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2020-1 Amílcar Cabral and the Idea of the Anticolonial Revolution

Guest editors

  • Aurora Almada e Santos, Institute of Contemporary History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

  • Víctor Barros, Institute of Contemporary History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Linked to Amílcar Cabral’s memory and legacy are some claims, virtually taken for granted in the scholarship. One of these claims consists in ascribing to Cabral a pivotal role in shaping a specific idea of anticolonial revolutionary resistance. Intimately related to the first claim, a second comes to the fore: Cabral was the great protagonist or the great champion of the liberation struggle for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. His biographers have described, with the appropriate nuances, different components of these topics (Sousa, 2016; Santos, 2014; Tomás, 2007; Oliva, 1998; Chabal, 1983; Andrade, 1980). Some studies on Cabral have scrutinized different patterns of the relationship between the idea of anticolonial resistance and the development of the revolutionary process, questioning the linkages between theory and practice, discourse and actions; that is to say, between words, political contexts, situations and acts (Amado, 2012; Ndjai, 2012; Medeiros, 2012; Franco, 2009; Castanheira, 2003; Pereira, 2002; Pinto, 2001; Mateus, 1999; Silva, 1997; Dhada, 1993). Others have searched for connotations of Marxism and internationalism in his thoughts (Villen, 2013; Idahosa, 2002; Benot, 1984; Bockel, 1976). Moreover, there are authors who include some of the Cabralian writings in the domain of the post-colonial studies (Young, 2001; Ashcroft et. al, 1995; Williams & Chrisman, 1994), but also in the framework of the political practices and in the African tradition of critical theory (Saucier, 2017; Abadia, 2016; Rabaka, 2009; Peterson, 2007). In addition, there are those who use Amílcar Cabral’s theoretical legacy as a starting point to question other socio-political processes, concepts and phenomena (César, 2018; Coutinho, 2017; Neves, 2017; Santos, 2017; Manji & Fletcher Jr., 2013; Lopes, 2009; Borges, 2008).

The aim of this call is to ask for proposals for a special issue of the journal Lusotopie on Amílcar Cabral, his ideas, actions and affinities with his ideas (at different levels). The purpose of the special issue is to build on some essential topics (such as the anticolonial revolutionary idea, the liberation movements, the repertoires of resistance, the circulation of actors, the networks of anticolonial solidarity, among others) and interpret them through an analytical approach, highlighting the multiplicity of relations from which Cabral’s actions and those of the African Party for Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) surface, especially as a corollary of what he named as “connecting struggles” (Cabral, 1973). Furthermore, the proposals should take into consideration new available sources (archives of Mário Pinto de Andrade, Casa dos Estudantes do Império, among others) and documents published recently (Cabral, Elísio & Souto, 2018; Cabral, Elísio & Souto, 2016), to allow a comprehensive problematization of the connections surrounding the struggle for independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. The approaches to Cabral’s political actions or to the struggle of the PAIGC have, broadly speaking, focused almost exclusively in the figure of the leader to explain the facts and to shed light upon the anticolonial and the independence historical processes. In this sense, the proposals should contribute to decentralize the analysis from Cabral’s personality and exploit other possible and reliable angles. This will enable, on the one hand, to break free from the simplistic and personal historiographical approaches; on the other, to frame the personality, the ideas, actions and events in the context of a network of relationships entangled, complementary, opposed or, even, contradictory. In essence, the proposals should value the transdisciplinary dimensions of the interactions (reciprocal and non-reciprocal) among the language of the anticolonial idea and the individual and collective networks of actions used in the production of history.

Please send your 500 words abstract to the guest editors (Aurora Almada e Santos auroraalmada@yahoo.com.br and Víctor Barros v-barros@hotmail.com) followed by your names and scientific affiliations before 20/3/2019.

Notification of acceptance: 1/4/2019
Submission of the first draft of the paper: 1/7/2019
Submission of the second draft of the paper after peer review: 1/10/2019
Publication: 3/2020

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