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ISEG Graduation Ceremony awards certificates to graduate PhD and Masters’ students in Development Studies
Graduates of the PhD Program in Development Studies (PDED, ISEG/ICS/IGOT/ISA/ULisboa) and the Masters Program in Development and International Cooperation (MDCI, ISEG/ULisboa) were awarded their certificates in the 2022 Graduation Ceremony held on September 9, 2022, at ISEG.
The Master’s graduates are: Andressa Prado, Beatriz Sá, Catarina Leão, Daniela Fernandes, Emerson Santana, Flávia Gorgulho, Gonçalo Lúcio, Gustavo Costa, Haiyun Wu, Hou Jingying, Indira Lukeny Pedro de Araújo, Janine Alexandra da Silva Duarte, Jean Vieira, Jiang Luo, João Rabita, Lei Hao, Liu Zhaoning, Manuel Belo, Mariana Duarte, Mariana Jadaugy, Mariana Silvério, Phillip Sgrillo, Renata Vieira de Assis, Rita Gonçalves, Teresa Garcia, Tracy Jamu e Yu Youhai.
The PhD’s graduates are: Alano da Fonseca Soares Sicato, Ana Luisa Paulino Coutinho, Asif Dawar, Daniel Adayi, Diogo Maia, Fabian Garzon-Cuervo, Joana Joaquim, Lawrence Sciberras, Maria Silva, Maria Afonso, Mojgan Chapariha, Pedro Duarte, Rosa Andrade, Subarna Basnet, Susana Brissos e Uzoma Agulonye.
We congratulate our PhDs and Masters’ graduates! The CEsA (CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) is part of to the Scientific and Pedagogical Committee of the PDED and the MDCI, supporting lectures of curricular units, organization of seminars and academic events, and supervising students’ final papers and theses, framing them in the research lines of the Center.
The 2022 Graduation Ceremony can be watched below and on ISEG’s YouTube channel (click here)
Voices, Languages, Discourses: Interpreting the present and the memory of Nation in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe
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Voices, Languages, Discourses: Interpreting the Present and the Memory of Nation in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe brings together a selection of interviews with writers and filmmakers from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe in order to examine representations and images of national identity in these countries’ postcolonial narratives. It continues and completes the exploration of the postcolonial imaginary and identity of Portuguese-speaking Africa presented in the previous interview volume Speaking the Postcolonial Nation: Interviews with Writers from Angola and Mozambique (2014). Memory, history, migration and diaspora are central notions in the recreation and reconceptualisation of the nation and its identities in Cape Verdean, Guinean and São Tomense literary and film culture. By bringing together different generations of writers and filmmakers, with a wide variety of perspectives on the historical, social and cultural changes that occurred in their countries, this book makes a valuable contribution to current debates on post-colonialism, nation and identity in these former Portuguese colonies.
Quotation:
Leite, A., M., Falconi, J., Krakowska, K., Kahn, S., Secco, C. (2020). Voices, Languages, Discourses: Interpreting the Present and the Memory of Nation in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang Verlag. Retrieved Oct 6, 2022, from https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055586
Guiné-Bissau – Notas sobre o presente e o futuro
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The idea of publishing the book Notas sobre o presente e o futuro of Guinea-Bissau arose from the need to get to know the country better and to think about its recent past, which will inevitably contribute to its near future. The aim was to collect existing texts that were revised and updated and to ask some authors to reflect on themes based on the motto “Guinea-Bissau, notes on the present and the future”. These texts are published at a special moment in the country. After a period of a government appointed by the military that took power in 2012, elections were held in 2014 and a round table was held in Brussels where the country received a great deal of encouragement from its international partners – institutions and countries – in support of a government and a president that everyone had hoped would provide a more stable and successful evolution such as there had not been until then. But these expectations came up against a conflict between sovereign bodies, which frustrated this support and threw the country into a four-year period of instability that began to end with the legislative elections on 10 March 2019 but is only expected to return to normal institutional functioning with the presidential elections in November of the same year.
