Accreditations
Tuition fee EU nationals (2025/2026)
Programme Structure for 2025/2026
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| 1st Year | ||
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Theoretical Seminar in African Studies II
12.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 12.0 |
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Theoretical Seminar in African Studies I
12.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 12.0 |
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Empirical Research in Africa - Methods and Techniques
6.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 6.0 |
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Contemporary Challenges and Change in Africa
6.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 6.0 |
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Epistemology and Methodology of African Studies
6.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 6.0 |
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Research Project Seminar in African Studies
18.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 18.0 |
| 2nd Year | ||
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Phd Thesis in African Studies
180.0 ECTS
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Phd Thesis in African Studies (180 Ects) | 180.0 |
Theoretical Seminar in African Studies II
LO1 - To discuss contemporary African political and economic aspects
LO2 - To apply concepts for the analysis of political and economic processes in Africa
LO3 - To understand different frameworks of international relations in Africa
LO4 - To critically analyze development processes in Africa
LO5 - To understand the historical construction of political regimes in Africa
LO6 - To understand defining features of political regimes and apply them to African cases
LO7 - To explore the current institutional framework of African countries
LO8 - To explain processes of social change through the study of social movements
Module 1 - Current themes in the political economy of development in Africa
The failure of the Washington Consensus and the search for a new path
Europe-Africa, China-Africa and US-Africa relations
The promise of entrepreneurship and institutional determinants in SSA
Critical analysis of the leading models of postcolonial development
Module 2 - Political Regimes in Africa: a historical perspective
Typologies of political regimes
Diversity of political regimes in Africa
Authoritarian, hybrid and democratic regimes: cases
Module 3 - Places of Africa in international relations
Premiere of the documentary "Via Bissau. Uma porta de entrada em África para o narcotráfico" by Micael Pereira and Carlos Isaac, followed by a debate
Module 4 - Social movements and political and social change
Social movements in Africa or African social movements?
Typologies of social movements
Protest for change: case studies
1 Assessment throughout the semester (minimum of 70% class attendance):
a) Attendance and active participation in class - 40%
c) Essay on one of the modules (1000 to 1500 words) - 60%
2. Final assessment:
Final exam - 100%
Adebanwi, W. (Ed.) (2017). The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa, Beyond the Margins. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer
Beugré, C. D. (2017). Building entrepreneurial ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa ? A quintuple helix model. Palgrave Macmillan.
Obadare, E. (Ed) (2014). The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa. New York: Springer
Obadare, E. and Adebanwi, W. (Eds.) (2016). Governance and the crisis of rule in contemporary Africa. Leadership in transformation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Pereira, R. (2023). Inovação, empreendedorismo e desenvolvimento económico em África – Uma abordagem pós-positivista e “topo da pirâmide” para Moçambique. Tese de Douroramento em Estudos Africanos. Iscte - Instituto Unib«versitário de Lisboa.
Rodrigues Sanches, E. (Ed.) (2022). Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa. London: Routledge
Mueller, L. (2020). What is African About African Protests?. SAIS Review of International Affairs, 40(2), 65-75
Mateos, O. and Bajo Erro, C. (2021). Protest, Internet Activism, and Sociopolitical Change in Sub-Saharan Africa. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(4), 650-665
Mamdani, M., Mkandawire, T. and Wamba-dia-Wamba (1988). Social Movements, Social Transformation and Struggle for Democracy in Africa. Economic and Political Weekly, 23(19), 973-981
Abebe, T. (2020). Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia. Children's Geographies, 18(6), 584-600
Módulo 4
Uzuegbu-Wilson, E. (2019). A Critical Review of Evolutionary Trends of Drug Trafficking in Guinea- Bissau Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3467484
Shaw, M. (2015). Drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau, 1998?2014: The evolution of an elite protection network. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 53(3), 339-364
Green, T. and Chabal, P. (2016). Guinea-Bissau: Micro-State to 'Narco State', London, Hurst
Módulo 3
Sá, A. L. and Sanches, E. R. (2021) The politics of autocratic survival in Equatorial Guinea: Co-optation, restrictive institutional rules, repression, and international projection. African Affairs, 120(478), 78-102
Gyimah-Boadi, E. 2015. Africa?s waning democratic commitment" Journal of Democracy, 26(1), 101-113
Dias, A. L. (2018). Uma vaga de democratização em África?. Relações Internacionais, 59, 29-42
Carboni, A. and Raleigh, C. (2021). Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 59(4), 415-437
Módulo 2
Naudé, W. (2013). Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy. IZA DP No. 7507, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany.
