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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 ...
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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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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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Postcolonial Encounters in a Lusotropical World

2018
During the last decades of colonial rule, the Portuguese regime adopted the ideology of lusotropicalism as a legitimation for its resistance to decolonisation. This highly criticised ideology portrayed the colonial enterprise as characterised by a specific Portuguese capacity for mixture, intimacy and hybridity.
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Interaçáo Eurotropical: Aspectos de Alguns dos Seus Vários Processos, Inclusive o Lusotropical

Journal of Inter-American Studies, 1966
A moderna fase, iniciada no século XV, de contactos de europeus com regióes tropicais — contactos que têm importado na maior ou na menor europeização dessas regiões — permite-nos considerar êsse fenômeno em têrmos nao só de Historia Social e de Antropologia Cultural como de Sociología de Historia ou de Sociologia da Cultura.
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Lusotropicalism, ‘girl-butterflies’ and ‘the fact of blackness’: A neo-Fanonian reading of Esmeralda Ribeiro’s ‘À Procura de uma borboleta preta’

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, 2016
Abstract Within the last decade Caribbean theorists have come to acknowledge Brazil as part of what Immanuel Wallerstein refers to as the ‘extended Caribbean’. In placing Brazil in comparative relation to other areas of the Caribbean, such theorists have noted similar patterns of slave economies and convergences of race and class.
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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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