Colonial senses : colonial sensorial regimes and antiƯ-colonial resistance / Filipe Carreira da Silva, Sofia Aboim

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carreira da Silva, Filipe, author.

Aboim, Sofia, 1972- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses

Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses, 2632-1068

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portugal--Colonies--History--20th century.

Portugal.

Anti-imperialist movements--Portugal.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Senses and sensation--Portugal--History--20th century.

Senses and sensation.

Portuguese colonies.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

'Colonial Senses' explores how Portuguese late colonialism and its afterlives are experienced and resisted through the senses. Moving beyond a purely textual analysis, the Element examines the insurgent optics of Amílcar Cabral, the feminist haptics of Paulina Chiziane and the sonic politics of Black female activists in post-colonial Lisbon. The Element posits that Portuguese late colonialism's sensory regime prioritised proximity and aesthetic contact in order to mask violence and stifle dissent. Using social theory, literature and ethnography, we analyse a variety of visual, tactile and auditory registers. We offer a new hypothesis on the sensory architecture of empire: that the Portuguese colonial empire developed a distinctive multisensory regime structured around aestheticised contact, intimate violence and the suppression of autonomous sensory expression. Combining historical and sociological analysis, this Element demonstrates how sensory colonial legacies endure into the present and contributes to sensory and postcolonial studies

Contents:

Ocularcentrism and the anti-colonial critique : Amílcar Cabral

Africa is a female continent : Paulina Chiziane’s sensory feminist Africanity

Voicing resistance : Black women and the politics of hearing in postcolonial Lisbon

Epilogue : Feeling the problem

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 21, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Carreira da Silva, Filipe Colonial senses

ISBN:

9781009523721

1009523724

OCLC:

1588688183

Publisher Number:

CIPO000389648

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license