Sumários
The afterlives of development in Eastern Africa
25 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • 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
18 Outubro 2024, 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
History of Africa and of European-African Relations
11 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos
European-African relations in the Early Modern Era From previous images of Africa to the first contacts: expectations and reciprocal representationsA frican responses and European adaptations in the dawn of the Atlantic World The evolution of the Euro-African relationship. The case of the Luso-African communities in Western Africa. Guest speaker: José Silva Horta (CH-UL) . Readings: Brooks, George E., 2003. Eurafricans in Western Africa. Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Athens, Ohio University Press, Oxford, James Currey. Horta, José da Silva, MARK, Peter, 2018, « A "Racial" Approach to the History of Early Afro-Portuguese Relationships? The Case of Senegambia and Cabo Verde in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries », em Sina Rauschenbach; Jonathan Schorsch (ed.), The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-84. Tymovski Michał , 2020. Europeans and Africans. Mutual Discoveries and First Encounters, Leiden/Boston, Brill.
Euro-African mobility
4 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Euro-African border and border crossings: The Mediterranean Migration and/or Mobility in African Studies (debate on concepts and practices). African migrations in Europe: how to study African diasporas and "irregular" migrants in Europe. The migrants' voice: self-narrative, objects and memories of migration to Europe. Border bodies: ethnography of the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa. The Archive of Migrant Memories. . Film screenings: Como un uomo sulla terra, by Dagmayi Ymer To whom it may concern, by Zakaria Mohamed Ali . Readings: Gatta, Gianluca, 2012, Luoghi migranti. Tra clandestinità e spazi pubblici , Pellegrini, Cosenza. Gatta, Gianluca. 2012, "Corpi di frontiera. Etnografia del trattamento dei migranti al loro arrivo a Lampedusa", in AM. Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica , n. 33/34, pp. 129-161. UNECA. 2013. Report: International Migration and Development in Africa: The Migration and Climate Nexus. UNECA. Vacchiano, Francesco. 2013. Fencing in the South. The Strait of Gibraltar as a Paradigm of the New Border Regime in the Mediterranean. Journal of Mediterraneean Studies. Vacchiano, Francesco. 2014. Beyond borders and limits: Moroccan migrating adolescents between desire, vulnerability and risk. Saúde e Sociedade, 23, 1. Readings: Mckenzie, Robert and Triulzi, Alessandro. 2013. Long Journeys. African migrants on the road. Leiden: Brill. MacGaffey, Janet and Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémy. 2002. Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. Indiana University Press. Agier, Michel and Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémi (eds). 2012. L'Afrique des banlieues françaises. Paris: Paari. Bayart, Jean-François. 2010. Les études postcoloniales, un carnaval académique. Paris: Khartala.. Santinho, Cristina. 2010. Afinal que asilo é este que não nos protege? Etnográfica, 17, 1
Post-Colonial political and social issues - mobility, diaspora and asylum
Presentation of the Course - Europe-Africa Relations: an entangled relation
27 Setembro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos