Portugal em jogo de espelhos

Abstract

Knowing, signaling, and understanding the discourses of others about us, and our own about others, can provide an interesting map of affections and disaffections, a kind of cultural GPS of stereotypes that helps to situate and better orient ourselves in time and history, particularly in the «frequent negotiations» we have to engage in to set up relationships of partnership or antipathy. 

Representations of a country, an institution, an individual are part of their history, of their cultural heritage. The more or less stereotyped representations we build upon others, and which others elaborate about us, function as a set of mirrors that generate deformed images. But these disfigured views are the eyes with which we see and interpret reality. 

Starting from the basic question «how does the Other see me?» – or, in other words, «how is Portugal seen by the Other?» – this collection seeks answers to another key question – «on what is the Other based on to see me so?»