Utilize este identificador para referenciar este registo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/59957

TítuloPortuguese tropical geography and decolonization in Africa: the case of Mozambique
Autor(es)Sarmento, João Carlos Vicente
Palavras-chaveHistory of geography
Decolonozation
Portugal
Mozambique
Decolonization
DataOut-2019
EditoraElsevier 1
RevistaJournal of Historical Geographpy
CitaçãoSarmento, J. (2019). Portuguese tropical geography and decolonization in Africa: the case of Mozambique. Journal of Historical Geography, 66, 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2018.11.002
Resumo(s)Portuguese decolonization involved the formal dissolution of an authoritarian regime which hadmaintained through law that all its colonieseeuphemistically named‘overseas provinces’after 1951ewere integral parts of Portuguese territory. Dissolution came after a thirteen-year war (1961e1974) withthree fronts, culminating in the bloodless Carnation Revolution of April 1974. Decolonization of Portu-gal's colonial empire precipitated the emergence of newly independent countries, includingfive in Africaalone. From the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, a small group of Portuguese geographersresearched their country's overseas possessions within an authoritarian political and social context andwith a concern for tropical conditions. After 1974 everything changed, and most geographers who wereconductingfieldwork or had been stationed overseas returned to Lisbon. This paper considers the politicsand practices of Portuguese geographical scholarship as it intersected with late colonialism and decol-onization in Africa, and in terms of its concern with tropical geography. It seeks to contextualize Por-tuguese tropical geography in Africa by outlining the development of the Lisbon School of Geography. Italso examines the late development of the university geography degrees in Mozambique and Angola. Inparticular, the paper engages with the intellectual biographies of three geographers who were deeplyinvolved in the geography degrees created in Lourenço Marques (presently Maputo, Mozambique), andhow their lives intersected with late colonial and post-independence Mozambique. Thefinal sectionsdiscuss how the 1974 revolution, the transitional governments, independence and later the civil wars inAngola and Mozambique impacted on Portuguese geographical research and how these developmentswere bound up with the abrupt end of Portuguese tropical geography
TipoArtigo
URIhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/59957
DOI10.1016/j.jhg.2018.11.002
ISSN0305-7488
Versão da editorahttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748818300100
Arbitragem científicayes
AcessoAcesso aberto
Aparece nas coleções:CECS - Artigos em revistas internacionais / Articles in international journals
GEO - Artigos em revistas internacionais com referee

Ficheiros deste registo:
Ficheiro Descrição TamanhoFormato 
2019_Sarmento_Portuguese-tropical-geography-and-decolonization-in-Africa.pdf714,37 kBAdobe PDFVer/Abrir

Este trabalho está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons Creative Commons

Partilhe no FacebookPartilhe no TwitterPartilhe no DeliciousPartilhe no LinkedInPartilhe no DiggAdicionar ao Google BookmarksPartilhe no MySpacePartilhe no Orkut
Exporte no formato BibTex mendeley Exporte no formato Endnote Adicione ao seu ORCID