Luso-scapes: a podcast about colonialism on land relations in the Portuguese-speaking world.

This episode of Luso-Scapes features a Symposium Snippet, a recording from the 2021 Lusophone Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective Symposium. This snippet includes the closing remarks presented by keynote discussant Dr. Ricardo Roque, as well as the discussion that followed these remarks. This podcast is brought to you with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

This episode of Luso-scapes features a conversation among early-career scholars, Bernardo Almeida, Méabh Cryan, and Laura Gerken as they join host and co-producer Michelle Gowan to discuss land formalization, a central theme that emerged during the 2021 Lusophone Land Legacies symposium. In this roundtable-style discussion, our guests explore land formalization by contemplating the continuities and discontinuities as well as the similarities and differences in the colonial experience and by considering its impact of contemporary land formalisation projects and claim-making practices, including State, customary, private, and corporate claims, in the context of their research settings in Timor-Leste and Mozambique. This podcast is brought to you with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Welcome to Luso-scapes Episode #2 This episode of Luso-Scapes features a Symposium Snippet, a recording from the 2021 Lusophone Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective Symposium. This snippet includes the symposium keynote address presented by anthropologist Dr. Tania Murray Li titled, “Colonial Land Legacies: Questions and Insights from Southeast Asia”. Dr Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in the Culture and Political-Economy of Asia. She has conducted long-term interdisciplinary research on many aspects of land relations in colonially disparate Southeast Asia, illuminating how multiple actors engage critical issues of land and livelihoods across time. Her recent work on transitions, access, exclusion, interventions, and state projects has set the stage for the questions we are asking, and also inspired us to convene diverse scholars in collaborative learning during the Lusophone Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective Symposium. This symposium aimed to untangle and to understand the enduring legacies of colonial land policies and practices, and Dr. Li’s creative research designs remind us that comparative work is often necessary to address certain kinds of questions. Keywords: lusophone land legacies, land, imperial debris, colonialism, symposium, research, podcast Featured works Bhandar, Brenna. 2018. Colonial Lives of Property. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Foucault, Michael. 2007. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78. Translated by Graham Burchell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Hall, Derek, Philip Hirsch, and Tania Li. 2011. Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore. Li, Tania M. 2021. Commons, Co-ops, and Corporations: Assembling Indonesia’s Twenty-First Century Land Reform. The Journal of Peasant Studies 48, no. 3, 613-639. Li, Tania M. 2007. The Will to Improve. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Stoler, Ann L., ed. 2013. Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Latest publication by Dr Tania Murray Li: MURRAY, T., & SEMEDI, L. (2021). PLANTATION LIFE: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone. DUKE University Press. Credits: This podcast is brought to you with support from The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Our host is Michelle Gowan. This episode was produced by Dr. Susanna Barnes and Michelle Gowan with executive assistance from Jessica Jack @ Lusophone Land Legacies Research Group Music: “If you’re wondering” by Ketsa”

Introducing Luso-Scapes, a podcast about the legacy of colonialism on land relations in the Portuguese-speaking world. This series is produced by the Lusophone Land Legacies Research Group as a part of the project, “Lusophone Land Legacies in Comparative Perspective". Episodes feature recordings from the project's 2021 international symposium, titled, "Symposium Snippets" as well as conversations with scholars in which we explore important themes relating to colonial-era land practices. This episode was produced by Dr. Susanna Barnes and Michelle Gowan with executive assistance from Jessica Jack. Music: “If you’re wondering” by Ketsa" This podcast is brought to you with support from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.