Planeamento

Aulas

PT Planeamento das aulas e leituras específicas

Aula 1. Introdução (2h)

Segunda-feira 23 Setembro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Introdução geral ao curso, conhecimento mútuo. Visão geral dos debates. Metodologia e avaliação.

Leituras:

Gardner, Katy & Lewis, David. 2015. “Applying Anthropology” (cap.1) e “The Anthropology of Development” (cap. 2). In Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century. London: Pluto Press.

Módulo: Antropologia e Desenvolvimento – conexões e desconexões

Exploração da construção histórica de um campo de interlocução entre a antropologia e o desenvolvimento como prática. Combinar-se-ão debates críticos e relações produtivas entre os dois campos.

Aula 2. Metodologias (2h)

Segunda-feira 30 Setembro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Exploração das aproximações entre antropologia e desenvolvimento através do foco na dimensão metodológica e heurística. Tópicos: trabalho de campo, perspetivas micro e macro, participação e co-produção, actor-based research, debates sobre debates local knowledge; antropologia aplicada.

Leituras:

McGregor, Deborah. 2004. “Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Towards Coexistence”. In Blaser, Mario, Harvey A. Feit, and Glenn McRae (eds). 2004. In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and Globalization. London: Zed Books.

Olivier de Sardan Jean-Pierre. 2015. “Socio-anthropology of Development” (cap. 2). In Anthropology and Development. Understanding Contemporary Social Change. London & New York: Zed Books.

Aula 3. Críticas antropológicas a modelos de desenvolvimento I (2h)

Segunda-feira 7 Outubro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Nesta aula, a partir da leitura das propostas de James Ferguson a partir da sua pesquisa no Lesotho, introduziremos e debateremos algumas das primeiras e principais críticas emergentes na antropologia na década de 1990 aos projetos de desenvolvimento. Introdução dos debates sobre capitalismo e Estados pós-coloniais.

Leituras:

Ferguson, James. 1990. The Anti-Politics Machine: “Development,” Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lopes, Carlos. 2020. África em Transformação. Lisboa: Tinta da China.

Aula 4. Críticas antropológicas a modelos de desenvolvimento II (2h)

Segunda-feira 14 Outubro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Continuação da apresentação sobre as críticas colocadas desde a antropologia à indústria do desenvolvimento, desta vez a partir da leitura “decolonial” de Arturo Escobar desde a América Latina. Introdução do debate sobre pós-desenvolvimento.

Leituras:

Diawara, Mamadou. 2000. “Globalization, Development Politics and Local Knowledge.” International Sociology 15 (2): 361-371.

Escobar, Arturo. 2011. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.

Svampa, Maristella. 2012. “Resource Extractivism and Alternatives : Latin American Perspectives on Development.” Journal Fur Entwicklungspolitik 28 (3): 43–73.

Módulo: Intersecções - Desenvolvimento e...

Discussões setorializadas onde se apresentam e discutem pesquisas e abordagens antropológicas em contextos de desenvolvimento.

Aula 5. Ambiente e crise climática (2h) (Antonio Maria Pusceddu)

Segunda-feira 21 Outubro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Discussão da relação entre desenvolvimento e crises ambientais e do nexo problemático entre desenvolvimento e a categoria da sustentabilidade; transição energética e novos imaginários do desenvolvimento.

Leituras:

Boyer, Dominic. 2019. Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press.

Howe, Cymene. 2019. Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press.

Barandiarán, Javiera. 2019. Lithium and Development Imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. World Development 113:381-391.

Brightman, M., Lewis, J. (2017). Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress. In: Brightman, M., Lewis, J. (eds) The Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan

Aula 6. Trabalho (2h) (Antonio Maria Pusceddu)

Segunda-feira 28 Outubro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Apresentação dos debates sobre economia informal e o papel do nexo trabalho-desenvolvimento, a divisão internacional do trabalho e a relação entre gênero, desenvolvimento e trabalho não pago.

Leituras:

Beneria, Lourdes. 1999. “The enduring debate over unpaid labour”. International Labour Reveiew. 130(3):287-309.

Beneria, Lourdes, and Günseli Berik, Maria Floro. 2015. “Gender and Development: A Historical Overview”. In Lourdes Beneria, Günseli Berik, Maria Floro, Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered, New York: Routledge (2nd Editions).

Breman, Jan, and Marcel van der Linden. 2014. “Informalizing the Economy: The Return of the Social Question at a Global Level”. Development and Change 45(5): 920–940.

Ferguson, James, and T.M. Li. 2018. Beyond the «proper job»: Political-economic analysis after the century of labouring man, working paper n. 51, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, pp. 1-22.

Hart, Keith, 2010, “Informal economy”. In Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville, Antonio David Cattani (eds), The human economy. A citizen’s guide, Cambridge, Polity Press: 142-153.

