FORCED LABOUR

"Forced Labour in West Central and South Central Africa: an Afro-European colonial heritage in comparative perspective, 1930-1970"

Coordinatore	Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto    more  Organization address address: Faculdade de letras da Universidade do Porto - Via Panoramica S/N city: Porto postcode: 4150-564 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Maciel Cognome: Santos Email: send email Telefono: 351226000000 Fax: 351226000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Portugal [PT]
Totale costo	140˙450 €
EC contributo	140˙450 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-09-01   -   2010-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto  Organization address address: Faculdade de letras da Universidade do Porto - Via Panoramica S/N city: Porto postcode: 4150-564 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Maciel Cognome: Santos Email: send email Telefono: 351226000000 Fax: 351226000000	PT (Porto)	coordinator	140˙450.72

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Forced labour is a typical phenomenon of 20th-century European colonial structures in sub-Saharan Africa. While having been abolished in most parts of colonial Africa after World War II, it has, as a particular heritage of the Afro-European encounter, been partly or fully re-instated in many African countries after the end of the colonial period. Moreover, the practice (or practices) of colonial forced labour did not only have a strong influence on economic realities in the countries concerned. They also shaped the social relations between local authorities and their subjects, as all the colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa strongly relied on local collaborators. Hence, the practice and the abolition of forced labour did not only affect the contact situations and mutual visions between African subjects and European rulers, but they also had a strong impact on local balances of power in which the European side was only marginally involved. While the practice of forced labour has been identified (and condemned) as a typical aspect of European domination in sub-Saharan Africa, there is an impressive lack of studies on local realities of repressive labour organisation. Our project intends to close this gap, focusing on a large but nonetheless particular region of West Central and South Central Africa. Our four case studies (from Angola, Zambia and Gabon) will describe processes between 1930 and the 1970s, and compare experiences that involve the decolonisation process and post-colonial redefinition of labour relations, with two Angolan cases in which the colonial power maintains its hold on the territory until 1974. The comparison entails archival work including both a territorial perspective and local case studies, and interview series that relate to the same local cases. The project is planned for five years, and necessitates an intensive initial two-year research phase that would strongly benefit from a research grant.'