Accreditations
The Msc in African Studies at Iscte is a 4-semester program with 9 compulsory Curricular Units and 4 elective Curricular Units.
The Curricular Units permit the student to deepen their study of the political, social, cultural and economic dynamics of the diverse African and diasporic contexts, as well as to grapple with the methodological questions inherent in an interdisciplinary training.
Programme Structure for 2024/2025
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International Cooperation in Africa
6.0 ECTS
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African Diasporas, Migrations and Rights
6.0 ECTS
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African Social and Cultural Dynamics
6.0 ECTS
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History of Africa
6.0 ECTS
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Research Design
6.0 ECTS
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Economies of Africa
6.0 ECTS
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International Relations in Africa
6.0 ECTS
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Contemporary African Issues and Debates
6.0 ECTS
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Research Methods in Social Sciences
6.0 ECTS
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Sociological Theory
6.0 ECTS
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Master Dissertation in African Studies
48.0 ECTS
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Master Project in African Studies
48.0 ECTS
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2nd Cycle Internship
6.0 ECTS
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International Cooperation in Africa
Skills and Competences:
SC1: Acquiring a critical understanding of international cooperation and development policy that contributes to an informed and conscious citizenship;
SC2: Ability to organize and analyze complex research results in a coherent form;
SC3: Knowledge and ability to use information retrieval tools, such as bibliographical repertoires, statistics and electronic resources;
SC4: Awareness of the challenges facing international cooperation in Africa
Learning Outcomes:
LO1: Mastering the key concepts and launching critical approaches in various themes of international cooperation in Africa
LO2: Understanding the history of actions leading to international cooperation and humanitarian aid
LO3: Identifying the main actors in international cooperation and humanitarian aid
LO4: Critically analyze the major international cooperation programs in Africa.
OA5: Recognize the challenges in dealing with international cooperation and humanitarian aid
1. Introduction: General presentation of international cooperation, debates and critical approaches.
2. Theories of international development and evolution of cooperation policies.
3. Cooperation architecture, definitions and flows, main actors.
4. South-South Cooperation
5. Critical Perspectives
6. Humanitarian Aid
7. Rethinking Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid in Africa
1. Participation in seminars and critical reading of recommended texts (20%)
2. One short reading note (30%)
3. Final essay (max. 7 pages) (50%)
Students may alternatively opt for the final exam
Title: Moyo, D. (2009). Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa. Penguin Books.
Lopes, Carlos (2019) Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt. Palgrave Macmillan
Kharas, Homi & Andrew Rogerson (2017) Global Development Trends and Challenges. ODI. Available: https://www.odi.org/publications/10940-global-development-trends-and-challenges-horizon-2025-revisited
Cardoso, Fernando Jorge, Patrícia Magalhães Ferreira e Rogério Roque Amaro (ed.) (2017) Desenvolvimento e a Coerência das Políticas. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 34
Amaro, Rogério Roque (2003), ?Desenvolvimento ? um conceito ultrapassado ou em renovação? Da teoria à prática e da prática à teoria? in Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, nº 4, Jan-Julho, Centro de Estudos Africanos -ISCTE, Lisboa
Alden, Chris (2007) China in Africa. London, Zed.
Afonso, Maria Manuela e Ana Paula Fernandes (2005), ABCD Introdução à Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento, Lisboa, IMVF e OIKOS.
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Title: Weissmam, Fabrice (ed.), 2004, In the shadows of "just wars?: violence, politics and humanitarian action, London, Hurst
Ticktin, Miriam, 2006, ?Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France? in American Ethnologist, 33 (1) Feb 2006: 33-49
Redfield, Peter, 2006, "A Less Modest Witness: Collective Advocacy and Motivated Truth in a Medical Humanitarian Movement" in American Ethnologist. 33: 1 (Feb.), 3-26.
Redfield, Peter, 2005, "Doctors, Borders and Life in Crisis." in Cultural Anthropology. 20:3 (Aug.), 328-361.
