"Ímpar" in Portuguese means odd. The odd, weird, what's left out of well-fit and organized calculations in a binary logic. What's beyond. The antithesis of a pair. That which refuses it.
This is the name of this new lab in the innovative and brand new area of Critical Family Studies. IMPAR proposes connections, a space for creative exchanges between researchers, authors and activists from different disciplines and political movements who are producing critical knowledge about social processes which hold the Family as an institution reponsible for operating social life.
What are the implications of this characteristic of contemporary societies? How was such institution created, and how has it come to occupy this position? What are its main structures? Is it possible to dismantle them? These are only a few of the issues IMPAR intends to explore.