Uncertain Power: Representing the king in the Portuguese empire (1640-1750)

Información del proyecto

UNCERTAINPOWER

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 749427

DOI

10.3030/749427

Proyecto finalizado el 6 Diciembre 2019

Fecha de la firma de la CE 28 Marzo 2017

Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2017

Fecha de finalización 28 Enero 2020

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 148 635,60

Aportación de la UE

€ 148 635,60

Coordinado por

INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS
Portugal

Objetivo

This project aims at analysing the authority of the viceroys and governors-general - the highest representatives of the Portuguese kings – in the States of India and Brazil between 1640 and 1750 and as such, it deals with the relevance of non-formal expressions of power and authority, and their role in the efficiency of political communication. UNCERTAINPOWER seeks early expressions of the combination between formal and non-formal expressions of power and authority, namely in places where the physical presence of the main decision-makers was impossible to happen. In a world with ever-changing systems of communication, where virtual forms of power become more and more present, to offer a diachronic perspective on the uncertainties that long-distance expressions of power entail is relevant. The choice of the early-modern Portuguese empire is related with its early presence in the four parts of the world in a period when technologies of power and of communication were very different from ours. In UNCERTAINPOWER, issues that are still relevant today, such as the ways of expressing authority in very different socio-cultural contexts, the reception of this authority, as well as the links between these processes and the conservation of society will be discussed. Which were the ways chosen by Portuguese viceroys and governors to communicate their power and authority with the societies under their control? How did these royal agents exercise the prerogative of representing the royal power in an empire with a significant territorial extension and with a plurality of cultural and political realities? How did they adjust their political cultures to the local needs? How did the local contexts influence their ways of governing? And how did mobility challenge the meanings of power and authority? The more tangible outcomes of this project include 6 articles, 1 book and a virtual exhibition.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias sociales › ciencias políticas › comunicación política
• ciencias sociales › derecho › derechos humanos › violaciones de los derechos humanos › trata de seres humanos
• ciencias sociales › sociología › cuestiones sociales › corrupción
• ciencias sociales › otras ciencias sociales › estudios del desarrollo › teorías del desarrollo › estudios sobre el desarrollo mundial › globalización
• ciencias sociales › ciencias políticas › sistemas de gobierno

Palabras clave

• Portugal
• Empire
• State of Brazil
• State of India
• Cultural History
• Colonial History
• Early Modern Age
• Viceroys
• Governors-General

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2016 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2016

Coordinador

INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 148 635,60
• Dirección: AV PROF ANIBAL DE BETTENCOURT 9 ; 1600 189 LISBOA ; Portugal
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 148 635,60