McKay, Ramah, 2012, ?Afterlives: Humanitarian Histories and Critical Subjects in Mozambique?, CUL TURAL ANTHROPOLOGY , Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp . 286?309
Fassin, Didier e Estelle d'Halluin, 2007, ?Critical Evidence: The Politics of Trauma in French Asylum Policies? in Ethos 35 (3) , 300?329 doi:10.1525/eth.2007.35.3.300
Ajuda Humanitária / Humanitarian Aid
Rosa, Inês (2015) Emerging Countries: Fading Dichotomy in Development Cooperation? Masters Dissertation, Lisbon School of Economics & Management, ISEG
PNUD, (2013) Relatório do Desenvolvimento Humano, online site do PNUD, pág.43-124
Oya, C. and Pons-Vignon, N. (2011). Aid, Development and the State in Africa. http://www.rosalux.sn/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Aid-Dev-and-State-in-Africa.pdf
Niño-Zarazúa, M., Barrientos, A., Hickey, S., Hulme, D., 2012, ?Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Getting the Politics Right?. World Development 40 (1),163?176.
Milando, João, 2005, Cooperação sem Desenvolvimento, Lisboa, ICS
Lewis, D. & N. Kanji (2009). Non-Governmental Organizations and Development. London: Routledge (Cap 1. ?Introduction: what are NGOs?; Cap 2. ?Understanding NGOs in political context?
Ferreira, Patricia Magalhães, Fernanda Faria e Fernando Jorge Cardoso (2016). O papel de Portugal na arquitetura global do desenvolvimento. Opções para o futuro da Cooperação Portuguesa, Instituto Camões e IMVF, Lisboa. Páginas 1-25
Ferguson, James, 1999, Expectations of Modernity. Myths and Meanings of Urban Life in Zambian Cooperbelt, Berkeley, University of California Press
Ferguson, James, 1990, The Anti-politics machine. Development, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Escobar, Arturo, 1995, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press (ver http://www.unc.edu/~aescobar/html/texts.htm)
Escobar, Arturo 1992, ?Imagining a Post-Development Era?. Social Text 31: 20?56. Duke University Press.
Escobar, Arturo, 1991, "Anthropology and the Development Encounter: the Making and Marketing of Development Anthropology" in American Ethnologist, 18, 4, 658-682.
Edelman, Marc & Angelique Haugerud, 2005, The Anthropology of Development and Globalization, London, Blackwell
Desai, V. & R. Potter, 2014, The Companion to Development Studies, 3rd edition, NY, Routledge
Davies, Robin; Pickering, Jonathan, 2015, Making Development Co-operation Fit for the Future: A Survey of Partner Countries, OECD Development Co-operation Working Papers.
Carvalho, Ana Larcher (2018) A complexidade da cooperação para o desenvolvimento, as críticas e as alternativas para a mudança. Mundo Crítico n1. Available https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/ff23a7_85545e16728440a4b66560c34ce430ba.pdf
Amin, S. (2010). Repensar a ajuda ao desenvolvimento. Pambazuka News
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African Diasporas, Migrations and Rights
A. Knowledge and Understanding:
- Understanding the main concepts involved in the debate on the African diasporas.
- Knowledge of the historical events that marked the social and political trajectory of the African diasporas.
- Knowledge of the most relevant debates in the field of strategies and policies for collective action of diasporas.
B. Application of knowledge:
- Ability to use the knowledge gained to derive implications on different diaspora experiences at the transnational level.
- Ability to use the knowledge acquired to discuss and critically evaluate contemporary challenges of diasporas.
C. Communication:
- Ability to elaborate theoretically, logically and factually reasoned arguments and to communicate them to others.
