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Colonial land legacies in the Portuguese-speaking world / edited by Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Global Indigenous issues ; no. 5Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2025]Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9781773856353
- 9781773856360
- 9781773856346
- 333.2 23/eng/20250422
- GN449.3
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Summary: "Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World explores the lasting impacts of Portuguese colonial land policies. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal lenses, it highlights how these policies continue to shape contemporary land governance, Indigenous-settler relations, and socio-economic inequalities. Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colonies: Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Flores, and Portuguese Timor. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analyses, the book investigates how colonial land policies and interventions were not simply implemented and forgotten but have shaped contemporary land access, governance, and socio-economic structures in profound ways. Portuguese colonialism was shaped by shifting political and economic priorities. From trading routes to plantation economies and extractive industries, land became central to Portuguese colonial interests. Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World investigates the bureaucratic mechanisms employed by Portuguese authorities to regulate land, highlighting how these systems were frequently manipulated by elites to consolidate power and control over resources. It explores Indigenous-settler entanglements, illustrating how colonial land policies interacted with local governance systems, leading to contested and hybrid forms of land control shaped by both resistance and adaptation. Finally, it focuses on the global capitalist motivations driving land policies, particularly the use of large-scale concessions for plantations, and how these practices continue to shape contemporary land ownership and economic inequalities in post-colonial contexts. Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World is a critical and comparative analysis of colonial land governance and its afterlives. It highlights how these legacies continue to shape contemporary struggles over land, making it essential to address them in the pursuit of more equitable land governance. Through its case studies, the book contributes to broader discussions on the relationships among land, power, and colonialism, offering insights into the ongoing challenges of land policy and practice in post-colonial contexts."--PPN: PPN: 1948253526Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Tables, Figures, and Images -- Acknowledgements -- Preface / / Laura S. Meitzner Yoder, Susanna Barnes -- Foreword: Colonial Land Legacies: Questions and Insights from Southeast Asia / / Tania Murray Li -- Introduction: Colonial Portuguese Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective / / Susanna Barnes, Laura S. Meitzner Yoder -- Part I -- Administrative Practices and Governance Strategies -- 1 The Roots of Inequality: Sesmaria Land Grants in Colonial Brazil / / Carmen Alveal -- 2 From Squatters to Smallholders? Configurations of African Land Access in Central and Southern Colonial Mozambique, 1910s-1940s / / Bárbara Direito -- 3 "Everyday" Displacements in Colonial Angola: Changing Political Geographies of Infrastructure, Gender, and Quotidian Village Concentration / / Aharon deGrassi -- 4 Baldios, Communal Land, and the Portuguese Colonial Legacy in Timor-Leste / / Bernardo Almeida -- Part II -- Indigenous-Settler Entanglements -- 5 Dutch Colonialism and Portuguese Land Legacies in Flores / / Hans Hägerdal -- 6 Land Access in a Slave Society: The Case of Maranhão Province, Northern Brazil / / Matthias Röhrig Assunção -- 7 The Impact of Portuguese Development Thought and Practice on Land Relations in the Late Portuguese Colonial Period / / Susanna Barnes -- 8 The Remaking of Territories and Political Institutions: Community Land Delimitation in Northern Mozambique / / Elisio Jossias -- Part III -- Economic Imperatives and Global Articulations -- 9 The Trajectory of the Plantation System in Mozambique: The Case of Madal in Micaúne / / José Laimone Adalima -- 10 Land Governance as a Source of Legal Opportunities in Struggles Around Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Mozambique / / Laura Gerken -- 11 Colonial Concessions: The Antinomies of Land Policy in Portuguese Timor / / Douglas Kammen, Laura S. Meitzner Yoder -- Afterword: The Amphibious Colonial Empire / / Ricardo Roque -- About the Contributors -- Index
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