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...
Na esteira de inúmeros contributos para o conhecimento e salvaguarda da Ilha de Moçambique, de que ganharam estatuto familiar um livro azul (1985) e um livro amarelo (2012), este livro verde regista e visa difundir os principais aspetos e resultados do evento que as universidades de Lúrio e de Coimbra levaram a cabo na Ilha de Moçambique, entre os dias 19 e 29 de julho de 2017, intitulado Oficinas de Muhipiti: ...
No longer determined exclusively by the economic fortunes of the empire, the history of the nineteenth‑century Portuguese colonies in India and the Indian Ocean region has been sufficiently elaborated for some heuristic frameworks to emerge. Histories of medicine, anthropology, politics, print, migration and slavery underscore the importance of non-statist narratives as they trace the movement of people, goods ...
From the perspective of urban studies, this article provides an account of the evolution and heritages of Luanda and Maputo. Drawing on notions of capitalness and heritages of Portuguese influence, the article argues for a reconciliation with the legacies of material culture and their intergration into the daily imaginary of post-independence Mozambique and Angola.