Empire, Colonial Wars and Post-Colonialism in the Portuguese contemporary imagination.

From: Portuguese Studies | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

In his studies on Portuguese society as it operates in a global context and on Portugal's integration into the European Community, Boaventura de Sousa Santos considers the Portuguese state to be the principal steward of the political, economic and symbolic dimensions that constitute the process through which Portugal became part of the European Community. According to Sousa Santos, the political and economic harmonization necessary for the integration of Portugal into Europe has, in general, introduced a 'melhoria das condicoes gerais de acumulacao'. This has given rise within the ...

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