Heritage Subversions, Circulations and Mobilizations in Portuguese-speaking Post-Coloniality

Panel Convenor(s)

• RB

  Ruy Blanes

  CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Panel Chair(s)

• RB

  Ruy Blanes

  CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Presenter(s)

• CA

  Catarina Alves Costa

  Department of Anthropology, FCSH-NOVA, Portugal
• RB

  Ruy Blanes

  CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
• IL

  Inês Lourenço

  CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
• RP

  Rosa Maria Perez

  CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

In a context of great political and diplomatic investment in the heritagization of the Portuguese-speaking (CPLP, PALOP) postcolonial “common past” through commemorations and musealization projects, what possibilities exist for other regimes and processes of memory? If top-down approaches to heritagization are challenged, for example, by decolonial movements, this frictional logic does not exhaust the dynamics and possibilities of memorialization, within and beyond the post-colonial. But on the other hand, alternative movements of heritagization and memorialization configure, in one way or another, movements of “subversion”, in the sense that they represent alternative ways of thinking about collection, curation, and exhibition processes. This panel proposes a debate around alternative and extra- or even counter-institutional movements of heritagization in the Portuguese-speaking public space in the Global South, from Asia to Africa and South America, exploring dimensions of circulation, mobilization, and memorial and heritage production within the scope of post- or decolonial struggles. How do these emerging dynamics reflect new heritagizing paradigms? To what extent and in what ways do these movements configure or are identified as subversive processes? What is the historical and historiographical conversation they promote?

Presentations:

• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  Images and Invisibility, Displacement and Performance in the Makonde Response to Visual Archives
  

  Presenter: Catarina Alves Costa – Department of Anthropology, FCSH-NOVA
• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  Confinement Experiences and the Body as Archive: Reflections from Angola
  

  Presenter: Ruy L. Blanes – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL
• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  What Do the Objects We Keep Tell Us? A Look at the Private Collections of Indo-Mozambican and Indo-Angolan Families in Portugal
  

  Presenter: Inês Lourenço – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL
• 14:00 - 15:45 GMT

  Memory and Belonging: An Anthropological Analysis of a Goan Photographic Archive
  

  Presenter: Rosa Maria Perez – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL