Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ALAIDE MATIAS RIBEIRO

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STUDENT : ALAIDE MATIAS RIBEIRO
DATE: 28/04/2026
TIME: 16:30
LOCAL: Virtual - Meet
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KEY WORDS:

North Africa; Roman Africa; Libya; Egypt; Ethiopia; Roman Imperialism; Space; Place; Discourse.

PAGES: 141
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This thesis aims to identify the spatializations of Africa created through the historical and geographical discourse developed by subjects who experienced the Roman world from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The analysis focuses particularly on texts written in Greek and Latin by Sallust (Jugurtha's War), Strabo (Geography), Pomponius (Chorography), Pliny (Natural History) and Ptolemy (Geography). The choice of this corpus is justified because these works deal specifically or extensively with geographical descriptions through which it is possible to observe a certain spatial and spatializing discourse. We argue that ancient Africa, considered a delimited space and constituted by a series of elements related to what has been conventionally called physical and human geography, emerges from the discourse that operates distinct spatializations (Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia), contributing to a reductive and stereotypical view of Africa and Africans, but which is not homogeneous. Based on the theoretical discussion on space and place developed by Yi-Fu Tuan (1983) and the idea of discourse developed by Michel Foucault (2008), we intend to present how the space of Africa was created through texts that obeyed a tradition of Hellenistic historical and geographical writing but also denoted other understandings of the space of the orbis terrarum, within which Africa was inscribed. In attempting to observe the case of Africa in relation to what was considered the known and inhabited world, without disregarding the historical context of the authors marked by Roman expansionism over areas beyond the Mediterranean basin, we also reflect on the object from the Global History approach of Sebastian Conrad (2019) and Roman imperialism of David J. Mattingly (2011).

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - BELCHIOR MONTEIRO LIMA NETO - UFES
Interno - 1518086 - FRANCISCO DAS CHAGAS FERNANDES SANTIAGO JUNIOR
Interna - ***.317.991-** - LYVIA VASCONCELOS BAPTISTA - NENHUMA
Presidente - 1543236 - MARCIA SEVERINA VASQUES