Sumários

Lecture 6: Anthropology, Development and Health, part 2

10 Outubro 2025, 09:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Continuation of the debate from the previous lecture. Focus on COVID-19 epidemics/pandemics and Angola.

 

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 5. Anthropology, Development and... Health 1

8 Outubro 2025, 14:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Presentation on the trajectory of anthropologist Paul Farmer, his research on 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 5. Anthropology, Development and... Health 1

8 Outubro 2025, 11:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Presentation on the trajectory of anthropologist Paul Farmer, his research on 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 4. Anthropological critiques to development: Arturo Escobar

3 Outubro 2025, 13:00 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Continuation of the presentation on the criticisms raised from anthropology to the development industry, this time from 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.

Lecture 4. Anthropological critiques to development: Arturo Escobar

3 Outubro 2025, 09:30 • Ruy Jesus de Llera Blanes

Summary: Continuation of the presentation on the criticisms raised from anthropology to the development industry, this time from 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.