Quotation:
Sangreman, Carlos, Fátima Proença, Luís Vaz Martins, Mamadu Alfa Djau, Pedro Rosa Mendes e Rui Jorge Semedo Guiné-Bissau – Notas sobre o presente e o futuro, com, ISBN 978-989-20-9932-3, CESA-ISEG/ULisboa, 2019, Lisboa.
Portugal e o Bazar Africano: Mapeando trocas comerciais, fluxos de investimento e de ajuda ao desenvolvimento
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Authored by Luís Mah, Portugal e o bazar africano: Mapeando trocas comerciais, fluxos de investimento e de ajuda ao desenvolvimento (with Rodrigo Ferreira do Amaral and Tcherno Baldé) is the fifth chapter of the e-book “Política Externa Portuguesa e África: Contextos e Tendências Contemporâneo” by A, Raimundo. In recent decades, Africa has gone from a ‘hopeless’ continent to an attractive and potential frontier market. The rapid economic changes in the region have benefited from new patterns of global engagement, involving emerging economies such as China or India. These developments have promoted increasing South-South cooperation, with several African countries seeking greater integration into the world economy. This chapter begins by analysing the current African economic context. Next, it explores how Portugal has developed its economic presence and cooperation on the continent since the mid-1970s, considering three indicators: trade, investment and development aid. Finally, the article assesses the challenges and opportunities for Portugal’s economic relations with Sub-Saharan Africa.
Quotation:
Mah, Luís (2019). Portugal e o bazar africano: Mapeando trocas comerciais, fluxos de investimento e de ajuda ao desenvolvimento (com Rodrigo Ferreira do Amaral e Tcherno Baldé) Em Política Externa Portuguesa e África: Contextos e Tendências Contemporâneo editado por António Raimundo, Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Internacionais, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. ISBN 978-989-781-168-5. Cap. 5. pp. 121-139.
The Causality between Energy Consumption, Urban Population, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth.
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This article assesses the relationship between electricity consumption and urbanisation by comparing the econometric results of distributed autoregressive lag (ARDL) and vector autoregressive lag (VAR) for the period 1960-2015. Granger causality is also applied to the Portuguese economy. In this study, we use some hypotheses that describe the link between electricity consumption, urban population, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth. The motivation of this research focuses on the relationship between electricity consumption (energy consumption) and urban population, supported by the theoretical and empirical contributions of energy and urban economics. The empirical results show that electricity consumption exhibits causality with economic growth, urban population, carbon dioxide emissions, and international trade. This research also proves that there is cointegration among all variables in the long run. Authored by Nuno Carlos Leitão e Daniel Balslobre-Lorente, this chapter (nº5) is part of the book “Econometrics of Green Energy Handbook”, which shares essential insights into the dynamic between energy innovations, environmental guidelines, and economic development, demonstrates how globalization has led to the development of greener energy technologies, paints a global picture using case studies on energy innovation in numerous countries and discusses both technological and policy aspects of green energy development.
Quotation:
Leitão, N.C. & Lorente, D. B. (2020): The Causality between Energy Consumption, Urban Population, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth. Springer Handbook Green Energy Series: Econometry of Green Energy- Economy and Technological and Development. Publisher: Springer.
Contributo para uma leitura sobre práticas de cooperação para o desenvolvimento. O Projeto PAIPA implementado na Guiné-Bissau.
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Contributo para uma leitura sobre práticas de cooperação para o desenvolvimento. O Projeto PAIPA implementado na Guiné-Bissau refers to an evaluation work of the Project to Support the Intensification of Food Production (PAIPA), a development cooperation project in the field of agriculture, included under the scope of Portuguese cooperation with Guinea-Bissau. The main objective was to construct an Evaluation focused on the intervention methodology designed for the implementation of the project, analysing the pathways, actions and resources mobilized to achieve the central objective of promoting the transition from traditional family-based agriculture in Guinea-Bissau to cash crop agriculture. The project documentation was analysed, interviews were conducted in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau with technicians and cooperation agents, local informants and PAIPA beneficiaries in the regions where the intervention took place. PAIPA was considered a successful project because it is based on respect for local specificities and is committed to the involvement of the target populations.
