Sumários
Seminar - Conclusion - Wrap up
17 Novembro 2023, 20:30 • Manuel João Ramos
Seminar (group debate): participative reflexion about the presentations and about the sylabus of the course; discussion and integration of the topics; students' views and research ideas. Organization of the students' final reports by themes: ways of belonging; border crossings; Violent conflicts; Representations. General conclusions. Rounding up of the course and group evaluation of the course. Discussion of prospects for future research and teaching on Europe-Africa Relations. Speaker: Manuel João Ramos (CEI-IUL) Preparation of students' reports
Africa: fevelopment, fallacies and lullabies
17 Novembro 2023, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Guest speaker: Fernando Jorge Cardoso (IMVF/CEI-IUL)
Readings:
The afterlives of development in Eastern Africa
14 Novembro 2023, 20:30 • Manuel João Ramos
The afterlives of development interventions: Retracing theK enya-Finland Cooperation (Kefinco) Project in western Kenya Since the end of colonialism, cooperation between African and Europeanc ountries has given rise to countless and varied internationald evelopment projects, which in turn left contested and often unexpectedl egacies. Drawing on the Iscte-based European Research Council (ERC)p roject AfDevLives, in this lecture we will discuss a cases-tudy involving such a Euro-African development collaboration - namely, a large-scale waterp roject called Kefinco, which was implemented in Kakamega, western Kenya, in the 1980s and 1990s. This session will feature four speakers, three of whom will join us remotely, and willf ocus on the retracing of such afterlives and on them ethods used for their ongoing exploration, and in particular on thec onvergence of ethnographic and archival material." Guest speaker: Yonatan Gez (CEI-IUL) and the team of AfDevLives . Readings: Ferguson&Lohmann (1994) The anti-politics machine: "Development" and bureaucracy power in Lesotho. The ecologist, 24, 5 Gez&Fouere&Bulugu (2022) Telling ruins -The afterlives of an early post-independence development intervention in lake Victoria, tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies. Vuori (1986) Water for a million. World Health.
Portugal after 1974: the birth pangs of a post-colonial nation
14 Novembro 2023, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Nearly 50 year after the 'loss' of its overseas empire, Portugal is still struggling to come to terms with its postcolonial condition - just as many other former European powers, by the way. Those who have studied the post-colonial trajectory of the country are usually struck by the persistence of an unreconstructed imperial imagery in public discourses, as well as many subtle (or not so subtle) expressions of racism. In this talk, we will attempt to give some context to this situation and see how history can help us to make sense of Portugal's lack of a thorough imperial reckoning. Guest speaker: Pedro Aires de Oliveira (FCSH-UNL) Readings: Bruno C. Reis & Pedro A. Oliveira (2017): The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role, The International History Review, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2016.1253599 Pinto, A. C., Jerónimo, M. B. (2015). Ideologies of exceptionality and the legacies of empire in Portugal. In Dietmar Rothermund (Ed.), Memories of post-imperial nations: the aftermath of decolonization, 1945-2013 (pp. 97-119). Delhi: Cambridge University Press
People’s Participation for International Cooperation - the Tanzanian case
10 Novembro 2023, 20:30 • Manuel João Ramos
Mutalemwa, G. Laity and Development: Participation of the laity in Socio-economic and Cultural Development in Bukoba Diocese, Tanzania, 2011