Colonial arcchives and informational (re)apropriations
Code
722051373
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Formação ao Longo da Vida
Credits
10
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1.Promote theoretical reflection about the production, circulation and information organization and archives creation, within the Portuguese colonial administration between mid-century XVII and the third quarter of the century XX.
2. Enable students so that they can guide users of information produced in that colonial context with emphasis on archive documentation.
3. Promote the study and representation forms of complementarity between archives of central government bodies and local, dispersed between Portugal and countries and communities of Lusofonia and between different types of documents, including publications and objects.
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
1 European colonial archives as a resource of information for the study of the past and the present in different countries and communities
2 - Languages, categories, silences, destruction and preservation of information in colonial archives: synchronicities and diachronies
3 - Social Contexts and production, life and use of Portuguese colonial archives
4 - Non-European practices transmission of information and provision of oral and written memories and colonial archives
5 - Property, custody and access to common papers and the role of national / historical archives of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Goa, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal and Timor-Leste and international organizations and networks: problems and solutions
6 - Research tools and information resources on the web for the Portuguese colonial archives
Bibliography
COOPER, Frederick (2006) Memories odf colonization: commemoration, preservation and erasure in an African archive In Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory
Essays from the Sawyer Seminar / Francis X. Blouin, Jr. and William G. Rosenberg (eds.). Michigan: University of Michigan Press, p. 257-266.
HAMILTON, Carolyn et alii (eds.) (2002) - Refiguring the Archive. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,.
JEURGENS, Charles (2005) Historians and archivists: two disciplines working with the same papers. Tradução de discurso inaugural na Universidade de Leiden. Disponível na Internet
STOLER, Ann Laura (2009) - Along the archival grain: epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press
Teaching method
Based on the constructivist paradigm it´s expected an active involvement from the student in its own learning, leading him to an autonomous work (individual and in group) that allows the acquisition of knowledge, skills development and adoption of a critical stance.
The teacher is assumed as a guide, tutorials lessons ensuring monitoring and discussion of the theoretical basis and providing tasks that use various teaching methods (resolution of problematic situations and recension and discussion of texts).
Evaluation method
Assessment without final exam. Resolution of problematic situation - 25%; recension of a work - 30%; analysis and discussion of text 1-15%; analysis and discussion of text 2-15%; analysis and discussion of text 3-15%.