Quotation:
Frias, Sónia, (2019), “Contributo para uma leitura sobre práticas de cooperação para o desenvolvimento. O Projeto PAIPA implementado na Guiné-Bissau” in Alvarez, Teresa, Teresa Joaquim e Teresa Pinto (org.) Estudos sobre as Mulheres – conhecimentos itinerantes, percursos partilhados, Estudos sobre as Mulheres 1. Lisboa. CEMRI/UAberta. ISBN 978-972-674-863-2.
Futuro(s) da Cooperação: Continuidades e rupturas
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At a time when a new strategy for Portuguese Cooperation is being defined and profound changes are taking place at the global level, ACEP and CEsA have decided to mark their years of experience in the sector with a document that is intended as a contribution towards evaluating the path of Portuguese Cooperation policy and setting the course for possible futures. In Futuro(s) da Cooperação: Continuidades e Rupturas, in addition to our vision and questions about the policies of Portuguese and European cooperation and the role of civil society, we have also included other voices of partners and specialists, particularly from Africa, which run through the whole document and give it a more plural, multidisciplinary and multi-geographic character. This document was prepared by the ACEP team, within the framework of an advocacy and political influence project, developed in partnership with CEsA (CSG/ISEG/ULisboa), with the support of Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua. Alongside the rescue of principles and values – in speech and in practice – a serious and uncomplicated discussion must be started on power relations and the ‘delocalisation of aid’, laid bare by the pandemic crisis. This debate, already on the agenda in countries like the United Kingdom, is still absent in Portuguese Cooperation. An approach to the localisation of cooperation as a process of autonomisation implies a process logic, without a fixed time, in which non-financial resources are valued, which allows for a subjective space/time for growth and which lasts beyond this or that funding or project.
Quotation:
Oliveira, A. F., Proença, F., Cavaco, R. (2021). Futuro(s) da Cooperação: Continuidades e rupturas. Lisboa: ACEP e CEsA.
Watch the 2nd Meeting of Young Lusophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa 2022 presentations
The videos of the presentations of the 2nd Meeting of Young Lusophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa 2022 were streamed online via Zoom and YouTube, from May 25 to 27, 2022. The videos are now available on YouTube (access this link – only in Portuguese). Watch it here:
25 May | MORNING – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live broadcast – Programme for 25 May – morning.
Start: 10:00 a.m. (Portuguese time).
Opening ceremony: Zacarias Albano da Costa, Executive Secretary of CPLP; Maria do Rosário Bragança, Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of Angola, Presidency of CPLP; Luís Mah, President of CEsA, Professor of ISEG; Cristina Molares D’Abril, Organizing Committee of the II EJICPLP.
1st Round Table – Empowerment of African Women through Scientific Research on Africa: Helena Veloso (STP); Marina Alkatir (TL); Ana Bela Loureiro (ANG); Moderation: Inocência Mata (STP);
2nd Panel – How can scientific research on Africa be included in the agendas of African policy-makers?: Fernando Jorge Cardoso (PT); Leila Leite Hernández (BR); Miguel Barros (GB); Moderation: Isabel Nery (PT)
25 May | AFTERNOON – Room 1 – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live broadcast – Programme for 25 May – afternoon
Start: 3 pm (Portugal time).
Presentation of the Papers:
1st Presentation – Clara Torrão Busin (V) – Living in a Disputed Region – The Kionga region: between 1886-1919, a transimperial analysis.
