Social Sciences, Modernization, and Late Colonialism: The Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa (2020)
Ágoas, Frederico (Author)
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Volume: 56
Issue: 4
Pages: 278-297
In Portugal, studies of transformations since the mid-1950s in colonial social research have focused on the colonial school in Lisbon or other bodies directly under the supervision of the metropolitan administration. Nonmetropolitan initiatives have been neglected and the social-scientific undertakings of the Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa (CEGP), in particular, have been only marginally dealt with. This article maps CEGP's creation in Bissau, in 1945, and its social-scientific activity not only to establish its precedence but also to highlight local colonial enterprise and to specify its imprint upon developments in the metropole. It addresses CEGP's immediate context and main actors, institutional setting, research activities, publications, and other scientific outlets, to then put forward some concluding remarks regarding the epistemic reach of overseas governmental measures and the practical effects, in metropolitan colonial policies and scientific research, of peripheral imperial bureaucratic knowledge.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Isaacman, Allen F;
Isaacman, Barbara;
(2013)
Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965--2007
(/isis/citation/CBB001420361/)
Thesis
Linstrum, Erik;
(2012)
Making Minds Modern: The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, 1898--1970
(/isis/citation/CBB001567359/)
Book
Megan Black;
(2018)
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
(/isis/citation/CBB871859995/)
Book
Anderson, Warwick;
Jenson, Deborah;
Keller, Richard C.;
(2011)
Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties
(/isis/citation/CBB001221252/)
Article
Tiago Saraiva;
(2022)
Black Science: Amílcar Cabral’s Agricultural Survey and the Seeds of African Decolonization
(/isis/citation/CBB965738188/)
Book
Markku Hokkanen;
(2017)
Medicine, Mobility and the Empire: Nyasaland Networks, 1859-1960
(/isis/citation/CBB103967643/)
Book
Barak, On;
(2013)
On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
(/isis/citation/CBB001450221/)
Book
Bala, Poonam;
(2009)
Biomedicine as a Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Contexts
(/isis/citation/CBB000950294/)
Chapter
Raina, Dhruv;
(2012)
The Naturalization of Modern Science in South Asia: A Historical Overview of the Processes of Domestication and Globalization
(/isis/citation/CBB001422693/)
Article
Mitchell, Michele;
Shibusawa, Naoko;
Miescher, Stephan F.;
(2014)
Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges
(/isis/citation/CBB001550132/)
Book
Sharma, Jayeeta;
(2011)
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
(/isis/citation/CBB001421813/)
Book
El Shakry, Omnia S.;
(2007)
The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
(/isis/citation/CBB000950225/)
Book
Jennings, Eric Thomas;
(2006)
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas
(/isis/citation/CBB001022606/)
Chapter
Junia Ferreira Furtado;
(2021)
O outro lado do império: estrangeirados luso‑brasileiros e as minas da América portuguesa
(/isis/citation/CBB069266265/)
Article
Gerstenberger, Debora;
(2014)
Gilberto Freyre: um teórico da globalização?
(/isis/citation/CBB001420710/)
Book
Cara New Daggett;
(2019)
The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
(/isis/citation/CBB510402598/)
Book
Poonam Bala;
(2018)
Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub-Saharan Africa
(/isis/citation/CBB308742856/)
Article
Daniel Gamito-Marques;
(2018)
Defending Metropolitan Identity through Colonial Politics: The Role of Portuguese Naturalists (1870–91)
(/isis/citation/CBB156170799/)
Article
Liu, Jennifer A.;
(2017)
Postcolonial Biotech: Taiwanese Conundrums and Subimperial Desires
(/isis/citation/CBB193162849/)
Article
Hugo Silveira Pereira;
(2023)
The Camera and the Railway: Framing the Portuguese Empire and Technological Landscapes in Angola and Mozambique, 1880s–1910s
(/isis/citation/CBB732384908/)
Be the first to comment!