Paper short abstract:

This paper will look into the circulation of a global health building type, the barrack-hospital, across geographies of 19th Portuguese Empire and argue that the press, and the colonial press in particular, is vital to the understanding of the circulation of architectural types across geographies.

Paper long abstract:

Architecture has always travelled. Models, building types, and several other kinds of architectural knowledge have always circulated across geographies. Nevertheless, it was during the 19th century that architectural models spread across the globe so rapidly that the task of understanding its routes and forms of circulation becomes a complicated assignment.That happened in other sectors, like healthcare practices, and along the "globalization" of new practices in medicine, healthcare architectural becomes one of the fields where is possible to find building types in a worldwide scale and where to track the routes and forms of its circulation became an almost impossible mission.

This paper will look into the circulation a global health building type, the barrack-hospital, across geographies of 19th Portuguese Empire and argue that the press, and the colonial press in particular, is vital to the understanding of the circulation of architectural types across geographies.

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Considering the debate surrounding the symbolic representations of Portuguese colonialism in Africa, the presentation will deal with the research of a large iconographic collection on innovation provided by the "Tempo"Magazine, published at Lourenço Marques, since September 1970 to October 1974.

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By decolonizing the look, this will contribute to a New History of the Portuguese Empire and, of course, to a New History of Mozambique, research that can be applied in Education, Tourism and Museology. In short: The role of intellectuals, journalists, photographers highlighting the gender issue.

Problematic of the idea that the "camera is the eye of history", my interest as a researcher is to share it, presenting the research in progress that I have developed in the Mozambican Historical Archive, thus contributing to the Digital Archive, also under construction.

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The impact of Salazar's dictatorship and Colonial Act provoked a wave of contestation. The exchanges between the Notícias de Mozambique and the Pracasha from Goa confirm the beginning of transversal nets that cross the Indian Ocean's part of the Empire already pointed out to the fall of such empire.

Paper long abstract:

The impact of Salazar's dictatorship and Colonial Act, the first constitutional law of the regime, provoked a wave of contestation and resistance through the Portuguese Empire's colonies. Luís de Menezes Bragança, a democrat and a republican from Goa the center of the Portuguese State of India, published along the 1930's at the newspaper Pracasha, that he edited, a collection of articles analysing and criticizing the new model of Portuguese colonialism and its imperial pretention that the dictatorship’s legislation was turning into a brutal, repressive and segregational reality. Alongside, several chronicles from the Notícias of Mozambique were also published by Menezes Bragança at Pracasha as means to feed opposition to the Lisbon's regime. Signed by Goan and Mozambican writers, these chronicles testify the beginning of a flow of intercontinental alliances that latter would gain form in African-Asiatic solidarity movements, finding their expression namely at the Bandung conference (1955) and the 1961 CONCP Conference against the Portuguese Empire in Casablanca. In the context of first reactions to the dictatorship, Menezes Bragança was honored in Lourenço Marques and his collaboration with the Notícias continued until the ban of the Pracasha (1937). It is thus the existence of these transversal nets that cross the Indian Ocean's part of the Empire that this paper will address, emphasizing how these nets already pointed out to the fall of such empire, by communicating through the press, within the limitations of censorship, an anticolonial cultural and political discourse, that conscientiously demanded the right to self-determination of the peoples.

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This study aims to analyze the vision of Goan nationalists regarding the Colonial War in Angola, through the articles published in the press in exile in 1961, using as an example the newspaper Free Goa.

Paper long abstract:

Following the events of Luanda on February 4th, and Northern Angola on March 15th of 1961, and after the attempt of a military coup led by the Minister of National Defense, Botelho Moniz, Salazar on assuming, temporarily, the Defense portfolio determines as political orientation: "For Angola, quickly and in force".

With the press limited to what could be "legally" written, if the colonial press provided the circulation of ideas among the different colonial territories, allowing to link spaces and populations, the colonial press in exile made it possible to build democratic thinking by establishing relations that the Portuguese dictatorial regime repressed. Having gathered the liberation movements of the colonies at the Casablanca Conference, held from 18th to 20th April of 1961, with the purpose of coordinating the struggle of their peoples against the Portuguese colonial regime through the recently created Conference of Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies (CONCP), we will go through the press in exile the articles published about Angola in 1961, taking as an example the Free Goa newspaper, with the aim of making known the vision of the Goan nationalists regarding the Colonial War in Angola and their action in the unity among the nationalist organizations against Portuguese colonialism, in the context of African solidarity.

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This paper discusses why, by its own nature, colonial press needs to be thought as international common archives that convoke particular clusters of countries, even if they transport a more global interest.

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This paper follows a debate that is being nourished by researchers and institutions adherent to the project IGSCP-PE (International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire) regarding politics of reconstruction of collections through digital means, open access and research potentialities of the targeted archive. It will discuss why, by their own nature, colonial press collections need to be thought as international common archives that convoke particular clusters of countries, even if they transport a global interest. Such proposal is helpful to explore new approaches and methodologies in line with the international and transnational trends in historical research. It is also crucial to incentivize international archival politics that addresses local realities to surpass present inequalities, evidently loud when comparing Western with African panoramas, in access to sources without which academic work is highly limited. Coherent digital politics may not ignore the importance of building such archives in line with the most recent technical and scientific patterns that are being explored in the field of Digital Humanities in order to democratize the possibility of cutting-edge knowledge building.