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Lusotropicalism: Tropical geography under dictatorship, 1926–1974

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 2011
This article locates Portuguese tropical geography within wider academic debates on ‘tropicality’, contributing to discussion on not only the ‘tropicality of geography’ but also the ‘geography of tropicality’. It traces the role of Portuguese tropical geography in the colonial project and in the production of geographical knowledge, discourses and ...
João Sarmento
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Allegories of exceptionalism: Lusotropicalism in mass culture (1960–74)

Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 2015
Abstract The concept of lusotropicalism inspired various stereotypes about Portugal and the Portuguese, namely the idea they were more adaptable to the tropics because of their alleged plasticity – materialized in an adaptation to different climates, mobility and the ability to miscegenate – and more successful colonizers than the rest ...
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Myths and realities: From lusotropicalism to ‘total strategy’

Social Dynamics, 1979
Angola Under the Portuguese: The Myth and the Reality, by Gerald Bender. Berkeley and Los Angeles; University of California Press, 1978, xxviii + 287pp. R11–40, pb.
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The Strange Life of Lusotropicalism in Luanda: On Race, Nationality, Gender, and Sexuality in Angola

2011
In the summer of 2007, I went to Angola for the first time. It was a crucial juncture for me and a critical point for the nation of Angola. I planned to spend four months in the country, studying the Kimbundu language at the Universidade Agostinho Neto and conducting preliminary dissertation research on the intellectual history of identity in Kisama, a
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From the Plantation Manor to the Sociologist’s Study: Democracy, Lusotropicalism, and the Scene of Writing

2008
In Casa-Grande e Senzala, Gilberto Freyre casts the intimate contact between masters and slaves as the origin for Brazilian “hybridity.” Because he emphasizes the cultural and atmospheric transmission of identity, his analysis has been widely perceived as a progressive departure from eugenic interpretations of national character.
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