D. Learning:
- Capacity for study and personal research with autonomy;
- Ability and motivation for life long learning
1.Historical and theoretical issues of the African diasporas
1.1.From the enslaved people trafficking to the current migrations
1.2.Presence and forms of collective African action in Portugal and Europe (XV-XVIII)
1.3.Integration of immigrants and migration politics
2.Political and social issues of the African diasporas
2.1.Forms of resistance to slavery in the American continent
2.2.Diasporas and Anti-Colonial Movements: Pan-Africanism and Civil Rights Movements
2.3.From the Nativists of the 1st Republic to the Casa dos Estudantes do Império and Liberation Struggles in Portugal and Africa
3.Political and social issues of the African diasporas in the present
3.1.Racism and the African Diaspora in post-colonial Europe
3.2.Forms of collective action of diaspora in contemporary times
3.3.Intersectionality, Black Feminist and LGBTI Movements
3.4.African and Black Resistance in Democratic Portugal:From African Immigrants Associations to the Portuguese Black and Afrodescendant Movement
1. Continuous assessment
- Group presentation in class (40%)
- Essay writing on a program theme (45%)
- Active participation in classes (15%)
2. Final exam
Title: TINHORÃO, José Ramos (1997), Os Negros em Portugal: Uma Presença Silenciosa, Lisboa: Caminho
SANCHES, Manuela Ribeiro (2011), Malhas que os Impérios Tecem: Textos Anticoloniais, Contextos Pós-Coloniais, Lisboa: Edições 70
PIRES, Rui Pena (2003), Migrações e Integração, Oeiras: Celta Editora
MACHADO, Fernando Luís (2009), ?Quarenta anos de imigração africana: um balanço?, Ler História, 56, pp. 135-165
JAMES, C.L.R. (1963 [1938]), The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, New York: Vintage Books
HALL, Stuart (2003), Da Diáspora: Identidades e Mediações Culturais, Belo Horizonte: UFMG/UNESCO
GILROY, Paul (2012), O Atlântico Negro: Modernidade e Dupla Consciência, Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos/Editora 34
DUBOIS, W.E.B. (1992 [1935]), Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, New York: Free Press
DAVIS, Angela (2016 [1981]), Mulheres, Raça e Classe, São Paulo:Boitempo
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Title: AFROLIS - Audioblogue Rádio AfroLis. https://radioafrolis.com/
ALMEIDA, Sílvio (2019), Racismo Estrutural, São Paulo: Feminismos Plurais.
BORGES, Sónia Vaz (2014), Na Pó di Spéra: percursos nos bairros da Estrada Militar, de Santa Filomena e da Encosta Nascente, Cascais: FCG/Principia.
CABRAL, Amilcar (1974), Textos Políticos, Porto: Gráfica Firmeza.
CARMICHAEL, Stokely, Charles V. Hamilton (1961), Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, New York: Vintage. 9.
CARTA ABERTA DE ORGANIZAÇÕES AFRODESCENDENTES PORTUGUESAS AO CERD -2016. https://museudigitalafroportugues.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/carta-aberta-de-organizacoes-afrodescendentes-portuguesas-ao-cerd-2016/
DAVIS, Angela (2016 [1981]), Mulheres, Raça e Classe, São Paulo: Boitempo.
FANON, Frantz (1975 [1952]), Peles Negras, Máscaras Brancas, Porto: Paisagem Editora.
FANON, Frantz (2015 [1961]), Os Condenados da Terra, Lisboa: Letra Livre.
HENRIQUES, Joana Gorjão (2016), Racismo em Português, Lisboa: Tinta da China.
HALL, Stuart (2003), Da Diáspora: Identidades e Mediações Culturais, Belo Horizonte: UFMG/UNESCO
MACHADO, Fernando Luís (2009), Quarenta anos de imigração africana: um balanço?, Ler História, 56, pp. 135-165.
MATA, Inocência (2015), A Casa dos Estudantes do Império e o lugar da literatura na consciencialização política, Lisboa: UCCLA.
PIRES, Rui Pena (2003), Migrações e Integração, Oeiras: Celta Editora.
PLATAFORMA GUETO Resposta à Alta Comissária (A.C.I.DI). https://plataformagueto.wordpress.com/noticias/resposta-a-alta-comissaria-a-c-i-di/ 29.