Naudé, W. (2011). Entrepreneurship is not a binding constraint on growth and development in the poorest countries. World Development, 39(1), 33?44.
Naudé, W. (2010). Entrepreneurship, developing countries, and development economics: New approaches and insights. Small Business Economics, 34, 1?12.
Hessels, J., & Naudé, W. (2019). The intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and development economics: A review towards a new view. Journal of Economic Surveys, 33(2), 389?403.
Gries, T., & Naudé, W. (2010). Entrepreneurship and structural economic transformation. Small Business Economics, 34, 13?29.
Friederici, N., Wahome, M., & Graham, M. (2020). Digital entrepreneurship in Africa: How a continent is escaping Silicon Valley?s long shadow. The MIT Press.
Ács, Z. J., & Varga, A. (2005). Entrepreneurship, agglomeration and technological change. Small Business Economics, 24(3), 323?334.
Módulo 1
Theoretical Seminar in African Studies I
LO1 - Characterise the virtues and controversies of the political uses of ethnicity in Africa.
LO2 - Analyse different frameworks for the construction of citizenship in Africa.
LO3 - Understand the logics of political memory on the African continent and cross-reference them with the topics of ethnicity and citizenship.
LO4 - Acquire theoretical knowledge of key social, political and cultural issues on the African continent, with a focus on Portuguese-speaking African countries.
LO5 - Apply theories and concepts relating to the topics covered to understand a wide range of social, political and cultural processes in Africa.
LO6 - Explain processes of state and society building in Africa, with a focus on Portuguese-speaking African countries.
Module 1
Ethnicity in Africa: theoretical approaches
Module 2
Citizenship in Africa: theoretical approaches
Module 3
Memory in Africa: theoretical approaches
Module 4
Presentation of the book Blanes, Ruy. 2023. A Revolução Angolana no Século XXI: Sobre a dissidência política na Angola do pós-guerra. Lisboa: Tinta da China.
Assessment throughout the semester:
a) Attendance and active participation in class (minimum of 70% class attendance) - 30%;
c) Essay on one of the modules (5000 to 7000 words) - 70%.
Vail, Leroy, 1989. The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Introdução).
Southall, Aidan. 1970. “The illusion of tribe.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 5(1-2): 28-50.
Lonsdale, John. 2014. “Moral Ethnicity and Political Tribalism.” Roskilde Universiet Occasional Papers.
Marshall-Fratani, Ruth. 2006. “The War of ‘Who is Who’: Autochthony, Nationalism, and Citizenship in the Ivorian Crisis.” African Studies Review 49(2): 9-43.
Martins, Vasco. 2017. ‘Politics of power and hierarchies of citizenship in Angola.’ Citizenship Studies 21(1): 100-115.
Martins, Vasco. 2021. ‘A nossa lâmpada não se apaga’: The Mnemonic Return of Angola’s Jonas Savimbi.” African Studies Review 64(1): 242-265.
Pitcher, M. Anne. 2006. ‘Forgetting from Above and Memory from Below: Strategies of Legitimation and Struggle in Postsocialist Mozambique.’ The Journal of the International African Institute 76(1): 88–112.
Martins, Vasco. 2021. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. London: Routledge. (Cap. 4).
Peterson, Derek. 2012. Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935-1972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nyamnjoh, F. B. 2006. Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa. Zed Books. Chapter 1.
Dorman, Sara Rich. 2014. ‘Citizenship in Africa: The Politics of Belonging.’ In Peter Nyers and Engin Isin (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies. London: Routledge.
Osaghae, Eghosa E. 2016. "Ethnicity and Contested Citizenship in Africa," in Emma Hunter, (ed.) Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 256-281.
Martins, Vasco. 2024. “Revolution, Morality and Heroism in Angola.” E-Journal of Portuguese History 21(2): 223-245.
