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Seminar “Global Governance in Hard Times: The case of regional development banks” will take place on November 9th, 2022
The Centre for African and Development Studies (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) invites all interested parties to attend the seminar “Global Governance in Hard Times: The case of regional development banks” with Susan Park, Professor of Global Governance at the University of Sydney, in November 9th, 2022, at 3pm, in person at Room 110 (Francesinhas 1), ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management or via Zoom, with free entrance.
Susan Park has devoted her research to the articulation of informal norms in international organisations, transnational environmental governance and regional development banks. Her research has focused on Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), including the World Bank, World Bank Group and African, Asian, Inter-American Development Banks and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Her latest book, “The Good Hegemon: US Power, Accountability as Justice, and the Multilateral Development Banks”, discusses the accountability norm and US influence on multilateral development banks.
To learn more about the author, click here.
The seminar will start from the premise that regional development banks are economic actors often ignored or downplayed in studies on international development governance. With the challenges created by pandemic and war, it becomes urgent to revisit these organisations.
The event is organised by Luís Pais Bernardo, researcher at CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa and visiting assistant professor at FE-UC.
Zoom access: click here.
Author: CEsA Communication Team (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
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EADI CEsA Lisbon Conference 2023 aims to map new rhythms of development in a global scenario of increasingly profound crises and challenges
CEsA is pleased to announce the “EADI CEsA Lisbon Conference 2023: Towards New Rhythms of Development”, which will take place from 10th to 13th of July, 2023 at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), University of Lisbon ( ULisboa), in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Conference aims to rethink development in the face of increasingly profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion.
Different panel formats
We seek to provide spaces for discussion, engagement, sharing, and co-creation between conveners, collaborators, and participants. For this reason, the conference provides space for a variety of different panels and sessions:
Seed Panels
Included in the open call for abstracts (opens October 2022) are
Provide a platform to present work in progress and/or innovative ideas
Not necessarily the presentation of a full paper
Constructive feedback to applicants is expected after submission of papers as well as during the session
Harvest Panels
Are included in the open call for abstracts (opens October 2022)
Provide a space to present completed research and research findings
Conveners may choose to make submission of full papers mandatory, but should be prepared to provide adequate commentary on submitted papers
Conveners are asked to explore the possibilities of publishing contributions
Workshop Sessions
Limited number of participants, with prior registration
Not included in the call for abstracts
Sessions may have
An academic focus
A research practice focus
A skills focus
A creative focus
Roundtable Sessions
Roundtable sessions are not included in the call for abstracts
The organisers are responsible for inviting panel members and securing funding for their participation
Roundtable sessions may have an academic, practical, or programmatic focus
Important Information
Seed Panels, Harvest Panels and Roundtable Sessions can be organised in hybrid form, with either face-to-face or online participation. However, please note that Workshops can only be organised face-to-face and not in hybrid format.
Any natural person (convener or co-convener) may participate in the organisation of a maximum of two panels.
For each panel, at least one (co-)convener must be physically present at the conference in Lisbon, i.e. it is not possible to organise a panel only remotely convened.
Please note that panels/sessions are limited to a maximum of two schedules (subject to approval based on logistical constraints).
We encourage conveners to aim for diverse and gender-balanced panel sessions, with adequate representation of young scholars and academics from the Global South.
Funding
For this conference, we apply a “collective funding” approach. All working groups and institutions presenting on a panel and participating in the Conference are expected to be self-funded. This refers to paying registration fees, organising travel with speakers from the Global South and possibly cost-sharing for the panel organisers for the provision of special technical equipment. EADI will provide an online panel and paper management system to all panel and working group organisers in order to create an online conference programme with all papers and presentations available for download.
Submission of proposals and contact
Proposals can be submitted until 4 September 2022.
To submit a proposal, please complete the Microsoft form (ACCESS HERE)
Important: please be as thorough as possible in the details you provide about the session.