Aula 7. Saúde (2h)

Segunda-feira 4 Novembro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Apresentação em torno da trajetória do antropólogo Paul Farmer, as suas pesquisas em torno da indústria global da saúde e o seu impacto no Sul Global, nomeadamente no contexto da emergência do HIV como epidemia global.

Leituras:

Farmer, Paul. 2006. “Introduction”. In AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 1-16.

Feierman, S., A. Kleinman, K. Stewart, P. Farmer, and V. Das. 2010. “Anthropology, Knowledge-Flows and Global Health.” Global Public Health 5 (2): 122–28.

Haricharan, Hanne Jensen. 2008. “Anthropologist to Activist: Paul Farmer’s Changing Perspectives on Cultural Difference and Human Rights.” Anthropology Southern Africa 31 (1–2): 30–38.

Aula 8. Direitos Humanos (2h)

Segunda-feira 11 Novembro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Nesta aula explorar-se-á a relação complexa entre o desenvolvimento e os direitos humanos, explorando ao mesmo tempo a relação difícil da antropologia com o campo dos direitos humanos, e a progressiva interseção da agenda dos direitos humanos com a do desenvolvimento.

Leituras:

Freeman, M. 2002. “Anthropology and the Democratisation of Human Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights 6 (3): 37–54.

Riles, Annelise. 2006. “Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge: Culture in the Iron Cage.” American Anthropologist 108 (1): 52–65.

Uvin, Peter. 2007. “From the Right to Development to the Rights-Based Approach: How ‘Human Rights’ Entered Development.” Development in Practice 17 (4–5): 597–606.

Módulo: Estudos de caso em antropologias no/do desenvolvimento

Aula 9. Perspetivas desde a África Lusófona (2h)

Segunda-feira 18 Novembro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Apresentação e discussão de trabalhos de terreno de desenvolvimento em Angola e Moçambique no âmbito de eventos climáticos, e respetiva crítica antropológica.

Leituras:

Blanes, Ruy Llera, Carolina Valente Cardoso, Helder Alicerces Bahu, and Cláudio Fortuna. 2022. “Drought Terroirs: Debating Anthropological Territorialities in the Study of Climate Change and Environmental Disasters.” Kritisk Etnografi 5 (1–2): 115–32.

Isaacman, Allen F., and Barbara S. Isaacman. 2013. “Introduction: Cahora Bassa in Broader Perspective”. In Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, pp. 1-28.

Shankland, Alex, and Euclides Gonçalves. 2016. “Imagining Agricultural Development in South–South Cooperation: The Contestation and Transformation of ProSAVANA.” World Development, China and Brazil in African Agriculture, 81:35–46.

Aula 10. Outros contextos (2h) (Antonio Maria Pusceddu)

Segunda-feira 25 Novembro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Apresentação de três trabalhos antropológicos com abordagens e enfoques diferentes ao tema do desenvolvimento. Uma etnografia sobre a continua redefinição de espaços rurais da Catalunha meridional como espaço marginais destinatários de planos de desenvolvimento, nomeadamente no sector energético. Um analise do papel de mediação na captação e gestão de fundos europeus na Grécia, do ponto de vista das elites tecnocratas nacionais e locais. Por fim, uma etnografia dos projectos de desenvolvimento num contextos marginal da Europa pós-socialista, dentro do paradigma da “sociedade civil”.

Leituras:

Franquesa, Jaume. 2018. Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Gkintidis, Dimitrios. 2018. “European Funds and the Hermeneutics of the Capitalist Crisis: Insights from within the Greek State”. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 41(1): 142-159.

Sampson, Steven. 1996. “The Social Life of Projects: Importing Civil Society to Albania”. In Elizabeth Dunn, Chris Han (eds), Civil Society: Challenging Western Models. London: Routledge.

Conclusão

Aula 11. Conclusão (2h)

Segunda-feira 2 Dezembro 18-20h (PT)

Sumário:

Revisão da matéria dada, perguntas retroativas, dúvidas e respostas, preparação da avaliação.

Leituras:

N/A

ENG: Lecture distribution and further reading

Lecture1. Introduction (2h)

Wednesday 25 September 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

General introduction to the course, mutual acquaintance. Overview of the debates. Methodology and evaluation.o.

Reading:

Module: Anthropology and Development – connections and disconnections

Exploration of the historical construction of a field of dialogue between anthropology and development as a practice. Critical debates and productive relationships between the two fields will be combined.

Lecture 2. Methodologies (2h)

Wednesday 2 October 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Readings:

Olivier de Sardan Jean-Pierre. 2015. “Socio-anthropology of Development” (cap. 2). In Anthropology and Development. Understanding Contemporary Social Change. London & New York: Zed Books.

Lecture 3. Anthropological critiques to development models I (2h)

Wednesday 9 October 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

In this class, based on reading James Ferguson's proposals from his research in Lesotho, we will introduce and debate some of the first and main criticisms emerging in anthropology in the 1990s regarding development projects. Introduction to debates on capitalism and post-colonial states.

