Organizers:

Robert Daibert, PhD in History and Professor in the History Graduate Program and in the Science of Religion Department and Graduate Program at UFJF and Hevelly Acruche, PhD in History and Professor in the Department of History and in the History Graduate Program at UFJF.

Deadline for submission: April 25, 2025

Brazilian historiography has established a fruitful dialog with microhistory and its methodological contributions. Particularly from the point of view of Social History, this academic field is marked by significant works that historically approach culture, power and economy as well. In this perspective, historians produce knowledge that problematize the relationships between the micro and the macro, the general and the particular, offering new angles of observation in different scales of analysis. These results highlight possibilities for innovative research in dialogue with concepts such as translocality, connected histories, comparative history, strategies and networks of individuals and groups. These studies consolidate a tradition of research that pays attention to individual and/or collective trajectories, without losing sight of the contextual and procedural dimension of events.

In a complementary way, historiography is also increasingly concerned with the place of enunciation of the research problem in the construction of historical knowledge. This trend brings us back to the notion of the coloniality of knowledge. In many works, the notion of situated knowledges appears as a condition for universality and the methodology of microhistory is used as a strategy for thinking about global contexts. In this exercise, the intersection of the concepts of gender, race and class contributes to the formulation of new questions and reflections on a diversity of topics previously neglected by academic studies.

In October 2024, the Graduate Program in History at UFJF held a seminar to reflect on the relationship between “Micro-History and situated knowledge”. The event, organized by the Laboratories of Economic and Social History (LAHES) and Oral History and Image (Labhoi/Afrikas), promoted reflections on the relevance of the intersections between the micro and the macro, as well on the role of positionality of enunciation in the production of historical knowledge. Inspired by this seminar, Locus: Revista de História opened this call for a new dossier, entitled:  Microhistory and situated knowledge: coloniality of power and translocality, with the aim of publishing articles on microhistory approach and its relationship with situated knowledges, coloniality of power and the plurality of global contexts, in colonial, post-colonial and transnational perspectives.

In this sense, the dossier is interested in articles that dialog with the following themes:

- the history of elites and their connections between spaces and institutions

- the histories and knowledge of marginalized and/or subalternized groups

- individual and/or collective trajectories from a micro-historical perspective

- situated knowledge in terms of gender, race, social class or religion

- coloniality of knowledge and power from a microhistorical perspective

- epistemic dialogues related to the diversity of sources of knowledge for the historical construction.