The 'Civilising Mission' of Portuguese Colonialism, 1870-1930

Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira

doi:10.1057/9781137355911

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“…By the 1960s, almost all former African colonies had gained independence and Portugal had the only European colonial empire that had not collapsed. The political ideology and national historiography, under the Estado Novo dictatorship, steeped in strongly Eurocentric and nationalistic assumptions, praised Portugal's "civilising mission" (Jerónimo, 2015). Portugal's former African colonies gained their independence in the mid-1970s, after Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution and a long liberation war in Angola, Portuguese Guinea, and Mozambique (Valentim & Miguel, 2018).…”

Section: Overcoming the Colonial Education System And Mozambican History Textbooksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonising images? The liberation script in Mozambican history textbooks

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Mapera

2021

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In this article we examine the textbook narratives of the colonial past and the nation-building process in Mozambique, a Southern African country which gained its independence in 1975. One of the priorities after independence was to redesign the state apparatus and social system in order to decolonise people's minds, foster patriotism and strengthen national cohesion. We have conducted a discourse analysis of the verbal and iconic content of two Mozambican history textbooks, which are exclusively dedicated to national history: one published during the singleparty or "socialist" phase; and the other published in the multi-party or "neoliberal" phase and currently in use. For this purpose, we developed an analytic framework to unveil how the textbooks' written and visual repertoires, and the combination thereof, convey (or otherwise) a diverse and inclusive vision of the nation. Our findings reveal that although there have been changes in the types of language and images used, the general account of Mozambican history remains identical, emphasising the need for national unity under the leadership of the ruling political elite and recounting the History of Mozambique from the perspective of a single Liberation script, that completely overlooks the agency of women.

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Section: Overcoming the Colonial Education System And Mozambican History Textbooksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonising images? The liberation script in Mozambican history textbooks

Cabecinhas

Mapera

2021

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“…Naturalmente, essa narrativa tende a ignorar os milhões de indivíduos escravizados no império português até 1878, a substituição da escravidão por um sistema formal de trabalho forçado até 1962, ou ainda as contínuas guerras coloniais na África, entre o final do século XIX e 1974 (Jerónimo, 2015;Monteiro, 1962;Pélissier, 1978). O luso-tropicalismo intersecta e confunde-se parcialmente com uma narrativa sobre a relativa benevolência do fascismo português , que terá causado menos vítimas mortais diretas que os congêneres europeus.…”

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Cambedo, 1946

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Portugal deixou de ter colônias em 1975, mas, apesar disso, continua a ser constituído por relações de poder coloniais. De que modo pode a arqueologia contribuir para desconstruir a ideia de um estado-nação como o que encontramos na narrativa hegemônica que dá forma ao Portugal de hoje? Responderemos a esta questão com um método genealógico, conectando discussões contemporâneas sobre a descolonização do espaço público à forma como historicamente se resistiu à integração da raia no estado-nação no caso de Cambedo, uma comunidade rural em Trás-os-Montes. A nossa análise será feita através de três descobertas — do presente, da fronteira e da modernidade — através das quais revelaremos eventos e conexões historicamente obscurecidas.

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“…Under the rhetoric of lusotropicalism, "there are many who claim that Portugal has never been racist, even during the colonialist era, and that there is no structural racism in Portugal, a view that is increasingly challenged" (ECRI 2018, 19), but also recurrently reproduced (Cfr. Araújo 2018;Jerónimo 2015). The ECRI urges the Portuguese government to change and improve the curricula so that they "cover the role played by Portugal in the development and later in the abolition of slavery and in the discrimination and violence committed against indigenous peoples in the former colonies" (ECRI 2018, 20).…”

Section: The Colonial Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%