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- A social science research laboratory as a mixed methods on human rights in a fragile state: guinea-bissau 2014–2024Publication . Turè, Bubacar; Sangreman, Carlos; Faria, Raquel; Bäckström, BárbaraThis case study describes and reflects on an original research process on Economic and Social Human Rights in Guinea-Bissau between 2014 and 2024. Human rights research is multidisciplinary, with sociology and political science bearing the greatest weight, as they are closely connected due to their focus on social structures, political institutions, and processes of governance and government, but law, history, psychology, social psychology, economics, and anthropology also must be considered when defining a research methodology on this topic. The challenge of this case study is to show what has been done over 10 years in the research for a methodology to articulate these disciplines, with the definition of different samples, with data collection through face-to-face surveys, presentations of results, debates, interviews, and publications, with the considering of analyses of other collateral themes, to produce a consistent and well-founded analysis. What we hope to be able to share are, above all, two aspects of research in general: first, designing a methodology is an activity that is built on a more artisanal logic. In other words, it must be thought out and carried out with patience, persistence, and great care regarding "ready-made" stereotypes methods. Second, the larger and more complex the problem to be investigated and its social context, the more time is needed for research that coherently and satisfactorily answers the hypotheses put forward. It is the answers to these methodological questions that we have tried to find over the years that we hope to summarize and present in this chapter.
- A Framework on Eudaimonic Well-Being in Destination CompetitivenessPublication . Sarmento, Eduardo Moraes; Loureiro, Sandra; Mendes, Zorro; Monteiro, José Mascarenhas; Fernandes, SandraThis research proposes a framework for Eudaimonic well-being in destination competitiveness. This framework is based on the theoretical Ritchie and Crouch’s model (1993, 2000, 2003) and the recent theoretical notion that a travel trip may influence life satisfaction through tourists’ experiences. We conducted a qualitative study based on 34 in-depth interviews with key tourism stakeholders in Cape Verde, a small island developing country (SIDS) dependent on the tourism sector. The findings contribute to identifying specific sources of positive and negative effects that may affect the tourists’ and residents’ overall sense of well-being and thus affect the overall destination competitiveness.
- Claude Meillassoux em Moçambique : a propósito de uma carta a Marcelino dos SantosPublication . Macagno, LorenzoClaude Meillassoux, fundador da antropologia econômica francesa, e Marcelino dos Santos, importante dirigente da Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo), conheceram-se em Paris na década de 1950, quando ambos estudavam com o africanista Georges Balandier. Em 1977, ano da primeira visita de Meillassoux a Moçambique, essa relação se renovou, dessa vez sob uma chave crítica e polêmica. Naquele ano, a Frelimo se transformara em um partido de vanguarda “marxista-leninista” e estava prestes a criar uma série de organizações em prol da instauração do “poder popular” e do socialismo. Meillassoux viria a ser um observador atento desse processo. Este artigo reconstrói as vicissitudes da sua viagem, promovida pela cooperação franco-moçambicana e pelo Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. Imediatamente após a sua visita, Meillassoux endereçou a Marcelino dos Santos uma carta de alto teor crítico concernente aos rumos da revolução moçambicana. O artigo analisa, ademais, o conteúdo dessa carta e seus principais desdobramentos antropológicos e políticos.
- Mobility and Public Transport in Post-independence Mozambican Fiction (1992-2022)Publication . Falconi, JessicaThis article analyzes representations of mobility and public transport in the following Mozambican novels: Terra Sonâmbula [Sleepwalking Land] (1992), O Outro Pé da Sereia [The Mermaid’s Other Foot] (2006) by Mia Couto, O Comboio de Sal e Açúcar [The Train of Salt and Sugar] (1999) by Licínio Azevedo, and Museu da Revolução [Museum of the Revolution] (2022) by João Paulo Borges Coelho. Despite the importance of mobility and public transport in these works, existing scholarship has not considered these themes but has opted for more traditional categories such as ‘travel’, ‘diaspora’, and ‘migration’. Focusing on the literary portrayals of public transport and infrastructure of mobility – i.e. buses, ships, and railway stations (Couto), a slow-moving train (Azevedo), and a Toyota Hiace car (Borges Coelho) – this article aims to demonstrate the central role that the mobility/immobility binomial plays in the representation of post-independent Mozambique. The main argument of this article is that the images of the railway, the road, automobility, and maritime travel are the literal driving force of the narratives and contribute to the (un)building of the national space. I use literary perspectives on mobility studies and world-system approaches developed within the framework of world-literature (Warwick Research Collective) to demonstrate that the tropes of mobility and the representations of public transport in the four novels register and encode the social, political, and economic transitions in Mozambique’s colonial and post-colonial history and its incorporation into the capitalist world-system.
