UIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020

A reflexão sobre a obra de Paulo Freire e sobre as práxis que reivindicam sua influência desde o Brasil foram o ponto de partida para o encontro com a historiadora Joana Salém Vasconcelos

This article draws on the intersection of oral history and photography to elaborate on the memories of the nation construction process in Mozambique through the (hi)story of the Frelimo School of Bagamoyo, in Tanzania (1970-1975). Bagamoyo is both a place of memory and presence in the national and regional (hi)stories. The article is underpinned by the notion of (dis)empowerment related with (Un)Freire’s critical pedagogy used in and out of Bagamoyo, looking at (i) teachers’ memories located within their photographs of Bagamoyo and documents of the Mozambican literacy policies, (ii) the anthropologist interpretation of the (hi)stories shared from teachers’ multi-situated locations.

Ethnography is widely recognised as essential to the analysis of colonial representations and policies in Africa. Though many studies have been conducted since the end of WWII, few have explored these sources on African civil society. This article aims to historicise the evolution of Portuguese colonial knowledge on indigenous associational life. The approach is based on the anthropological and sociological research carried out by academic and governmental elites who, from the onset of the decolonization process, began to seriously consider indigenous collective action. Following the comprehensive investigations that were conducted in the 1950s in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea, in-depth research was undertaken in Luanda and Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), as part of local development projects. This article illustrates how, under Portuguese colonialism, indigenous associations were initially perceived as a threat—until they became an invaluable tool in promoting the acculturation of “detribalized” populations. Through critical engagement with post-WWII colonial knowledge, this paper provides fresh insight into how the colonial process was instrumental in shaping African civil society.

et subjectivation dans les socits lusophones Pluralits religieuses et subjectivation dans les socits lusophones.Introduction

This article focuses on the case study of an ethnically and culturally mixed Eurasian Macanese community through their phenomenological experience of identity ambivalence. Our thematic framework includes the structural impact of colonial and postcolonial political regimes in Macao, historical influences on contemporary identity and sociocultural expressions of creolisation. It is argued that the Macanese people illustrate the memory of the ambivalent encounter between the two extremities of the Eurasia (China and Portugal) which started in the 16th-c. and never ceased moving forces to the present day. Furthermore, in the context of fieldwork with the Macanese community in Portugal, an ethnographic approach helps reveal the ambivalent dynamics of similarities and differentiation with respect to food practices and commensality as expressed over dinner by a group of close friends in Lisbon.

Qu’est-ce que les mobilites humaines observees entre des pays issus de l’ancien empire colonial portugais nous apprennent de la contemporaneite de cet espace historique post-empire ? Et qu’est-ce que cet espace de la lusotopie a a nous dire de specifique des mobilites humaines, mais aussi de l’immobilite, dans un contexte de mondialisation inegalitaire, caracterise a la fois par la circulation d’elites cosmopolites et la fermeture des frontieres nationales ? C’est en nous inscrivant dans la perspective de continuite historique des mobilites contemporaines, et en faisant par ailleurs notre la proposition de l’anthropologue portugais Joao de Pina-Cabral consistant a voir la lusotopie comme un « Ecumene » (2010) - espace d’intercommunications plus denses determinees par le partage d’un passe historique commun - que nous proposons d’analyser le caractere centrifuge des flux contemporains observes au sein de l’ancien espace imperial portugais.