Marta Araújo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3666280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Araújo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Araújo |
| SIGNATURE | ARAUJO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2449-0011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hard lessons on racial inequality? A research agenda on ‘difficult knowledge’ in the post-colonial classroom in Europe
In Europe, amid critical transformations, there has been a recent public commitment to face the racial legacy of colonial histories, alongside a backlash against equality initiatives. Considering this sociopolitical context, this article draws on scholarly discussions about ‘difficult history’ and Britzman’s concept of ‘difficult knowledge’ to outline a research agenda in education through the angle of race. The article addresses three key issues…
Crossings and anchorages: The circulation of the painting The King's Fountain and the negotiation of post-colonial racial imaginaries in Portugal
This article discusses the painting The King’s Fountain (Chafariz d’El-Rei), depicting everyday life in sixteenth-century Lisbon, as a focal point to the negotiation of post-colonial racial imaginaries in Portugal. Despite its modest artistic value and debates over authenticity, the painting has circulated widely, namely in: (1) The 1999 public exhibition ‘Black People in Portugal – 15th to 19th Centuries’ at the Monastery of Jerónimos; (2) A Yea…
Islamophobia in Portugal, Beyond the National Register
The relationship between Islam and Portugal is intimately tied to processes of national formation and diverse in terms of the key protagonists, historical periods, and political conjunctures that it evokes – hence it is particularly suited for the contextualised study of Islamophobia. Drawing on a larger European study, and specifically on discourse analysis and empirical research on the Portuguese context, this article examines, on the one hand,…
An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention: Validation of the climate change stages of change questionnaire in middle school students and their schoolteachers
Certain behaviors, especially when adopted by a majority, can help limit the magnitude of climate change. In this cross-sectional study, the stages of change from the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) are applied to environmentally-significant behavior. We develop and test a new scale – the Climate Change Stages of Change Questionnaire (CCSOCQ) – for measuring five discrete stages involved in changing behavior to address climate change (precontemplati…
Notes on racism, democracy, and research
Reactionary Democracy addresses the mutual influences between far-right and mainstream political discourse, arguing that the renewal of right-wing radicalism has legitimized liberal racism whilst distracting us from its systemic expressions. Whilst the book is an important endeavour helping to enunciate debates on racism next to an audience interested in populism studies, political and democratic theories, I suggest we consider how such a researc…
História e memória em movimento: Escravatura, educação e (anti-)racismo em Portugal
O estudo do ensino oficial da história tem sido privilegiado na análise das narrativas sobre identidade nacional e raça, dado que as diretrizes curriculares e os livros didáticos sancionados pelo Estado espelham as concepções consensualizadas pelas elites académicas e políticas. Neste artigo, centramos–nos no ensino da história da escravatura em Portugal para analisar a despolitização deste processo histórico e a forma como é trivializada a sua r…
The (im)plausibility of racism in Europe: Policy frameworks on discrimination and integration
Rodríguez Maeso and Araújo analyse the reproduction of a dominant understanding of racism in policy discourses of integration and discrimination used by monitoring agencies in Portuguese and European Union (EU) institutional contexts. More specifically, they question the political concern over racism and discrimination vis-à-vis the idea of Europe ‘becoming increasingly diverse’ and the need to gather ‘evidence’ of discrimination. To that end, th…
The semantics of (anti-)racism in the governance of non-Europeanness: An introduction
This special issue presents theoretical discussions and empirical research developed within the international project TOLERACE, The Semantics of (Anti-)Racism and Tolerance in Europe: Public Bodies and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (2010–13), funded under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. \nIn this introduction, we present our approach to the study of (anti-)racism in contemporary Europe as well as the key issues explor…
Livros escolares à educação primária homogênea ( Rio Grande do Norte, Século XIX)
No século XIX, as mensagens dos presidentes da Província do Rio Grande do Norte e os relatórios dos diretores-gerais da Instrução Pública, principalmente (corpus documental do trabalho) revelam uma sistemática aquisição de livros escolares destinados à educação primária. Centrado no século XIX no Rio Grande do Norte e na cidade de Caicó, o trabalho tem o objetivo de refletir acerca da uniformidade formativa do aluno da educação primária, propicia…
Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas
1. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction Silvia Rodriguez Maeso and Marta Araujo 2. Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century Ramon Grosfoguel 3. Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization, and Viscerality Arturo Arias 4. Social Races and Decolonial Struggles in France Sa…
