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The Politics of the Essay Lusotropicalism as Ideology and Theory

open access: yesAmerican Sociologist, The, 2020
In this article we discuss the politics of the essay of three major twentieth-century Portuguese-speaking intellectuals: Gilberto Freyre, Jorge Dias and António Sérgio. Our topic of discussion is Lusotropicalism. Through an examination of the essayist production of these thinkers (1920s–1960s), we revisit this social theoretical account of racial ...
Filipe Carreira da Silva   +1 more
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The (In)Tangible Legacy of “Generic Lusotropicalism”: Unexamined Links in the Textual History of “Portuguese Humane Colonialism” [PDF]

open access: yesPortuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, 2022
ABSTRACT: For  quite  some  time,  Portuguese  scholars  have  proposed  that  the  success  of  the  cooptation  of  Gilberto  Freyre’s  Lusotropicalism  by  the  colonial  discourse  of  Portugal’s Estado Novo can be explained in part due to the preexistence of a colonial discourse that contained similar ideas, at least as far back as the late ...
PEDRO SCHACHT PEREIRA
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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 ...
Marcos Cardao
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