Considerações em Torno do Conceito de Estereótipo: Uma Dupla Abordagem

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´As living sap to the oak’ The Lusitânia news and the imperial project of the Estado Novo

O presente estudo pretende descrever as condições políticas e sociais em que foi criada e se desenvolveu a Lusitânia, uma agência noticiosa portuguesa, destinada a contribuir para o fortalecimento do Império português através da difusão do noticiário colonial na metrópole e deste nas colónias. Apesar da escassez de estudos existentes e de não ser conhecido o paradeiro dos arquivos da agência, é possível ainda, através de fontes indiretas, avaliar da importância e do papel ideológico desta agência na construção de um Portugal uno do Minho a Timor, como pretendiam o regime e o fundador da agência, Luís Lupi.This study aims to describe the political and social conditions in which Lusitania, a Portuguese news agency, was created and developed. This news agency had the main objective to contribute to the strengthening of the Portuguese Empire by dissemination of colonial news in the Portugal and its colonies. Despite the lack of existing studies and not known the whereabouts of the files of the agency, it is still possible through indirect sources to evaluate the importance of the ideological role of this agency in building a Portugal from Minho to Timor, as intended the regime and the founder of the agency, Luís Lupi

An identity discourse: João Canijo and José Gil

The films of João Canijo are sociological portraits a Portuguese reality in the contemporary world. But in a conscious and deliberate position, Canijo looked at the intricacies of popular culture, locating his narratives in very specific places: the industrial village of Sines ("Black Shoes", 1998), a Portuguese community in the suburbs of Paris ("Get a Life", 2001), a hostess bar somewhere in deep Portugal (“In the Darkness of the Night”, 2004), and finally a village in the countryside (“Misbegotten”, 2007). In these films, Canijo has sought to organize some of the possible signs of what is a national identity: the physical and psychological violence; tormented characters; disruptive families with power confrontations; the junction of the documentary elements in fiction; and the construction of a hyper-realistic cinematography. This poster aims, therefore, to classify Canijo’s positions in these four films, trying to establish some points of contact with one of the most important philosophers that have written about national identity: José Gil

"Do Your Homework": hegemonic discourses on work, in the tabloid media, during the Eurozone Crisis

This article explores hegemonic discourses on productive work and labor, in the context of the Eurozone crisis. Based on the separation between creditor and debtor countries, often associated with Northern and Southern Europe, the coverage of the Portuguese legislative elections of 2011, in the online versions of two tabloid newspapers, the German Bild and the Portuguese Correio da Manhã, was analyzed. The analysis allowed us to identify a hegemonic discourse, transversal to both newspapers, that places work and the consequent accumulation of capital, as the central axis of valuing a society, dividing Europe into compliant (trustworthy) and non-compliant (untrustworthy) countries. In a few instances, we have identified a counter-hegemonic discourse, that values elements beyond productivity, calls into question the need for compliance, and places the root of the crisis in the very system that values development, as promoted in advanced capitalism.publishe

As fronteiras da identidade de género no mundo pós-moderno

Os Estudos Culturais apresentam-se como uma área interdisciplinar, pelo que não se deve estranhar a proximidade teórica à conceção da Teoria Geral dos Sistemas que aqui propomos, sobretudo no que diz respeito às novas conceções fragmentadas da(s) identidade(s) de género. O presente trabalho discute a evolução do conceito tradicional de identidade de género como um sistema e apresenta propostas teóricas que procuram retomar a discussão e lançar luz sobre a controvérsia relativa às performances masculina e feminina.Cultural Studies are presented as an interdisciplinary area, whereby one should not be surprised by the proximity to the theoretical conception of the General Systems Theory we propose, especially regarding to the new fragmented forms of gender identity(ies). This paper discusses the evolution of the traditional concept of gender identity as a system and presents theoretical proposals that seek to resume the discussion and shed light on the controversy related to male and female performances

