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Introduction
M. Araújo holds a PhD from the University of London (2003) and is currently Principal Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Her research focusses on the (re)production and challenging of racism and Eurocentrism, with a particular interest in education. She lectures in several PhD Programmes at CES and is guest lecturer at the Black Europe Summer School (IIRE, Amsterdam). Marta is a member of the Editorial Board of publications in Brazil, Britain, Portugal and the United States.
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December 2018 - December 2020
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October 1998 - June 2003
October 1996 - September 1997
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This article is based on the theoretical framework developed within a research project on the construction of Eurocentrism and, more specifically, on the analysis of Portuguese history textbooks. We propose that the textbooks’ master narrative constitutes a power-evasive discourse on history, which naturalizes core processes such as colonialism, sl...
This collection is an interdisciplinary effort drawing on the work of international scholars and political activists. It addresses key questions in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production and sedimentation of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. By conceiving Eurocentrism as a...
This book proposes an approach to Eurocentrism as a paradigm of knowledge production and interpretation rooted in the Western narrative of modernity and its racial governmentalities. Accordingly, it interrogates the relationship between knowledge, race, and power at the heart of debates on the making and circulation of history, opening up a tension...
Rodríguez Maeso and Araújo analyse the reproduction of a dominant understanding of racism in policy discourses of integration and discrimination used by monitoring agencies in Portuguese and European Union (EU) institutional contexts. More specifically, they question the political concern over racism and discrimination vis-à-vis the idea of Europe...
Neste artigo, argumento que foi constituído no contexto português das últimas décadas o que passo a designar por indústria da interculturalidade, que veicula um conjunto de concepções, diagnósticos e medidas relativas à diversidade que ajudam a legitimar certas intervenções políticas e perpetuam as desigualdades étnico-raciais na educação. Proponho...
The relationship between Islam and Portugal is intimately tied to processes of national formation and diverse in terms of the key protagonists, historical periods, and political conjunctures that it evokes – hence it is particularly suited for the contextualised study of Islamophobia. Drawing on a larger European study, and specifically on discours...
In recent decades, official initiatives and campaigns by social movements engaging with the history and legacy of European colonialism have become increasingly significant helping to make traditional erasures and evasions evident. This chapter engages with the politics of remembrance and forgetfulness associated with European colonialism, as a mean...
Reactionary Democracy addresses the mutual influences between far-right and mainstream political discourse, arguing that the renewal of right-wing radicalism has legitimized liberal racism whilst distracting us from its systemic expressions. Whilst the book is an important endeavour helping to enunciate debates on racism next to an audience interes...
In this chapter, we discuss a specific conceptualisation of racism that became hegemonic in Europe/West, a notion that evades the routine governmentalities inherited from colonialism. Such a conceptualisation - which emphasises individual cognitive and interpersonal processes - results in the misrecognition of racism in daily life, as well as in th...
Este artigo aborda debates contemporâneos sobre a multiperspectividade – uma abordagem e metodologia promovida pelo Conselho da Europa para responder ao "preconceito" na história e no ensino, que tem recebido crescente interesse académico nas últimas décadas. Para examinar como esta abordagem tem sido interpretada e utilizada, procedo à análise de...
O Dossiê é resultado de um simpósio organizado no 56º Congresso de Americanistas, na Universidad de Salamanca, na Espanha, em 2018. O chamado à reflexão sobre a dialética entre a universalidade e os particularismos na produção do conhecimento, lema do congresso, oportunizou a realização do Simpósio Comunidades Quilombolas, Ciganas e Indígenas na Am...
Este artigo procura delinear diversas noções de racismo, desde o entendimento eurocêntrico proposto pela chamada tradição UNESCO no início da década de 1950 até às críticas de intelectuais como Césaire e Carmichael/Turé e Hamilton nos anos 1960, e as reverberações destes debates no contexto europeu dos finais dos anos 1990, designadamente com a pub...
This chapter identifies ten key dominant Islamophobic narratives and the ten key dominant counter-narratives to Islamophobia operating in Portugal. Islamophobic narratives were found to fix Muslims collectively as, in descending order of prevalence, a threat to security, unassimilable, a demographic threat, an Islamisation threat, a threat to local...
O estudo do ensino oficial da história tem sido privilegiado na análise das narrativas sobre identidade nacional e raça, dado que as diretrizes curriculares e os livros didáticos sancionados pelo Estado espelham as concepções consensualizadas pelas elites académicas e políticas. Neste artigo, centramos–nos no ensino da história da escravatura em Po...
Este artigo propõe um diálogo entre os debates políticos e acadêmicos sobre raça, identidade e história nos contextos brasileiro e português. Para tal, examina a relação entre o mito da democracia racial (como ficou conhecido no Brasil) e a ideia de uma vocação nacional para a interculturalidade em Portugal e o debate contemporâneo sobre racismo e...
Este texto tem como objectivo mapear as expressões de islamofobia em Portugal através de um trabalho de investigação que analisou as narrativas académicas, políticas, mediáticas e do comentário social no ciberespaço desde o ano 2000. Notando a invisibilidade da islamofobia nos debates académicos e políticos – centrados antes na presença de muçulman...
