“A Páscoa do Piemonte”: encenações nos media do Massacre dos Valdenses em 1655

Partindo do exemplo do massacre dos Valdenses ocorrido no Piemonte em 1655, o artigo interroga o processo de mediatização dos massacres na Época Moderna, visando analisar o papel que a exploração mediática destes acontecimentos desempenharam na fabricação das memórias colectivas.

Terrorism, cosmopolitanism and globalization: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

This paper examines two “9/11 novels,” Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008) and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Written by writers of different backgrounds but with similarly cosmopolitan career paths, both novels attempt to achieve a transnational perspective on the climate of fear created by the 9/11 attacks. Both novels unveil a history of violence which links colonial legacy and new imperial formations resulting from neoliberal capitalism, ultimately highlighting difficulties in forging an encompassing cosmopolitan perspective at a time of international insecurity.