Call for articles: "COLONIAL BORDERS, CULTURAL MEDIATORS AND DOCUMENTARY RECORDS. BORDER SUBJECTS AND DYNAMICS IN DIALOGUE"

Call for articles:

"COLONIAL BORDERS, CULTURAL MEDIATORS AND DOCUMENTARY RECORDS. BORDER SUBJECTS AND DYNAMICS IN DIALOGUE"

Deadline for submission: January 31, 2025.

The colonial borders of Brazil, as well as the rest of America, were spaces of encounters, disputes and reformulations of the logics of those human groups that coexisted there; a process of dialogue that carried with it the experiences of each of the subjects involved; subjects, among whom we have to consider men, women and children who were able to take care of their own interests, as well as the aspirations of their communities of origin, articulating them with those proper to the colonizers. Starting from considering the borders as spaces of encounter and dialogue between diverse human groups, considering the links with the non-humans, it is that we can find in the colonial documentation various witnesses and testimonies about the life of those subjects who acted in the border spaces, articulating and making intelligible logics and ways of linking with those considered others; whether those others are the indigenous people in their relationship with the colonial power or those indigenous people who had conflicts with other Amerindians due to their affinity with the different mechanisms of colonial power.
It is from this minimum definition of the border, and from noting the important role played by some men, women and children, that we invite you to present original, completed or ongoing research, which focus your interest on providing visibility to the diverse historical subjects who, for some particular reason, did not have their existence fully recorded by the various colonial power devices. Forms of recording the past and construction of memory that have to consider the Amerindian accounts as a way of accessing the colonial past, in order to thus complexify what we know about the colonial past and its borders, whether they are material, symbolic, ideological or imaginary.
Resuming the debate on the borders, discussing the processes of invisibilization of the indigenous populations, whether in the Portuguese portion or in the parts administered by Spain, as well as in the borders of the Iberian crowns, allows us to question the erasure of various forms of Amerindian memory, rescuing those historical subjects who experienced diverse experiences; the same ones that, from their critical knowledge, can generate innovative results for specialized historiography, in addition, of course, to connecting historians and other researchers from diverse historiographical traditions.