Enocent Msindo, 2016. ‘Factionalism and Robert Mugabe’s Leadership in Zimbabwe.’ In Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi (eds.). Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa: Leadership in Transformation. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Empirical Research in Africa - Methods and Techniques
? Master empirical research methods and techniques that can be used in African contexts.
Deepen knowledge about available toolboxes provided by different sciences as well as about valid combinations of tools for field research.
Increase capacities to choose, combine and adapt methods and techniques to the topics of the individual research and to contexts of rapid change.
Acquire encompassing and profound capacities to reduce risks inherent in empirical research in African contexts through continuous reflection about tool and onsite validation of results.
Gain profound understanding and ability to master recording and documentation in specific contexts of field research.
Acquire solid capacity to transform data and information gathered into heuristically validated knowledge.
To design, organise and implement empirical research in often fluid an adverse contexts.
M 1
Empirical research as communication process
Data production in Africa
Knowledge types in African societies
Identification of informants and sampling
M 2
Context analysis
Fluid and adverse contexts
Traumatized societies
Authoritarian systems and control
Cultural traits
Taboos, fear, distrust, dissimulation
M 3
Toolboxes
Person-to-person interviews
Group interviews
Types of observation
M 4
Participatory methods
Rapid methods
Workshops and similar
Focus groups
M 5
Surveys
New technologies
M 6
Analyses of organizational landscapes
Organisation analysis
Analysis of photographs, videos, maps and other documents
M 7
From the analysis plan to the research plan
Limits and risks of planning
Recording and documentation
Triangulation / data validation
M 8
Research organisation
Setting up a research base
Recruitment of auxiliary personnel
Risks and potential causes of failure
Reification of results
Science fiction
Write an essay about the specific empirical dimension of their research project, justifying the choices of methods and techniques, and which includes a research plan.
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Bryceson, Deborah Fahy, 2012, "Discovery and denial: social science theory and interdisciplinarity in African Studies", African Affairs, 111(443): 281-302
Bryant, A., & Charmaz, K. (2010). The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory: Paperback Edition. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage Publications Ltd.
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4. Blum, A. (2016). The border between intimacy and anonymity in innocuous action: The greeting as a social form. Journal of Classical Sociology, 16(1), 69?83. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X15574410
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2. Batibo, H. (2015). The prevalence of cultural diversity in a multilingual situation: the case of age and gender dimensions in the Shisukuma and Kiswahili greeting rituals. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 10(1), 100?111. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2014.993398
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Contemporary Challenges and Change in Africa
The student of this CU should:
· To deepenknowledge about development models and their critique
· Gain more profound knowledge about ideas and alternatives for transformation from a political and economic perspective
· Gain deeper and critical understanding of the dynamics of current transformations in societies, and the diverse forms of adaptation, resistance and transformation facing global and local dynamics.
· Improve capacities of critical analysis of development models currently under debate, their potential as well as their limits.
1. Development models and alternatives for change
· Development, development models and critical perspectives
· Contemporary challenges and models of change (from progressive to radical change, African visions about alternatives for Africa)
2. Political dimensions of change in Africa and visions for the future
3. Alternative visions of the economies; democratisation of economies
4 African societies in processes of change: resistance, resilience, new forms of organisation and action.
· Agrarian societies, stability and resistance, peasant movements
· Urban populations and strategies of resistance; informal economy
5. Social movements, transnational partnerships and new ways to imagine change in Africa
6. Private sector a new forms of entrepreneurship and production
7. International cooperation: critical perspectives and paths to international solidarity
8. Knowledge, research, innovation, and technologies for development
Evaluation consists in an individual essay about a specific topic (100%).
There will be no final exam.
