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Lisbon: reading the (post-)colonial city from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

ELSA PERALTA  and
NUNO DOMINGOS
ELSA PERALTA
Affiliation:
Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal
NUNO DOMINGOS
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Aníbal Bethencourt, 9,1600-089 Lisboa, Portugal
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Abstract:

The study of the urban experience in Lisbon, the former capital of the Portuguese empire, creates a specific observatory to interpret the colonial process and its post-colonial developments. Following an itinerary from colonial to post-colonial times, this article examines the continuities and discontinuities of Lisbon's urban dynamics linked with Portugal's colonial history through three interlinked processes. First, the material inscription of policies of national identity in the memory space of the city since the late nineteenth century until today. Second, the expansion of a network of economic relations that affected Lisbon's industrial, commercial and urban life. And finally, the development of a system of social and political organization, where spatial distribution and civil and political rights were unequally distributed.

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Urban History , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , May 2019 , pp. 246 - 265
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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