This article proposes a dialogue between the political and academic debates on race, identity, and history in the Brazilian and Portuguese contexts. In order to do so, it examines the myth of racial democracy (as it was known in Brazil) and the idea of a national vocation for interculturality in Portugal to explore how they shape the contemporary d...
Este artigo aborda como o paradigma eurocêntrico de produção e disseminação do conhecimento define os contornos da discussão sobre a história do (anti-)colonialismo em Portugal e, mais particularmente, sobre as lutas de libertação nacional africanas – atentando mais de perto ao PAIGC e à figura de Amílcar Cabral. Focando na educação, o artigo anali...
Este livro propõe uma abordagem ao eurocentrismo enquanto paradigma de produção e interpretação de conhecimento enraizado no mito ocidental moderno da excepcionalidade da Europa e na reprodução de governamentalidades raciais. Em particular, interroga a relação entre conhecimento, raça e poder no centro dos debates sobre a produção e a disseminação...
A organização de um dossiê sobre racismo e antirracismo, num diálogo
entre Brasil e Portugal, enseja uma oportunidade de considerar o panorama dos
debates sobre a questão nos dois países. Analisando tempos diversos e os inúmeros
contratempos que se foram colocando à construção de uma agenda antirracista, este
dossiê dialoga com múltiplos processos...
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary production, bringing the work of international scholars and political activists within a wide range of approaches and disciplines, including History, Anthropology, Political Sociology, Philosophy, International Relations, Political Economy and the Sociology of Education. It addresses key contemporary i...
This article explores the contemporary legitimation of institutional racism resulting from the prevailing depoliticized framework of integration, which became prominent in the 1960s and is now hegemonic in political and academic debate in Europe. Integration has helped shift the focus to the supposed cultural inadequacies of ethnically marked popul...
This essay reflects on the relationship between power and knowledge within the current politics of integration and mainstream ›minorities and immigration research‹ in Europe. Drawing on recent research on (anti-)racism and public policies in different European contexts, we unravel the current discourse on "evidence-based policy-making" and the role...
This article examines how in Portugal, in political discourse and in the educational context, 'race' is part of a game of in/visibility. The racial, being considered as a result from the presence of the "other" from the colony, is therefore naturally irrelevant to the formation of the national-metropolitan space and, more generally, to the notion o...
Este artigo analisa como, nos discursos políticos e no contexto educativo português, o racial se insere num jogo de in/visibilidades, sendo considerado como resultante da presença do “outro” da colónia e, logo, naturalmente irrelevante para a formação do espaço nacional-metropolitano e, de modo geral, para a formação da noção de “Europeidade”. A pa...
In this chapter, I address common narratives on cultural diversity and immigration that are prominent in politics as well as in some academic circles, which help to depoliticize the history of colonialism and thus fail to challenge the pervasiveness of racism in contemporary social relations. Focusing on the Portuguese context, and particularly on...
History teaching is a particularly interesting sphere for the analysis of national and European imaginaries on identity, the nation and 'race'. As Carolyn Boyd argued, 'history teaching and textbooks legitimate existing political arrangements and provide clues to national identity and destiny'. Moreover, textbooks are especially appropriate objects...
Questo articolo dà conto della ricerca svolta nell'ambito del progetto "Razza" e Africa in Portogallo. Uno studio sui manuali di storia (2008-2012), finanziato dalla portoghese Fondazione per la scienza e la tecnologia (www.ces.uc.pt/projectos/rap), il cui scopo è di indagare la costruzione dell'eurocentrismo nei manuali scolastici portoghesi desti...
In this paper, we will present a work in progress of an on-going project entitled: ‘Race’ and Africa in Portugal: a study on history textbooks’. This research will demonstrate that the effectiveness of Eurocentric ideology does not lie exclusively on bias representations of the ‘other’, but rather on the depoliticisation and naturalisation of power...
Neste artigo, apresentamos uma abordagem analítica desenvolvida no âmbito do projecto de investigação “Raça” e África em Portugal: um estudo sobre manuais escolares de história. Em particular, exploramos a construção de uma visão eurocêntrica da história nacional/europeia resultante de uma epistemologia assente numa concepção teleológica do tempo h...
This paper examines Fresh Start, a New Labour flagship initiative to raise education ‘standards’ in a radical and innovative way. Drawing on a qualitative study of a comprehensive school in England, I argue that the initiative added to the problems faced by the ‘failing school’ and promoted rather traditional ways of raising ‘standards’ due to the...
This paper examines issues of selection, merging an analysis of policy with data from a qualitative case study. It focuses on the ‘modernisation of the comprehensive principle’ proposed by New Labour, in which selection within schools (through setting ‘by ability’) is increasingly encouraged. Data collected at an inner‐city, multi‐ethnic comprehens...
This paper examines current official discourses on school discipline in Britain. It analyses New Labour’s recent documents in education, such as the party’s manifestos, Green and White papers, and official guidelines, to understand which particular understandings of discipline are being promoted. In spite of a political commitment to social inclusi...
