About us
The Research Center in Ethics, Philosophy, Political and Social Theory (NéFiTs) is based on UNESP, campus of Franca, and builds itself around research guided by a primarily philosophical approach constructed from an intimate dialogue with human and social sciences. In this sense, it is structured from the articulation of research that gathers subjects such as philosophy, sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, law, and international relations among others.
From this openly interdisciplinary matrix theoretical approach, themes analyzed and projects produced by NéFiTs deal with questions that articulate, simultaneously, different approaches to social criticism without losing sight of the effort to imagine new ways of life and to combat the injustices and inequalities that mark the current form of neoliberal capitalism.
Objectives
The objective of NéFiTs is to encourage and promote research that is guided by the articulation of two structuring dimensions: the first seeks to build a critical diagnosis of various sizes of capitalist societies, this means, among other things, researching and analyzing the obstacles that prevent these societies from overcoming different forms of negative social experiences. In this sense, there is greater interest in the critical investigation of issues related to different forms of oppression and injustice that center the debate that informs the neoliberal capitalist societies, such as poverty, social suffering, alienation, inequality, and the challenges of climate emergency and the threat of environmental collapse.
The second structuring dimension aims to join forces of research that seeks to analyze social movements, with the particular intention of searching in them for elements that encourage the imagination and creation that may emerge from the mobilization and articulation of different forms of action in public spaces. Thus, the spirit that mobilizes the Research Center in Ethics, Philosophy, Political and Social Theory intends to always rub the dimension of the diagnosis of oppressions and injustices with the comprehension efforts of the imaginative and creative potential that emerge from the conflicts that constitute social dynamics. Through the necessary mediations, the results of this friction can serve as an impulse for the analysis and formulation of public policies.
