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Epistemological foundations of anti-colonial and decolonial thought: past, present and future. Analysis of epistemological foundations of anti-colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial thought from its origins, current debates and future projects.
Visuality and restitution. This line of research aims to produce epistemological and museum strategies that, via aesthetics, philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, and the arts, enable the symbolic restitution of a poorly-known past and its present-day legacy.
Visual studies. Memory and post-memory of slavery, colonialism, and their legacies. Analysis of the construction of visuality of the enslaved and the colonised from the emergence of photography to the independence of Guinea in 1968. This line is complemented by the study of the visuality of the colonisation process, using not just images produced by official bodies. This line of research is based on the study of contemporary legacies, mainly representations of slavery, the slave-like work conditions in the context of post abolition, and colonials in photography, film, advertising, textbooks, television, and the internet. We are focused on the study of images that serve as a basis of settler memory, such as the affiliative memory of those who were either children at the time or did not live in the same enviornment as their parents.

Lines of Research