ALTER
Crisis, Otherness and representation

Date of inception 01 January 2012
Leader: Carles Brasó Broggi
Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities
Website: https://blogs.uoc.edu/alter/
The research performed by the members of ALTER focuses on the study of a broad range of intercultural, comparative and transnational processes and phenomena specifically related with East Asia, from a multidisciplinary viewpoint. The group's research works with key concepts such as otherness, crisis, modernity, discourse, colonialism and postcolonialism, transnationalism and globalization.This research is based on two fundamental principles: a) ethical: the group seeks to defend, exercise and reflect on the basis of a plural, transnational, locally diverse and specific comparatism that overcomes geographical area-specific barriers, preconceptions and hierarchies; b) methodological: the group uses new approaches and reflections derived from comparative literature, history and philosophy. ALTER was created in 2009 in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's (UOC) Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Researchers
Classifications
- Ministry Area: FILOSOFIA, HISTÒRIA CONTEMPORÀNIA, ESTUDIS DE L'ÀSIA ORIENTAL
- UNESCO Area: FILOSOFIA DE LA CULTURA, HISTORIA DEL ARTE, HISTORIA CONTEMPORÁNEA
- Group Recognition: Grup de recerca consolidat per la Generalitat de Catalunya
- Application Area: Cultura, creativitat, justicia social, pensament crític, humanitats
Contributors
Especialidades predominantes (top 10)
Obtenidas a partir de las publicaciones help
Obtenidas a partir de las publicaciones
Las especialidades temáticas mostradas se han obtenido mediante la aplicación de modelos de inteligencia artificial, obtenidos como resultado del Proyecto Hércules.
Las especialidades temáticas mostradas se han obtenido mediante la aplicación de modelos de inteligencia artificial, obtenidos como resultado del Proyecto Hércules.
- Literature and Literary Theory (Arts and Humanities) Filtrar
- Geography, Planning and Development (Social Sciences) Filtrar
- Cultural Studies (Social Sciences) Filtrar
- History (Arts and Humanities) Filtrar
- Language and Linguistics (Arts and Humanities) Filtrar
- Linguistics and Language (Social Sciences) Filtrar
- Development (Social Sciences) Filtrar
- Communication (Social Sciences) Filtrar
- Political Science and International Relations (Social Sciences) Filtrar
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts (Arts and Humanities) Filtrar
Former members (14)
- Brasó Broggi, Carles Contributor 20122013
- de Vargas Díaz del Río, Ferran 20222023
- Dot Jutglà, Esteve 20242024
- González Pujol, Ivan 20162019
- Lock, Etienne 20192023
- Marín Lacarta, Maialen 20212024
- Marín Lacarta, Maialen Contributor 20122013
- Mora Roás, Enrique 20222024
- Ortells Nicolau, Xavier 20232023
- Ortells Nicolau, Xavier 20182018
- Ortells Nicolau, Xavier 20172017
- Pavón Belizón, Manuel 20172017
- Pavón Belizón, Manuel 20172017
- Vidal Lopez, Lluc 20142023