Book cover of Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World, published by University of Calgary Press

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World

by Edited by Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder, with a foreword by Tania Murray Li and afterword by Ricardo Roque

University of Calgary Press

2025

Academic: Anthropology, History

CDN: $44.99

9781773856339

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World explores the lasting impacts of Portuguese colonial land policies. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal lenses, it highlights how these policies continue to shape contemporary land governance, Indigenous-settler relations, and socio-economic inequalities.

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colonies: Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Flores, and Portuguese Timor. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analyses, the book investigates how colonial land policies and interventions were not simply implemented and forgotten but have shaped contemporary land access, governance, and socio-economic structures in profound ways.

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