Narrativizing the Other-Empire in Silence

This paper aims, within the theoretical framework presented by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Paula Meneses—named epistemologias do sul (Southern epistemologies) and based on the working tool that the same sociologists called sociologia das ausências (sociology of absences)—to offer a complementary analysis proposed as the sociologia pós-colonial das ausências (postcolonial sociology of absences). This approach is inspired by the creation of an interventive methodology that aims to reflect, on the one hand, the state of Portuguese research in postcolonial studies and its sensibility toward realities thought to be marginal and, on the other, to identify the lines of dialogue and cooperation between such studies and the people who inhabit the space and time of this Portuguese postimperiality/postcoloniality. KEYWORDS: identity, Southern epistemologies, postimperiality/postcoloniality

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Empire · Linguistics · Portuguese · Silence · Sociology · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Philosophy · Spanish Culture and Identity · Travel Writing and Literature