- This course will provide an introduction to anti-colonial philosophy and political theory as a response to the colonial philosophies of the Portuguese empire.
- We will study the impact of colonial ships setting sail to and from Lisbon with routes to Africa and Asia, making Portugal the longest-lasting European colonial empire.
- Explore the anti-colonial revolutions in Portugal’s colonies that uniquely contributed to the end of the empire and the re-founding of Portugal as a democratic republic.
- Focus on resistance movements and important leaders and theorists such as: Amílcar Cabral from Guinea Bissau, Eduard Mondlane of Mozambique, Mário Pinto de Andrade from Angola
End the course with a study of the Carnation Revolution and a visit to the Aljube museum, a former prison for political prisoners now turned into a museum about the Salazar dictatorship and the resistance movements that ended it.
Prof. Alex Adamson