Mamdani, M. et al. (1988) Social Movements, Social Transformation and Struggle for Democracy in Africa. Economic and Political Weekly. 23
Eckert, A. (2017) Social Movements in Africa. In: The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, London. pp. 211?224
Jao, M. (2015) Estratégias de vivência e de sobrevivência em contextos de crise: os Mancanhas na cidade de Bissau. Paris, Nota de Rodapé
João Milando (2013) Desenvolvimento e Resiliência Social Em África. Luanda, Mayamba
Moyo, S. & Yeros, P. (2005) Reclaiming the land: The resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Zed Books
Lin, J.Y. & Monga, C. (2017) Beating the Odds: Jump-starting Developing Countries. PUP
Olukoshi, A. (2004) Changing Patterns of Politics in Africa. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos. (5/6), 15?38
Mkandawire, T. (2010) Running while others walk: knowledge and the challenge of Africa?s development [online]
Mbembe, A. & Sarr, F. (2017) Ecrire l?Afrique-Monde. Philippe Rey
35. Radjou, N. & Prabhu, J. (2015) Frugal Innovation: How to do more with less - free e-short. Profile Books.
34. Heyen-Perschon, J. (2001) Non-Motorised Transport and its socio-economic impact on poor households in Africa. Cost?Benefit Analysis of Bicycle Ownership in Rural Uganda. Results of an Empirical Case Study in Cooperation with FABIO/BSPW (Jinja, Uganda).
33. Grobbelaar, S., Tijssen, R. & Dijksterhuis, M. (2017) University-driven inclusive innovations in the Western Cape of South Africa: Towards a research framework of innovation regimes. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. 9 (1), 7?19.
32. Gewald, J.-B., Leliveld, A., a, I.P. & Pe?a, I. (2012) Transforming Innovations in Africa: Explorative Studies on Appropriation in African Societies. BRILL.
31. Wood, G. (2017) Beyond colonialism: continuity, change and the modern development project. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d?études du développement. 38 (1), 3?21.
30. Veltmeyer, H., Farah, I. & Ampuero, I. (2011) Herramientas para el cambio: Manual para los estudios críticos del desarrollo.
29. Tull, D.M. (2006) China?s engagement in Africa: scope, significance and consequences. The Journal of Modern African Studies. [Online] 44 (03), 459.
28. Scoones, I., Edelman, M., Jr, S.M.B., Hall, R., et al. (2017) Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism. The Journal of Peasant Studies.
27. Sarr, F. (2016) Afrotopia. Philippe Rey.
26. Rosset, P.M. & Martínez-Torres, M.E. (2012) Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process. Ecology and Society. 17 (3).
25. Power, M. & Mohan, G. (2010) Towards a critical geopolitics of China?s engagement with African development. Geopolitics. 15 (3), 462?495.
24. Polet, F. (2013). The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global South. Zed Books Ltd.
23. Ndulo, M. & Grieco, M. (2009) Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa. Institute for African Development
22. Mwaria, C.B., Federici, S. & McLaren, J. (2000) African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa. New York, Praeger.
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20. Mkandawire, T. (2010) How the New Poverty Agenda Neglected Social and Employment Policies in Africa. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 37?55.
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18. Monga, C. (1998) The Anthropology of Anger: Civil Society and Democracy in Africa. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
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15. Mbembe, A. (2011) Sortir de la grande nuit: Essai sur l?Afrique décolonisée. LA DECOUVERTE.
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13. Lin, J.Y. (2012) The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
12. Latouche, S. (2006) Le pari de la décroissance. Fayard.
11. Larmer, M. (2010) Social movement struggles in Africa. Review of African Political Economy. 37 (125), 251?262.
10. Langdon, J. (2010) Contesting globalization in Ghana: communal resource defense and social movement learning. Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences. 2 (1), 309?339.
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6. Ellis, S.D.K. & Kessel, W.M.J. van (2009) Movers and shakers?: social movements in Africa. 2009. 257.
5. Edelman, M. & Wolford, W. (2017) Introduction: Critical Agrarian Studies in Theory and Practice. Antipode. 49 (4), 959?976.
4. Desmarais, A.A. (2007). La Vía Campesina: globalization and the power of peasants. Fernwood Pub.
3. Borras, S.M. (2010) The politics of transnational agrarian movements. Development and Change. 41 (5), 771?803.
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Epistemology and Methodology of African Studies
The course aims to reflect about the relevant epistemological issues on the building of the African Studies. At the end of the course, the student will have acquired competences to place the African Studies within the social sciences, to theoretically frame the analytical issues concerning the study of African realities, to recognize the main concepts developed in the African Studies field and to apply them on the individual research, to critically interpret the texts used in class, to produce well informed discourses about the realities under study, and to know and apply the theoretical and methodological interdisciplinary character of the African Studies in the research project.