For any questions, you can contact the conference team at: conference2023@eadi.org
CEsA launches the film club “Cinema e Descolonização: Moçambique em foco”
The Centre for African and Development Studies (CEsA) launches the project “Cinema e Descolonização: Moçambique em foco” for regular film screenings in film club format, where it is intended to debate and reflect on the legacies and memories of decolonization in Mozambique.
The sessions will take place once a month, from November 2022 to July 2023, at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management – Auditorium Caixa Geral de Depósitos. Each session will have the spoken remarks of producers, directors, etc., as well as moderators and debaters who will facilitate the debate within the audience.
About the Cycle “Cinema e Descolonização: Moçambique em foco”
The project urges to understand decolonization as a process still in progress, which must be accepted and integrated into the social, political, cultural and personal dynamics. The project aims to create an open and dynamic space for sharing, where memories, narratives, dialogues and reflections can emerge. It is coordinated by Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) and curated by the Mozambican filmmakers Isabel Noronha and Camilo de Sousa.
Coordination: Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa)
Curators: Isabel Noronha and Camilo de Sousa
Scientific consultancy: Joana Pereira Leite (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) and Ana Mafalda Leite (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa)
Support: CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa
First session – The Time of Leopards (Zdravko Velimirovic, 1985, Fiction, 91 min.)
The first session, with a screening of “O Tempo dos Leopardos” (Zdravko Velimirovic, 1985, Fiction, 91 min.), will take place on November 5, 2022, at 10:30 am, at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management – Auditorium Caixa Geral de Depósitos. The debate will follow with the assistant director Camilo de Sousa, with the researcher Iolanda Vasile, and with the screenwriter Luís Carlos Patraquim.
The film will be played in Portuguese, with English subtitles. There is no pre-registration.
Synopsis for “The Time of the Leopards”
Mozambique, 1971. A group of Mozambican guerrillas, led by Pedro (Santos Mulungo), fights against the Portuguese colonial system and also faces internal tensions and betrayals within the liberation movement. An epic film and political drama about the liberation struggle and decolonization.
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Check the full program for 2023 of the film club “Cinema e Descolonização: Moçambique em foco”
Author: CEsA Communication Team (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
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As (im) pertinências do método. Metodologia participativa e o estudo sobre a Afrodescendência em Portugal
Abstract:
The announcement of the Decade of African Descendants (2015-2024) by the UN, drew attention to the presence of African descendants in Europe, including in Portugal, as part of the contemporary social configuration of the continent. However, the focus on these people has been sustained, above all, in theories and representations of subalternity and exclusion that do not recognize them as new political subjects in a Europe that is no longer black and white. These politically hybrid subjects, in the historical and cultural sense, bring theoretical-epistemological and methodological challenges to the social sciences, since their visions, paradigms and ways of living escape the traditional lenses of the approaches that associate them with immigrants or refugees. We propose that in approaching the subject of Afrodescendence, method is central and determinant of the outcomes, ethical function and meaning of social research on emerging contemporary subjects. We argue in favour of participatory methodology, reflecting on its pertinence in a context where the people in the researched situation are critical subjects in their fields of intervention/action who reject being reduced to mere objects of study. We analyse the processes of negotiation in the field concluding on the contribution of this project to the dialogue between academics and the afrodescendant collectives. As (im)pertinências do método. Metodologia participativa e o estudo sobre a Afrodescendência em Portugal is inserted in the debate on the democratization of knowledge, sustained, in particular, by critical perspectives that are based on studies on emerging contemporary subjects.
Quotation:
Évora, Iolanda. “As (im)pertinências do método. Metodologia participativa e o estudo sobre a Afrodescendência em Portugal”, In: Yao, Jean-Arséne, Victorien Lavou Zoungbo et Luis Mancha San Esteban, eds. Forthcoming. Representations collectives croisées: Afriques, Amériques et Caraibes. Xix-xxi siècles. III GRELAT. Actas do Colóquio. Madrid: UAH Editora, 167-176. ISBN:978-84-18254-12-3.
