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RESUMO O presente artigo é composto por duas partes principais. A primeira delas apresenta como um pensador medieval, o maiorquino Ramon Llull (c. 1232-1316), foi nacionalizado e europeizado nos últimos séculos. A segunda demonstra a importância de descolonizar e globalizar o entendimento sobre esse filósofo, com o objetivo de situá-lo mais adequadamente em seu contexto “global”. Nossa intenção é incentivar a reflexão crítica sobre o período medieval e, assim, propor uma releitura de um personagem histórico específico. Pretendemos demonstrar como pesquisadores e professores de História podem trabalhar com a Idade Média de forma descolonizada e globalizada. Para esse propósito, utilizaremos alguns fundamentos teórico-metodológicos da História Global e da teoria pós-colonial.

The mainstream literature on international business has played a key role in an asymmetric international process by prioritizing hegemonic power and dominance of developed countries. Practices of this Imperialism, especially by multinational companies, are traditionally rooted in colonial legacies. This article reviews the theoretical and empirical research on international business from the critical perspective of postcolonialism. The findings show that multinational enterprises possess advantages over their host country, suggesting further traces of dominance between colonizers and former colonies. Specifically, findings show that topics around language, slavery, control mechanisms, imperialism, and capitalism are dominant in the field of international business, suggesting a strong effect of historical colonialism on international business activities. The critical analysis grounded on post-colonial and international business perspectives draw attention to some neglected, if not untouched, strands with substantial gaps in the prevalent knowledge, opening new avenues for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text seeks to inquire about the valuation of Johann Sebastian Bach in music education at the university level. To this end, the role of the composer's work in the teaching of traditional stringed instruments from the Colombian Andean region, instruments that are part of a musical tradition different from the Central European one, was analyzed. Based on some contributions of postcolonial theory, especially the notion of provincializing Europe, proposed by Dipesh Chakrabarty, the authors propose the need to provincialize the most mentioned of the great composers and, in general, the Central European musical tradition. In relation to the methodology, surveys were conducted with students and teachers of instruments such as the Andean charango, tiple and bandola, belonging to two Colombian universities, with the intention of finding out how much Bach's music is or is not used in the teaching-learning process and, more importantly, what justifications are given for it. The results show that the symbolic weight of Bach's work is still very strong, even in the teaching of instruments far removed from the Central European tradition, which is why we propose a provincialization of Bach and his work in order to think about its use in a more critical way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Inspirado no pensamento de Frantz Fanon, este texto é um diagnóstico do tempo presente encenado como uma “reação psicótica”, cujo esperado efeito colateral é fazer avançar a noção de convivialidade como um espaço de experimentação analítica, onde desigualdade e diferença compartilham a condição de isonomia conceitual. O experimento específico aqui realizado tenta atingir esse objetivo fundindo diferentes registros escriturais e explorando o repertório vernacular da junção brasileira de um Atlântico afro-indígena. Sua aposta analítica, a ideia de zumbificação, é o esboço de uma posição epistemológica cujo trabalho consiste em uma cinética de (pelo menos) três movimentos: 1) a posicionalidade necessária para fazer exigências políticas; 2) o decentramento necessário para atenuar os efeitos prejudiciais tanto do essencialismo (mesmo estratégico) como da inevitável reprodução de padrões hegemônicos excludentes; 3) o voluntarismo necessário para amplificar abordagens epistemológicas subalternizadas de modo que elas possam se tornar mais pervasivas. Epistemologies for Conviviality or “Zumbification” Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s thought, this paper is a diagnostic of the present time, enacted as a “psychotic reaction” that melts together different scriptural registers to advance the notion of conviviality as a space of analytical experimentation, where inequality and difference share the condition of conceptual isonomy. The experiment performed in this article tries to accomplish this goal by exploring the vernacular repertoire of the Brazilian junction of an afro-indigenous Atlantic. Its analytical idea, zumbification, is the sketch of an epistemological subject-position, whose labor consists in a kinesics of (at least) three movements: 1) the situatedness needed for making political demands; 2) the decenteredness necessary for attenuating the harmful effects of (even strategic) essentialism and the unavoidable reproduction of hegemonic exclusionary patterns; 3) the willfulness required for amplifying subalternized epistemological approaches, so that they may become more pervasive. Capoeira | Conviviality | Epistemology | Post-colonial theory | Zumbi

