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This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and
anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial
history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and
celebratory readings of 'insurgent peoples', and it seeks to
revitalize the study of 'resistance' as an analytical field in the
comparative history of Western colonialisms. It explores how to
read and (de)code these issues in archival documents - and how to
conjugate documental approaches with oral history, indigenous
memories, and international histories of empire. The topics
explored include runaway slaves and slave rebellions, mutiny and
banditry, memories and practices of guerrilla and liberation,
diplomatic negotiations and cross-border confrontations, theft,
collaboration, and even the subversive effects of nature in
colonial projects of labor exploitation.
This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and
anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial
history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and
celebratory readings of 'insurgent peoples', and it seeks to
revitalize the study of 'resistance' as an analytical field in the
comparative history of Western colonialisms. It explores how to
read and (de)code these issues in archival documents - and how to
conjugate documental approaches with oral history, indigenous
memories, and international histories of empire. The topics
explored include runaway slaves and slave rebellions, mutiny and
banditry, memories and practices of guerrilla and liberation,
diplomatic negotiations and cross-border confrontations, theft,
collaboration, and even the subversive effects of nature in
colonial projects of labor exploitation.
In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s,
poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which
the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenco Marques
(now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive
ends. Through gesture, footwork, and patois, they used what
Craveirinha termed "malice"-or cunning-to negotiate their places in
the colonial state. "These manifestations demand a vast study,"
Craveirinha wrote, "which would lead to a greater knowledge of the
black man, of his problems, of his clashes with European
civilization, in short, to a thorough treatise of useful and
instructive ethnography." In Football and Colonialism, Nuno
Domingos accomplishes that study. Ambitious and meticulously
researched, the work draws upon an array of primary sources,
including newspapers, national archives, poetry and songs, and
interviews with former footballers. Domingos shows how local
performances and popular culture practices became sites of an
embodied history of Mozambique. The work will break new ground for
scholars of African history and politics, urban studies, popular
culture, and gendered forms of domination and resistance.
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.
In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s,
poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which
the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenco Marques
(now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive
ends. Through gesture, footwork, and patois, they used what
Craveirinha termed "malice"-or cunning-to negotiate their places in
the colonial state. "These manifestations demand a vast study,"
Craveirinha wrote, "which would lead to a greater knowledge of the
black man, of his problems, of his clashes with European
civilization, in short, to a thorough treatise of useful and
instructive ethnography." In Football and Colonialism, Nuno
Domingos accomplishes that study. Ambitious and meticulously
researched, the work draws upon an array of primary sources,
including newspapers, national archives, poetry and songs, and
interviews with former footballers. Domingos shows how local
performances and popular culture practices became sites of an
embodied history of Mozambique. The work will break new ground for
scholars of African history and politics, urban studies, popular
culture, and gendered forms of domination and resistance.
At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the
city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food
associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon
the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and
the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and
the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their
changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very
dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown
and eaten within them, are produced and sustained. Leading scholars
in the study of food offer ethnographic studies of peasant
homesteads, family farms, community gardens, state food industries,
transnational supermarkets, planning offices, tourist boards, and
government ministries in locales across the globe. This fascinating
collection provides vital new insight into the contested dynamics
of food and will be key reading for upper-level students and
scholars of food studies, anthropology, history and geography.
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