Joao Sarmento

Fortifications, Post-colonialism and Power

Ruins and Imperial Legacies

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Produktbeschreibung

Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence. This book examines how this global but chameleonic network of forts can offer insights into both the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781409403036
• ISBN-10: 1409403033
• Artikelnr.: 41241883

Autorenporträt

João Sarmento is an Assistant Professor at the Geography Department, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal and Researcher at the Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal ('Tourism, Culture and Space' Group).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Ruins and Imperial Legacies: Global Geographies of
Portuguese-built Forts; Chapter 2 Portugal's 'Weekend at the Coast': Fort
Jesus and Empire Celebration in Kenya; Chapter 3 1An earlier version of
this chapter was published in Tourism Geographies, 2010, 12(2): 246-63 with
the title 'Fort Jesus: Guiding the past and contesting the present in
Kenya'. I acknowledge the permission to reprint from the publisher (Taylor
& Francis Ltd, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals); Chapter 4 1An earlier
version of this chapter was published in Social and Cultural Geography,
2009, 10(5): 523-44 with the title 'A sweet and amnesic present: the
postcolonial landscape and memory makings in Cape Verde'. I acknowledge the
permission to reprint from the publisher (Taylor & Francis Ltd,
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals); Chapter 5 A Neglected Trophy, Elusive Oil
and Re-workings of Memory in São Tomé e Príncipe; Chapter 6 In the Shadows
of Mazagan: The Medina of Azamour, Morocco; Chapter 7 Conclusions;