Santos, Catarina Madeira (Author)
British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 43
Pages: 539--556
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Circulation and Locality in Early Modern Science”
Language: English
This essay analyses the circulation of political models and administrative practices drawn from the Enlightenment statecraft of metropolitan Portugal and their inscription in specific colonial contexts of Angola in the mid-eighteenth century. The purpose here is to show how these models had to be `unpacked' when confronted with foreign contexts, reconfigured and even reinvented for local circumstances. During the 1750s, the Lisbon government conceived a new imperial project to territorialize the colony through the intellectual and physical appropriation of this Central African space. In order to do so, three levels of this administrative knowledge are distinguished: the quantification and systematization of information, cartography, and the archive. For each, this essay demonstrates how they were made available to, appropriated by or transformed by both the colonial and the African societies in the colonial context.
...MoreDescription “Analyses the circulation of political models and administrative practices drawn from the Enlightenment statecraft of metropolitan Portugal.” (from the abstract)
Article Raj, Kapil (2010) Introduction. British Journal for the History of Science (p. 513).
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