ProgramModule 1. African Studies: scholars and programs
1.1. African Studies and the Studies of the North of Africa
1.2. Knowledge production on Africa
1.3. African Studies and interdisciplinarity
Module 2. Methodology in African Studies
2.1. Ethical issues in the research in African contexts
2.2. Case studies and comparative method
2.3. Datasets
2.4. Ethnographic methodologies
2.5. Oral history and interviews
2.6. Endogenous knowledge and methodological approaches
1. Continuous assessment:
a) Attendance and active participation in class, demonstrating the reading of texts on the list of references (minimum of 70% class attendance) - 40%;
b) Review essay of 2 texts indicated in the bibliography of the UC (1000 to 1500 words) - 60%.
The essay can be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish and should be sent in PDF, Word or equivalent to the email ana.lucia.sa@iscte-iul.pt by the date agreed between professor and students (January 2023).
Detection of plagiarism will result in the marking test being cancelled.
2. Final exam
Zeleza, Tiyambe (ed), 2007, The Study of Africa. The Global and Transnational Engagements (Vol II), Dakar, CODESRIA
Zeleza, Tiyambe (ed), 2006, The Study of Africa. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters (Vol I), Dakar, CODESRIA
Mudimbe, Valentin Y., 1988, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Mkandawire, Thandika (ed.), 2005, African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development, Dakar: Codesria
Lauer, Helen e Ko Anyidoho (org.), 2016, O resgate das ciências humanas e das humanidades através de perspectivas africanas, Brasília, FUNAG
Desai, Gaurav e Adeline Masquelier, 2018, Critical Terms for the Study of Africa, Chicago, University of Chicago Press
Bates, Robert, Valentin Y. Mudimbe e Jean O'Barr (eds), 1993, Africa and the Disciplines - The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities, Chicago, University of Chicago Press
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., 2015, "Decoloniality as the Future of Africa", History Compass 13(10): 485-496
Briggs, John, 2005, "The use of indigenous knowledge in development: problems and challenges", Progress in Development Studies, 5(2): 99-114
Adams, Glenn, 2014, "Decolonizing methods: African studies and qualitative research", Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31(4): 467-474
2.6. Conhecimentos endógenos e propostas metodológicas
Vansina, Jean, 1985, Oral Tradition as History, Oxford, James Currey
Guest, Greg, Arwen Bunce e Laura Johnson, 2006, "How Many Interviews Are Enough?: An Experiment with Data Saturation and Variability", Field Methods, 18(1): 59-82
Lesutis, Gedminas, 2018, "The Politics of Narrative: Methodological Reflections on Analysing Voices of the Marginalized in Africa", African Affairs, 117 (468): 509-521
2.5. História oral e entrevistas
Howlett, Marnie, 2021, "Looking at the ?field? through a Zoom lens: Methodological reflections on conducting online research during a global pandemic", Qualitative Research, Online first
Neto, Pedro Figueiredo, 2019, "Surreptitious ethnography: Following the paths of Angolan refugees and returnees in the Angola-Zambia borderlands", Ethnography, 20 (1): 128-125
Benzecry, Claudio E., 2015, "What did we say they've said? Four encounters between theory, method and the production of data", Ethnography, 18 (1): 24-34
2.4. Metodologias etnográficas
Lutmar, Carmela e Lesley G. Terris, 2019, "Introducing a new dataset on leadership change in rebel groups, 1946-2010", Journal of Peace Research, 56(2): 306-315
Demarest, Leila e Arnim Langer, 2018, "The study of violence and social unrest in Africa: A comparative analysis of three conflict event datasets", African Affairs, 117 (467): 310-325
Coffe, Hilde e Catherine Bolzendahl, 2011, "Gender Gaps in Political Participation Across Sub-Saharan African Nations", Soc Indic Res, 102: 245-264
2.3. Bases de dados
Gerring, John, 2004, "What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for?", American Political Science Review, 98 (2): 341-354
Collier, David, 1993, "The comparative method", in Finifter, Ada W. (Ed.), Political Science: The State of the Discipline II, Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association: 105-119
Bhattacherjee, Anol, 2012, "Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices", Textbooks Collection. Book 3
2.2. Estudos de caso e método comparativo
Marshall, Anne and Batten, Suzanne, 2004, "Researching Across Cultures: Issues of Ethics and Power", Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 5 (3), art. 39
Mama, Amina, 2007, "Is It Ethical to Study Africa? Preliminary Thoughts on Scholarship and Freedom", African Studies Review, 50 (1): 1-26
Dodsworth, Susan e Nic Cheeseman, 2017, "The Potential and Pitfalls of Collaborating with Development Organizations and Policy Makers in Africa", African Affairs, 117(466): 130-145
2.1. Questões éticas da investigação em contextos africanos
Módulo 2.
