Helena Machado

Sheila Khan

Nazir Ahmed Can

Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems. Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege historical contexts of colonial formation and offer a thorough and intersectional analysis on the specters of coloniality in the upsurge of racism, surveillance, and criminalization, as well as the presence of the phantom of the race in spaces of knowledge production such as that of artistic field, forensic genetics and criminal identification. Drawing on multi case studies the book then proffers key concepts and historical background that will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals in a broad range of areas of social sciences and humanities research, including fields such as criminology and policing, science and technology studies, arts studies, literary studies, race and ethnic studies and, finally, memory studies. Chapters 8, 9 and 10 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Modernity Matters

Racism and Racial Surveillance

Este livro pretende repensar os efeitos do colonialismo portugues no tempo actual da pos-colonialidade portuguesa partindo de uma reuni?o polifonica com as gentes do `Sul', com investigadores, pensadores, escritores, jornalistas e investigadores portugueses num `frente-a- frente' reflexivo sobre os seguintes topicos: a) as narrativas de vida e de identidade no tempo colonial; b) o encontro entre a realidade humana da experiencia ultramarina e a realidade da metropole socio-cultural, politica e economica do pos-25 de Abril; c) a consciencia historica de Portugal mediante as suas Outras-gentes e o modo como Portugal se tem representado a si mesmo, ora como nac?o que celebra a sua epopeia lusotropicalista, ora como nac?o europeia; d) os varios retratos da pos- colonialidade portuguesa. Esta tentativa de dialogo foi possivel partindo de uma opc?o metodologica inspirada na proposta teorica do sociologo Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a sociologia das ausencias, e redefinida aqui como sociologia pos-colonial das ausencias, cujo objectivo e reflectir o que e, hoje, a pos-colonialidade portuguesa.

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