SOS RACISMO (2016), Racismo e Discriminação ? A lei da impunidade, Lisboa: SOS´
SANCHES, Manuela Ribeiro (2011), Malhas que os Impérios Tecem: Textos Anticoloniais, Contextos Pós-Coloniais, Lisboa: Edições 70.
TAYLOR, Keeanga-Yamahtta (2016), From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Chicago: Haymarket Books.
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African Social and Cultural Dynamics
The course aims to introduce the students to a detailed knowledge of African realities in the social and cultural domains.mIn this way, the learning objectives of the course are
1. To know the construction of central concepts, relevant to analyse the African social and cultural fields.
2. To understand the discursive constructions of the African continent.
3. To acquire a critical view on themes of social and cultural dynamics in Africa.
4. To identify the main identity constructions in Africa.
5. To know social and cultural movements in Africa and their impacts.
1. Representations of Africa and post-colonialism
1.1. Coloniality, discourse and Eurocentrism
1.2. The symbolic construction of the African continent
2. Selected themes of social and cultural dynamics in Africa
2.1. Ethnicity and culture
2.2. Indigenous peoples and the production of knowledge
2.3. Social movements and political and social change
2.4. Religion and religious syncretism
2.5. Feminisms in Africa
2.6. Cultural movements and youth in Africa
2.7. Popular culture, music and cinema
1. Assessment throughout the semester
The assessment consists of the weighted average of:
a) Attendance to and active participation in the classes (minimum of 70%)- 30%
b) Essay (5000-5500 words): 70%
The essays can be submitted in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish and delivered in dates agreed at the Council of the Year meeting (first, second and special). The essays don't count for students who will do a final exam.
2. Final exam for students who are not in continuous assessment.
Title: Obadare, Ebenezer (Ed), 2014, The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa, New York: Springer
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
Filho, Silvio de Almeida Carvalho e Nascimento, Washington Santos (Orgs.), 2018, Intelectuais das Áfricas, Campinas: Pontes Editores
Fanon, Frantz, 2005, The Wretched of the Earth, Grove Press
Cooper, Fred, 2002, Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Arnfred, Signe (ed.), 2004, Re-Thinking Sexualities in Africa, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 1992, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, New York: Oxford University Press
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Title: Clark, Msia Kibona., 2012, "Hip Hop as Social Commentary in Accra and Dar Es Salaam", African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal of African Studies, 13(3): 23-46.
Lobato, Ramon, 2010, "Creative industries and informal economies, Lessons from Nollywood", International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(4): 337-354
César, Amaranta, 2013, "Cinema africano, utopia e política: a tomada de palavra em Bamako, de Abderrahmane Sissako", Contemporânea, Comunicação e Cultura, 11(3): 581-590
2.8. Cultura popular, música e cinema
African Dynamics in a Multipolar World
Honwana, Alcinda, 2013, "Youth, waithood, and protest movements in Africa", Lugard Lecture 2013, ECAS 2013, 5th European Conference on African Studies,
Diouf, Mamadou, 2003, "Engaging postcolonial cultures: African youth and public space", African Studies Review, 46 (2): 1-12
Chielozona Eze, 2014, "Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model," Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26 (2): 234-247
2.6.
AAVV, 2013, Africana, Aportaciones para la descolonización del feminismo, Barcelona: oozebap
2.5.
Reddy, Vasu, 2001, "Homophobia, human rights and gay and lesbian equality in Africa", Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, 50: 83-87
Adésínà, 'Jìmí O., 2010, "Re-appropriating matrifocality: endogeneity and African gender scholarship", African Sociological Review, 14 (1): 2-19
Aboim, Sofia, 2008, "Masculinidades na encruzilhada: hegemonia, dominação e hibridismo em Maputo", 43 (2): 273-295
2.4. Género e sexualidades
Thigo, Philip, 2013, "People, technology and spaces: towards a new generation of social movements", Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 31 (2): 255-264
Mamdani, Mahmood Thandika Mkandawire & Wamba-dia-Wamba, 1988, "Social Movements, Social Transformation and Struggle for Democracy in Africa", Economic and Political Weekly, 23(19): 973-981
de Waal, Alex and Ibreck, Rachel, 2013, "Hybrid social movements in Africa", Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 31 (2): 303-324
2.3.
