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Fernando Rosa

Portrait of Fernando   Rosa

Fernando Rosa [also known as Dr. Luiz Fernando Ferreira da Rosa Ribeiro] is a Brazilian anthropologist and historian who has worked on and lived within various Indian Ocean societies, particularly South Africa (Cape Town), India (Kerala and Goa), Peninsular Malaysia (mostly Kuala Lumpur and Melaka), Macau (China), and Indonesia, asserting himself as a researcher of the Global South.

He has also lived and worked in Atlantic societies such as Brazil and parts of the Caribbean (including Martinique, Suriname, Aruba, and Curaçao). He is now a research affiliate with the English department, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
His mains fields are African studies and Indian Ocean studies. His research interests lie in the domain of oceanic intellectual networks and related languages (and their archives), as well as in processes of creolization and cosmopolitanism.

In The Portuguese in the Creole Indian Ocean. Essays in Historical Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave, 2015), he revisited the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Creole port city through literary works in French, Indonesian, and Portuguese; historical cosmopolitanism in Kerala (Malabar Coast) in India; the linguistic work of Sebastião Dalgado on Konkani, Sanskrit, and Sri Lankan Indo-Portuguese Creole in early twentieth century Goa; the ethnography and history of Creole and Portuguese identities and languages in both Macau (China) and Melaka (Malaysia); and finally the intricacies and mutual connections between various sixteenth and seventeenth century texts in Arabic, Malay, and Portuguese and their respective authors, compilers, etc, in Goa, the Malabar Coast, and the Straits of Melaka. 

Fernando Rosa has also carried out fieldwork among Myanmar refugees (the Mizo in particular) in Bukit Bintang, a cosmopolitan neighbourhood in Kuala Lumpur of Indian Ocean origin. He was Visiting Research Fellow at Institut d’Etudes Avancees (IEA, Nantes, France, 2015 – 2016), and Center for Religious Studies (CERES, RUB, Bochum, Germany, 2018 – 2019). 

Fernando Rosa’s blog.

Selected Publications

  • [in BR] ​“Bahasa Persatuan: Idioma e Nação na Indonésia Colonial (1915−1950)” [Bahasa Persatuan: Language and Nation in Colonial Indonesia], Afro-Ásia (Salvador) 32, 2004: 29 – 82. [available online].
  • [in FR] ​‘Colonialisme et l’État-nation decentré: la Caraibe non-hispanique vue du Brésil’, in Histoires et identités dans la Caraïbe. Trajectoires plurielles, Mamadou Diouf & Ulbe Bosma eds., Paris/​Amsterdam: Karthala/​Sephis, 2004: 15 – 50.
  • “Fornicatie and Hoerendom or the Long Shadow of the Portuguese: Connected Histories, Languages and Gender in the Indian Ocean and Beyond”, Social Dynamics. A Journal of African Studies 3 – 2, 2007: 33 – 60. 
  • [in SP] ​‘Histórias conectadas: uma proposta teórica e metodológica a partir da Índia’. In Histórias Conectadas
    e Dinâmicas Pós-Coloniais, Lorenzo Macagno, Fernando Rosa Ribeiro, & Patricia Santos Schermann eds., Curitiba: Fundação Araucária, 2008: 15 – 50.
  • “Destined to Disappear Without a Trace: Gender and the Languages of Creolisation in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean”, Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives, Shanti KM & Ashraf Jamal (eds.), Lodon, Routledge: 2010: 103 – 135.
  • “The Creole port city: Cosmopolitanism, intimate encounters and republican ideals in twentieth-century Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal”, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2012: 1 – 11.
  • “Routes and Networks in the Indian Ocean: Goa, Malabar, and Malacca”, Revista de Cultura/​Review of Culture 46, 2014: 53 – 65.
  • The Portuguese in the Creole Indian Ocean. Essays in Historical Cosmopolitanism. Palgrave Indian Ocean World Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • [ed. with Sharmani Gabriel] Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South, London, Routledge, 2015, 220 p. ISBN 9781315672106 (ebook).
  • “Two Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean Intellectuals in Goa and Malabar: Orta and Zainuddin,” in Pearson, M. (ed), Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World. Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, New York. [online version].