlds, the circulation of bodies and the agonistic situations of the social in our contemporary times, the articulation of various social representations, the invention of collective subjectivities, the productivity of performances, the functioning of cultural markets. In short, it is about the articulation of hermeneutic keys for a possible phenomenology of the present, emphasizing a critical perspective that contemplates the aesthetic dimension of all cultural production.

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