A taxonomia da humanidade pode ser ditada por inúmeras categorias: civilização, raça, etnia, tradição, cultura e assim por diante. Enquanto percebidas frequentemente apenas como descritivas e “fixadas naturalmente”, nenhuma dessas categorias é capaz de especificar a identidade de um grupo particular sem cometer alguma inconsistência conceitual ou oferecer uma classificação razoavelmente coerente e sistemática da espécie humana em geral. Ainda assim, é impossível dizer que elas são irreais ou meramente ilusórias. Ao contrário, constituem a realidade social e cumprem papéis significativos na discriminação de um grupo de pessoas de e em oposição a outros. O Ocidente – da mesma forma, com seu oposto simétrico, o Resto da humanidade – é uma dessas categorias claramente defeituosas na racionalidade de sua coerência conceitual. Ela não tem unidade de consistência. Antes, se apresenta como uma unidade putativa, e contém em si contradições, de modo a poder ser unificada apenas no futuro. É um imaginário social que funciona principalmente como um mito em escala global, tal como a raça. Ainda assim, ao contrário da raça, ela tende a apresentar uma associação cartográfica. Devido a essa afinidade com a imaginação cartográfica, a dicotomia entre o Ocidente e o Resto é frequentemente invocada como tropo esquemático de diálogo a fim de denotar e compreender diversas instâncias de conflito social e distanciamento em termos espaciais, mas com o resultado de postular o Ocidente e o Resto como territórios, como delimitações geográficas. Este artigo questiona, então, como pode o Ocidente existir?

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An event frequently goes beyond its own place and time in history and becomes a symbol of formation for national identity, even though there are always gaps, untold facts, or simply one of several versions of the history is told. Current paper clarifies some of the historical aspects that surrounded the establishing of Thanksgiving Day as an official holiday in the United States, and how this issue is dealt with in Native American Literature, especially in Sherman Alexie’s book The Absolutely true diary of a part time Indian. A postcolonial theoretical approach is used, emphasizing the concepts of transculturation, nation, resistance and subjectivity, based on the scholarly works by Bhabha (1998), Ashcroft et al. (2007) and Pratt (1992), coupled to Native American literary criticism by Vizenor (1998). Analyses show that, by using several strategies such as humor and criticism, Alexie questions not only the historical situation of the Native American in the United States, but also reveals the effects that those facts, which helped to produce US national thought, have on contemporary Native Americans.

A key challenge for applied linguistics is how to deal with the historical power imbalance in knowledge production between the global north and south. A central objective of critical applied linguistics has been to provide new epistemological foundations that address this problem, through the lenses of post-colonial theory, for example. This article shows how the structure of academic writing, even within critical traditions, can reinforce unequal transnational relations of knowledge. Analysis of Brazilian theses and publications that draw on the multiliteracies framework identifies a series of discursive moves that constitute "hidden features" (STREET, 2009), positioning "northern" theory as universal and "southern" empirical applications as locally bounded. The article offers a set of questions for critical reflection during the writing process, contributing to the literature on academic literacies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nos últimos anos, sobretudo devido ao destaque que a crítica pós-colonial assumiu no âmbito da sociologia, diversos estudos têm apontado para a necessidade de se problematizarem as relações de produção e circulação da teoria sociológica entre centro e periferia. O livro de José Maurício Domingues, Teoria Crítica e (Semi)Periferia, ao trazer para o centro da reflexão teóricos provenientes de diferentes regiões periféricas do globo - como América Latina, Índia, China e Israel -, abre novas possibilidades para a reflexão crítica sobre a geopolítica da teoria sociológica, assim como contribui para a discussão em torno da modernidade global a partir da periferia e da semi-periferia.