Mouiche, Ibrahim, 2011, "Democratisation and Political Participation of Mbororo in Western Cameroon", Africa Spectrum, 46 (2):71-97
Anyidoho, Nana Akua, 2008, "Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation", Africa Development, 23(1): 25-39
2.2.
Njoh, Ambe J., 2017, "The Right-To-The-City Question" and Indigenous Urban Populations in Capital Cities in Cameroon", Journal of Asian and African Studies, 52(2): 188-200
Martins, Vasco, 2015, "Ovimbundu identity attributions in post-war Angola", Journal of Southern African Studies, 41 (4): 853-867
Babou, Cheikh Anta, 2007, "Urbanizing mystical Islam: Making Murid space in the cities of Senegal", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 40 (2): 197-223
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Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe, 2006, "The Inventions of African Identities and Languages: The Discursive and Developmental Implications", in Olaoba F. Arasanyin e Michael A. Pemberton (eds), Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Somerville: Cascadilla Proceedings Project: 14-26
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson, 2006, "Pensamento crítico desde a subalternidade: os estudos étnicos como ciências descoloniais ou para a transformação das Humanidades e das Ciências Sociais no século XXI", Afro-Ásia, 34: 105-129
Lopes, Carlos, 2012, "O legado de Amílcar Cabral face aos desafios da ética contemporânea", Via Atlântica, 21: 27-44
Césaire, Aimé, 1978, Discurso sobre o Colonialismo, Lisboa: Sá da Costa (Prefácio de Mário de Andrade)
African Studies Association, 2018, "Decolonizing African Studies", African Studies Review, 61 (3): 1-7
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History of Africa
The course aims to accomplish three main learning outcomes (LO):
LO1. Self-develop a non-Eurocentric and Africanized perspective of objects and problématiques
LO2. Understand the actual needs and challenges of historiography of African History, and of historically thinking about the African past, by way of a critical consideration about the widening of the theoretical horizons of the field, using the indispensable conceptual frames.
LO3. Learn about current issues and methods in African history
1. African worlds in the diversity of space and time: historiographical representations — Singularities and diversities in African History; the challenges of comparativism defining regions for digital history; presentism and the need for an “early” history towards an understanding of African recent challenges.
2. The contradictions of African history as a discipline at the crossroads of interdisciplinarity and the challenges of global studies - The deconstruction of concepts inherited from colonial anthropology: "Ethnic" identities - an object in the long run? Beyond dichotomies, a complex approach of the historical process; thinking connexion beyond globalization.
3. Hot topics and methodologies — Complementarity of different primary sources in African History; approaches and debates on oral sources and the colonial archive; environmental history and empire; history of sports and leisure..
1 Continuous evaluation. Weighted average:
a) Presence and active participation in class (min: 70% presence on-site or by videoconference, the latter in specific validated cases) 30%;
5000 to 5500 words essay: 70%.
Essays can be written in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish and have to be delivered on the date agreed in the meeting of the first year council. The essays do not count for students who submit to the final exams.
2. Final exams for student not in continuous evaluation.
Title: AWENENGO, Séverine, BARTHÉLÉMY, Pascale e TSHIMANGA, Charles (eds.), Écrire l'Histoire de l'Afrique Autrement? Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004.
FAUVELLE, François-Xavier (dir.), L?Afrique Ancienne. De l?Acacus au Zimbabwe : 20000 avant notre ère?XVIIe siècle, Paris, Éditions Belin/Humensis, 2018.
