Meteorisations
Reading Amílcar Cabral’s Agronomy of Liberation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Filipa César (0000-0003-2214-9490, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 254-272 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third Text (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-8822 • E-ISSN: 1475-5297 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09528822.2018.1492073 |
| OpenAlex | W2892521709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
This article reads Amílcar Cabral's much under-studied early soil science as a body of work not dissociable from his project of liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Drawing on research situated within an artistic practice, the article explores the definitions of soil and erosion that Cabral developed as an agronomist, as well as his reports on colonial land exploitation and analysis of the trade economy, to unearth his double agency as a state soil scientist and as a 'seeder' of African liberation. Cabral understood agronomy not merely as a discipline combining geology, soil science, agriculture, biology and economics but as a means to gain materialist and situated knowledge about peoples' lived conditions under colonialism. The scientific data he generated during his work as an agronomist were critical to his theoretical arguments in which he denounced the injustices perpetrated on colonised land, and it later informed his warfare strategies. Cabral used his role as an agronomist for the Portuguese colonial government subversively to further anti-colonial struggle. I argue that the results of Cabral's agronomic work – his care for the soil and attention to its processes and transformations – not only informed the organisation of the liberation struggle, but were crucial to the process of decolonisation, understood as a project of reclamation and national reconstruction in the postcolony
Agency (philosophy · Colonialism · Decolonization · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy
Internationalism with National-Popular Characteristics
Participation and Social Policies in Portugal under the Spectre of Amílcar Cabral
“Militant Ecologies”
Amílcar Cabral and the International
More-than-Forests
In poverty we will always stay”
Introduction. Amílcar Cabral and the Idea of Anticolonial Revolution
Socionatures, Space, and Decolonisation
It’s Only Really When I Put My Hands in the Soil That I Feel at Home”
Bending Possession
Epistemic Decolonization through the Colonial, Anti- and Post-Colonial Archive in Contemporary Art
Amílcar Cabral, Colonial Soil and the Politics of Insubmission
Decolonising the Earth
Fear of a Black planet
Geopolitics of decolonisation
Telluric geographies of the means of violence. On alterity, weapons, and space at the margins
Reifications in Disease Ecology 2
Black Science
Amílcar Cabral's modernist philosophy of culture and cultural liberation
Forest management in Mozambique from 1920 to 1974
Rethinking decolonization in education through Amílcar Cabral
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |