Legacies of the Portuguese Colonial Empire

Nuno Domingos is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His publications include: Football and Colonialism: Body ad Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique (2017) and Resistance and Colonialism: Insurgent Peoples in World History (2019) (with M. B. Jerónimo and R. Roque). Elsa Peralta is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies (CEC), University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the co-editor of Heritage and Identity: Engagement and Demission in Contemporary Society (2009) and curated the exhibition “Return – Traces of Memory” (City of Lisbon, 2015).

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List of Contributors
Foreword
Colonial Legacies in Comparative Perspective: a View from Portugal, Benoît De L’Estoile
Portugal’s Colonial Legacies and the (Dis)Continuities of the Colonial Past in the Present Elsa Peralta and Nuno Domingos, (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

PART I – Empire, Nation and Memory Politics
Memory of the Empire and Space of Celebration: the case of the Belém District in Lisbon, Elsa Peralta, (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Narratives of Transition And The Institutionalization of Portuguese Colonial History: Biography And Aesthetization, Nuno Domingos, (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Lisbon is being Rediscovered.: the Governance of Cultural Diversity in the Postcolonial City, Nuno Oliveira, (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

PART II – Post-Colonial Space, Work and Citizenship
Ghosts of Colonialism in The Post-Imperial City: A History of Informal Settlements in Lisbon, 1970s-2010s, Eduardo Ascensão, (University of Lisbon, Portugal) The Uses and Resistances of Cape Verdean Creole in the Migratory Context of the Postcolonial City, Ana Estevens, (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Designing Subordination: a Comparative Social History of Paid Domestic Work in Portugal, Nuno Dias, (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) Brazilian Migration in Lisbon: Place, Work, and Colonial Representations, Simone Frangella, (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

PART III – Popular Culture and Everyday Colonial Legacies
Diaspora Identities, Cosmopolitanism and the Promise of Citizenship: Lusophony through the Music of African Diasporas, Rui Cidra, (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Colonial Revivalism and the Bestselling Publishing, João Pedro George, (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Embracing Postcolonial Diversity? Music Selection and Affective Formation in Tap Air Portugal’s In-Flight Entertainment System, Bart Paul Vanspauwen And Iñigo Sánchez Fuarros, (both New University of Lisbon, Portugal) New Lisbon, Musical Hybridisms AndThe Reinvention Of A Postcolonial City, Marcos Cardão, (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

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