FAUVELLE, François-Xavier e SURUN, Isabelle (dir.), Atlas Histórico de África ? Da Pré-História aos Nossos Dias, Lisboa, Guerra & Paz, 2020 (ed. original francesa, 2019)
GREEN, Toby e ROSSI, Benedetta (eds.), Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past. Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2018.
SPEAR, Thomas (ed.), Oxford Research Encyc. of African Hist., Oxford University Press, [em permanente actualização], https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory, acedido em 15 de Setembro de 2021
CANDIDO, Mariana e JONES, Adam (eds), African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660–1880, 2019, CANDIDO, Mariana e JONES, Adam (eds.), African Women in the Atlantic World: Property, Vulnerability & Mobility, 1660–1880, London, James Currey, 2019.,
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Title: PHILIPS, John Edward (ed.), Writing African History, Rochester, N.Y., University of Rochester Press, 2005.
AMSELLE, Jean-Loup, Mestizo Logics. Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere, Standford, Standford University Press, 1998
AMSELLE, Jean-Loup e M?BOKOLO, Elikia (orgs.), No Centro da Etnia : Etnias, Tribalismo e Estado na África, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Vozes, 2017 [ed. original francesa, Au Coeur de l'Ethnie. Ethnies, Tribalisme et État en Afrique, 2ª ed., Paris, Éditions La Découverte/Poche, 1999] [edição angolana, Pelos Meandros da Etnia?, Luanda, Ed. Mulemba, 2014
AUSTIN, Gareth, « Reciprocal comparison and African History : tackling conceptual eurocentrism in the study of Africa?s economic past », African Studies Review, 50 (3), 2007, pp. 1-28.
AUSTIN, Gareth, « Resources techniques and strategies south of the Sahara : revisings the factors endowment perspective on African economic development, 1500-2000 », Economic History Review, 61 (3), 2008, pp. 587-624.
BAH, Thierno Moctar, Historiographie Africaine. Afrique de l?Ouest. Afrique Centrale, Dakar, CODESRIA, 2015.
BRIZUELA-GARCIA, Esperanza e GETZ, Trevor R., African Histories: New Sources and New Techniques for Studying African Pasts, Boston [etc.], Pearson, 2012.
CASTRIYCK, Geert, STRICKRODT, Silke e WERTHMANN, Katia (eds.), Sources and Methods for African History and Culture. Essays in Honour of Adam Jones, Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2016.
CHOUIN, Gérard, ?Seen, Said or Deduced? Travel Accounts, Historical criticism, and Discourse Theory: Towards an ?Archeology? of Dialogue in Seventeenth-Century Guinea?, History in Africa, 28, 2001, pp. 53-70.
CHRÉTIEN, Jean-Pierre, ?Combats pour l?Histoire de l?Afrique?, Afrique & Histoire. Revue Internationale, nº 7, mai 2009, pp. 9-11
COOPER, Frederick, Africa since 1940: the past of the present, Cambridge : University Press, 2006 [1ª ed. 2002].
COOPER, Frederik, Colonialism in question: theory, knowledge, history, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005.
COOPER, Frederick, ?What Is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective?, African Affairs, 100 (399), Apr. 2001, pp. 189-213
DIAS, Jill R. Dias e SILVA, Rosa Cruz e (eds.), Construindo o Passado Angolano. As Fontes e a sua Interpretação. Actas do II Seminário Internacional sobre a História de Angola, Lisboa, Com. Nac. para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Port., 2000.
DIAWARA, Mamadou, LATEGAN, Bernard, RÜSEN, Jörn (eds.), Historical memory in Africa: dealing with the past, reaching for the future in an intercultural context, New York, Berghahn Books, [2010].
European Sources for Sub-Saharan Africa before 1900: use and abuse, ed. by Adam Jones and Beatrix Heintze, Paideuma, [Wiesbaden],33, 1987.
FALOLA, Toyin e JENNINGS, Christian, eds., Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed, N.Y., University of Rochester Press, 2004.
