Portugal between Lusophony, the European Union and the rest of the world

Portuguese strategies towards China during the Covid19 Pandemic.

“…The limited labour market led to low production volumes and low revenues, and the limited diversity of natural resources could not support a well-structured industrial system (Cardoso & Rua, 2019) Apart from its economic goals, when considering its strategies towards China during the pandemic, Portugal also aimed to fulfil the requirements of its EU membership and maintain its alliance with the US. The focus of Portuguese diplomacy since the establishment of the Republic in 1974 has been toward three axes, namely the EU, the Atlantic Alliance, and the PSCs (Fernandes, 2018;Silva, 2020;Teixeira, 2010). China…”

Luso-Brazilian geographies? The making of epistemic communities in semi-peripheral academic human geography

“…This rapprochement is certainly related to geopolitical changes as both countries have been interested in establishing economic cooperation between Portuguese-speaking countries since the 1990s, when the Brazilian and Portuguese democracies became more stable and experienced a phase of intensive economic growth. The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) was founded in 1996 with the purpose of enhancing political and economic cooperation, including the field of science and education (Teixeira, 2015; Fernandes, 2018). While the success of the CPLP is a controversial matter, Brazil and Portugal did eventually enhance their scientific relations through the 2010 cooperation agreement between their main public research funding bodies.…”

“…The shifts in Portuguese geography during the 1970s were quite different from those in Brazil. The political program of the 1974 revolution had the purpose of democratizing the country and ended colonial rule in Africa, which had a profound impact on geography as Portugal would eventually shift its geopolitical focus from the tropical world towards Europe, with hopes of integration in the European Economic Community (Fernandes, 2018). This meant that tropical geography was no longer an interesting or acceptable research topic.…”

The Lusophone World in French Political and Internet Discourse

“…The concept of Lusophony opens an interdisciplinary research field focusing on different diachronic (Cahen, 2013) and synchronic aspects (Fernandes, 2018) of the Portuguese-speaking world. With approximately 230 million native speakers, Lusophony covers an interesting set of cultural identities, regions, communities, and countries related to the use of Portuguese, such as Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, and so on.…”