This doctoral program allows for the advanced development of knowledge in some of the most essential areas of the humanities and social sciences through the interdisciplinary nature of the program itself.

In this way, students will acquire the skills necessary for in-depth analysis and diagnosis of socioeconomic, cultural, political, environmental, and territorial issues. In addition, this assessment will enable them to propose alternatives or solutions to the most important problems of the present day. 

For more information, please consult the Doctoral School's website.

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RESEARCH AREAS

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• Asian Studies

  • Society and religion in pre-modern China..

  • Spoken narrative in Japan.

  • Modern and contemporary Chinese literature.

  • Spanish thinking in recent decades.

  • Contemporary East Asia: regional socioeconomic trends, anthropological issues, history of cultural interactions, artistic identities.

• Geography

  • Analysis and evaluation of the natural environment.

  • Human processes and landscapes in rural and urban areas.

  • Land use planning, territorial development, and the environment.

  • Geographical thought, methods, and technologies.

 

• Anthropology

  • Social construction of inequality: class, gender and ethnicity.

  • Migration, identities and intercultural relations.

  • Postcolonial studies and critical social thought.

  • Poverty, exclusion and human rights.

 

• Arabic and Islamic studies.

  • Political processes in the contemporary Arab and Islamic world.

  • Islamic thought.

  • Sociology of contemporary Islam: gender, migration, Islamophobia.

  • Arab ideologies and cultural expressions.

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