Ordering Resistance: The Late Colonial State in the Portuguese Empire (1940–1975)

Abstract

This chapter provides an assessment of how the late Portuguese colonial state (especially in Angola and Mozambique) responded to widespread conflict and anticolonial pressures. Focusing on its structures, idioms, and strategies of social transformation and control-especially as they relate to the domains of development and security-my assessment of state response emphasizes the coming together of: coercive repertoires of rule; planned developmental strategies of political, economic and social change; and processes of engineering sociocultural difference. The late colonial state’s developmental and repressive facets are critically assessed through mobilizing theoretical perspectives and empirical analysis.

Citation

Jerónimo, M.B. (2017), "Ordering Resistance: The Late Colonial State in the Portuguese Empire (1940–1975)", Rethinking the Colonial State (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 33), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 109-128. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920170000033005