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Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World - History and Ethnography (Paperback)
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Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World - History and Ethnography (Paperback)
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Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization
processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on
Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case
studies using five interconnected themes. Gupta considers
decolonization through the twined lenses of history and
ethnography, accessed through written, oral, visual and eyewitness
accounts of how people experienced the transfer of state power. She
looks at the materiality of decolonization as a movement of peoples
across vast oceanic spaces, demonstrating how it was a process of
dispossession for both the Portuguese formerly in power and
ordinary colonial citizens and subjects. She then discusses the
production of race and class anxieties during decolonization, which
took on a variety of forms but were often articulated through
material objects. The book aims to move beyond linear histories of
colonial independence by connecting its various regions using the
theme of decolonization, offering a productive and new approach to
writing post-national histories and ethnographies. Finally, Gupta
demonstrates the value of using different source materials to
access narratives of decolonization, analyzing the work of
Mozambican photographer Ricardo Rangel, and including lyrical prose
and ethnographical observations. Portuguese Decolonization in the
Indian Ocean World provides a nuanced understanding of Lusophone
decolonization, revealing the perspectives of people who
experienced it. This book will be highly valuable for historians of
the Indian Ocean world and decolonization, but also those
interested in ethnography, diaspora studies and material culture.
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