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Editors’ Introduction

Heritage(s) of Portuguese Influence: History, Processes, and Aftereffects

Portugal was a late decolonizer (1975). The “winds of change” had a delayed impact on Portuguese colonial territories. The authoritarian nature of empire and resilient forms of imperial nationalism fostered imperial permanence, and the transformative energies of global decolonization were mostly refused. Since the 1950s, a modernizing momentum occurred, transforming urban and rural colonial landscapes and multi...

Une histoire transimpériale de l’Afrique: Concepts, approches et perspectives

Organisé en deux volets (no 3 et no 3 bis), ce numéro de la Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique explore les coopérations et les circulations qui se sont déployées entre et par-delà les empires coloniaux de la fin du xixe siècle aux années 19601. En mettant en perspective des recherches portant sur des thématiques et des espaces géographiques variés, il souhaite, plus précisément, dessiner les contours d...

Ecos Coloniais: Histórias, Patrimónios e Memórias

Integrada na XXIV Semana Cultural da UC, a exposição dedicada à cidade de Lisboa, mas sinalizando outras cidades e locais em Portugal, resulta de um exercício coletivo e dialógico de investigação sobre o seu património histórico e cultural, interrogado a partir das suas múltiplas intersecções com a história colonial e imperial portuguesa. Exercício crítico – certamente provisório, a carecer de aprofundamento e ...

Imperialism, internationalism, and education in Africa: connected histories

Published online: 05 May 2021; This text introduces the themed issue “Imperialism, Internationalism and Education in Africa: Connected Histories”. It provides an overview of the history of education in twentieth-century Africa, highlighting its major problems, themes, and actors. Arguing for a transnational and connected approach to this field of research, it also explains how the four papers included in the is...

A Robust Operation: Resettling, Security, and Development in Late Colonial Ango...

The forced removal and resettlement of population was a main feature of late European colonialism, in Africa and elsewhere. Both were crucial to the formulation and enactment of securitarian projects and developmental schemes, and to their recurrent intersection and close interdependence. The repertoires of repressive developmentalism—the shaping of development strategies by securitarian concerns and the contam...

Developing Civilisation? Imperial Internationalism at the League of Nations (19...

In the aftermath of the World War One, the internationalization of imperial and colonial affairs intensified, entailing the renewal of modalities of imperial political imagination and the tentative transformation of idioms and repertoires of colonial rule. The League of Nations, its specialized agencies and their numerous commissions engaged in the elaboration and institutionalization of new concepts, doctrines...

O trabalho forçado no colonialismo português: além das fronteiras do império (1...

Nos últimos anos, têm-se multiplicado os trabalhos que procuraram resgatar ao esquecimento o papel das organizações internacionais na história, pelo menos, do último século e meio. Trata-se de uma tendência historiográfica (ou de várias, na medida em que se distinguem por uma pluralidade significativa de objectos e sujeitos de inquirição, de aparatos epistemológicos, metodológicos e teóricos) que, com a consoli...

Um solilóquio, vários “fantasmas”

MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)

“Congoísmos”, a Norte (e a Sul)

MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories (648624)