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In the scope of FCT funded project “Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering” (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021)

We are seeking contributions for an edited volume to be submitted to the Routledge series “Memory Studies: Global Constellations”. Our volume aims to analyze the triangular relationship between postcolonial memories, migrations, and urban space-making in the last twenty-five years or so. It does so through an exploration of Portuguese- or Portuguese-Creole-speaking cities across the world.

Exploring the social and cultural geographies of urban migration and memory in the post-colonial age that has now become a decolonial one as well, this volume seeks to stimulate a transnational conversation between scholars, activists, and cultural practitioners. Its chronology focuses on the period since the turn of the millennium until the present day, but it is obviously open to contextualization and genealogies that reach further back in time. While we encourage all contributors to bring a historical sensibility to their topics, we welcome scholars from urban studies, memory studies, and migration studies whose approaches are rooted in history, anthropology, sociology, geography, literary studies, political science, or any other relevant discipline.

Topics may include:

• Materialities – Visual culture and museums; cultural production; statues and toponomy; (post-)colonial urban planning, population control, and urban segregation.
• Heritage – Official memory policies and resistances; commemoration practices; decolonial academic and social movements and how they fight for the use and representation of/in the city space; transcultural interactions, transnational dynam¬ics and dissonant interpretations in Lusophone/Creole urban spaces.
• Subjectivities – Migratory or subalternized collective (post-)memories; how mi-grants imagine and use the city; (racialized) exclusions, strategic appropriations, negotiations; memories and lifeworlds; the practice of space.
• Rights – (post)colonial migrations, labor relations and citizenship inclusions and exclusions; memorial activism and the struggles for citizenship legalization and civil rights.

We initially seek abstracts of 450-550 words from potential contributors, along with a short bio (including institutional affiliation if any) of no more than 250 words (in one Word document). We aim to incorporate ten book chapters in the volume. Once authors are informed whether their proposed chapters will be included (first in the book proposal to be sent to Routledge, and then in the collection if it is accepted by the publisher) they will be required to submit their full chapters by January 15, 2024.

See the full Call For Contributions here:
https://www.buala.org/pt/da-fala/empire-and-the-city-migrations-and-memories-in-the-lusophone-world