Search

This article aims to analyze the Turkish foreign policy towards the African continent in the 21st century. With the end of the Cold War and the world order centered on a bipolar logic, Turkey has had greater autonomy to manage its international relations, maintaining a more active foreign policy by expanding its economic, diplomatic, and security affairs beyond the West. In this context, under the leadership of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the African continent has come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in Turkish foreign relations. Thus, since the early 2000s, there has been a substantial increase in Turkey's presence on the continent, characterized, among other aspects, by the intensification of bilateral trade flows, the expansion of the diplomatic network on the continent, its participation in the mediation of conflicts and the offer of humanitarian assistance to African actors. In this context, and based on the literature on Middle Powers and Regional Powers, this paper discusses the intensification of Turkey's ties with African countries since the beginning of the 21st century, comprehending it as part of a broader international projection strategy. To this end, the study adopts a hermeneutic approach, relying on the literature review on Turkish-African relations and the analysis, supported by quantitative data, of the developments of these relations in the political, economic, and security axes throughout the period in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on scholarly works that are both ethnographically-based (such as Stephen Levinson and Elinor Ochs’s) and socially-based (such as Jacob Mey and Joana Pinto’s), this paper takes a particular stance on linguistic pragmatics. Originally named by Peirce and established as a perspective – rather than a discipline – pragmatics gathers researches from different traditions around the world. In departmental terms, people working on language from a pragmatic perspective may be affiliated with areas such as sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, neurolinguistics, etc., yet a family resemblance unites them: pragmatics seen as social science, which stands for both a field ethnographically oriented to the role, ideologies and agency of language users, and science “in society,” politically situated. The paper revisits language ethnographies in Oceania and Africa, in addition to semantically-oriented scholarship. I conclude, with Rajagopalan, that a diversity of problems investigated in pragmatics are refinements from subjects’ situated action [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to understand the implication of "Africa" in the ideational production of the Brazilian Armed Forces through an examination of essays developed by members of Army and Navy Schools between 2001 and 2020. The research highlights possible divergences of interpretation among both forces and multiple strategic emphases about the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reflects on nationality and colonialism, starting from the category of "creolization" present in Cape Verdean literature. It analyzes its origin and contribution to the formation of a "myth of origin". It observes nationalization in Africa and its relation to Portuguese domination and post-colonial policies. Finally, it presents contributions from several authors on nation, colonialism and national imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the constructions of meaning in Beyoncé’s Black Is King, which triggers the idea of a reimagined and fabled Africa. By presenting positive elements related to the concepts of Black and Blackness, the film breaks with Western images of control over racialized peoples, showing them in other ways, as in the performances of pregnancy and motherhood depicted in the production. With a nonlinear narrative, unusual in the so-called mainstream culture, Black Is King retrieves the past in a similar attitude to the Sankofa bird, which returns to seek what is its own. The film unfolds in images, songs, and stories that evoke a spiraling time that comes and goes, reinventing a stolen past and proposing, in the present, other places and imagery for Black bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European colonialism in Africa from the XIXth century onwards had the visual culture as an important support for the circulation of the colonial discourse within the metropolitan audience. Beyond that, visual culture was also responsible for the renovation and elaboration of a varied quantity of stereotypes about the African continent and the peoples living there. From this context, the major objective of this paper is to comprehend which colonial stereotypes are there in the comic Tintim in Africa and, foremost, how they relate to the colonial discourse in this series published between 1930 and 1931 with a clear intention of colonial propaganda destined to a youth audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

African Diaspora Religions in Latin America exist from a historical context that began in Africa and reached this continent under a colonial structure that is still possible to perceive nowadays. Decolonial authors have analyzed epistemologies of power and their harmful effects. Studying these religions is possible to understand patterns not only of the religious universe, but social, cultural and moral ones, to which we are, as a society, submitted. For decolonial authors, such as Aníbal Quijano, that will be mentioned in this paper, it is possible to think of a new way of living. To change, it is necessary to deconstruct these ideas that we think of as natural. Religion here can be a path to a new, compassionate world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do the plans, platforms and strategies of action of the World Conferences on Women reflect the principles of gender justice? In this paper, we point out how the aforementioned documents frame gender justice in terms of redistribution, recognition, and representation. Furthermore, we briefly analyse how these principles are applied to Africa under the framework of the World Conferences' documents. We conclude that the plans and strategies prioritise redistribution and recognition, whereas representation is framed diffusively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will discuss some issues related to what would be the "necessary university" for a country of the PALOP (Portuguese-speaking African countries) taking as example a Regional and Urban Economics course taught in an undergraduate programme in Economics. The main argument is that it is almost impossible and useless for the universities of these countries to train people with the same profile of an academic out of the so-called world-class universities. Because of this, the PALOP would look for alternative models. The first issue discussed is the definition of the profile expected for the graduates; secondly is what should be offered to them among the options from regional science; finally, what are the most appropriate methodologies and techniques for learning this subject. The text emphasizes the need for adopting teaching methodologies based on solution of problems such as the PBL (Problem Based Learning). