Sumários

Lecture 14: Conclusion

5 Dezembro 2025, 13:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Based on the previous lectures and on the Reading Week instructions, promotion of a collective debate concerning the 'limits' and 'necessity' of development. Presentation and discussion of evaluation.

Lecture 14: Conclusion

5 Dezembro 2025, 09:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Based on the previous lectures and on the Reading Week instructions, promotion of a collective debate concerning the 'limits' and 'necessity' of development. Presentation and discussion of evaluation.

Lecture 13: Grounded Perspectives on Development: Angola

3 Dezembro 2025, 14:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Presentation and discussion of lecturer’s encounters with development in the context of research in Southwestern Angola regarding drought, environmental disaster, sustainability and resilience.

 

Readings:

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.

Lecture 13: Grounded Perspectives on Development: Angola

3 Dezembro 2025, 11:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Presentation and discussion of lecturer’s encounters with development in the context of research in Southwestern Angola regarding drought, environmental disaster, sustainability and resilience.

 

Readings:

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.

Lecture 12: Intersections: Development and Work

14 Novembro 2025, 13:00 • Antonio Maria Pusceddu

This class addressed the work-development intersection in relation to the following debates:
  1. the informal economy (genealogy, history and debates);
  2. feminist economics and unpaid labour (theoretical issues and problems of measurements).
Readings:

  1. Beneria, Lourdes. 1999. “The enduring debate over unpaid labour”. International Labour Review. 130(3):287-309.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 
  4. Folbre, Nancy. 2021. Introduction: The International Labour Review and gender equality: The importance of women’s unpaid and paid work, International Labour Review, Centenary Collection, no. 3, pp. 1-9.]
  5. 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.