Nationalism and Racism in 20th Century Portugal: the Colonial Question
Code
722081074
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Miguel Jerónimo, Nuno Dias, Nuno Domingos
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Based on the most important theoretical and empirical approaches of nationalism and racism, this course aims to question the main facets of Portuguese colonialism since the early twentieth century until the process of decolonization. It is particularly particular focused on the process of socio-historical construction of the category of ´indigenous´, taking into account its legal, political and economic dimensions.
Students who attend and finish this course will acquire skills that will enable them: 1. Doing research in the area of Historical Sociology and Politics, and inHistory of the Portuguese Colonial Empire; 2. They will acquire the vocabulary and scientific methods indispensable for the development and evaluation of public policies and private initiatives around the themes of social inclusion.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1)A Colonial State in Africa
2)Education and Science as instruments of the creation of a colonial order
3)The construction of the colonial city: the caae of Maputo
4)The character of race: race realtions in the Portuguese colonies
5)Colonialism and Propaganda: \"to civilize\" as the centre of imperial modernety
6)\"The world the Portuguese created\": the myth of the luso-tropical singularity and its criticism
7)From the native to the \"assimilado\": classification in the colonial societies as a dimension of the colonial civilizing project
8)Plural societies and the market as a space of the production of ethnic frontiers
9)Representations of the \"other\" and the national construction
12)The end of the colonial empire:the incorporação od the \"returned\" in the ex-metropole
11)The end of the colonial empire:the reformulation of the migrations problem
12)\"The Phantom menace\":figures, categories and politics
13)Lusophone heritages
14)Nationalism racism and image I
15)National. racism and image II
Bibliography
Alexandre, Valentim (1979) Origens do Colonialismo Português Moderno, Lisboa, Sá da Costa
Gellner, Ernest (1996) The Coming of Nationalism and its Interpretation: The myths of nation and class, in Gopal Balakrishnan (ed.) Mapping the Nation, Verso, pp. 98-145.
Clarence-Smith, Gervase (1985) O Terceiro Império Português (1825-1975) Lisboa: Teorema, pp. 85-119.
Henriques, Isabel Castro (1998) A sociedade colonial em África. Ideologias, hierarquias e quotidianos. em Francisco Bethencourt e Kirti Chaudhuri, História da Expansão Portuguesa, Círculo de Leitores, Vol. V, pp. 216-274.
Costa Pinto, António (2003) O fim do império português : a cena internacional, a guerra colonial, e a descolonização, 1961-1975, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, pp. 65-89
Castelo, Cláudia (1998) Recepção em Portugal da doutrina de Gilberto Freyre em O Modo Português de Estar no Mundo. O Luso-Tropicalismo e a Ideologia Colonial Portuguesa (1933-1961), Porto, Edições Afrontamento, pp. 35-67.
Teaching method
Theoretical/practical lectures based on supporting material handed out in each session; research work; analysis and discussion of theoretical texts and case studies.
Evaluation method
Grading will be based on: oral participation during the unit sessions; oral and written presentation of a text (selected from the unit´s bibliography); and a final paper. The latter can be either an essay about a specific work or about divergent auhtors and perspectives (also from the unit´s bibliography) (c. 20 pages, without bibliography); or it can be a piece of empirical research (c. 30 pages)