Sumários

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 11: Intersections: Development and Work

12 Novembro 2025, 14:30 • Antonio Maria Pusceddu

The aim of this class is to frame the work-development nexus by addressing the following points:

  1. conceptual and terminological problems about "work/labour"within and beyond anthropology;
  2. debates and perspectives in economic anthropology;
  3. the emergence of an anthropology of work and its relevance for development research.

Readings:

  1. Kasmir, S., Anthropology of labour. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, 2022 [online] https://oxfordre.com/anthropology/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.001.0001/acrefore-9780190854584-e-9
  2. Narotzky, N., Rethinking the concept of labour, in «Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute», 24, 2018, pp. 29-43.
  3. Beneria, L., and G. Berik, M. 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).

Lecture 11: Intersections: Development and Work

12 Novembro 2025, 11:00 • Antonio Maria Pusceddu

The aim of this class is to frame the work-development nexus by addressing the following points:

  1. conceptual and terminological problems about "work/labour"within and beyond anthropology;
  2. debates and perspectives in economic anthropology;
  3. the emergence of an anthropology of work and its relevance for development research.

Readings:

  1. Kasmir, S., Anthropology of labour. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, 2022 [online] https://oxfordre.com/anthropology/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.001.0001/acrefore-9780190854584-e-9
  2. Narotzky, N., Rethinking the concept of labour, in «Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute», 24, 2018, pp. 29-43.
  3. Beneria, L., and G. Berik, M. 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).

Lecture 10: Intersections: Development, Environment, Climate Crisis

7 Novembro 2025, 13:00 • Antonio Maria Pusceddu

This class addresses the energy transition and the emergence of the new narratives and material realities of “green” development. Case-studies from Mexico, Ghana and Portugal will be presented and discussed.

Readings:

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

2.     Dal Maso G. (2022), Bridging “Green” Asymmetries through Crises: How a Chinese Green Bond has Landed in Portugal, Focaal —Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 93:46–59.  

3.     Günel G. (2021), Leapfrogging to Solar, South Atlantic Quarterly 12(1):163-175.