A very ‘prudent integration’: White flight, school segregation and the depoliticization of (anti-)racism
This article explores the contemporary legitimation of institutional racism resulting from the prevailing depoliticized framework of integration, which became prominent in the 1960s and is now hegemonic in political and academic debate in Europe. Integration has helped shift the focus to the supposed cultural inadequacies of ethnically marked populations, who ought to show a willingness to pursue the modern dream; simultaneously, it has invisibil…
A presença ausente do racial: Discursos políticos e pedagógicos sobre História, "Portugal" e (pós-)colonialismo
Este artigo analisa como, nos discursos políticos e no contexto educativo português, o racial se insere num jogo de in/visibilidades, sendo considerado como resultante da presença do "outro" da colónia e, logo, naturalmente irrelevante para a formação do espaço nacional-metropolitano e, de modo geral, para a formação da noção de "Europeidade". A partir desta análise, ilustramos a despolitização do racismo via a naturalização do colonialismo e a r…
History textbooks, racism and the critique of Eurocentrism: Beyond Rectification or Compensation
This article is based on the theoretical framework developed within a research project on the construction of Eurocentrism and, more specifically, on the analysis of Portuguese history textbooks. We propose that the textbooks’ master narrative constitutes a power-evasive discourse on history, which naturalizes core processes such as colonialism, slavery and racism. Showing the limits of an approach that merely proposes the compensation or rectifi…
Introdução
Em 2005, o CES deu início a um projecto a que designou Ciclo Anual Jovens Cientistas Sociais. Colocar em diálogo os trabalhos e as experiências desses jovens oriundos de outros centros de investigação e universidades com aquele desenvolvido pelos investigadores do Centro de Estudos Sociais, foi o objectivo primacial deste projecto. A sua consolidação ao longo dos últimos anos abriu novas portas. O objectivo do ciclo manteve-se, mas as disciplinas…
Introdução
Representações do Islão consideradas insultuosas pelos países e crentes islâmicos, não sendo um fenómeno novo no Ocidente, intensificaram-se significativamente nos últimos anos, no seguimento do 11 de Setembro de 2001. Uma das representações que ficou singularmente célebre na Europa foi a dos cartoons publicados no jornal dinamarquês Jyllands-Posten em Setembro de 2005 (onde surge caricaturada, entre outras, a figura do profeta Maomé ostentando u…
A Fresh Start for a ‘failing school’? A qualitative study
This paper examines Fresh Start , a New Labour flagship initiative to raise education ‘standards’ in a radical and innovative way. Drawing on a qualitative study of a comprehensive school in England, I argue that the initiative added to the problems faced by the ‘failing school’ and promoted rather traditional ways of raising ‘standards’ due to the close surveillance that Fresh Start schools were subjected to. In the case studied, the needs of th…
Introdução
Desde a sua fundação em 1978, o Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) tem tido como uma das suas principais orientações o diálogo com a investigação produzida noutras instituições, numa matriz claramente transdisciplinar e interdisciplinar. Neste sentido, iniciou-se em 2005 a organização de um Ciclo Anual de Conferências no domínio das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, com o intuito de divulgar e debater o trabalho de promissores jovens investigadores portug…
Modernising the comprehensive principle’: Selection, setting and the institutionalisation of educational failure
This paper examines issues of selection, merging an analysis of policy with data from a qualitative case study. It focuses on the ‘modernisation of the comprehensive principle’ proposed by New Labour, in which selection within schools (through setting ‘by ability’) is increasingly encouraged. Data collected at an inner‐city, multi‐ethnic comprehensive school are used to illustrate how discourses on selection are being reworked locally. The school…
History textbooks, racism and the critique of Eurocentrism: Beyond Rectification or Compensation
This article is based on the theoretical framework developed within a research project on the construction of Eurocentrism and, more specifically, on the analysis of Portuguese history textbooks. We propose that the textbooks’ master narrative constitutes a power-evasive discourse on history, which naturalizes core processes such as colonialism, slavery and racism. Showing the limits of an approach that merely proposes the compensation or rectifi…
Modernising the comprehensive principle’: Selection, setting and the institutionalisation of educational failure
This paper examines issues of selection, merging an analysis of policy with data from a qualitative case study. It focuses on the ‘modernisation of the comprehensive principle’ proposed by New Labour, in which selection within schools (through setting ‘by ability’) is increasingly encouraged. Data collected at an inner‐city, multi‐ethnic comprehensive school are used to illustrate how discourses on selection are being reworked locally. The school…
A very ‘prudent integration’: White flight, school segregation and the depoliticization of (anti-)racism
This article explores the contemporary legitimation of institutional racism resulting from the prevailing depoliticized framework of integration, which became prominent in the 1960s and is now hegemonic in political and academic debate in Europe. Integration has helped shift the focus to the supposed cultural inadequacies of ethnically marked populations, who ought to show a willingness to pursue the modern dream; simultaneously, it has invisibil…