Colonialisms, post-colonialisms and lusophonies: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress in Cultural Studies

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O 'génio colonial' português: o papel dos medias na criação de um mundo português

O que nos propomos fazer nesta reflexão é centrarmo-nos no papel da comunicação mediática na construção de um imaginário português imperial e colonial comum. Neste trabalho pretendemos recuar até ao momento em que o Estado Novo utilizou consciente e massivamente os meios de comunicação de massa da época (sobretudo os jornais e os jornalistas, mas também a rádio, o cinema e as agências noticiosas) para veicular uma determinada imagem de Portugal enquanto ‘Império Português’ e, sobretudo fornecendo uma imagem do ‘Outro’ desse Império.publishe

Estudos culturais: o quê e o como da investigação

O presente texto situa-se no âmbitos dos Estudos Culturais e procura fazer uma revisão dos princípios teóricos e epistemológicos, bem como da investigação científica que, desde os anos 60 do século passado, tem sido praticada neste âmbito, nos mais diversos países, ocidentais e não- ocidentais. Assim, numa primeira parte do texto, apresenta-se um núcleo mínimo de características comuns da investigação em Estudos Culturais, não deixando, no entanto, de referir as suas principais diferenças e clivagens. Em seguida, refere-se, brevemente, a história da origem e constituição dos Estudos Culturais, procurando desenhar o seu estatuto disciplinar e académico. Na última parte deste trabalho, pretende-se detectar as principais linhas de desenvolvimento da investigação em Estudos Culturais, bem como as principais metodologias usadas neste domínio científico.The present study stands on Cultural Studies research field. It aims to review its major theoretical and epistemological principles and also the scientific research that, since XXth century (60s decade), has been conducted on different countries around the world. In the first part of this paper, we present a cluster of common traits on Cultural Studies research field, but also their divergences and main discussions. A brief history of the origins and development of Cultural Studies is also provided, while trying to reflect about the disciplinary and academic status of this field of knowledge. On the final part we synthesize the main lines of the present Cultural Studies field of research and its methodologies

Género e performance: textos essenciais 1

O presente livro procura tornar acessíveis textos fundamentais – e ainda não traduzidos em língua portuguesa –, com o propósito de aprofundar o estudo de problemáticas nas quais se cruzam questões relativas ao género, culturas, corpos, performances e identidades.publishe

The Works of Sísifo: Memories and Identities of the Portuguese in Africa according to Fiction Films of the Twentieth Century

The genealogy of Lusophony may be seen as an intersection of different memories, shaped through several temporal strata. The disparate senses of identity that are evoked by those memories are multiple and frequently opposite. The different narratives, that circulate on a given and identified cultural and linguistic space, always use the metaphor of the mirror, where people is seen through the dualities of ‘we/others’, ‘inside/outside’, ‘civilized/ wild’, etc. Far from being a schema only applied to the colonizer/colonized, this paper focuses on how Portuguese identities still live under several aporia in these post-colonial times. It’s inside these dynamic oppositions, mixing imagery, symbols and the reality that identities are built and rebuilt, nowadays under the strong influence of cultural industries that reflect, feed and transform our imagination. It is on this theoretical ground that we will try to understand two particular dimensions of the Portuguese colonial memories, which have left a deep and a long lasting trace in our colonial narratives, and also in colonialist and ‘retornados’ (returnees) identities. Our study will focus on three movies made in Portugal during the 20th century. We conclude that the first and second examples (Chaimite and O Zé do Burro, respectively), compile an individual story and memory of the subjects and the groups which always serve the memories of the History of Portugal and of the Portuguese. On the contrary, the film that we analyzed which was made post-April 25th, Tempestade da Terra, addresses the History, the individual story and the national memory that comprisesmultiple individual stories and diverse memories. Finally, our study reveals the possibility of representing the reality of colonialism and postcolonialism in terms of the great diversity of relations between one side and the other