No dia 28 de junho terá lugar a palestra de João Pina-Cabral “Transcolonial: wading through the web of empire”, inserida no ciclo Decolonizing Social Theory Lecture Series. O seminário terá início às 15:00h, na Sala Maria de Sousa do ICS-ULisboa e online, aqui. 

Resumo da palestra:

This communication reflects upon a collection of essays I have recently published, where I defend the notion of transcoloniality.  By conjoining my own personal history during the period of decolonisation with contemporary encounters in post-Independence Mozambique, I try to show how history permeates social relations in terms of values and concepts that we have inherited but that are also permanently up for reconsideration.  Writing about these encounters led me to explore what it is to ‘believe that’.  I want to show how ‘retention’ plays a central role in our interactions by focusing on the metaphors of cannibalism and how it supports a postcolonial racialised society in Mozambique.

Biografia do palestrante:

João Pina-Cabral is Research Professor at ICS-ULisboa and Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology in the University of Kent, where he was Head of the School of Anthropology and Conservation between 2013 and 2015. His latest book is 'World: An anthropological examination' (Chicago: HAU Books, 2017). His research work has dealt over the decades with questions related to personhood and company; gender, house and kinship; ethnicity in postcolonial contexts; the relation between symbolic thinking and social power; and, more recently, ethnographic theory. He carried out intensive fieldwork in Portugal (Minho and Alentejo), south of China (Macau and Hong Kong), Mozambique (Maputo and Inhambane), and NE Brazil (Bahia).