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'JoAGBPo Sarmento is a fantastic story-teller. This book is well written and presents in a very pleasant form an original excursion into the complexities of postcolonial geographies. Proceeding with much finesse, JoAGBPo Sarmento presents a fascinating analysis of the postcolonial geographies that tourism and Western Capitalism are building all over the World.' Paul Claval, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, France 'This book takes an exciting tour around fortifications and settlements comprising a Portguese archipelago of empire , one with global reach but here explored chiefly in its African context. Juxtaposing archival research and ethnographic encounter, the author unfolds a bewildering set of entangled tales about imperialists, navigators, pirates, slaves, tourists, architects, planners, dictators and enterpreneurs, in which the ruins of old (geo-political) empires become reworked through the deeply tragic follies of new (geo-economic) empires . The book is also about memory - about forgetting, celebrating and inventing - where it is the crucial silences of today's fort-as-museum that are arguably the most instructive. Furthermore, the book serves as a challenging mediation on key failures of the postcolonial, and on how a postcolonial geography might now respond.' Chris Philo, University of Glasgow, UK 'This is a very welcome contribution to the debate on the spatialities of the postcolonial. Concerned with the material and immaterial cultural geographies of Empire, Sarmento shows how Portuguese fortifications across three continents today represent an intriguing and complicated heritage which well deserves this brilliant investigation. A rewarding read.' Claudio Minca, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 'Overall the text is a successful initial foray into the significance of fortifications within Africa and their role in aiding an understanding of the perpetuation of colonialist ways of seeing, providing an in-d

"'João Sarmento is a fantastic story-teller. This book is well written and presents in a very pleasant form an original excursion into the complexities of postcolonial geographies. Proceeding with much finesse, João Sarmento presents a fascinating analysis of the postcolonial geographies that tourism and Western Capitalism are building all over the World.' Paul Claval, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France 'This book takes an exciting tour around fortifications and settlements comprising a Portguese ""archipelago of empire"", one with global reach but here explored chiefly in its African context. Juxtaposing archival research and ethnographic encounter, the author unfolds a bewildering set of entangled tales about imperialists, navigators, pirates, slaves, tourists, architects, planners, dictators and enterpreneurs, in which the ruins of old (geo-political) empires become reworked through the deeply tragic follies of new (geo-economic) ""empires"". The book is also about memory - about forgetting, celebrating and inventing - where it is the crucial silences of today's fort-as-museum that are arguably the most instructive. Furthermore, the book serves as a challenging mediation on key failures of the postcolonial, and on how a postcolonial geography might now respond.' Chris Philo, University of Glasgow, UK 'This is a very welcome contribution to the debate on the spatialities of the postcolonial. Concerned with the material and immaterial cultural geographies of Empire, Sarmento shows how Portuguese fortifications across three continents today represent an intriguing and complicated heritage which well deserves this brilliant investigation. A rewarding read.' Claudio Minca, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 'Overall the text is a successful initial foray into the significance of fortifications within Africa and their role in aiding an understanding of the perpetuation of colonialist ways of seeing, providing an in-d"

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João Sarmento is an Assistant Professor at the Geography Department, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal and Researcher at the Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal ('Tourism, Culture and Space' Group).

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