Ideologia, ciência e povo em Amílcar Cabral

Abstract

The present article contributes to the debate on how historians and social scientists perceive and understand relations between ideology and science, which are often seen as realms belonging to rival kingdoms. Following an analysis and critical positioning vis-à-vis Cabralian studies, the text examines how scholars of Cabral have portrayed his agronomic activities. It then undertakes a genealogical analysis of the Cabralian concept of people and suggests that the emergence of this concept in Cabral's discourse derives from the intersection of the development of anti-colonial nationalist thought in the former Portuguese Empire and the development of agrarian studies in metropolitan Portugal.

Social sciences, modernization, and late colonialism: The Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa

“…Yet to be studied is how this knowledge about the territories and populations of these future African countries may have fostered—contrary to its objectives, of course—nationalist movements and national liberation fights. In the case of Portuguese Guinea, it is definitely worth exploring how much, if at all, Amílcar Cabral's agronomic research at the service of the Portuguese empire contributed to the political radicalization and the war effort of the future leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Vert (see Neves, 2017). If so, this case may add to the conviction that, while always politically motivated, there is nothing inherently good or evil about social‐scientific knowledge, whose moral value may only be defined by its intentions and practical results, not by its epistemological status, as implicitly suggested by those who appraise the nature of Portuguese colonialism through the scientific endeavors it may have sponsored.…”

Socionatures, Space, and Decolonisation: Amílcar Cabral's Praxis of Dialectics

“…While authors mention in passing Cabral's dialectic approach, we are yet to analyse its contours, sources, pervasiveness, deliberateness, sophistication, capaciousness, creativity, and, yes, its limits and flaws (Bledsoe 2013:104; César 2018:259; Chilcote 1991:3, 47; Dias 2020; Idahosa 2002:35; Kofi 1981:857; Luke 1990:187; Magubane 1983; McCulloch 1983:54, 81, 103–105; Neves 2017; Pinto de Andrade 1980:xii; Rabaka 2015; Robinson 1981; Saucier 2017). Complementing numerous detailed biographies and analyses of Cabral, more specifically agrarian insight is also needed because Cabral was an agronomist for 15 years and focused on peasant mobilisation for 13 more years (see the bibliographies in Chilcote 1991; Sousa 2011; cf.…”

“…Complementing numerous detailed biographies and analyses of Cabral, more specifically agrarian insight is also needed because Cabral was an agronomist for 15 years and focused on peasant mobilisation for 13 more years (see the bibliographies in Chilcote 1991; Sousa 2011; cf. César 2018; Chabal 1983; McCulloch 1983; Neves 2017; Saraiva 2022; Schwartz 2013).…”