Sumários

Lecture 9. Encounters with Development in Lusophone Africa

19 Novembro 2024, 13:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary:

Presentation and discussion of field development work in Angola and Mozambique in the context of climate events, and respective anthropological criticism.
 
 
Readings:
Andrade, Inácio de Carvalho Dias de. 2020. “‘Tem um espírito que vive dentro dessa pele’: democracia, desenvolvimento e feitiçaria em Tete, Moçambique.” Etnográfica. Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, no. vol. 24 (1), 69–89. https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.8256.

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.

Blanes, Ruy Llera. 2023. “Fatal Architectures and Death by Design: The Infrastructures of State-Sponsored Climate Disasters in Angola and Mozambique.” Review of African Political Economy 50 (177–178): 460–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2023.2261276.

Isaacman, Allen F., and David Morton. 2012. “Harnessing the Zambezi: How Mozambique’s Planned Mphanda Nkuwa Dam Perpetuates the Colonial Past.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 45 (2): 157–90.

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 9: Encontros com o Desenvolvimento na África Lusófona

18 Novembro 2024, 18:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Sumário:

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

 

Leituras:

Andrade, Inácio de Carvalho Dias de. 2020. “‘Tem um espírito que vive dentro dessa pele’: democracia, desenvolvimento e feitiçaria em Tete, Moçambique.” Etnográfica. Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, no. vol. 24 (1), 69–89. https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.8256.

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.

Blanes, Ruy Llera. 2023. “Fatal Architectures and Death by Design: The Infrastructures of State-Sponsored Climate Disasters in Angola and Mozambique.” Review of African Political Economy 50 (177–178): 460–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2023.2261276.

Isaacman, Allen F., and David Morton. 2012. “Harnessing the Zambezi: How Mozambique’s Planned Mphanda Nkuwa Dam Perpetuates the Colonial Past.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 45 (2): 157–90.

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.

Lecture 8: Development and Human Rights

12 Novembro 2024, 13:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

This class explored the complex relationship between development and human rights, while also exploring anthropology's difficult relationship with the field of human rights, and the progressive intersection of the human rights and development agenda.

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.

Sachs, Ignacy. 1998. “O desenvolvimento enquanto apropriação dos direitos humanos.” Estudos Avançados 12:149–56.

Segato, Rita Laura. 2006. “Antropologia e direitos humanos: alteridade e ética no movimento de expansão dos direitos universais.” Mana 12:207–36.

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.

Aula 8: Desenvolvimento e Direitos Humanos

11 Novembro 2024, 18:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Nesta aula explorou-se 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.

Sachs, Ignacy. 1998. “O desenvolvimento enquanto apropriação dos direitos humanos.” Estudos Avançados 12:149–56.

Segato, Rita Laura. 2006. “Antropologia e direitos humanos: alteridade e ética no movimento de expansão dos direitos universais.” Mana 12:207–36.

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.

Lecture 7 Health

5 Novembro 2024, 13:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

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

Reading:

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.