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Anthropologist (ISCTE, CRIA, In2Past, Portugal) Angola, Mozambique, Atlantic Political activism, utopias, memory and heritage Environmental problems.

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🔉 We announce that (Con)textos: revista d’antropologia i investigació social opens the call for article submissions for issue 16 "Forests in crisis". 🌲

◻️ Please find the Call for Papers attached, and read the guidelines for submitting articles at the following link:

revistes.ub.edu/index.php/co...

16.02.2026 08:41 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Impossible Reconstruction Objects of Repair installation: Architects for Gaza, British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 There are places where the idea of reconstruction collapses under the weight of repetition. Gaz...

"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."

On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

24.11.2025 22:13 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Call for Papers | Palestine is a Global Issue: Situating the Genocide and Beyond – May 2026 - CEI-Iscte Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon | 21 - 22 May 2026 Looking at the last two years in the land of Palestine, the Gaza genocide and the

Call for Papers | Palestine is a Global Issue: Situating the Genocide and Beyond – May 2026

cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/11/call...

11.11.2025 07:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...

Delighted to see this new Theorizing the Contemporary series now published—the second to appear in Spanish, on a wonderfully exciting topic and featuring a brilliant lineup of contributors @culanth.bsky.social

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

23.10.2025 17:38 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. 

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

02.09.2025 12:12 👍 478 🔁 184 💬 6 📌 10

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26.08.2025 18:16 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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23.06.2025 17:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.

The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.

Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!

Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber. The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy. Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!

Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.

The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.

Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!

19.06.2025 13:23 👍 228 🔁 39 💬 8 📌 9
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Angola pós-dos Santos: Uma Antologia sobre Continuidade e mudança Agora que Angola celebra o seu 50º aniversário como nação independente, é oportuno fazer uma avalia&c...

Portuguese version here: www.cmi.no/publications...

19.06.2025 18:45 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...

Free pdf download available, in English and Portuguese. www.cmi.no/publications...

19.06.2025 18:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Summer school on "African Politics", 30 June - 2 July, Lisbon, Instituto de Ciências Sociais. More info:
www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/escolas/s...

05.06.2025 12:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Communicate Climate: New Experiments and Methods With this four-way dialogue among climate researchers in the humanities and social sciences we attempt to unravel various techniques of climate communication. In aiming to reach non-specialist audienc...

How to communicate climate -- a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social @lacymjohnson.bsky.social @cymene.bsky.social and yours truly.... www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...

03.06.2025 11:47 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Manifesto pelo passado, presente e futuro da Palestina. Não somos cúmplices. O seu apoio é muito importante. Apoie esta causa. Assine a Petição.

Manifesto pelo passado, presente e futuro da Palestina. Não somos cúmplices.

peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?p...

28.05.2025 15:34 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts In this article, we propose a research agenda towards the critical assessment of processes of memorialisation and heritagization of histories of violence in post-violence and post-authoritarian con...

A collective suggestion for a 'forensic' approach to processes of heritagization of violence, based on an on-site discussion in Bissau, and deeply inspired by the work of the @forensicarchi.bsky.social team.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

28.05.2025 13:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Future of Revolution Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R....

The Future of Revolution is out now!

"We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future."
- Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard.bsky.social)

13.05.2025 13:59 👍 34 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 2
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The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography | Thula The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden

Glad to see this book published. My chapter shows how the historiography of anti-colonial mobilisation & war in #Angola & #Mozambique has shifted from Cold War binaries to examine socio-political history & the position of the two states under global capitalism.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

08.05.2025 15:56 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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O Caso Boaventura Podcast · Coimbra Coolectiva · "O Caso Boaventura" fala sobre as denúncias de assédio que envolvem o mais famoso sociólogo português. Desde a publicação do capítulo de um livro com as primeiras acusaç...

open.spotify.com/show/1ukXFjG...

05.05.2025 15:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today = 8th 🎂 of 1st vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social including chapters by @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social, @egalvanalvarez.bsky.social, @justinmeggitt.bsky.social, & @franziskah.bsky.social: www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e...

24.04.2025 10:34 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans Il avait signé L'Invention de l'Afrique, un incontournable des études africaines : le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé tôt ce 22 avril 2025 à l’âge de 83 ans en Caroline du Nord, aux États-Unis, où il vivait. Il était l'un des intellectuels africains les plus respectés.

Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans

22.04.2025 12:55 👍 3 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Great issue, not only because there are my fieldnotes about rapper Azagaia's legacy in on-going uprising in Mozambique and beyond.

'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'

Just published in JPMS (UC Press).

🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

11.04.2025 18:28 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Hemos creado este perfil para que podáis seguir las novedades (y las reactivaciones de la hemeroteca) de “Disparidades.Revista de Antropología” del CSIC, antes conocida como RDTP. Todo el mundo invitado!

04.04.2025 11:49 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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« Covas do Barroso », un docu-western sur la face sombre de la transition énergétique au Portugal Le réalisateur Paulo Carneiro sort le 26 mars un film choral qui remet en scène la résistance d’un village portugais contre un mégaprojet de mines de lithium porté par la multinationale britannique S…

Le réalisateur Paulo Carneiro sort ce 26 mars "Covas do Barroso", un film de lutte choral qui remet en scène la résistance actuelle d’un village portugais contre un mégaprojet de mine de lithium porté par la multinationale Savannah.

Ma recension dans @mediapart.fr
www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...

26.03.2025 19:15 👍 64 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1
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22.03.2025 16:11 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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While greenwashed narratives portray mining for critical minerals as essential for a clean energy future, our video of the week reveals the global mining boom's destruction and the communities that are fighting back.

Feat. @triofrancos.bsky.social at @ucdavisenergy.bsky.social

buff.ly/5jPKrb2

21.03.2025 12:00 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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This BBC presenter resigned over its pro-Israel bias.

Everyone needs to listen to what @karishmapatel.bsky.social says.

20.03.2025 12:20 👍 633 🔁 259 💬 14 📌 6
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A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil On March 12, at a rally in front of the New York City courthouse where Mahmoud Khalil’s hearing took place, classicist and Columbia University associate professor Joseph Howley made the follo…

A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil

20.03.2025 12:41 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Mañana se cumplen 5 años del inicio del confinamiento. Ayer enviamos esto a producción. En breve, en librerías 😊

13.03.2025 09:32 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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The ‘critical minerals’ rush could result in a resource war Labelling justifies a preference for strong-arm tactics over co-operation

Read here www.ft.com/content/b370...

12.03.2025 19:05 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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** The Two Princes of Mpfumo **
New book relating to #Mozambique #slavery #royalty #Africa
Looks terrific !
www.pennpress.org/978151282720...

08.03.2025 07:52 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Politics of Memorialization in Angola This contribution maps the specific dynamics of the politics of heritagization and memorialization of conflict in Angola, arguing for the idea of a logic of “militarization of memory” in p...

A recent publication: "Politics of Memorialization in Angola. Erasing and Controlling Contested Pasts". Published in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, edited by Ihab Saloul and Britt Baillie. Open Access
link.springer.com/referencewor...

07.03.2025 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0