Heriberto Cairo

“Portugal is not a Small Country”: Maps and Propaganda in the Salazar Regime

The representation of territory is one of the most important elements in the construction of national identities. It is impossible to imagine a nation without territory, as every irredentist movement reminds us. Territory is the “real” body of the nation, at least in nationalist iconography. Some recent works show that cartography has been a tool of propaganda for the European dictatorships in the 1930s and 1940s. Political propaganda in a modern sense began in Portugal with the New State (Estado Novo), and the use of cartography was relevant, although it did not have a central role as in Germany. This paper tries to describe and analyse the ways to see the empire as a nation in Portugal during the Salazar regime. It discusses mainly the use of maps in the great exhibitions of the time, and also the school cartography and its insertion in the general discourse of colonialism in Portugal. Finally it also deals with the resistance to imperial narratives, showing its entanglement with them.

Heritage-ized Places and Spatial Stories: B/Ordering Practices at the Spanish-Portuguese Raya/Raia

Abstract European Union (EU) internal borders and borderlands have lately become tourist attractions and destinations. Border signs, narratives and feelings have the potential to assume the form of amenities for visitor enjoyment. This paper addresses the politics of representation of the EU interstate borders by examining the Spanish-Portuguese borderline. Located on both sides of the boundary, interpretation centers and border museums display different activities and border spatialities. As experiential and cultural places, these sites b/order meanings through a material and relational affectivity that casts the border, in terms of cultural governance, as a space of representational syncretism.

The Duty of the Benevolent Master: From Sovereignty to Suzerainty and the Biopolitics of Intervention

Recent claims about humanitarian intervention express forms of domination that are both geopolitical and increasingly constructed around a biopolitical duty to relieve the suffering of brutalized peoples. This paper examines this presumed duty in the context of tensions between juridical-institutional accounts of sovereignty and practices of suzerainty in which intervention “outside” is accompanied by intervention “inside.”

A América Latina no século XXI: geopolítica crítica dos Estados e os movimentos sociais, do conhecimento e da representação

“A per gunta sobre o que significa ser latino -americano esta mudando desde comecos do secu-lo XXI. Se desvanecem respostas que antes con-venciam e surgem duvidas sobre a utilidade defirmar compromissos continentais. Aumentaramas vozes que intervem neste debate […] Ao mesmotempo, os Estados nacionais […] sao diminuidospela globalizacao. As incertezas e regressoes eco-nomicas e politicas de fins do seculo XX deixarampara tras muitas expectativas. Aqueles que aposta-ram somente nos Estados nacionais, no mercado,ou nos meios massivos, como caminho para o de-senvolvimento e a integracao da America Latina,aprenderam que nenhum desses referentes e o quefoi.” Com essas palavras, Garcia Canclini (2002,p.18) comecava a estabelecer diversas duvidas emseu ensaio

“Territorial Peace”: The Emergence of a Concept in Colombia’s Peace Negotiations

ABSTRACT The essays collected in this forum discuss the political geography of the recent Colombian Peace Agreements, which aim to put an end to one of the most long lasting armed conflicts in Latin America. Central to many arguments in this accord is the concept of “territorial peace”. From a range of different academic disciplines and perspectives, the authors of this Forum explore this concept, focusing on its genealogy during the period of peace negotiations (2012-2016), its importance in the content of the agreement, and some of its connected dimensions, in particular to notions of ethno-territorial, sex and gender issues, as well as formal party politics.