This line of research acknowledges the mutually dependent relationships between space, culture, and power. It examines the social practices that shape identities, alterities, territories, and spatialities, as expressed in cultural forms marked by various processes of territorialization and deterritorialization, and by the ways in which social subjects assume their place in the world.

The historical and historiographical investigations grouped within this line prioritize social relations, their agents and actions, across different dimensions of politics, taking into account inter- and intra-group interactions and identifying, across space and time, power relations as inherent to all forms of social interaction.

This line includes research based on the premise that the Social Territory is simultaneously an imagined community and a historical construction in all its spatial dimensions: international, national, regional, and local.

From the perspective of thematic focus, this line opens up to micro-level topics such as: the history of everyday life; the histories of individuals, groups, and localities; memories and life stories; the fluid processes of identity and alterity formation; intersectionality (particularly regarding variables such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, culture, class, migration, and diaspora); conflicts and social movements; various social practices, their ideologies, imaginaries, and representations; the construction of religious narratives, beliefs, cultural practices, and experiences of the sacred; political systems and regimes; modes of governance and institutions; different actors and forms of agency; conflicts and negotiation processes; the world of labor; slavery and emancipation processes; the connections between politics, media, and culture, as well as their links with cultural heritage; political practices, their representations and languages, ideas, and political cultures.

It also seeks to encompass the processes of knowledge production about territory and the power struggles inherent to them. These studies also investigate public and private institutions, governmental or otherwise, and the everyday relationships both within and among different movements and social groups, focusing on their forms of identity, organization, demands, and contradictions, with attention to both rural and urban manifestations in their political, economic, cultural, and religious dimensions.

At the local and regional level, the research focuses on the state of Minas Gerais and its surrounding regions, including the Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba, making use of their cultural, artistic, and historical collections, while promoting their significance and preservation.