Book Launch: “Existir e resistir na sociedade contemporânea. Contributos para o debate sobre comunicação e cultura”

The book “Existir e resistir na sociedade contemporânea. Contributos para o debate sobre comunicação e cultura”, was launched on 26 june at the IV Congress of the National Network of Cultural Studies.
Published by Húmus, the book was written by Isabel Macedo, Tatiane Oliveira and Moisés de Lemos Martins.

The book was presented on 26 June, during the IV Congress of the National Network of Cultural Studies, at the Lusófona University in Lisbon.
The book proposes a reflection on the processes of resistance in contemporary society, marked by inequalities, uncertainties and profound transformations. With a view from the fields of Communication and Cultural Studies, this book is partly the result of the interventions at the VIII Congress on Cultures, held at the University of Minho in December 2022.
The texts have been organised into two main sections: the first explores resistance and transformations in the fields of communication and culture; and the second analyses popular manifestations, artistic expressions and the role of digital technologies in building spaces and movements of resistance.
In the first part, the chapters cover topics such as cultural policies, migration, anti-racist struggles, gender resistance, the decolonisation of curricula in the Angolan military, as well as the role of the university in this scenario.
The second part brings together chapters that analyse cultural practices and their different forms of resistance. Popular festivals, the resistance of the peoples of the Amazon (Brazil), as well as the quilombola communities in Minas Gerais (Brazil), artistic manifestations in Porto (Portugal), feminism in the digital context, among others, are analysed.

We highlight this excerpt from the presentation:

“From activist art to independent journalism, from the occupation of urban spaces to cultural expressions from the peripheries, resistance manifests itself in multiple ways, challenging the systems of domination in force. As power structures reinvent themselves, new forms of resistance also emerge. We look at the concept of resistance as a process that challenges power structures in various national contexts. Under a variety of approaches, this book proposes a debate on cultural practices interpreted as critical, counter-hegemonic, continuous practices of work in the cultural field, which nevertheless configure new possibilities for the human. Contemporary society presents a panorama of accentuated complexity, marked by profound instability and social and cultural divisions, where uncertainties permeate both individual and community relationships. On a socio-political level, several peoples are threatened with disappearance as a result of violent processes of expulsion, wars, new forms of colonisation, marginalisation and denial of recognition of the other. […]”

Available in open access here

[Posted: 27-06-2025/Updated:30-06-2025]