Bob-Milliar, George M., 2020, ?Introduction: Methodologies for researching Africa?, African Affairs, Online First
van Leeuwen, Theo, 2005, "Three models of interdisciplinarity", in Wodak, Ruth and Chilton, Paul (Ed.), A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Theory, Methodology and Interdisciplinarity, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy, 2012, "Discovery and denial: social science theory and interdisciplinarity in African Studies", African Affairs, 111(443): 281-302
Basedau, Matthias, 2020, "Rethinking African Studies: Four Challenges and the Case for Comparative African Studies", Africa Spectrum, 55(2): 194-206
1.3. Estudos Africanos e interdisciplinaridade
Robinson, Pearl T., 2002, "Area Studies in Search of Africa", in Szanton, David (Ed.), The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines, Oakland: University of California Press
Lydon, Ghislaine, 2005, "Writing trans-Saharan history: Methods, sources and interpretations across the African divide", The Journal of North African Studies, 10(3-4): 293-324
Hamminga, Bert, 2005, "Epistemology from the African point of view", in Hamminga, Bert (Ed.), Knowledge Cultures, Comparative Western and African Epistemology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi: 57-84
Ampofo, Akosua Adomako, 2016, "Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies", African Studies Review, 59 (2): 7-29
1.2. Estudos Africanos e os Estudos da África do Norte
Melber, Henning, 2009, "The relevance of African Studies", Stichproben, Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 16: 183-200
Hountonddji, Paulin J., 2008, "Conhecimento de África, conhecimento de Africanos: Duas perspectivas sobre os Estudos Africanos", Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 80: 149-160
Friedman, Steven, 2018, "The 'science' of superiority: Africa and scholarly colonial assumptions", Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 36 (4): 449-463
Arowosegbe, Jeremiah O., 2016, "African scholars, African Studies and knowledge production on Africa", Africa, 86 (2): 324-38
1.1. Produção de conhecimento sobre África
Módulo 1.
Research Project Seminar in African Studies
The doctoral student who completes the UC Research Project Seminar in African Studies will have acquired the necessary skills to:
- Identify the requirements and the main components of a research project in the field of African Studies
- Apply the best research practices in the development of the project, including accuracy, scientific quality and ethics
- Develop a project proposal for a doctoral thesis in African Studies that contributes to the advancement of knowledge about African social reality and to the know-how in this scientific field
- Prepare a plan for the development of the research in a way that is consistent, feasible and adapted to the timeframe available for the completion of the thesis.
Seven of the eight sessions of the seminar are organised, essentially and successively, around the major questions that inform a research project in African Studies, and the 8th class is dedicated to the oral presentations of the projects:
1 Research in African Studies: agendas and possibilities
2 Definition of the object of study, problematics and objectives
3 Literature review, definition of the model of analysis and hypotheses
4 Case studies: typologies, advantages and disadvantages
5 Comparative studies: typologies, advantages and disadvantages
6-7 Strategies of empirical analysis: perspectives, methodologies and solutions
8 Oral presentations of the projects
The assessment is based on:
- Participation in the seminar sessions;
- Preparation of written research project for a PhD thesis
- Presentation and discussion of the project in a workshop at the end of the 2nd semester
- Seawright, J e J Gerring, 2008 "Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research: A Menu of Qualitative and Quantitative Options", Political Research Quarterly, 61 (2):294-308.