The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations
Abstract:
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in the relationship between the African continent and the EU, provided by leading experts in the field. Structured into five parts, the book provides an incisive look at the past, present and potential futures of EU-Africa relations. The cutting-edge chapters cover themes like multilateralism, development assistance, institutions, gender equality and science and technology, among others. Thoroughly researched, this book provides original reflections from a diversity of conceptual and theoretical perspectives, from experts in Africa, Europe and beyond. The handbook thus offers rich and comprehensive analyses of contemporary global politics as manifested in Africa and Europe. This handbook will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested and working in a range of fields within the (sub)disciplines of African and EU studies, European politics and international studies. The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations, by Luís Mah (researcher for the Centre for African and Development Studies), Nial Duggan and Toni Haastrup is part of the mini-series Europe in the World Handbooks examining EU-regional relations and established by Professor Wei Shen.
Quotation:
Mah, Luís, Duggan, Nial & Haastrup, Toni (2021). The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations. Routledge. ISBN 9781315170916.
Jovens, processos identitários e sociedades em movimento
Abstract:
The Republic of Cape Verde gained independence in 1975 and embraced liberal democracy in 1991, which was regarded as an example in Africa of democracy and good governance. Still, taking advantage of the post-2008 global winds of protest, various types of public protests began to emerge in the country’s capital, with urban youth as the main protagonists. These protests coincided with a set of situations denounced by various reports and academic studies: situations of strangulation of civil society resulting from the bi-partisanship of social life; perception of urban insecurity and a generalized wave of corruption; citizens’ distrust of public and political institutions; commercialization of the vote; ambiguous relationship between political party activists and armed youth groups during elections; accusations of funding of political parties by national drug trafficking factions, etc. Jovens, processos identitários e sociedades em movimento: um olhar alternativo sobre os movimentos sociais urbanos emergentes na cidade da Praia – Cabo Verde, based on a set of ethnographic works developed since 2008 in the urban youth context of Praia, intends to analyse the context of the emergence of these new types of social and political protests organized in youth groups who call themselves sons and grandsons of Amílcar Cabral, supported by counter-colonial discourses, calling for a second liberation and (re)Africanization of the spirit and minds.
Quotation:
Lima, R.W. (2020). “Jovens, processos identitários e sociedades em movimento: um olhar alternativo sobre os movimentos sociais urbanos emergentes na cidade da Praia – Cabo Verde”. In: Jesus, L.S.B.; Barros, M.; Filice, R.C.G. (Orgs.), Tecendo redes antirracistas II: contracolonização e soberania intelectual. Fortaleza: Imprensa Universitária, p. 116-136.
A Previdência Social
Abstract:
The 60’s corresponded to an unequivocal progress in the institutional evolution, material and personal coverage of the Social Welfare system, in which Law 2115, which instituted the 1962 Social Welfare Reform – which was in force as the Basic Law until 1984 – is absolutely central. Statistical data corroborate this statement, and even demonstrate the growth of social spending and the growing role of the State, also as a financer and not with a mere supplementary intervention. A Previdência Social analyses the evolution of Social Welfare in the 60’s, underlining the logic of continuity between Salazar’s and Marcelo Caetano’s government. Based on the Social Welfare Reform, initiated in 1962, progress in terms of personal and material coverage was unequivocal, with the inevitable consequence of a strong growth of social expenditure throughout the decade. To this end, the universalization of the system contributed a lot, with the widening of Welfare to rural areas, already under Marcelo Caetano, which had a significant impact on the system, but also on Portuguese society. The changes in the domain of social policy fulfilled a legitimizing function of the New State in its desired evolution towards a Social State and marked the beginning of convergence with the European Welfare States. We would like to thank Professors João Freire and Álvaro Garrido for reading the initial text of this article and for their relevant contributions to its final version.