FARDON, Richard, ?Destins croisés: histoires des identités ethniques et nationales en Afrique de l?Ouest?, Politique Africaine, 61, Mars 1996, pp. 75-97, disponível em : http://www.politique-africaine.com/numeros/pdf/061075.pdf, acedido em 30 de Agosto de 2019
FARIAS, Paulo Fernando de Moraes, ?Afrocentrismo: entre uma narrativa história universalista e o relativismo cultural?, Afro-Ásia, 29/30, 2003, pp. 317-343.
FERREIRA, Marieta de Moraes, AMADO, Janaína (orgs.), Usos & Abusos da História Oral, 4ª ed., Fundação Getúlio Vargas Editora, 2001.
GAYIBOR, Théodore Nicoué, JUHÉ-BEAULATON, Dominique, GOMGNIMBOU, Moustapha (dir.), L?Écriture de l?Histoire en Afrique. L?Oralité Toujours en Question, Paris, Éditions Karthala, 2013..
HIRSCH, Bertrand, ?Pour une nouvelle histoire des mondes africains avant le XIXe siècle?, Afriques: Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d?Histoire, Centre d?Études des Mondes Africains (CEMAf), nº 1, 2010.
History in Africa. A Journal of Method. Special 40th Anniversary Issue, 2014.
HORTA, José da Silva, "?Nações?, marcadores identitários e complexidades da representação étnica nas escritas portuguesas de viagem: Guiné do Cabo Verde (séculos XVI e XVII)?, Varia Historia, revista do Departamento de História, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, vol. 29, nº 51, Set./Dez. 2013, pp. 649-675.
HORTA, José da Silva e Carlos ALMEIDA, ?Historicity: The Primacy of Contexts,
Connections, and Networks -The Case of the International Project ?African Ivories in
the Atlantic World??, FENDLER, Ute, LÖHR, Doris (eds.): African Studies Centres
Around the World ? A Network-Based Inventory. (Proceedings of an International
Workshop held at the Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, December
2017), Mu?nchen: AVM.edition, 2022, pp. 161-179.
HORTA, José da Silva e MARK, Peter, ?A ?Racial? Approach to the History of Early Afro-Portuguese Relationships? The Case of Senegambia and Cabo Verde in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries?, Sina Rauschenbach e Jonathan Schorsch (eds.), The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2018, pp. 57-84.
INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DE ARQUIVOS, Guia de Fontes Portuguesas para a História de África, 3 vols., Lisboa, Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses/Fundação Oriente/Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1991-2000.
JACOBS, Nancy e PEÑATE, Rolando, An Animated Atlas of African History, 1879-2002, Brown University, disponível em: http://www.brown.edu/Research/AAAH/map.htm, acedido em 18 de Setembro de 2019 [o Adobe Flash Player já não é suportado para abrir esta aplicação]
JANSEN, Jan, « Masking Sunjata : A Hermeneutical Critique », History in Africa, vol. 27, 2000, pp. 131-141.
JANSEN, Jan, « The Next Generation: Young Griots? Quest for Authority?, Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past. Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2018, pp. 297-311.
JERVEN, Morten, Africa: Why Economists get it wrong, London, Zed Books in association with [the] International African Institute, Royal African Society, World Peace Foudation, 2015.
JONES, Adam, ?The Dark Continent: A Preliminary Study of the Geographical Coverage in European Sources, 1400-1880?, Paideuma, vol. 33, 1987, pp. 19-26.
LOVEJOY, Henry B., Paul E. LOVEJOY, Walter HAWTHORNE, Edward A. ALPERS, Mariana CANDIDO, Matthew S. HOPPER, Ghislaine LYDON, Colleen E. KRIGER e John THORNTON, ?Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa: A Controlled Vocabulary for Linking Open-Source Data in Digital History Projects?, History in Africa, 00, 2021, pp. 1-26.
M?BOKOLO, Elikia, África Negra. História e Civilizações, tomo I: Até ao Século XVIII, Lisboa, Editora Vulgata, 2003; tomo II: Do Século XIX aos Nossos Dias, Edições Colibri, 2007 [ed. francesa, 1995; tomo II, ed. revista].