2nd Presentation – Pedro Oliveira Barbosa (V) – Between “Hubs of Decolonization”: The transnational birth of the Mozambique Liberation Front (1961-1962)
3rd Presentation – Silvia Amaral (P): Decolonizing Urban Studies in Africa: Armed conflicts and urban sustainability in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
4th Presentation – Maria Célia Ferreira da Silva (P) – Project Ukuakulima: Methodology for the analysis of the agri-food system of the Benguela Province
5th Presentation – Omélia Jango (V) – Planning and Allocation of Public Resources in the Health and Education Sectors in Mozambique: Lessons on the compliance with the Abuja and Dakar International Declarations (2010-2020)
6th Presentation – Pedro Alberto Nhanhengue (V) – Effects of Exchange Rate on Inflation in Mozambique, 2005-2017
25 May | AFTERNOON – Room 2 – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live Streaming – Programme for 25 May – afternoon (Room 2)
Start: 3 pm (Portugal time).
Presentation of the Papers
1st Presentation – João de Jovita (V) – Angola’s Foreign Policy and Current Strategies
2nd Presentation – Vasco Suamo (P) – Angola’s Foreign Policy in Regional Security. Comparative analysis of Angola’s role in the maintenance of international order in the context of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)
3rd Presentation – Issau Agostinho (V) – Democracy and the 2063 Development Agenda in Africa. Challenges and Opportunities
4th Presentation – Miriam Dembo (V) Diasporas as Cultural Ambassadors: A study of the Cape Verdean diaspora in the United Kingdom
5th Presentation – Maria Isabel Silva (V) – What do the Barriers to the Use of Technologies Mean to Cape Verdian Teachers and High School Leaders?
6th Presentation – Carolina Archer and Valdeni Reis (V) – The University-School Partnership Beyond Angolan-Brazilian Borders: Towards a revolutionary language teaching in places of high social and school vulnerability
26 May | MORNING – Part 1 – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live broadcast – Programme for 26 May – morning
Start: 10 a.m. (Portugal time).
Opening Ceremony
1st Panel – Can we innovate with tradition?: Filomeno Fortes (ANG); Gisseila Garcia (CV); Andes Chivangue (MOZ); Moderator: Marli Santana (BR).
26 May | MORNING – Part 2 – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live broadcast – Programme for 26 May – Morning – Part 2
Starting at 11.30 a.m. (Portuguese time).
2nd Round Table – Financial and Energetic Innovation in Research in Africa: Osíris Costa (STP); Luís Neves (ANG); Fernanda Marques (PT); Moderation: Margarida Monteiro (PT)
26 MAY | AFTERNOON – Room 1 – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live Streaming – Programme for 26 May – afternoon (Room 1)
Start: 3 pm (Portugal time).
Presentation of the Papers
1st Presentation – Alberto Nzinga António and Pedro Duarte Bamba Cabando (V) – Biogas production from organic waste: a possible solution for sustainable development of Angola
2nd Presentation – Nagayamma Aragão (V) – Development of a Management Model for Informal Collective Transport of São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe)
3rd Presentation – O. Santos, S. Bergano e M. Oliveira (V) – Local Development in the Community of Porto Real (Príncipe Island) through Glass Recycling
4th Presentation – Amidu Silva Barai et al. (V) – Current Challenges and perspectives of the Cashew Agroecosystem in Guinea-Bissau
5th Presentation – Sofia Conde et al. (V) – The Salt-Brown Rice in Guinea-Bissau: Study of the pests and diseases that affect productivity
6th Presentation – Jesualdo A. Ribeiro de Andrade (V) – Management and Socio-economic Evaluation of Donkeys (Equus Asinos) in Rural Communities of the Southern Region of Mozambique
26 May | AFTERNOON – Room 2 – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live Streaming – Programme for 26 May – afternoon (Room 2)
Start: 3 pm (Portugal time).
Paper Presentations
1st Presentation – Neida Ramos et al. (V) – Health Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping the assessment scales
2nd Presentation – Paula Cordeiro Campos et al. (V) – Influence of Mother’s Age and Labour Activity with Child Malnutrition in Angola
3rd Presentation – Madalena Vanda Ramos (V) – Stress Factors in Women Vendors of Informal Markets in the City of Luanda, Angola
4th Presentation – Fernandez e António (V) – Evaluation of Drinking Water Quality. Case study: Nova Vida Project
5th Presentation – Fernandez and Francisco (V) – Evaluation of the Sanitary Quality of Fish Marketed in Mabunda and Ilha do Cabo (Luanda, Angola). Case study: horse mackerel (trachurus trecae)
6th Presentation – P. Campos (V) – Air Quality Monitoring Network Plan for Luanda, Angola: Assessment of urban air pollution
27 May | MORNING – 2nd EJICPLP Africa (only in Portuguese)
Live broadcast – Programme for 27 May – MORNING
Starting time: 10 am (Portugal time).