- Águas pós-coloniais em romances angolanos e moçambicanosPublication . Falconi, JessicaEste artigo apresenta uma proposta de cartografia do papel narrativo da água na literatura angolana e moçambicana, através da leitura comparada de quatro romances: O desejo de Kianda (1995) do angolano Pepetela; O livro dos rios (2006) de Luandino Vieira; Água: uma novela rural (2016) e Ponta Gea (2017) ambas do moçambicano João Paulo Borges Coelho. A introdução situa a cartografia proposta no quadro dos estudos de ecocrítica, cujos vários paradigmas oferecem ferramentas e conceitos úteis para a leitura das obras literárias selecionadas. A abordagem metodológica temática e comparativa evidencia experiências e imaginários comuns a dois contextos pós-coloniais, apesar da diferença de cenários, temáticas, escolhas estéticas e estratégias narrativas. Os resultados da análise demonstram que a água é um elemento crucial para narrar as sociedades angolana e moçambicana pós-coloniais.
- Disputas de e por espaços político-identitários : o rap e os movimentos sociais em Cabo VerdePublication . Lima, Redy Wilson; Robalo, AlexssandroIndependente desde 1975 e democrático desde 1991, Cabo Verde não escapou às vagas de protestos urbanos que na segunda metade dos anos de 2000 assolaram as capitais africanas. O rap, percebido como a nova expressão de protesto dos jovens urbanos, consolida-se nos anos de 2000 como um dos principais atores no cenário político cabo-verdiano e torna-se num importante veículo de mobilização e construção de uma cultura urbana de resistência. Este artigo, que tem como base uma pesquisa etnográfica nas cidades da Praia (Ilha de Santiago) e do Mindelo (ilha de São Vicente), busca responder a 3 questões: 1) como o rap tem evidenciado as contradições identitárias e sociais; 2) como ele se tem articulado com os outros tipos de movimentos sociais; 3) qual o lugar das mulheres no rap?
- Cape Verde: Islands of Vulnerability or Resilience? A Transition from a MIRAB Model into a TOURAB One?Publication . Sarmento, Eduardo Moraes; Silva, Ana Lorga daSmall island developing states (SIDSs) traditionally face a set of challenges like the weak and highly fragile economic configuration, environmental issues, and a traditional dependence on a few economic activities forcing them to open the economy to the exterior. Therefore, their development model, like in Cape Verde, depends on migration, remittances, dependence on aid, tourism, and state employment. The current research offers an insight into the nature of Cape Verde’s economy as a SIDS economy and the degree to which the country has been relying on tourism receipts, external remittances from migrations, aid programs, and government services. Understanding Cape Verde’s development model is important to clarify the challenges the country faces and its development needs to gather a long-term resilience and to understand if it is changing from a MIRAB (Migrations, Remittances, Aid, and Bureaucracy) model into another one
- Understanding social realities of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria (FCT), AbujaPublication . Ba-Ana-Itenebe, Cosmas Aloiye; Edo, Zephaniah OsuyiThis article examines the social realities of forcibly displaced persons in Nigeria, with a focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria, Abuja. Internally displaced persons are individuals who have been forced from their homes or habitual places of residence and, unlike refugees, have not crossed the borders of their country. They remain under the primary protection of their governments and often seek refuge in their own countries. This study draws on secondary data sources and primary data collected from two IDPs campsites, arguing that most IDPs in the FCT, displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency live in makeshift and inhumane informal settlements in the peri-urban areas of Abuja City. These settlements also host the urban poor and other economic migrants in the country's capital, occasionally leading to conflicts between them. The paper calls for the government to recognise the presence and condition of IDPs in the FCT and to work with relevant organisations to provide durable solutions to ensure that displaced persons can once again become productive members of society.
- Armed conflict and urbanization in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique : a methodology for a critical inquiryPublication . Amaral, Silvia M. Agostinho doMainstream 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.
- Memória e identidade em Tornado, de Teresa NoronhaPublication . Castro, Ana Aires e; Leite, Ana MafaldaEste ensaio apresenta um breve estudo acerca de Tornado (2021), de Teresa Noronha, assente na exploração das identidades individual, coletiva e pós-colonial que podem ser encontradas na obra. Partindo da área dos Estudos de Memória, contemplando conceitos como “trauma”, “memória coletiva”, “contramemória feminina” e “guerras de memória” – que constituirão a base teórica deste trabalho – o objetivo é recontextualizar estas ferramentas conceptuais na esfera além-Holocausto, demonstrando a sua pertinência para o estudo que aqui se propõe. Pretende-se, portanto, oferecer uma leitura crítica, feminista e feminina, que se concentrará na personagem principal do romance de Noronha.