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Applications open for the PhD in Development Studies: 2nd Call starts on February 19
CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) and ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ULisboa) announce the Call for applications for the PhD in Development Studies 2024/25. The 1st phase began on November 13, 2023 and will end on January 19, 2024. The 2nd Phase will run from February 19 to April 12.
This PhD programme was created in 2009 and accredited by the national agency A3ES in 2015. After 2017/18, this program became a joint PhD of ISEG (School of Economics and Management), ICS (Institute of Social Sciences), IGOT (Institute of Geographic and Spatial Planning) and ISA (School of Agriculture) of Universidade de Lisboa, with some changes in its content, recently approved by the national agency A3ES. This PhD is for anyone interested in obtaining advanced academic training and doing research with a view to working in jobs related to international and national development in the public sector, the private sector, or the non-profit sector.
Further information on IGOT website.
CEsA plays an important role in teaching at ISEG, through representing CEsA as a member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Committee of the PhD in Development Studies (PDED); by supporting and teaching several of the course units; and by supervising student’s’ theses. CEsA also regularly organises international seminars and conferences that enable PDED students to be in permanent contact with leading-edge research in their respective areas. Further information about CEsA HERE.
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Celebrations of CEsA’s 40th anniversary and MDCI’s 30th anniversary
The Center for African and Development Studies (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa), one of the oldest research centers in Portugal dedicated to Development Studies, is pleased to invite all researchers, students, professionals and enthusiasts of Development Studies to celebrate its 40th anniversary, together with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation of ISEG.
CEsA is getting the party ready, so please Save this Date: May 9, 2024. It is important to celebrate both our journey and the important work done in African Studies and Development, as well as the new plans and the will to continue journeying towards an open future.
CEsA 40th anniversary and MDCI 30th anniversary
May 9, 2024
10:30 am – 6 pm
Auditório 2/Quelhas, ISEG (Ed. Quelhas, Rua do Quelhas nº 6, 1200-781, Lisbon, Portugal)
Registration: https://aniversario-40-anos-CESA-30-anos-MDCI.eventbrite.pt
Read more:
Find out more about CEsA: a reference in Development Studies since 1983
CESA Constitution Statute (in Portuguese)
History of the founding of CEsA by Professor João Estêvão (in Portuguese)
Discover the Master in Development and International Cooperation (MDCI)
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: The 3rd Meeting of Young Lusophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa 2024 will receive proposals until January 15
The 3rd Meeting of Young Lusophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa 2024, which will take place between the 27th, 28th and 29th of March 2024 in Luanda, Angola, has extended the deadline for submitting papers until January 15, 2024. Only ongoing research work or work carried out in the last 5 years must be submitted by researchers aged between 18 and 40. Only 30 Communications will be selected for presentation in hybrid format.
More information on the event website: https://www.encontrojovensinvestigadorescplp.org/chamada-de-trabalhos.html
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From Angola to Portugal: Narrating Migration, Memory and Identity in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s Work
Abstract:
Based on the teoretichal perspetives of Lusophone Postcolonial Studies, in dialogue with other analytic tools from Feminist Studies, this chapter aims to explore the topics of migration, memory and identity through the close reading of two works of fiction by the Portuguese writer of African descent Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida (1982), who was born in Angola and grew up in Portugal. In the autofiction That Hair (Tin House, 2020; originally published in Portuguese as Esse Cabelo, 2015), as well as in the novel Lisbon, Luanda, Paradise (Lisboa, Luanda, Paraíso, 2018), the main characters move from Angola to Portugal for personal or family reasons and seek to redefine their identities. They give voice to memories and narratives that involve the relationships between the colonial past and the building of contemporary postcolonial identities. In particular, the chapter analyses the representation of both the place of orign and arrival to portray the complex socio-cultural and migratory identity landscapes that emerged during Portuguese colonialism, as well as following the decolonization in Lusophone Africa (1975). In this regard, incluiding also a brief reading of the most recent novel by Almeida, Maremoto (2018), the chapter pays special attention to the perceptions and experiences of the city of Lisbon by narrators and protagonists who are immigrants, in order to reflect on the contemporary configurations of a postcolonial city on the periphery of Europe.
Citation:
Falconi, Jessica (2024) “From Angola to Portugal: Narrating Migration, Memory and Identity in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s Work” in S. Gintsburg & R. Breeze (eds) Afriacan Migration: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 15-35.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666938708/African-Migrations-Traversing-Hybrid-Landscapes
African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Abstract:
This article compares the trajectories of different women who crossed the Casa dos Estudantes do Império (CEI), a formal institution created in Lisbon by students from the colonies with the support of the Portuguese dictatorial regime in 1944, that became a platform for anti–colonialism. Due to the role played by the CEI in the political and social paths of the leaders of African national liberation movements, historiography has privileged masculine accounts. In contrast, the roles and lives of women linked to the CEI remain unexplored or approached from a vision of “methodological nationalism”, with few exceptions. Addressing these trajectories from a transnational and “Afro–Iberian” lens and through the scrutiny of several sources allows us to reflect on a diversity of gender, race, class, and political ideology. The final aim is to illuminate some aspects of the Afro–Iberian mosaic from a gendered and postcolonial perspective.