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prioritization of the South-South axis during the Lula da Silva government is consensual among analysts of Brazilian Foreign Policy regarding its international insertion, as well as the prominent role given to the African continent. In order to provide empirical analysis to the reprioritization of relations between Brazil and Africa, this paper aims at comparing the technical cooperation provided by Brazil to African countries during FHC (1995-2002) and Lula da Silva (2003-2010) administrations. Its primary source of analyzed data, little explored by the Brazilian academic literature yet, was the databank of the Department of International Acts of the Ministry of External Relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper I discuss the assumptions and significance of some of the theses and techniques behind Portuguese colonial land policies in Africa between the mid-1920s and the 1940s, and discuss their role in the Portuguese colonial project. I particularly address the extent to which, both in national and international discussion fora on colonial topics, as well as in official discourse, through the voice of politicians in the metropole as well as colonial administrators and experts, arguments in favour of African access to individual property, for different purposes, gained ground. These arguments went against the dominant perspective in Portuguese colonial thought between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which dictated the limited access of Africans to the land for instance in the name of economic development of colonial territories, the fight against land speculation and the safeguarding of Portuguese sovereignty in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes labor relationships in Angola around 1800, foregrounded on a set of statistical population maps produced in the first decades of the 19th century. In spite of the limitations in demographic statistics worked out within the context of 19th century colonial regime, data give a first glimpse on economical activities and labor relationships in Angola. Current article provides statistics for the demographic area and labor relationships from information given by local authorities and not merely on retrospective projections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While by no means an exhaustive account, this article discusses the influence of Africa on the economy of Salvador, Brazil's third most populous city and the largest concentration of people of African origin outside the continent. This paper details the findings of fieldwork that examined how religious cults such as Candomblé have become vehicles for folklore- inspired economic activity. It hopes to present an approach that results in a deeper economic and anthropological understanding of these phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Initiation processes - circumcision and the rites and lessons related to it - represent one of the most important features of traditional African culture. They form a highly sophisticated and complex pedagogical corpus, which is completely understood in relation to the sacred. Many topics and literary devices present in the work of Mozambican writer Mia Couto show movements that can be associated to the imaginary of ancestral tradition. The paper analyzes some tales and novels looking for references to the sacred expressed with the characteristic features of that tradition. This piece of work specially focuses on the diegetic construction used to present aspects of the ritualistic-narrative structure of myths. Couto's fictional strategy has special importance not only because it records and values the knowledge of traditional culture, but also because it deconstructs, tautens and transforms this knowledge. Besides acknowledging and reaffirming the value of traditional wisdom, the reinvented voice from oral tradition present in the voices of the narrator and characters states the assumption of dynamism in tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article its about music in the television series Antônia, showcased by Globo network and centered around a rap group formed by women. Although rap has a special position in the show, other musical forms are presented giving the dimension of Black Atlantic’scultural richness. In this paper we will analyze some songs sang by the protagonists and its reflection on female issues on hip hop and general African-descendant musicality. For that much we will use authors such as Hall (2008), Gilroy (2001, 2007) and Kellner (2001). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After political independence - and especially in the context of accelerating globalisation that followed the end of the Cold War -, most African countries have been affected by political instability, sometimes culminating in violent civil wars and massacres. In the current scientific debates, the wars of the 1990's and 2000's have been singled out and characterised by some authors as "new wars". However, there is considerable controversy surrounding this distinction between "old" and "new" wars. The causes of African conflicts are complex and multidimensional. From a conflict prevention and resolution perspective, it is essential that our understanding of African conflicts be improved through further analyses of the root causes of conflict, as well as of their complex and multiple interactions over time. This paper discusses some of the main doctrinal and theoretical perspectives on this topic, with particular reference to the cases of the Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire and Uganda. The linkages between war, hunger and food insecurity, and gender relations are also examined, namely as regards the situation of women combatants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The African diaspora experienced by immigrants and students leaving for Portugal and Brazil, coming from the Portuguese speaking African countries (PALOP) -- Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe -- is here the theme in discussion. They are young people of the so-called immigrant generation, the "Dangerous Generation" in the eyes of the European world, of Portugal, not less dangerous, however, in the Brazilian case. At stake, their social patrimony and heritage constituted by family and collective memory, based on the African world and the migratory context. This paper focuses on African districts in Portugal, "Aldeias d'Africa", and on young university students living in shared apartments and student boards in Campinas, Belo Horizonte, and Fortaleza. This discussion encompasses what characterizes them in terms of africanity and blackness constructed with their movings, and their private stories which reveal a more general history of a black, African and foreign people in the "land of others". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]