Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)

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Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/31524
https://doi.org/​Guimarães, P. (2021), Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974). Perspectivas, Journal of Political Science, Vol. 25 (2021), 89-101. - Special issue Environmental Histories of Mediterranean Fascisms edited by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo and Paulo Guimarães. - DOI: https://doi.org/10.21814/perspectivas.3229
https://doi.org/10.21814/perspectivas.3229
Resumo: Since the 19th century, Portuguese authorities had made unsuccessful attempts to promote cotton production in Angola and Mozambique. Under colonial fascist rule, the cotton plantations expanded significantly to meet the demands of the Portuguese textile industry. Eventually, cotton became the major agricultural export in Mozambique. This text explores the causes for this success, focusing on the rapid growth of indigenous cotton fields in northern Mozambique. In our research, we analysed contemporary "grey" cotton scientific literature, labour legislation, administration reports, agronomical thesis and the extensive collection of anthropological and social history studies carried out since the 1970s. We demonstrate that fascism created a specific model for the exploitation of humans and nature. This model involved labour mobilization based on daily physical and psychological violence and the humiliation of the indigenous people, the promotion and advancement of colonial cotton science for the industrialization of nature, and the creation of new economic institutions and rules to promote neo-mercantilist policies
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spelling Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)Environmental HistoryCotton plantation (Mozambique)Estado NovoColonial ScienceIndigenous agricultureFascism (Mozambique)Since the 19th century, Portuguese authorities had made unsuccessful attempts to promote cotton production in Angola and Mozambique. Under colonial fascist rule, the cotton plantations expanded significantly to meet the demands of the Portuguese textile industry. Eventually, cotton became the major agricultural export in Mozambique. This text explores the causes for this success, focusing on the rapid growth of indigenous cotton fields in northern Mozambique. In our research, we analysed contemporary "grey" cotton scientific literature, labour legislation, administration reports, agronomical thesis and the extensive collection of anthropological and social history studies carried out since the 1970s. We demonstrate that fascism created a specific model for the exploitation of humans and nature. This model involved labour mobilization based on daily physical and psychological violence and the humiliation of the indigenous people, the promotion and advancement of colonial cotton science for the industrialization of nature, and the creation of new economic institutions and rules to promote neo-mercantilist policiesCICP - Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política2022-03-29T15:06:38Z2022-03-292021-12-17T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10174/31524https://doi.org/​Guimarães, P. (2021), Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974). Perspectivas, Journal of Political Science, Vol. 25 (2021), 89-101. - Special issue Environmental Histories of Mediterranean Fascisms edited by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo and Paulo Guimarães. - DOI: https://doi.org/10.21814/perspectivas.3229http://hdl.handle.net/10174/31524https://doi.org/10.21814/perspectivas.3229porhttps://www.perspectivasjournal.com/index.php/perspectivas/article/view/3229peg@uevora.ptPerspectivas733Guimarães, Paulo Eduardoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-01-03T19:31:28Zoai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/31524Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T01:20:45.431770Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
title Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
spellingShingle Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
Environmental History
Cotton plantation (Mozambique)
Estado Novo
Colonial Science
Indigenous agriculture
Fascism (Mozambique)
title_short Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
title_full Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
title_fullStr Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
title_full_unstemmed Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
title_sort Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974)
author Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
author_facet Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Guimarães, Paulo Eduardo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Environmental History
Cotton plantation (Mozambique)
Estado Novo
Colonial Science
Indigenous agriculture
Fascism (Mozambique)
topic Environmental History
Cotton plantation (Mozambique)
Estado Novo
Colonial Science
Indigenous agriculture
Fascism (Mozambique)
description Since the 19th century, Portuguese authorities had made unsuccessful attempts to promote cotton production in Angola and Mozambique. Under colonial fascist rule, the cotton plantations expanded significantly to meet the demands of the Portuguese textile industry. Eventually, cotton became the major agricultural export in Mozambique. This text explores the causes for this success, focusing on the rapid growth of indigenous cotton fields in northern Mozambique. In our research, we analysed contemporary "grey" cotton scientific literature, labour legislation, administration reports, agronomical thesis and the extensive collection of anthropological and social history studies carried out since the 1970s. We demonstrate that fascism created a specific model for the exploitation of humans and nature. This model involved labour mobilization based on daily physical and psychological violence and the humiliation of the indigenous people, the promotion and advancement of colonial cotton science for the industrialization of nature, and the creation of new economic institutions and rules to promote neo-mercantilist policies
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https://doi.org/​Guimarães, P. (2021), Violence, Science, and Cotton in Colonial-Fascist Mozambique (1934-1974). Perspectivas, Journal of Political Science, Vol. 25 (2021), 89-101. - Special issue Environmental Histories of Mediterranean Fascisms edited by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo and Paulo Guimarães. - DOI: https://doi.org/10.21814/perspectivas.3229
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