Thais França | nccr – on the move https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:32:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Grande Sertão: Veredas – Wandering Through Loneliness and Rewarding Academic Encounters https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/grande-sertao-veredas-wandering-through-loneliness-and-rewarding-academic-encounters/ https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/grande-sertao-veredas-wandering-through-loneliness-and-rewarding-academic-encounters/#respond Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:15:50 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=10434 In “Grande Sertão: Veredas,” the “sertão” is a dry, harsh land crossed by vital streams called “veredas.” My path through European academia as a Brazilian scholar has followed a pattern of marginalization, where my knowledge, language, and presence were constantly contested, interrupted by rare, nourishing collaborations. To change academia built

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