Readings:

Ferguson, James. 1990. The Anti-Politics Machine: “Development,” Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lopes, Carlos. 2020. África em Transformação. Lisboa: Tinta da China.

Lecture 4. Anthropological critiques to development models II (2h)

Wednesday 16 October 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Continuation of the presentation on the criticisms made from anthropology to the development industry, this time based on the “decolonial” reading of Arturo Escobar from Latin America. Introduction to the debate on post-development.

Readings:

Diawara, Mamadou. 2000. “Globalization, Development Politics and Local Knowledge.” International Sociology 15 (2): 361-371.

Escobar, Arturo. 2011. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.

Svampa, Maristella. 2012. “Resource Extractivism and Alternatives : Latin American Perspectives on Development.” Journal Fur Entwicklungspolitik 28 (3): 43–73.

Module: Intersections – Development and...

Sectoralized discussions where research and anthropological approaches in development contexts are presented and discussed.

Lecture 5. Environment and climate crisis (2h) (Antonio Maria Pusceddu)

Wednesday 23 October 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Discussion of the relationship between development and environmental crises and the problematic link between development and the category of sustainability; energy transition and new development imaginaries.

Readings:

Boyer, Dominic. 2019. Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press.

Howe, Cymene. 2019. Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press.

Barandiarán, Javiera. 2019. Lithium and Development Imaginaries in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. World Development 113:381-391.

Lecture 6. Work (2h) (Antonio Maria Pusceddu)

Wednesday 30 October 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Presentation of debates on the informal economy and the role of the work-development nexus, the international division of labor and the relationship between gender, development and unpaid work.

Readings:

Beneria, Lourdes. 1999. “The enduring debate over unpaid labour”. International Labour Reveiew. 130(3):287-309.

Breman, Jan, and Marcel van der Linden. 2014. “Informalizing the Economy: The Return of the Social Question at a Global Level”. Development and Change 45(5): 920–940.

Hart, Keith, 2010, “Informal economy”. In Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville, Antonio David Cattani (eds), The human economy. A citizen’s guide, Cambridge, Polity Press: 142-153

Lecture 7. Health (2h)

Tuesday 5 November 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Presentation around the trajectory of anthropologist Paul Farmer, his research into the global health industry and its impact on the Global South, particularly in the context of the emergence of HIV as a global epidemic.

Readings:

Farmer, Paul. 2006. “Introduction”. In AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 1-16.

Feierman, S., A. Kleinman, K. Stewart, P. Farmer, and V. Das. 2010. “Anthropology, Knowledge-Flows and Global Health.” Global Public Health 5 (2): 122–28.

Haricharan, Hanne Jensen. 2008. “Anthropologist to Activist: Paul Farmer’s Changing Perspectives on Cultural Difference and Human Rights.” Anthropology Southern Africa 31 (1–2): 30–38.

Lecture 8. Human Rights (2h)

Tuesday 12 November 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

This class will explore the complex relationship between development and human rights, exploring at the same time the difficult relationship between anthropology and the field of human rights, and the progressive intersection of the human rights agenda with that of development.

Readings:

Freeman, M. 2002. “Anthropology and the Democratisation of Human Rights.” The International Journal of Human Rights 6 (3): 37–54.

Riles, Annelise. 2006. “Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge: Culture in the Iron Cage.” American Anthropologist 108 (1): 52–65.

Uvin, Peter. 2007. “From the Right to Development to the Rights-Based Approach: How ‘Human Rights’ Entered Development.” Development in Practice 17 (4–5): 597–606.

Module: Case studies in anthropology in/of development

Lecture 9. Perspectives from Portuguese-Speaking Africa (2h)

Tuesday 19 November 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Presentation and discussion of field development work in Angola and Mozambique in the context of climate events, and respective anthropological criticism.

Readings:

Lecture 10. Other Contexts (2h) (Antonio Maria Pusceddu)

Tuesday 26 November 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Presentation of three anthropological works with different approaches and focuses on the topic of development. An ethnography on the continuous redefinition of rural spaces in southern Catalonia as marginal spaces intended for development plans, particularly in the energy sector. An analysis of the role of mediation in the capture and management of European funds in Greece, from the point of view of national and local technocratic elites. Finally, an ethnography of development projects in marginal contexts of post-socialist Europe, within the paradigm of “civil society”.

Readings:

Franquesa, Jaume. 2018. Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Gkintidis, Dimitrios. 2018. “European Funds and the Hermeneutics of the Capitalist Crisis: Insights from within the Greek State”. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 41(1): 142-159.

Sampson, Steven. 1996. “The Social Life of Projects: Importing Civil Society to Albania”. In Elizabeth Dunn, Chris Han (eds), Civil Society: Challenging Western Models. London: Routledge.

Conclusion

Lecture11. Conclusion (2h)

Tuesday 3 December 13.30-15.30h (ENG)

Summary:

Review of the material given, retroactive questions, doubts and answers, preparation of the assessment.

Readings:

N/A