- Thomas, GA, 2011 "Typology for the Case Study in Social Science Following a Review of Definition, Discourse, and Structure", Qualitative Inquiry, 17(6):511-521.
- Kamler, B e P Thomson, 2014 Helping Doctoral Students Write Pedagogies for supervision, Oxon, Routledge.
- Chambliss, DF. e R K Schutt, 2022 Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation, London, Sage.
- Cheeseman, N et al, 2017 "Notes on researching Africa", African Affairs.
- Bryman, A 2012 Social Research Methods, London, OUP.
- Bob-Milliar, GM, 2020 "Introduction: Methodologies for researching Africa", African Affairs, 121 (484): 55?65.
- Bates, R, et al (eds), 1993, Africa and the Disciplines: The contribuitions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities, Chicago, UCP.
- Zeleza, T (ed) 2006-2007, The Study of Africa. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters, Dakar, CODESRIA, 2 vols.
- Zanker, F e K Newbery, 2013 ?Comparison Re-Invented: Adaptation of Universal Methods to African Studies (Conference Report).? Africa Spectrum, 48 (2): 107?15.
- Ridley, D, 2008 The Literature Review: a Step-by-Step Guide for Students, Londres, Sage.
- Szanton, D (ed) 2004, The Politics of Knowledge - Area Studies and the Disciplines, Berkeley, The University California Press.
- Mafeje , A 2001 African Social Scientists Reflections, Nairobi, Heinrich Boll.
- Kumar, R, (2011, Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners. 3rd Edition,. New Delhi, Sage.
- Freitas, WRS et al, 2011 Utilizando estudo de caso(s) como estratégia de pesquisa qualitativa: boas práticas e sugestões, Estudo & Debate, Lajeado, 18 (2): 07-22.
- Feyerabend, P K, 1975, Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge, London, Humanities Press.
- Creswell, J et al. (2003, 221) Advanced Mixed Methods Research Designs, London, Sage.
- Caregnato, RCA e R Mutti, 2006 Pesquisa Qualitativa: Análise De Discurso Versus Análise de Conteúdo, Texto & Contexto ? Enfermagem, 15 (4): 679-684.
- Bickman, L e D Rog (eds), 1998, Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods, London, Sage.
- African Studies Review, 1981, "Social Science and Humanities Research in Africa: a Assessment", African Studies Review, 2-3.
- Africa Today, 1997-1998, "The Future of Regional Studies", Africa Today, 44, 2 & 3.
Projeto de Tese
Phd Thesis in African Studies
The main learning objectives of the unit Thesis in African Studies are the following:
- To provide each doctoral student with the opportunity for debate in the classroom environment on issues relevant to their work
- To assess and discuss the progress towards the development of the student's doctoral thesis
- To help counter the feeling of "isolation" that the doctoral student may experience
- To provide doctoral students with information about its theoretical and theoretical - methodological framework
1 - Discussion of research findings
2 - Debate on specific chapters of the dissertations and research cases
3 - Doctoral Conferences of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy ( DCPPP )
At the end of the year, doctoral students deliver a progress report, which includes the description of the current status of development of their thesis work and report the parallel activities of a scientific nature conducted. The progress report is assessed by two reviewers and the academic supervisor.
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Phd Thesis in African Studies
1. Students are intended to structure advanced research
2. Students are capable of formulating a problem, framing it in the current state of the art, and allocating a theoretical framework
3. Students are able to conduct research based on a solid methodological manner with ground-breaking results
1. The research stages
2. Research methodologies
3. Ethical approaches
4. Practical application of knowledge produced
1. Attendance and participation in classes 100%;
2. Presentation and discussion of the research projects in the tutorial sessions with supervisors 0%
3. Fulfilment of tasks for the production of the PhD Thesis.
4. Attendance to at least 75% of the conferences by semester is mandatory to be approved.
Bell, J. 1997, Como realizar um projecto de investigação : um guia para a pesquisa em ciências sociais e da educação (rev. científica de José Machado Pais), Lisboa, Gradiva
Bryman, A. 2012 (4th edition) Social research methods. Oxford : Oxford University Press
Flick, U., 2005, Métodos Qualitativos na Investigação Científica, Lisboa, Monitor.
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