COLONIAL NARRATIVES AND PRACTICES IN PORTUGAL AND FRANCE: ADMINISTRATION, LAICITY AND ISLAM

• Main Author: Camila Guidolin
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Jenifer de Brum Palmeiras 2021-05-01
• Series: Semina
• Subjects: decolonization.; islam; secularity
• Online Access: http://seer.upf.br/index.php/ph/article/view/12488/114115928

This text analyzes the extent to which the narrative about Islam and muslim populations constructedfrom the perspective of the secular state has created, practically and discursively, an oscillating relationship between integration and repression regardingthe configuration of religious beliefsin Portugal and France in second half of the 20th century. Our research guides the processes of Portuguese and French decolonization in Africa -Mozambique and Algeria, respectively -and the framework of tensions formulated facingthese movements. We explored the construction of a political-administrative discoursethat reflected itselfonthe legal structures, social projects and political conjunctures of suchcountries. Inscribed from a comparative perspective, our textbuilds from documentary research an analytical framework that questions the colonialist projects maintained by Portugal and France and the arguments that supportedthem.