A presença ausente do racial: Discursos políticos e pedagógicos sobre História, "Portugal" e (pós-)colonialismo
Este artigo analisa como, nos discursos políticos e no contexto educativo português, o racial se insere num jogo de in/visibilidades, sendo considerado como resultante da presença do "outro" da colónia e, logo, naturalmente irrelevante para a formação do espaço nacional-metropolitano e, de modo geral, para a formação da noção de "Europeidade". A partir desta análise, ilustramos a despolitização do racismo via a naturalização do colonialismo e a r…
The (im)plausibility of racism in Europe: Policy frameworks on discrimination and integration
Rodríguez Maeso and Araújo analyse the reproduction of a dominant understanding of racism in policy discourses of integration and discrimination used by monitoring agencies in Portuguese and European Union (EU) institutional contexts. More specifically, they question the political concern over racism and discrimination vis-à-vis the idea of Europe ‘becoming increasingly diverse’ and the need to gather ‘evidence’ of discrimination. To that end, th…
Crossings and anchorages: The circulation of the painting The King's Fountain and the negotiation of post-colonial racial imaginaries in Portugal
This article discusses the painting The King’s Fountain (Chafariz d’El-Rei), depicting everyday life in sixteenth-century Lisbon, as a focal point to the negotiation of post-colonial racial imaginaries in Portugal. Despite its modest artistic value and debates over authenticity, the painting has circulated widely, namely in: (1) The 1999 public exhibition ‘Black People in Portugal – 15th to 19th Centuries’ at the Monastery of Jerónimos; (2) A Yea…
Modernising the comprehensive principle’: Selection, setting and the institutionalisation of educational failure
This paper examines issues of selection, merging an analysis of policy with data from a qualitative case study. It focuses on the ‘modernisation of the comprehensive principle’ proposed by New Labour, in which selection within schools (through setting ‘by ability’) is increasingly encouraged. Data collected at an inner‐city, multi‐ethnic comprehensive school are used to illustrate how discourses on selection are being reworked locally. The school…
Introdução
Desde a sua fundação em 1978, o Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES) tem tido como uma das suas principais orientações o diálogo com a investigação produzida noutras instituições, numa matriz claramente transdisciplinar e interdisciplinar. Neste sentido, iniciou-se em 2005 a organização de um Ciclo Anual de Conferências no domínio das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, com o intuito de divulgar e debater o trabalho de promissores jovens investigadores portug…
Introdução
Representações do Islão consideradas insultuosas pelos países e crentes islâmicos, não sendo um fenómeno novo no Ocidente, intensificaram-se significativamente nos últimos anos, no seguimento do 11 de Setembro de 2001. Uma das representações que ficou singularmente célebre na Europa foi a dos cartoons publicados no jornal dinamarquês Jyllands-Posten em Setembro de 2005 (onde surge caricaturada, entre outras, a figura do profeta Maomé ostentando u…
A Fresh Start for a ‘failing school’? A qualitative study
This paper examines Fresh Start , a New Labour flagship initiative to raise education ‘standards’ in a radical and innovative way. Drawing on a qualitative study of a comprehensive school in England, I argue that the initiative added to the problems faced by the ‘failing school’ and promoted rather traditional ways of raising ‘standards’ due to the close surveillance that Fresh Start schools were subjected to. In the case studied, the needs of th…
Introdução
Em 2005, o CES deu início a um projecto a que designou Ciclo Anual Jovens Cientistas Sociais. Colocar em diálogo os trabalhos e as experiências desses jovens oriundos de outros centros de investigação e universidades com aquele desenvolvido pelos investigadores do Centro de Estudos Sociais, foi o objectivo primacial deste projecto. A sua consolidação ao longo dos últimos anos abriu novas portas. O objectivo do ciclo manteve-se, mas as disciplinas…
History textbooks, racism and the critique of Eurocentrism: Beyond Rectification or Compensation
This article is based on the theoretical framework developed within a research project on the construction of Eurocentrism and, more specifically, on the analysis of Portuguese history textbooks. We propose that the textbooks’ master narrative constitutes a power-evasive discourse on history, which naturalizes core processes such as colonialism, slavery and racism. Showing the limits of an approach that merely proposes the compensation or rectifi…
A presença ausente do racial: Discursos políticos e pedagógicos sobre História, "Portugal" e (pós-)colonialismo
Este artigo analisa como, nos discursos políticos e no contexto educativo português, o racial se insere num jogo de in/visibilidades, sendo considerado como resultante da presença do "outro" da colónia e, logo, naturalmente irrelevante para a formação do espaço nacional-metropolitano e, de modo geral, para a formação da noção de "Europeidade". A partir desta análise, ilustramos a despolitização do racismo via a naturalização do colonialismo e a r…
A very ‘prudent integration’: White flight, school segregation and the depoliticization of (anti-)racism
