Displaying Violence and the Violence of Display: Durable Modern/Colonial Worldviews and the Production of Alterity in a Botanical Garden in Lisbon, Portugal

In a way that challenges the nature/culture divide which marks Western thought, this article examines how a botanical garden in Portugal was and is implicated in different yet intertwined modes of violence, given the histories it is connected to and current museological strategies. The focus of the analysis is the Tropical Botanic Garden of the University of Lisbon in Belém, which contains living and non-living collections derived mainly from its twentieth-century histories. At that time, it was used as the Colonial Garden and it housed part of the Exhibition of the Portuguese World, which included a display of actual people from the colonies. The narratives produced there today reflect an effort to confront some of these histories, while revealing the ongoing durabilities of modern/colonial worldviews.In a way that challenges the nature/culture divide which marks Western thought, this article examines how a botanical garden in Portugal was and is implicated in different yet intertwined modes of violence, given the histories it is connected to and current museological strategies. The focus of the analysis is the Tropical Botanic Garden of the University of Lisbon in Belém, which contains living and non-living collections derived mainly from its twentieth-century histories. At that time, it was used as the Colonial Garden and it housed part of the Exhibition of the Portuguese World, which included a display of actual people from the colonies. The narratives produced there today reflect an effort to confront some of these histories, while revealing the ongoing durabilities of modern/colonial worldviews

A Igreja do Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias (Vila Real)

A Igreja do Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias localiza-se no actual distrito de Vila Real, concelho de Montalegre. A sua construção situar-se-á no século XII e enquadra-se no estilo românico. Considera-se a forte possibilidade da existência de uma estrutura religiosa de cronologia mais recuada, no mesmo espaço, embora desta não subsistam quaisquer vestígios, à excepção de algumas menções em documentos da época.A sua história foi marcada por diversos momentos construtivos, directamente associados à conjuntura religiosa do reino de Portugal. Através da análise da sua estrutura arquitectónica, em paralelo com a história religiosa deste monumento, da região em que se insere e das ordens religiosas a que este esteve associado, procurou-se compreender a evolução histórica e arquitectónica do Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias e, mais especificamente, da sua igreja.The Church of the Monastery of Santa Maria das Júnias nowadays is located in the district of Vila Real, municipality of Montalegre. The construction of this building, in the romanesque style, must have taken place during the 12th century. There is a very strong possibility that there had been, in the same place, an older religious structures, although there is no evidence of such, except for references in some written documents of the time.This church reveals several architectural alterations in different periods, directly related to the religious history of the Kingdom of Portugal. By analysing its arquitectural strutcture and considering the religious history and the religious orders related to this monument, an attempt has been made to understand the historical and architectural development of the Monastery of Santa Maria das Júnias and, more specifically, of its Church

Displaying Violence and the Violence of Display: Durable Modern/Colonial Worldviews and the Production of Alterity in a Botanical Garden in Lisbon, Portugal

In a way that challenges the nature/culture divide which marks Western thought, this article examines how a botanical garden in Portugal was and is implicated in different yet intertwined modes of violence, given the histories it is connected to and current museological strategies. The focus of the analysis is the Tropical Botanic Garden of the University of Lisbon in Belém, which contains living and non-living collections derived mainly from its twentieth-century histories. At that time, it was used as the Colonial Garden and it housed part of the Exhibition of the Portuguese World, which included a display of actual people from the colonies. The narratives produced there today reflect an effort to confront some of these histories, while revealing the ongoing durabilities of modern/colonial worldviews

To count or not to count: British politics of framing and the condition of “illegal infiltree” in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp (1945–1948)

This article explores the politics of humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of the Second World War, by examining the act of framing certain groups of Jewish refugees as “infiltrees”, in the context of the British occupation zone of Germany, and the Bergen-Belsen DP camp more specifically. Based on archival sources and the available literature, it dissects this legal categorisation to help understand who the different individuals categorised as infiltrees were, the wider political conjuncture that informed this framing, and the real consequences felt by those who were framed as such. This article demonstrates the extent to which the attribution of legal categories to those on the move, with tangible effects for those individuals, represents a deeply politicised practice in Europe, which has been operating at least since the first half of the twentieth century, and which continues today

AS CONSTRUÇÕES DE FALSA CÚPULA OU CHAFURDÕES no contexto da Alta-Idade-Média, na serra de S. Mamede

Tenta-se de demonstrar uma relação directa entre as construções de falsa cúpula e os povoados atribuídos à Idade Médi

A Igreja do Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias (Vila Real). Um estudo histórico-arquitectónico

The Church of the Monastery of Santa Maria das Júnias nowadays is located in the district of Vila Real, municipality of Montalegre. The construction of this building, in the romanesque style, must have taken place during the 12th century. There is a very strong possibility that there had been, in the same place, an older religious structures, although there is no evidence of such, except for references in some written documents of the time. This church reveals several architectural alterations in different periods, directly related to the religious history of the Kingdom of Portugal. By analysing its arquitectural strutcture and considering the religious history and the religious orders related to this monument, an attempt has been made to understand the historical and architectural development of the Monastery of Santa Maria das Júnias and, more specifically, of its Church.A Igreja do Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias localiza-se no actual distrito de Vila Real, concelho de Montalegre. A sua construção situar-se-á no século XII e enquadra-se no estilo românico. Considera-se a forte possibilidade da existência de uma estrutura religiosa de cronologia mais recuada, no mesmo espaço, embora desta não subsistam quaisquer vestígios, à excepção de algumas menções em documentos da época. A sua história foi marcada por diversos momentos construtivos, directamente associados à conjuntura religiosa do reino de Portugal. Através da análise da sua estrutura arquitectónica, em paralelo com a história religiosa deste monumento, da região em que se insere e das ordens religiosas a que este esteve associado, procurou-se compreender a evolução histórica e arquitectónica do Mosteiro de Santa Maria das Júnias e, mais especificamente, da sua igreja

“Perpetual Cycle”: (re)appearing memories and decolonial practices in Tarrafal, Cape Verde

MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624); MAPS - Pós-memórias Europeias: uma cartografia pós-colonialA prisão do Tarrafal em Cabo Verde foi criada em 1936 pela ditadura do Estado Novo para presos políticos portugueses. Fechou em 1954 e reabriu em 1961 para encarcerar os ativistas ligados aos movimentos anticoloniais nas ex-colónias portuguesas em África. Uma terceira e menos conhecida função da prisão ocorreu entre 1974 e 1975. A Revolução dos Cravos de 25 de Abril de 1974, que marcou o fim do regime fascista e colonial português, desencadeou uma disputa entre o PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência de Guiné Bissau e Cabo Verde) e os partidos opositores locais com vista ao controlo de Cabo Verde, levando o PAIGC a reabrir o Tarrafal em Dezembro de 1974 para encarcerar alguns dos seus opositores. A maioria seria libertada até Maio de 1975 e em Julho a prisão fechou definitivamente.The former prison of Tarrafal in Cape Verde was created in 1936 by the Estado Novo dictatorship for Portuguese political prisoners. It closed in 1954 and reopened in 1961 to imprison those connected to anti-colonial movements in Portugal’s then African colonies. A third, lesser-known period of use occurred between 1974 and 1975. The Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, which marked the end of the Portuguese fascist and colonial regime, triggered a dispute between the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde) and its local rivals to take control of Cape Verde, leading the PAIGC to reopen Tarrafal in December 1974 to imprison its opponents. Most of the prisoners were released by May 1975, and in July the prison closed permanently

Cerâmica medieval de Conimbriga

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