ABOUT THE IGSCP-PE

IGSCP-PE – International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire

Created in 2016, the IGSCPP-PE constitutes a growing network of researchers, cultural agents, research projects, research centres, documentation centres, libraries and archives, with more than one hundred adherents to the principles and aims that inspire the Group.

The IGSCP-PE considers the colonial reality and imperial link pertinent for the constitution of a community of approaches – local, comparative and transversal – regarding the spaces comprehended by the political reality of the Portuguese Empire. The Group aims to affirm a field of studies and to promote common projects mobilised by the concept of Colonial Periodical Press, establishing as reference points the actors that moved within the space of the Portuguese Colonial Empire or that, coming from its geographies, moved in other spaces. The Group considers as structuring elements of modernity, colonialism and the conflictual currents of thought about the colonial reality. In such context, it defends that studying the colonial periodical press is fundamental to further knowledge and theorisation about Portuguese Contemporary History and that of the spaces of the Portuguese Empire, nowadays independent States or part of independent States.

The Group focuses its studies on the role of the colonial periodical press in the development and linking of modern cultural and political concepts and realities. It promotes a democratic construction of collective and individual memories, setting conflicting lines of thought and experiences into dialogue. Within such ambit, promotes academic collaboration and the articulation between research policies and collaborative policies for the preservation and access to sources, and works to involve other cultural agents in such dynamics.  

Website: https://giepcip.wordpress.com/ (updating).