Sumários

Lecture 5: Environment and Climate Crisis (21 October 2024)

21 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Antonio Maria Pusceddu

This class provided an overview of the relationship between development and environmental crises from an anthropological perspective. It introduced and discussed the debate on the Anthropocene and the link between carbon emissions and global/social inequalities. It also discussed the problematic nexus between development and sustainability, bringing critical insights from anthropological investigation on the need to reframe "sustainability" through categories of difference. Finally, it discussed the energy transition and the emergence of new development imaginaries, which were illustrated through the presentation of two ethnographies on the expansion of renewable energies in Mexico.

Aula 4. Críticas antropológicas a modelos de desenvolvimento II

14 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

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:

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.

Lecture 4. Anthropological criticisms of development models II

14 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary:
Continuation of the presentation on the criticisms raised 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.

Reading:

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.

Aula 3. Críticas antropológicas a modelos de desenvolvimento I

7 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

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.

Lecture 3. Anthropological critiques to development models 1

7 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

In this class, based on the reading of James Ferguson's proposals from his research in Lesotho, we introduce and discuss some of the first and main criticisms emerging in anthropology in the 1990s regarding development projects. Introduction to the 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.