Iolanda Évora (Cape Verde), Samba Buri Mboup (Senegal)
Moderation: Rui Garrido (Portugal)
Presentation of Communications
Adelino Prata (P) – The Challenge of Lusophonization of African Theology: Contribution from Angola
Aymê Okasaki (V) – Colours that Tell Myths: The chromatic symbologies in the costumes of the orisàs
Dialogue – Scientific Framework of the African Lisbon Route: Isabel Castro Henriques (PT) Marta Lança (PT) Moderation: Jessica Falconi (IT) Closing – Cristina Molares D’Abril
Author: CEsA Communication Team (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
2nd Meeting of Young Lushophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa 2022 launches e-book with abstracts of the papers presented
The abstracts of the papers presented within the scope of the 2nd Meeting of Young Lusophone Researchers on Africa 2022 (EJICLPP Africa) – Science in Innovation in Africa, which took place between the 25th and 27th of May 2022, at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG/ULisboa), can now be accessed in e-book format, available HERE for download (only in Portuguese) – II Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da CPLP sobre África (Livro de Resumos).
About the event
In this 2nd edition, EJICPLP Africa consolidates itself as a space for the promotion and dissemination of work by young researchers in the field of African Studies in Portuguese Language to debate science from a multidisciplinary perspective in relation to Africa.
Celebrating International Africa Day, which is celebrated on May 25, the 2nd edition of the Meeting had INNOVATION as its theme, with the objective of debating the role of science in innovation in Africa. The aim was to deepen and find out to what extent scientific research on Africa has produced or brought innovation to the African continent, as well as debating the possible need to reformulate scientific research issues and methodologies, in an innovative and pragmatic perspective, which allows for the appropriation of results of these studies in the daily life of African societies.
Watch the 2nd Meeting of Young Lusophone Commonwealth Researchers on Africa 2022 presentations (click here) (only in Portuguese) – II Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da CPLP sobre África (Livro de Resumos).
Further information on the event website (click here) (only in Portuguese)
Ebook – EJICPLP Africa: Science in Innovation in Africa
Abstract:
The Meeting of Young Researchers from CPLP on Africa is an inclusive space for debate and scientific dissemination in African studies and in Portuguese language, in an innovative, democratic and multicultural perspective. The success of this project began in 2021, when it was proposed to bring participation and protagonism to young people, as agents of change in a living community in permanent transformation. In this context, the 2nd Meeting was held in May 2022, in Lisbon, where the role of science in innovation in Africa was discussed, exceeding all expectations, whether in the quality of the debates, the excellence and diversity of the works presented, or the massive adhesion of the participants. The Meeting took place thanks to the work carried out by the Organising Committee, an International Scientific Council, with the collaboration of the Centre for African and Development Studies (CEsA), as the proponent entity. in addition to the support of other partner institutions, such as the CPLP, Lisbon City Council (CML), Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG), Catholic University of Angola (UCAN), Union of Portuguese Speaking Capital Cities (UCCLA), Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM – Mozambique), Association of Municipalities for Sustainable Development of the Umbria Region (FELCOS – Italy). The 2º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da CPLP sobre África – Livro de Resumos was only possible thanks to the collaboration of numerous people, in particular the Organizing Committee, the Scientific Council, the Speakers, the Institutional Partners, the Medias Partners, the Volunteers and the Scientific Community.
Quotation:
D’Abril, Cristina Molares [et al.] (2022). “2º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da CPLP sobre África. Livro de Resumos”. ISBN: 978-989-54687-3-7