O presente artigo apresenta um modelo estrutural para a classificação de culturas pós-coloniais, conforme o peso relativo de três fatores culturais: povos indígenas, colonizadores e escravos ou prisioneiros. O modelo é testado na análise de uma série de textos teóricos, buscando uma articulação entre a teoria pós-colonial anglófona e os estudos literários no sul do Brasil. Conforme o modelo, a abordagem mais promissora é a do Segundo Mundo, conceito de Alan Lawson que abrange a Austrália, a Nova Zelândia e o Canadá e também se aplica ao sul do Brasil e aos países platinos.

In "Memory is of the Future: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Novels of the African Diaspora" I explore comparative possibilities among examples of the contemporary novel of the African diaspora -- Toni Morrison (USA) and Maryse Condé (Guadaloupe); and African novels written in Portuguese by Pepetela (Angola), and Mia Couto (Mozambique). I attempt to understand the way writers position themselves towards the past and the future of their communities and nations. As their common paradigm is colonial, the discussion of tradition versus modernity, as well as the relation between memory and history gain a special relevance. To foster my discussion I shall be using a postcolonial theoretical framework resorting mainly to Enrique Dussel, Édouard Glissant, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What does it mean to represent blacks in XIX Century travel writing? This is the essential proposed question in order to explore the topic. In order to find answers to this question, I will attempt to examine Charles Darwin's travel accounts (1809-1882). This work examines the way in which black communities are portrayed as well as the discursive devices the writer resorts to in order to narrate them. Throughout the study, I will show how the traveler, in his hasty attempt to interpret and describe these populations in his own community, describes and reconstructs them by means of certain recurring strategies of representation mediated by European imagery. The mechanisms that the writer uses to depict the Otherness reveal an ideology imbued with inconsistencies, ambiguities and contradictions that mimic colonial discourse. I will try to analyze this rhetoric by using the theoretical guidelines proposed by David Spurr in his book The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing and Imperial administration and Mary Louise Pratt in Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Some theoretical key concepts are taken into account throughout this essay in order to classify the scenarios in which cultural encounters take place. Since Darwin is supposed to be an intellectual authority, particular attention is paid to the existing relation that comes into play between his discursive ideas and the role that they play in contributing to think black identity and cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artigo propõe um itinerário crítico em vista de uma reflexão que se prende com as relações subjacentes e apontadas pela língua como meio de representação estética e, logo, política. Analisando as fisionomias linguísticas e as problemáticas críticas contidas e apontadas pela escrita literária de Mia Couto, pretende-se reflectir em torno de alguns paradigmas teóricos e operacionais cruciais para repensar o que vem sendo definido como prática humanística.

Formulações epistemológicas devem ser relacionadas aos espaços geográficos em que estão localizadas. Estas localizações epistemológicas ajudam a compreender os processos de subaltemização de conhecimentos. O ponto de interseção entre histórias locais e desenhos globais dá lugar a epistemologias fronteiriças como conhecimento crítico local. Deveria ser restituido aos agentes locais o espaço para a produção de conhecimento suprimida pelos mecanismos coloniais e imperiais de subaltemização.

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Este artigo propõe um itinerário crítico em vista de uma reflexão que se prende com as relações subjacentes e apontadas pela língua como meio de representação estética e, logo, política. Analisando as fisionomias linguísticas e as problemáticas críticas contidas e apontadas pela escrita literária de Mia Couto, pretende-se reflectir em torno de alguns paradigmas teóricos e operacionais cruciais para repensar o que vem sendo definido como prática humanística. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a postcolonial point of view, this paper analyses the role of language as a medium of transmission and production of knowledge in Cape Verde, where Capeverdean (CV) and Portuguese coexist in a diaglossic system. This paper analyses first the ideological construct which has brought about the exclusion of languages without a written tradition from the domain of modern knowledge, and seeks to invert their prejudicial evaluation, arguing for their inclusion in the current processing of knowledge. Secondly, this paper seeks to highlight the need for the implementation of effective bilingualism through a linguistic planning adapted to the Capeverdean context. Therefore, the analysis focuses on the current situation of linguistic insecurity and argues the question of an on-going discreolization process in CV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]