The International Dimensions of Portuguese Colonial Crisis

Rodrigues, Luís Nuno

doi:10.1057/9781137394064_11

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“…After all, his ambiguous silence regarding Portuguese colonialism does not seem to differ much from the complicit silence and the frequently implicit support that certain institutions such as NATO or post -war Western diplomacy devoted to the same subject (see e.g. Lopes, 2016;Rodrigues, 2015;and Guilhot, 2014). 6 His conservative attitude toward the Portuguese regime was recognisedly shared by many in the FRG during the post -war period (cf.…”

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Notes sur l’opinion publique allemande du xxe siècle, le colonialisme et les colonies portugaises (approche provisoire)

Clara¹

2019

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Notes sur l’opinion publique allemande du xxe siècle, le colonialisme et les colonies portugaises (approche provisoire)

Clara¹

2019

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Cleansing Macau's Image as the ‘Wickedest City in the World’: Eurasia,Long Way, and Luso-tropical film production in Macau in the 1950s

Leite¹

2021

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article discusses the Eurasia Film Company (hereafter Eurasia), which was established in Macau in 1954; the making of its film Long Way, released in 1955; and more generally the issue of film production in Macau in the 1950s. This was a period of crisis for Portugal: despite the beginning of decolonization in the post-war era, the regime's policy was to preserve the colonies. It appropriated ‘Luso-tropicalism’, a theory developed by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, which argued that the Portuguese had created a harmonious hybrid civilization in the ‘tropics’ through biological and cultural miscegenation. Luso-tropicalism became a major propaganda tool used by Portugal to deflect decolonization. Eurasia, which had links to the colonial government, presented a Luso-tropical ideal not only in terms of the content of the film Long Way which celebrated interracial love but also by its very nature—it was a Sino-Portuguese enterprise that also had Eurasians as shareholders—and in its production method. Its main objective was to propagate a positive image of Macau, in response to its pervasive negative portrayal in the international press and films, which often characterized it as a centre of vice. Long Way specifically responded to Hollywood and French films set in Macau by using similar elements, plot, and characterization, but it transformed Orientalist tales of crime, smuggling, and sin into a Luso-tropical story of refuge, order, and interracial love. Eurasia aimed to cleanse Macau's image and thereby justify Portuguese sovereignty in the territory in a period of crisis and uncertainty marked by decolonization, the Cold War, and tense Sino-Portuguese relations.

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1968 and its other worlds: Global events and (anti-)state dynamics in France, Mozambique and Vanuatu

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Bertelsen²

2018

History and Anthropology

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This article de-centres the moment, event and impact of 1968 and expands it temporally and spatially. Taking a longue durée approach charting a trajectory from the 1960s into the 1980s, we analyse statist and anti-statist dynamics through a comparison of the May 1968 Paris riots with the Nagriamel movement in Vanuatu and the phenomenon of Naparama in Mozambique. Such a horizontal triangulation and spatio-temporal expansion is undertaken to contribute to a more global understanding of what we term 'the 1968 event' entails. However, this comparative analysis also underlines how its impact should be measured as, first, an experimentation with and attack on political reality, second, how the intricate connections between Euro-American and other worlds were integral to its articulation and, third, how paradoxically 1968 and its response spawned the rise of an authoritarian form of nation-stateeclipsing the openings in the firmament of the political, social and the real afforded by the original event.

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The International Dimensions of Portuguese Colonial Crisis

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Notes sur l’opinion publique allemande du xxe siècle, le colonialisme et les colonies portugaises (approche provisoire)

Notes sur l’opinion publique allemande du xxe siècle, le colonialisme et les colonies portugaises (approche provisoire)

Cleansing Macau's Image as the ‘Wickedest City in the World’: Eurasia,Long Way, and Luso-tropical film production in Macau in the 1950s

1968 and its other worlds: Global events and (anti-)state dynamics in France, Mozambique and Vanuatu

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