Research

Coordination: Graça Almeida Borges
Keywords: Political and institutional history; Social History; Social changes; Global Connections

The main objective of this group is to analyze the way in which diversity was constructed, experienced, and understood by different actors and social groups, in Portugal and other regions of the South. This is done in the short, medium and long term, through a multifaceted perspective that encompasses political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions. Priority is given to the analysis of established social institutions and hierarchies, social mobility strategies, inequalities, the participation of minorities in social processes, dynamics of resistance, identities, access to health and social assistance, trade networks, market spaces, and international relations.
Sharing a set of common problems and having the South as a laboratory, G1 researchers favor connected, comparative, transnational and global approaches. It is for this reason that the Portuguese empire revealed itself as one of the group’s most privileged historical processes, often studied in interaction with metropolitan Portugal.