Geography and Portuguese colonialism on the Equator: the Report of Francisco Tenreiro’s first fieldwork practice in São Tomé (1956) and its institutional and political context

Abstract

Valerá referir já aqui que, logo em 1957, Lord Hailey proferirá na Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa uma conferência intitulada «The Rising Spirit of Africanism», enquadrada numa série de iniciativas promovidas pelas autoridades portuguesas para discutir a natureza dos impérios e a experiência dos distintos modelos de «assimilação» das populações colonizadas. Além da presença de Hailey, receberam-se neste contexto Geografia e colonialismo português no equador:

History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity

“…Connecting with ongoing efforts to 'decolonise' and 'radicalise' histories of geographies (Ferretti, 2022a;Radcliffe, 2022;Chapman, 2023), Brazilian journal Terra Brasilis has brought together scholars from various countries and disciplinary backgrounds to produce a thematic issue on 'Portuguese Geography, the Tropics and Late Colonialism' (Oliveira and Sarmento, 2022). Contributions offer a close analysis of figures such as F. X. da Silva Teles and Orlando Ribeiro (along with the Lisbon Geographical Society and the so-called 'Lisbon School of Geography') (Pimenta, 2022;Agoas, 2022); Francisco Tenreiro and fieldwork missions (Oliveira, 2022); Soeiro de Brito and reports to the Overseas Research Board (Sarmento, 2022b); South African geographer David L. Niddrie (Cruz, 2022), and the influential role played by French geographer Pierre Gourou in Portuguese tropical geography (Clayton, 2022), and various important cartographic outcomes (Moreira, 2022).…”