Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
Out of Sight, Close to the Heart: Regionalist Voluntary Associations in the Portuguese Empire
Title Information (lang="por")
Title
Longe dos Olhos, Perto do Coração: Associações Voluntárias Regionalistas no Império Português
Name: Personal
Name Part
Melo, Daniel
affiliation
Universidade de Lisboa
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
author
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
articles
Origin Information
Date Issued
Summer 2007
Date Issued (keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
2007-06
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
por
Physical Description
Extent
18 p.
digitalOrigin
born digital
Abstract (lang="eng")
This article focuses on regionalist voluntary associations in the former Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique during the twentieth century, relating them to the issues of social capital and plurality of identity, and linking them to the context of the Portuguese Diaspora. It studies the contribution made by associations based on regional ties in an imperial and ultranationalist space, and analyzes how that same contribution not only strengthened the social capital in their communities, but also upheld identities, which were less closed and more plural, despite the prevailing action of colonialism. Furthermore, the work of these popular institutions made it possible to enlarge the geographic and social contexts of regionalism, a Western phenomenon that has been re-assessed by scholars over the last few decades.
Abstract (lang="por")
Este artigo propõe um olhar cruzado sobre o associativismo regionalista nas ex-colónias de Angola e Moçambique, relacionando-o com as problemáticas do capital social e das identidades plurais e articulando-o com o contexto diaspórico. Analisa o contributo das associações que assumiram um vínculo regional num espaço imperial de sobrecarga nacionalista e o modo como esse mesmo contributo permitiu não só o reforço do capital social nas suas comunidades como a afirmação de identidades menos fechadas e mais plurais, apesar do colonialismo actuante. Além disso, o labor destas organizações populares tornou possível o alargamento dos contextos geográficos e sociais do regionalismo, um fenómeno do mundo ocidental que teve, nas últimas décadas, uma redobrada atenção por parte da academia.
Part
Part Detail: volume
Part Number
5
Part Caption
vol.
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
1
Part Caption
no.
Part Detail: article
Part Number
4
Part Caption
no.
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Associations, institutions, etc
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Regionalism
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Nationalism
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Imperialism
Geographic
Portugal
Subject (LCSH)
Topic
Group identity
Related Item: Host
Title Information (lang="eng")
Title
e-Journal of Portuguese History
Part Number
vol. 5, no. 1
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/z131-5x87