The words about a “sea of trees”. Colonial and post-colonial narratives about Gorongosa (Mozambique)

8º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos (CIEA8). Madrid, 2012

Análise e identificação de obras de arte

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

THE ISLAMIC POLICY OF PORTUGUESE COLONIAL MOZAMBIQUE, 1960-1973

Drawing its information from different documents in Portuguese and French archives, this article examines the evolution of Portuguese colonial policies regarding Islam, focusing the special case of Mozambique. Such policies evolved from an attitude of neglect and open repression, prevalent in the early years of the colonial war, when Muslims were perceived as main supporters of the anti-colonial guerrilla in northern Mozambique, to a more nuanced approach that tried to isolate ‘African Muslims’ from foreign influences in order to align them with the Portuguese combat against the anti-colonial movement. The article analyses the latter strategy, assessing its successes and failures and the contributions made by several actors that were engaged in this achievement: the Catholic Church, the core of political power and its local ramifications in the colonies.

Ambivalent Islam: the identity construction of Muslims under Portuguese colonial rule

This article wishes to contribute to the study of the historical processes that have been spotting Muslim populations as favourite targets for political analysis and governance. Focusing on the Portuguese archives, civil as well as military, the article tries to uncover the most conspicuous identity representations (mainly negative or ambivalent) that members of Portuguese colonial apparatus built around Muslim communities living in African colonies, particularly in Guinea- Bissau and Mozambique. The paper shows how these culturally and politically constructed images were related to the more general strategies by which Portuguese imagined their own national identity, both as ‘European’ and as ‘coloniser’ or ‘imperial people’. The basic assumption of this article is that policies enforced in a context of interethnic and religious competition are better understood when linked to the identity strategies inherent to them. These are conceived as strategic constructions aimed at the preservation, protection and imaginary expansion of the subject, who looks for groups to be included in and out-groups to reject, exclude, aggress or eliminate. The author argues that most of the inter-ethnic relationships and conflicts, as well as the very experience of ethnicity, are born from this identity matrix.

Arte digital

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em História da Arte Contemporânea

A Subversão do Discurso Colonial em Wide Sargasso Sea

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas, Área de Especialização em Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos

Azuis ultramarinos: propaganda colonial nas actualidades filmadas do Estado Novo e censura a três filmes de autor

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação

Arte e poder na obra de Mário-Henrique Leiria

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estudos Portugueses

A Arte em Portugal no Século XX (1911-1961) José-Augusto França e a perspetiva sociológica

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em História da Arte: Variante Contemporânea

Proposta de um painel de medidas e indicadores de desempenho para avaliar a utilização da página da Biblioteca de Arte no Flickr

Relatório de Estágio apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Informação e da Documentação

Eduardo Malta, director do Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Museologia

Lisboa de 1731 a 1833: da desordem à ordem no espaço urbano

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em História da Arte

História da arte e Guerra Fria

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em História da Arte Contemporânea

Orientalism and Imperialism in French West Africa. Considerations on travel literature, colonial tourism, and the desert as a “commodity” in Mauritania

In this article we intend to make a summary overview of the influence that literary production, originated under colonial mapping missions or later in travel writing, had in the construction and establishment of a discourse to advertise and promote tourism in Mauritania. To this end we will draw on travel narratives that are illustrative of different periods and that correspond in some way to discourses of otherness. In this specific case, such discourses relate to the “Moors” of the West African coast and were produced in various historical contexts. We will also consider the discourse present in the tourism promotion materials of the colonial period and we will demonstrate to what extent it can be engaged in a dialogue with 19th and 20th centuries’ Western colonial literature.

COMEÇAR de Almada Negreiros arte e o poder formatador da matemática

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Ensino da Matemática