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Displaced with and without moving? Integrating multi-scalar perceptions and responses to environmental-induced displacement in Central Mozambique
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Still Lifes. Notes on withering refuge and beyond
Publication . Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
Withering Refuge (2020) is a film-article that explores visual representations of displacement and the possibilities of refuge amidst environmental decline, developmental and extractive endeavours, in and around Meheba Refugee Camp, Zambia. This article interrogates the tropes of still life artworks as it displays a collection of film stills from Withering Refuge. Selected images not only dialogue with the temporal, spatial and social stillness often depicted in still lifes and described in the forced migration literature as, drawing on the Latin version of still life (nature morte), the piece ultimately invites readers-viewers to reflect on the current situation in the region and the uncertain prospects for those seeking refuge writ large.
Technoscientific imaging and the territorialization of ocean depth
Publication . Baptista, João Afonso; Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
Once the last unclaimed solid expanse on Earth, the ocean floor has become one of the most contested spaces in contemporary geopolitics. The data-imagery produced by technoscience serves as the ultimate tool for nations asserting sovereignty in this territorial race. This symposium gathers diverse perspectives on the ongoing expansionist drive on the seabed, drawing inspiration from Abissal——a film-article featuring the Portuguese modern odyssey on the ocean floor that serves as the symposium’s centerpiece. Aligned with modern ocean law, technoscience strives to render ocean depth visible to politics and territorializable for coastal states. However, the submerged prolongations and divisions it proffers are inherently political, as the images and knowledge it reveals are inseparable from the territorial regimes that commission them. Acting like an upward-facing mirror, the seabed divided by technoscience reflects humanity’s expansionist thirst back to the surface. Yet the conquered depths do more than merely reflect this impulse; they also diffract the abyssal politics above. This symposium introduces a critical and creative conversation on the territorialization of the deep-sea and its far-reaching reverberations——both within and beyond ocean space.
Guadiana in four movements
Publication . Neto, Pedro Figueiredo; Korkmaz, Burak
This paper introduces Guadiana in Four Movements, a research-short film that explores the present and future of the River Guadiana’s Lower basin in the Iberian Peninsula. Through a multidisciplinary approach combining social science and the arts, the film integrates diverse audio and visual materials from multimodal ethnographic fieldwork with the sonification of climate scenarios. By drawing connections that demonstrate the tensions between diverse formations and temporalities and by accounting for how these tensions are shaping, and taking shape along, the Lower Guadiana, it tests the boundaries and potential of geographic theory, revealing how creative practice can engage with complex socio-material and socio-natural assemblages. This essay underscores the significance of interdisciplinary collaboration in advancing cultural geography and provides alternative ways to understand and engage with Guadiana’s landscapes and possible futures.
Withering refuge
Publication . Neto, Pedro Figueiredo
Withering Refuge is a film-article that audio-visually problematizes representations of displacement and the possibilities of refuge amidst environmental decline, developmental and extractive endeavours, in and around the Meheba Refugee Camp, Zambia.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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CEEC IND4ed
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2021.03558.CEECIND/CP1696/CT0002