Citation:
Jessica Falconi (2023) African women’s trajectories and the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2289141
Watch all sessions of CEsA Thinks – Research Seminars 2023
The CEsA Thinks – Research Seminars 2023′ sessions were held between November 9 and December 7, 2023, at ISEG (Amphitheater 23, F1). Presentations were recorded and are now available on CEsA YouTube channel (access this link).
The sessions welcomed CEsA researchers and guests to discuss various topics relevant to Development Studies, such as peace and conflict in Cabo Delgado (Mozambique), the challenges for the development of Africa taking into account the autocratic and democratic State models, the effects of shocks and fragility in East Africa, and the determinants of growth in developing countries, such as economic relations between China and sub-Saharan Africa.
Check them out:
“Maria, a Filha de Deus: Os caminhos para a paz em Cabo Delgado”, Yussuf Adam (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Moçambique), November 9, 2023. In Portuguese.
“Autocratic and Democratic State-Centered Model and the Challenges for the Development of Africa”, Jacob Audu (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigéria), November 16, 2023.
“Fragilities and Shocks Effects on Communities in Eastern Africa”, Vincent Agulonye (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa), November 30, 2023.
“Understanding the Determinants of Growth in Developing Countries: The example of China-Sub-Saharan Africa economic relationships”, Alice Nicole Sindzingre (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa, CEPN/University Paris-North and LAM Research Centre/CNRS-SciencesPo-Bordeaux), December 7, 2023.
Check out the full schedule of CEsA Thinks Seminars’ sessions for 2022/2023 here.
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CEsA team wishes you Happy Holidays and a Joyful 2024!
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Working Paper CEsA nº 196/2023 analyses the economic situation in Brazil from a perspective called “primacy for accommodation”
CEsA has published the Working Paper n. 196/2023, entitled “The Primacy for the Accomodation of the Brazilian Economy: A theoretical-methodological analysis”, in English, authored by Marcelo José Moreira, CEsA researcher and professor of the Universidade Estadual de Goiás (Brazil). This paper intends, from a conceptual reflection, to analyze the Brazilian economic situation, from what the author calls the “primacy for the accommodation of the Brazilian economy”.
Click here to access the Working Paper no. 196/2023.
Abstract:
The capitalist economy is immersed in generalized inertia. A movement of slow accumulation, low investment, limited growth rates, but with a high level of profit, and which is due to intense pressure on the levels of existing inequalities, combining worldwide restructuring of the generation of wealth and income to a pattern of reproduction of the labor force at the level of its limited maintenance. This inertia occurs, above all, from the financial-productive crisis of the first decade of the 2000s. Brazil is no stranger to this inertia and its developments. Therefore, this paper intends, from a conceptual reflection, to analyze the national economic conjuncture, from what I call the structure and primacy for the accommodation of the Brazilian economy.
Get to know the previous editions, published in 2023:
Working Paper 189/2023: Fragilities and shocks effects on households and communities in West Africa
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Working Paper 196/2023: The Primacy for the Accommodation of the Brazilian Economy: A Theoretical-Methodological Analysis
Abstract:
The capitalist economy is immersed in generalized inertia. A movement of slow accumulation, low investment, limited growth rates, but with a high level of profit, and which is due to intense pressure on the levels of existing inequalities, combining worldwide restructuring of the generation of wealth and income to a pattern of reproduction of the labor force at the level of its limited maintenance. This inertia occurs, above all, from the financial-productive crisis of the first decade of the 2000s. Brazil is no stranger to this inertia and its developments. Therefore, this paper intends, from a conceptual reflection, to analyze the national economic conjuncture, from what I call the structure and primacy for the accommodation of the Brazilian economy.
Cite this Working Paper:
Moreira, Marcelo Jose (2023). “The Primacy for the Accommodation of the Brazilian Economy: A Theoretical-Methodological Analysis”. CEsA/CGS – Documentos de trabalho nº 196/2023
Armed Conflict and Urbanization in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: A methodology for a critical inquiry
Abstract:
Mainstream urban theory fails to encompass urbanization in Africa. Among its many drivers, armed conflicts displace rural populations to cities, accelerating urban processes and impacting sustainability and governance — the phenomenon of conflict-induced urbanization. In the province of Cabo Delgado, a violent insurgency has been displacing thousands of civilians since 2017; many of whom have fled to the provincial capital Pemba, doubling its population in just 5 years. This article presents the theoretical framework and methodological design for an inquiry located within a contemporary critique of mainstream urban studies; the goal is to analyse conflict-induced urbanization in Pemba with a comparative case study, using participatory visual methods, for which a pilot study took place in September 2022. With this, the author aims to contribute to engaged urban studies in Mozambique and Portugal and to transform the trauma of war into opportunities for sustainable development and prosperity.
Cite this article:
Agostinho do Amaral, S. Armed Conflict and Urbanization in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: A Methodology for a Critical Inquiry. Urban Forum (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09505-y
