This Line's inquiries encompass the subject of social continuities and discontinuities in an increasingly connected and diverse world, accelerated and compacted, but also ramified and rhizomatic. These transformations are of diverse natures, scales, and intensities, often resulting from cultural, political, and social disputes, conflicts, and negotiations. Professors in this Line preferentially address the following research topics: post-war contexts; displacements and borders; religion and politics; anthropology of Christianity; health and spirituality; human rights and state violence; cities and peripheries; inequalities and poverty; drugs, crime, and security; gender and sexuality; race and generation; social movements and the state; among others. Ethnographic and/or ethnohistorical research is also emphasized.
The Line is divided into the following sub-lines:

• Displacements, securitization policies, and social mobilizations;
• Religion, spirituality, and public space;
• Cities, inequalities, and violence;
• Political activism and intersectionalities.