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- Convenor:
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Solange Luis
(Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla)
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- Location:
- B1 0.06
- Sessions:
- Thursday 18 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Lisbon
Short Abstract:
African diaspora has a long history that goes back as far as the slave trade and forced migration, representing today a fundamental part of societies all over the world. Its importance in terms of presence and cultural significance is rarely acknowledged to a full extent.
Long Abstract:
The history of the word “diaspora” shows a very broad set of interpretations and it is currently a fundamental concept to discuss mobility, peripheral cultures, socioeconomic privilege and access to education as well as to the public spaces and structures.
For the African Union the African Diaspora consists “of people of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent."
African diaspora has a long history that goes back as far as the slave trade and forced migration, representing today a fundamental part of societies all over the world. Its importance in terms of presence and cultural significance is rarely acknowledged to a full extent.
The invisibility of such communities within the spheres of power is actually generalized and their representation in social media is also often marked by different forms of prejudice and exclusion.
In this panel we encourage contributions on the history of African diaspora as well as on the many forms of its political importance, expressions and struggles.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Thursday 18 July, 2019, -Alessandra Medeiros (Tribunal de JustiçaUNIFAI)
Paper short abstract:
The article is based on the discussion of indicators presented in the Oxfam Brazil Report (2017) under a racial view - "The distance that unites us", after the disclosure of the Map of Social Inequality - of Nossa São Paulo Movement, which analyzes the city of São Paulo, the largest in the country.
Paper long abstract:
According to the report, Brazil is a country that concentrates income, with the 3rd worst Gini index in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also cites the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Report, and Brazil is the 10th most unequal country in the world. 80% of the Brazilian population - 165 million Brazilians - live with a per capita income of less than 2 monthly minimum wages.
In 20 years, blacks' income rose only from 45% of whites' income to 57%, and if the rate of inclusion of blacks is to be kept in the period, the average income of the black population will only become equal to that of whites in 2089.
Therefore, this paper aims to review the process of slavery historically occurred in Brazil and to what extent we find in São Paulo districts remnants of that period, since we see a greater concentration of brown and black people in territories deprived of access to policies current public services.
A first survey conducted by the IBGE (2010) indicates that more than 50% of the resident population is black and brown in 15 districts of the city, all of them peripheral and of extreme social vulnerability. The theoretical basis of this article will be the analysis of the public services found in these districts, where the majority of the city's black population resides, the formation of these places from the perspective of
Authors such as SANTOS (1993 and 2001), KOGA (2009), FREYRE (1933), SOUZA (2018) etc.
Carla Cerqueira (University of Minho) Carla Baptista (FCSH/ICNOVA)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper we propose to analyse how the Portuguese media (social media, television and the press) covered the events in the neighbourhood of Jamaica, in Seixal, when violence erupted among police and black residents, leading to significant social protest in the streets.
Paper long abstract:
The question of media influencing racism in society has been posed by media theorists and addresses several aspects, concerning inequalities in terms of access and visibility, image stereotyping, body sexualization, racialization of identities and patterns of criminalization of black people. Media impacts in civic culture, memory building and collective risk perceptions (Whiteley, 2011) can work as a system of racialization (Littlefield, 2008). The portrayal of events involving racial tension has a major impact in the construction of collective perceptions and can lead to prevailing distorted and exclusionary visions of the "other". The processes that may reinforce racism in media discourses are complex and exceeds the presence of racist ideology. Racism is understood as a complex societal system of ethnically or "racially" based domination and its resulting inequality (Van Dijk, 1993). In mediatized and connected societies, the notion of media is plural and fragmented, circulating from traditional to digital media and messages are symbolically negotiated among different ethnic groups and subjected to multiple subjectivations, in the production and in the reception. In this paper we propose to analyse how the Portuguese media (social media, television and the press) covered the events in the neighbourhood of Jamaica, in Seixal, when violence erupted among police and black residents, leading to significant social protest in the streets. We will establish a critical reading of the media coverage (textual and visual contents) of the black peripheries portrayed, in the national context of the rise of new anti-racism activisms strengthen by political and academic networks.
Arianna Santaniello
Paper short abstract:
The purpose of this analysis is to consider the data on the educational-formative component present in the work of the Associação Moinho da Juventude. The importance of focusing on the association's projects lies in an attempt to deconstruct the prejudice over a neighborhood discriminated against by a part of society.
Paper long abstract:
The creation, as well as the elimination of prejudices, are very complex processes that make a great change in the way we think about reality. In the context of the vision of the other, we present the formative-educational work of a not for profit association: the Associação Moinho da Juventude, located in the Cova da Moura neighborhood, in the Municipality of Amadora. Today, this Association is a source of inspiration and motivation for children, young people, adults and the elderly living in a neighborhood that has always been considered by public opinion a dangerous place, where there is neither prosperity nor positivity.
The purpose of the analysis is to deepen the reflection on the educational and formative component that exists in any action directed by the Moinho, whether in the cultural or in the socioeconomic context. It is in this context that this work appears to analyze a presence that is often forgotten or overlooked: educational and constructive work in a place where formality and informality hang together, and in which the individual and collective dimension intertwine in the creation of a new being.