A cena da pós-memória. O presente do passado na Europa pós-colonial

A cena da pós-memória. O presente do passado na Europa pós-colonial reúne um conjunto de contributos da autoria de investigadores e investigadoras associados/as ao projeto "MEMOIRS - Filhos de Império e Pós-Memórias Europeias", traçando uma primeira cartografia global dos temas que nortearam este projeto. As duas partes em que a obra se divide representam as duas vertentes essenciais da investigação produzida: por um lado, em íntima ligação com o enquadramento teórico dos casos em análise, um processo de clarificação concetual tendente a precisar os contornos, desde logo, do próprio conceito de pós-memória, mas, igualmente, de um conjunto de noções diretamente relevantes para uma caracterização articulada das principais linhas de força que estruturam o campo das memórias pós-coloniais; por outro lado, a investigação empírica, baseada em vasta pesquisa documental agregada numa extensa base de dados que ficará livremente acessível, mas estruturada, igualmente, a partir de um grande número de entrevistas realizadas nos três países em análise: Portugal, França e Bélgica. Com textos de: António Pinto Ribeiro, António Sousa Ribeiro, Bruno Sena Martins, Ettore Finazzi-Agrò, Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues, Felipe Cammaert, Fernanda Vilar, Graça dos Santos, Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Paulo de Medeiros e Roberto Vecchi.

Geometrias da Memória: configurações pós-coloniais

2016, Porto: Afrontamento Geometrias da memória: configurações pós-coloniais brings together a number of essays which, from different perspectives and positioning themselves at the intersection of different disciplines, approach topics that are relevant for an analysis of the way in which past constellations, in particular coming from a colonial past, project themselves into the present so as to condition this present in decisive aspects: in the way of conceiving the relationship with the other, in the architecture of power relations, in the persistence of forms of violence, in the dynamics through which the political and cultural field struggles to articulate a reflection aimed at the construction of a future which is not merely a repetition of the past. All essays have in common the standpoint of the contemporary: the different historical contexts and different cases under analysis were chosen from the point of view of their relevance for a present which is conceived, not as mere actuality, but as a dense temporality defined by tensions that can only be understood under a long-term perspective.

Representações da Violência 

2013 | Coimbra: Almedina In spite of the abundant number of relevant studies produced in the last decades, the question of violence remains one of the most complex and elusive contemporary issues. Too strict definitions ? e.g. those which restrict violence to occasions when an act of physical aggression takes place ? are not only incapable of capturing  the complexity of processes that are often fuzzy and hidden at the micro level of daily interactions, but they also represent in themselves a form of violence, since they produce an effect of invisibility. Only a comprehensive and transdisciplinary vision can lead to the development of adequate theoretical models and frameworks for a global understanding of processes of violence in the contemporary world capable of providing the indispensable tools for a heedful approach to specificities of context. Such a reflection compels us to ponder the theme of violence in conjunction with concepts that are crucial for contemporary discussions, such as the concepts of aggression, power, authority, sovereignty, conflict, war, trauma, memory and representation.
The contributions to the current volume address from different perspectives and within different contexts some of the aspects of an issue that the universe of politics, culture and arts in the twentieth century raises with particular incisiveness: in the contemporary world, the problem of the representation of violence has become indissociable from the problem of the violence of representation. As such, the space of discourse(s) becomes in itself a space of negotiation and conflict which is marked by ambivalences that require urgent analysis in their complex specificity. 

Translocal Modernisms. International Perspectives

2008 | Bern: Verlag Peter Lang The full story of modernism is yet to be written. This collection of essays provides an important page in this complex and inconclusive story of fluidities and hybridities by rendering problematical the linear sequence from modernism to postmodernism.
This book explores the many facets of modernism in a variety of essays written by an international group of scholars. It deals with and puts in question the western literary tradition in many of its transcontinental and trans-hemispheric encounters. Criticism of ?high modernism' is put in perspective by discussions of German ?reactionary modernism', American ?social modernism' and ?minor arts', mid-twentieth-century ?Baudelairean modernity' and unprecedented expansions of the concepts of modernity and modernism themselves.
Engaging in dialogue with the newest geographical, transnational, and global enlargements of the concept of modernism in time and space (from the ?Middle Passage' to emergent cultures of the twenty-first century, from Europe to America, Africa and Asia), the volume covers a wide range of translocal and transtemporal literary, artistic, cultural, and social fields and perspectives.

Entre Ser e Estar: Raízes, Percursos e Discursos da Identidade

2002 | Porto: Afrontamento This volume includes a number of studies on the identity of the Portuguese nation or on the local and national identities that were constructed over time by or with Portuguese people, in a world that has undergone a constant process of globalization since the fifteenth century. To these multiple communities of belonging and exclusion within which these identities were formed correspond frontiers and diasporas, differences and discourses of differences (ethnic, sexual, regional, cultural, etc.). The essays included in the volume are the work of authors from fields such as anthropology, literary studies, linguistics or sociology; they approach the general theme of this book from theoretical orientations and perspectives as diverse as colonialism and postcolonialism, discourse analysis and feminism.
The authors of this volume are: Adriana Bebiano, Ana Gabriela Macedo, Ana Luísa Amaral, António Sousa Ribeiro, Bela Feldman-Bianco, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Clara Keating, Graça Abranches, Graça Capinha, Isabel Allegro de Magalhães, Jacinta Matos, José Manuel Mendes, Maria Irene Ramalho, Maria José Canelo, Maria Teresa Tavares, Nuno Porto, Susana Matos Viegas.

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