The main objective of this group is to develop interdisciplinary research on the memory of slavery, colonialism in its multiple aspects and contemporary legacies. Special attention will be paid to the images generated and their various uses as a common thread to examine the survival of current forms of racism and racialism. The geographical context in which the research will be carried out will mainly be Spain, covering the period of time from the appearance of mechanical means of image production and reproduction to our present. From this perspective, this historical perspective will analyse the visual representations that photography and cinema have used to represent these phenomena and spread them among the general population. All this is done to critically analyse them and reveal their contemporary presence in photography, advertising, textbooks, cinema, television programmes and the web. Our intention is to think of academic, educational and museum strategies that, from aesthetics, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and artistic practices, enable the recognition of subaltern histories and the symbolic restitution of a poorly known past. In this sense, the theoretical...The main objective of this group is to develop interdisciplinary research on the memory of slavery, colonialism in its multiple aspects and contemporary legacies. Special attention will be paid to the images generated and their various uses as a common thread to examine the survival of current forms of racism and racialism. The geographical context in which the research will be carried out will mainly be Spain, covering the period of time from the appearance of mechanical means of image production and reproduction to our present. From this perspective, this historical perspective will analyse the visual representations that photography and cinema have used to represent these phenomena and spread them among the general population. All this is done to critically analyse them and reveal their contemporary presence in photography, advertising, textbooks, cinema, television programmes and the web. Our intention is to think of academic, educational and museum strategies that, from aesthetics, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and artistic practices, enable the recognition of subaltern histories and the symbolic restitution of a poorly known past. In this sense, the theoretical framework of this research group is visual and cultural studies from an anti-colonial perspective. It also includes studies on memory and post-memory, to the extent that the research integrates both the images that iconically support the memory of the settlers, as well as the filiative memory of those who were children at the time or who did not experience the world of their parents.
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- Analizar las representaciones visuales de la figura del esclavo y del emancipado en la fotografia.
- Analizar las representaciones de los colonizadores y los sujetos colonizados en la fotografia de propaganda colonial y la fotografia vernacula.
- Analizar el legado de las representaciones visuales de la esclavitud, del trabajo semiesclavo tras la abolicion y el colonialismo en la actualidad.
- Proponer estrategias museisticas que posibiliten la restitucion simbolica de un pasado colonial hasta ahora narrado por los colonizadores.
- Desarrollar proyectos curatoriales y expositivos que permitan pensar los nexos entre pasado y presente desde una perspectiva decolonial.