Quotation:
“Rodrigues, Cristina & Carolo, Daniel (2020). “A Previdência Social”. In Brito, José Maria Brandão de Brito & Santos, Paula Borges (Coords.) Os Anos Sessenta em Portugal. Duas governações, diferentes políticas públicas. Porto: Afrontamento”
Manual de Introdução à Construção de Indicadores de Monitorização
Abstract:
Manual de Introdução a construção de indicadores de monitorização is a working and training tool for technicians from public and private, national or international institutions working in the area of development and public policies. Its objective is to enable technical experts to develop capacities to think about indicators that are appropriate for projects and policies in their area of intervention. The technical level is introductory to the subject and does not indicators on business management, for example, finance or macroeconomics, and no previous knowledge of mathematics or statistics is required beyond the basics and common sense. It contains chapters with a theoretical part and a practical part, through examples applicable to Guinea-Bissau, on simple and composite, quantitative and qualitative and composite, quantitative and qualitative indicators, short and long term sampling and descriptive statistics. Since this version is prepared for Guinea-Bissau, the last chapter seeks to reflect on the lessons from the lessons learned from the Manual on the construction of indicators which are included in the Political and Social Stability Pact (Pact), signed in 2018, as an example of a multidisciplinary area with fundamental interest for the country.
Quotation:
Sangreman, Carlos (2021). Manual de Introdução a construção de indicadores de monitorização, PNUD/UNIOGBIS, Delegação da Guiné-Bissau, 2020. Liga Guineense dos Direitos Humanos (LGDH) e Tiniguena.
Covid-19 and Human Rights in a fragile state : Guinea-Bissau
Abstract:
COVID-19 and Human Rights in a Fragile State: Guinea-Bissau aims to study the situation of Human Rights during the Covid-19 pandemic in Guinea-Bissau, between January 2020 and January 2022. The research organized an inquiry to families, another to companies and another to market/street sellers about the effects of the pandemic and the measures enacted by the Government and Presidency to contain it. A public hearing was also organized, with various entities from the High Commissioner to trade unions, journalists, students, women associations, and the Public Order Police, for information on how each institution saw its situation and action in this period. The conclusions of the analysis of all these qualitative and quantitative data allow us to affirm a) the social actors agreed with the main measures the authorities took to contain the disease; b) the must referred complaint was the lack of any support from the authorities to households, companies and sellers: c) the fragility of Guinea-Bissau has such a social weight that a disease that killed fewer people than malaria, diarrhea, or tuberculosis, did not overcome the problems of human rights stemming from poverty, institutional fragility, and low incomes in general.
Quotation:
Sangreman, C., Faria, R. T., & Turé, B. (2022). COVID-19 and Human Rights in a Fragile State: Guinea-Bissau. In P. Andrade, & M. Martins (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 341-360). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch018
The Value of Information: The Impact of European Union Bank Stress Tests on Stock Markets
Abstract:
In The Value of Information: The Impact of European Union Banks Stress Tests on Stock Markets we tested whether the 2010, 2011 and 2014 European Union bank stress tests produced useful and real information to the market. Using an augmented capital asset pricing model, we analyzed the impact of the information disclosures on each stress test (announcement, methodology and results events) on the stock market returns and risk of banks. Our approach allows an integrated analysis, as a sample of 41 banks that participated in all three stress tests was used. The most significant event was the methodology disclosure, in terms of its impact on risk and returns. In contrast, the results events did not have much impact in the stock market when considering the entire sample of banks. On the other hand, after dividing the sample of banks into two groups (those that passed the 2014 European Union stress test vs. those that failed), we observed a significant reaction of the stock markets in both groups. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that stress tests provide real and valuable information to the markets about the banking system. A significant part of that information is conveyed by announcement and methodology events
Quotation:
“Borges, M. R., Mendes, J. Z. and Pereira, A. (2019). “The Value of Information: The Impact of European Union Banks Stress Tests on Stock Markets”. International Advances in Economic Research, 25, 429-444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-019-09760-5“
