Volume 39.2/2025

2024-06-20

Special Issue – Galiza and the world in Portuguese. Cultural relations

Deadline (extended): February 16, 2025 [closed]

 

(The journal receives submissions in a continuous flow for the Varia, Review and Interview sections)

 

Guest editors: Carlos Pazos-Justo (CEHUM/UMinho) and María Jesús Botana Vilar (CIAC/UAlg)

 

This thematic dossier aims to bring together contributions focused on cultural relations between Galicia and the world in Portuguese. As we know, at the very beginning of the emergence of cultural (and political) Galicianism in the 19th century – and, therefore, to a large extent, also at the beginning of what we can understand as Galician studies – Portugal and its culture – the world in Portuguese in general –  occupied an outstanding position in the Galicianist’s constructions. Over the years, the so-called questione della lingua has controversially  hampered the reunion, but, today, in a new context marked by the European construction among other factors, the wide range of relations established between both sides of the river Minho or even between both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and other latitudes, have gotten a new lease of life, most likely unprecedented in the Contemporary Period. 

In this context, from a diversity of approaches and in close connection with the XIV International Congress of Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos, Horizontes dos Estudos Galegos e/na Lusofonia (UMinho, April 2024), the editors kindly invite the submission of unpublished works aimed to explore this broad subject matter, taking into account, restrictively, the following theoretical-analytical axes:

  • Ideas and practices in the Galician-Portuguese relationship;
  • Cultural and linguistic policies and Lusofoniain Galiza;
  • Galician studies in Portuguese-speaking countries;
  • Labour, tourism, academic mobility, etc. Galiza-Lusofonía;
  • Tangible and intangible shared heritage;
  • Debordering and Euro-region Galicia-Norte de Portugal.

Given its specific scope, this thematic dossier also accepts contributions in Galician.