CES Almedina Collection | Series "Identidades e Interculturalidades" | 2015

Speakers
• Jorge Gonçalves (RDP África) - Round Table Moderator
• Adolfo Maria (Angola, RDP/RTP África)
• Eduardo Fernandes (Guinea Bissau, RDP/RTP África)
• Abílio Neto (Sao Tome and Principe, RDP/RTP África)
• Luís Carlos Patraquim (Mozambique, poet and journalist)
• Luís Hoffner Almada (Cape Verde, RDP/RTP África)
• Isabela Figueiredo (author)

Synopsis: This book aims to rethink the effects of Portuguese colonialism in the current  Portuguese postcoloniality  starting from a polyphonic meeting with the people of the 'South', with researchers, thinkers, writers, journalists and Portuguese researchers in a 'face-to-face' reflection on the following topics: a) the narratives of life and identity in colonial times; b) the meeting between the human reality of overseas experience and the reality of the post-April 25 socio-cultural, political and economic metropolis ; c) the historical consciousness of Portugal by its Other-people and how Portugal has represented itself, at times as a nation that celebrates its lusotropicalist epic, at times as a European nation; d) the various portraits of Portuguese postcoloniality. This attempt at dialogue was possible in light of a methodological approach inspired by the theoretical proposal of the sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sociology of absences, redefined here as postcolonial sociology of absences, which aims to reflect on what today is the Portuguese post-coloniality