Landscape and mundialization: Goa and Salvador in the formation of Portuguese Empire

• Grant number: 23/05261-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2023
• End date: November 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno
• Grantee: Allan Pedro dos Santos Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/06538-9 - Baroque-açu: Portuguese America in the art geography of the global South, AP.JP2
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/00380-2 - A Landscape Archaeology of Goa and Salvador based on Iberian documentary collections, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The division of the Portuguese Empire between the Estado da Índia and the Governo Geral do Brasil, headquartered respectively in Goa and Salvador, gave rise to historiographical studies that reiterate such separation to the detriment of the analysis of interactions on a planetary scale that were established in the course of portuguese colonialism. Based on the concepts of Mundialization (Gruzinski, 2004), Material Culture (Meneses, 1980) and Landscape (Santos, 1996; Meneses, 2002), the present work proposes to face this situation by thinking Goa and Salvador as integrated landscapes to the globalization process, assessing the extent to which these artifacts boosted circulations on a global scale in the long sixteenth century. To this end, in an interdisciplinary approach and in frank dialogue with Historical Urban Geography (Vasconcelos, 2009), Urbanization Studies (Reis, 1999; 2001) and Landscape Archeology (Bueno; Barreto; Dias, 2021), we mobilize textual and visual sources, specialized bibliography and field visits in search of traces of the material conformations that characterized these artifacts in past times. By presenting textual and visual narratives, the work is expected to contribute to a reading of these landscapes as a product and vector of the globalization process, elucidating how, as vectors, these artifacts potentiated the expansion and survival of the Portuguese Empire.