Universidade do Minho/Universidade de Aveiro. Programa Doutoral em Estudos Culturais
Abstract
Publicado em: "Colonialisms, post-colonialisms and lusophonies: proceedings of the 4th International Congress in Cultural Studies". ISBN 978-989-98219-2-7The representations of world history conveyed
by the media and disseminated in global encyclopaedias are
perhaps some of the clearest examples of how much still
needs to be done to decolonise knowledge. Thus, it is urgent
to give voice to different narratives about world history, so
as to reveal the versions of people and groups who have been
systematically “erased” from History during the colonial period
and still often remain invisible in the dominant narratives in the
so-called post-colonial period. In this article, we comparatively
analyse the results of a survey conducted among young people in
Mozambique and Portugal. In both countries, we investigated
the social representations of world history. The common trends
and the divergences in the representations of world history,
particularly with regard to the colonial period, are discussed
taking into account the role of national identities in structuring
collective memories