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Humanitarianism and Development - students presentation

17 Novembro 2025, 15:30 • Catarina Fróis

Humanitarianism and Development - students presentation

Anti-Politics Machine, James Ferguson; Seeing like a State, James Scott - distinct approaches to development

Voluntourism and the white savior complex - Plan my gap year

Environmental Changes, Societal Challenges - Students Presentation

10 Novembro 2025, 15:30 • Catarina Fróis

Environmental Changes, Societal Challenges - Students Presentation on "Slow violence"

The Human Security approach: freedom from want, from fear, and to live in dignity

Acts of citizenship and human rights

3 Novembro 2025, 15:30 • Catarina Fróis

Acts of citizenship and human rights

Is citizenship something we have or something we do?

Engin Isin “Acts of citizenship”; Hannah Arendt, the right to have rights; Judith Butler embodied citizenship; Balibar and insurgent citizenship.

Students Presentation

Representations of Suffering

27 Outubro 2025, 15:30 • Catarina Fróis

Images of suffering — photography, film, or other visual media— powerful and contested forms of representation in contemporary culture.

Key ethical political questions:

What does it mean to look at suffering?

Does representation alleviate suffering or risk aestheticizing it?

Who controls the narrative of suffering—and who benefits from it?

Students Presentation

Borders and Exclusion

20 Outubro 2025, 15:30 • Catarina Fróis

Borders shape social, political, and economic life

Exclusion is central to understanding migration, citizenship, and identity

Exclusion occurs along lines of: nationality, ethnicity, class, gender, legal status

Traditional view: territorial lines separating sovereign states

Modern view: borders as dynamic, performative, and multi-layered

Students Presentation