This article explores the contemporary legitimation of institutional racism resulting from the prevailing depoliticized framework of integration, which became prominent in the 1960s and is now hegemonic in political and academic debate in Europe. Integration has helped shift the focus to the supposed cultural inadequacies of ethnically marked populations, who ought to show a willingness to pursue the modern dream; simultaneously, it has invisibil…
Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas
1. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction Silvia Rodriguez Maeso and Marta Araujo 2. Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century Ramon Grosfoguel 3. Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization, and Viscerality Arturo Arias 4. Social Races and Decolonial Struggles in France Sa…
Livros escolares à educação primária homogênea ( Rio Grande do Norte, Século XIX)
No século XIX, as mensagens dos presidentes da Província do Rio Grande do Norte e os relatórios dos diretores-gerais da Instrução Pública, principalmente (corpus documental do trabalho) revelam uma sistemática aquisição de livros escolares destinados à educação primária. Centrado no século XIX no Rio Grande do Norte e na cidade de Caicó, o trabalho tem o objetivo de refletir acerca da uniformidade formativa do aluno da educação primária, propicia…
The (im)plausibility of racism in Europe: Policy frameworks on discrimination and integration
Rodríguez Maeso and Araújo analyse the reproduction of a dominant understanding of racism in policy discourses of integration and discrimination used by monitoring agencies in Portuguese and European Union (EU) institutional contexts. More specifically, they question the political concern over racism and discrimination vis-à-vis the idea of Europe ‘becoming increasingly diverse’ and the need to gather ‘evidence’ of discrimination. To that end, th…
The semantics of (anti-)racism in the governance of non-Europeanness: An introduction
This special issue presents theoretical discussions and empirical research developed within the international project TOLERACE, The Semantics of (Anti-)Racism and Tolerance in Europe: Public Bodies and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (2010–13), funded under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. \nIn this introduction, we present our approach to the study of (anti-)racism in contemporary Europe as well as the key issues explor…
História e memória em movimento: Escravatura, educação e (anti-)racismo em Portugal
O estudo do ensino oficial da história tem sido privilegiado na análise das narrativas sobre identidade nacional e raça, dado que as diretrizes curriculares e os livros didáticos sancionados pelo Estado espelham as concepções consensualizadas pelas elites académicas e políticas. Neste artigo, centramos–nos no ensino da história da escravatura em Portugal para analisar a despolitização deste processo histórico e a forma como é trivializada a sua r…
An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention: Validation of the climate change stages of change questionnaire in middle school students and their schoolteachers
Certain behaviors, especially when adopted by a majority, can help limit the magnitude of climate change. In this cross-sectional study, the stages of change from the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) are applied to environmentally-significant behavior. We develop and test a new scale – the Climate Change Stages of Change Questionnaire (CCSOCQ) – for measuring five discrete stages involved in changing behavior to address climate change (precontemplati…
Notes on racism, democracy, and research
Reactionary Democracy addresses the mutual influences between far-right and mainstream political discourse, arguing that the renewal of right-wing radicalism has legitimized liberal racism whilst distracting us from its systemic expressions. Whilst the book is an important endeavour helping to enunciate debates on racism next to an audience interested in populism studies, political and democratic theories, I suggest we consider how such a researc…
Islamophobia in Portugal, Beyond the National Register
The relationship between Islam and Portugal is intimately tied to processes of national formation and diverse in terms of the key protagonists, historical periods, and political conjunctures that it evokes – hence it is particularly suited for the contextualised study of Islamophobia. Drawing on a larger European study, and specifically on discourse analysis and empirical research on the Portuguese context, this article examines, on the one hand,…
Crossings and anchorages: The circulation of the painting The King's Fountain and the negotiation of post-colonial racial imaginaries in Portugal
This article discusses the painting The King’s Fountain (Chafariz d’El-Rei), depicting everyday life in sixteenth-century Lisbon, as a focal point to the negotiation of post-colonial racial imaginaries in Portugal. Despite its modest artistic value and debates over authenticity, the painting has circulated widely, namely in: (1) The 1999 public exhibition ‘Black People in Portugal – 15th to 19th Centuries’ at the Monastery of Jerónimos; (2) A Yea…
Hard lessons on racial inequality? A research agenda on ‘difficult knowledge’ in the post-colonial classroom in Europe
In Europe, amid critical transformations, there has been a recent public commitment to face the racial legacy of colonial histories, alongside a backlash against equality initiatives. Considering this sociopolitical context, this article draws on scholarly discussions about ‘difficult history’ and Britzman’s concept of ‘difficult knowledge’ to outline a research agenda in education through the angle of race. The article addresses three key issues…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Racism (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Portuguese (4 works)