Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire : Nationalism, Popular Culture and Citizenship

Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies. Situated in the wider context of European colonial legacies, this book looks at the legacies of the Portuguese empire in today’s Portugal. Using an interdisciplinary agenda, with contributions from experts in the fields of history, anthropology, literature, and sociology, the several case studies included in the volume look at a wide range of colonial legacies. These include a set of commemorative practices that feed on imperial mythologies, old colonial and racial classifications that condition citizenship rights, and post-imperial modes of culture consumption. Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire is the first book written so far in English on this topic, enabling the Portuguese case to enter into a broader dialogue with other national experiences relating to the legacies of colonialism and empire in today’s Europe. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Portugal's Colonial Legacies and the (Dis)Continuities of the Colonial Past in the Present Part I EMPIRE, NATION, AND MEMORY POLITICS Chapter 2 Memory of the Empire and Space of Celebration: The Case of the Belém District in Lisbon (Elsa Peralta) Chapter 3 Narratives of Transition and the Institutionalization of Portuguese Colonial History: Biography and Aesthetization ( Chapter 4 Lisbon Is Being Rediscovered: The Governance of Cultural Diversity in the Postcolonial City (Nuno Oliveira) Part II POSTCOLONIAL SPACE, WORK, AND CITIZENSHIP Chapter 5 Ghosts of Colonialism in the Postimperial City: A History of Informal Settlements in Lisbon, 1970s–2010s (Eduardo Chapter 6 The Uses and Resistances of Cape Verdean Creole in the Migratory Context of the Postcolonial City (Ana Estevens Chapter 7 Designing Subordination: A Comparative Social History of Paid Domestic Work in Portugal (Nuno Dias) Chapter 8 Brazilian Migration in Lisbon: Place, Work, and Colonial Representations (Simone Frangella) Part III POPULAR CULTURE AND EVERYDAY COLONIAL LEGACIES Chapter 9 Diaspora Identities, Cosmopolitanism, and the Promise of Citizenship: Lusophony through the Music of African Diaspora Chapter 10 Colonial Revivalism and the Bestselling Publishing (João Pedro George) Chapter 11 Embracing Postcolonial Diversity? Music Selection and Affective Formation in TAP Air Portugal’s In-Flight Entertainm Chapter 12 New Lisbon: Musical Hybridisms and the Reinvention of a Postcolonial City (Marcos Cardão) Afterword: Outline of a Research Approach to Colonial Legacies (Nuno Domingos and Elsa Peralta) Contributors Index