Introduction: Portugal, Empire, and Migrations — Was There Ever an Autonomous Social Imperial Space?

Morier-Genoud, Eric; Cahen, Michel

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“…Reparaz refused to identify Spain and Portugal with "Europe", which is deemed an adversary, because in his opinion the Iberian nations were not only colonisers but also colonised. This anticipates recent scholarship on the Portuguese "subaltern colonialism" 73 , which argues that the Portuguese empire was dependent in many aspects on the British. This can also match contemporary decolonial scholarship on the "geopolitics of knowledge", stressing the importance of knowledge' places Federico Ferretti & Jacobo Garcia-Alvarez, "Anarchist geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the 'Iberian Tragedy'", Geopolitics 2018, doi 10.1080/14650045.2017.1398143 [forthcoming] and focusing on historical distinctions between Iberian and North-European colonialism in the Americas.…”

Section: "Berberia" "Iberia" and The 1936 Tragedysupporting

confidence: 73%

Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the ‘Iberian Tragedy’

Ferretti

Álvarez

2017

Geopolitics

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Section: "Berberia" "Iberia" and The 1936 Tragedysupporting

confidence: 73%

Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the ‘Iberian Tragedy’

Ferretti

Álvarez

2017

Geopolitics

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“…Baganha () calls this the “Lusophone migratory system,” comprising seven countries, one fairly highly developed (Portugal), three of medium development (Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde), and three with low development levels (São Tomé and Principe, Mozambique, Guinea‐Bissau); these development differentials being essential to the functioning of the system (Baganha, , p. 8). Although some authors contest the notion of an “autonomous Lusophone migratory space” (e.g., Morier‐Genoud & Cahen, ), we go with the majority view of Portuguese geographers and migration scholars that, at least at the descriptive level of migration flows and exchanges, the system “exists” (Baganha, ; Góis & Marques, ; Malheiros, ).…”

Section: Portugal As Semi‐peripherymentioning

confidence: 84%

“Skilled white bodies”: Portuguese workers in Angola as a case of North–South migration

Augusto

King

2019

Geographical Journal

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The economic crisis which has affected the southern EU countries since 2008 set in motion new migration trends. In the case of Portugal, post‐crisis migrations have been in two main directions: northwards to more prosperous European countries, and southwards to former colonies in Africa, notably the oil‐producing state of Angola. Focusing on this latter migration, the paper is structured around two main questions. First, which migration‐theoretic frameworks can be deployed to explain this new North–South migration flow? Relevant concepts include the notion of Portugal as “semi‐periphery” within European and global migration systems; the role of post‐colonial theory, especially ideas about “coloniality” and “Lusotropicalism”; and the function of myth and racialised discourse in constructing this as a high‐skilled migration. The second question is more empirical and relates to the descriptive characteristics of the Portuguese migration to Angola and to the experiences of the migrants and their Angolan co‐workers and employers. Key here is a deconstruction of the notion of “skill” in Portuguese migrants’ experiences of employment in Angola. The empirical analysis is based on interviews with 45 migrants, their co‐workers and employers, and other key informants.

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“…Moreover, Coudreau's idea of tropicality, his multilingualism and his direct implication with local politicians prefigure some aspects of what Gilberto Freyre called ‘Lusotropicalism’. According to Eric Morier‐Genoud and Michel Cahen, contemporary myths on Lusophony take their inspiration from ‘the formation of autonomous social spaces of migration’ (Morier‐Genoud & Cahen, : 1) which occurred not within the Portuguese empire, but between Portugal and its former Brazilian colony, including especially European workers. Drawing on Morier‐Genoud's and Cahen's question, ‘were the diasporas in favour or against empire, in favour of or against decolonization?’ (Morier‐Genoud & Cahen : 13), it is possible to argue that the case of Coudreau shows all the problematic nature and ambiguity of migrations in imperial contexts.…”

Section: Unruly Coudreau: Between Counani and Brazilmentioning

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Tropicality, the unruly Atlantic and social utopias: the French explorer Henri Coudreau (1859 − 1899)

Ferretti

2017

Singap J Trop Geogr

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International audienceThis paper addresses the works of Henri Coudreau, a little-known French explorer of Guiana and Amazonia who was later forgotten by the 'heroic' histories of exploration because of his unruliness and nonconformist attitudes. Drawing on the literature of postcolonialism and tropicality as well as on recent studies of anti-colonialist geographies, I address for the first time Coudreau's geography from the perspective of anarchist and critical thinking. My main argument is that Coudreau's work is a further example of the complexity and heterogeneity of the European intellectual field during the imperial age. Despite having come of age intellectually among all the European racist and ethnocentric prejudices of his day, Coudreau developed a different outlook thanks to two factors, viz., his personal experience in living for years with the indigenous communities of Amazonia, and his exposure to anarchist anti-colonialist ideas through his collaboration with Elisée Reclus. Coudreau's tropical utopia of an independent Amazonia, and his endorsement of the stateless nature of local communities, ran counter to French imperial politics, occasioning Coudreau's dismissal from the French administration and his professional exile in Brazil at the time of the Franco-Brazilian border dispute (1897−1900)

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Introduction: Portugal, Empire, and Migrations — Was There Ever an Autonomous Social Imperial Space?

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the ‘Iberian Tragedy’

Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): Gonzalo de Reparaz and the ‘Iberian Tragedy’

“Skilled white bodies”: Portuguese workers in Angola as a case of North–South migration

Tropicality, the unruly Atlantic and social utopias: the French explorer Henri Coudreau (1859 − 1899)

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