MACGAFFEY, Wyatt, ?Changing Representations in Central African History?, Journal of African History, vo. 48, 2005, pp. 189-207.
MARK, Peter e HORTA, José da Silva, The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World, Cambridge [etc.], Cambridge University Press, 2011 [ed. paperback 2013].
MARK, Peter, ?Portuguese? Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 2002.
MBEMBE, Achille, ?African Modes of Self-Writing?, Identity, Culture and Politics, 2 (1), Jan. 2001, pp. 1-39.
MILLER, Joseph C. et al., ?Africa and World History: a Forum?, Historically Speaking, vol. VI, nº 2, Nov.-Dez. 2004, pp. 7-30.
MILLER, Joseph (ed.), The African Past Speaks: Essays on Oral Tradition and History, Dawson and Sons and Archon Books, 1980.
MILLER, Joseph C., ?Presidential Address : History and Africa/Africa and History?,The Americal Historical Review, vol. 104, number 1, February 1999, pp. 1-32.
MUDIMBE, V. Y., The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge, London, James Currey, 1988. [Trad. port.: A Invenção de África. Gnose, Filosofia e a Ordem do Conhecimento, Luanda, Edições Mulemba, Mangualde, Edições Pedago, 2013].
NEWBURY, David, ?Contradictions at the heart of the Canon: Jan Vansina and the Debate over Oral Historiography in Africa, 1960-1985, History in Africa, 34, Jan. 2007, pp. 213-254.
PHILIPS, John Edward (ed.), Writing African History, Rochester, N.Y., University of Rochester Press, 2005.
REID, Richard, "Past and Presentism: the "Precolonial" and the Foreshortening of African History", Journal of African History, 52 (2), Jul. 2011, pp. 135-155.
ROUFE, Gai e MILLER, ?African Voices Echoing in European Texts: The Muffled
Meanings of the Madzimbabwe of the Mocaranga between the Sixteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries?, History in Africa, 47, 2020, pp. 5-36.
SPEAR, Thomas, ?Neo-Traditionalism and the Limits of Invention in British Colonial Africa?, The Journal of African History, vol. 44, nº. 1, 2003, pp. 3-27.
SPIES, Eva e SEESEMANN, Rüdiger, ?Pluralicity and Relationality: New Directions in African Studies?, Africa Today, 63 (2), 2016, pp. 132-139.
VANSINA, Jan, How Societies are Born. Governance in West Central Africa before 1600, Charlottesville/London, University of Virginia Press, 2004.
VANSINA, Jan, Oral Tradition as History, Madison, James Currey Ltd., 1985.
WHITE, Luise, MIESCHER, Stephan F. e COHEN, David William, eds., African Words, African Voices. Critical Practices in Oral History, Bloomington e Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2001.
WRIGHT, Donald R., ?What do You Mean There Were No Tribes in Africa?: Thoughts on Boundaries and Related Matters in Precolonial Africa?, History in Africa, 26, 1999, pp. 409-426.
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Research Design
At the end of the CU students should be able to:
1) recognize and use different types of methodological strategies, mastering its theoretical, methodological and technical requirements, in order to make adequate choices;
2) identify central problems in research design, from problem definition to conceptualisation, operationalization, observation and proposal writing;;
3) write a research and/or intervention project proposal.
1. Research as a producer of knowledge to know and/or to intervene.
1.1. Empirical research as theoretically oriented.
1.2. Research as problem solving: diagnosis, evaluation, intervention.
1.3. Ethics in different types of research.
2. How to design a research project and/or intervention.
2.1. Formulation of the problem and definition of objectives.
2.2. Conceptualization.
2.3. Operationalization and observation.
2.4. Project's design.
3. Methodological strategies.
3.1. Adequacy of the methodological strategies to the objectives of tthe research.
3.2. Extensive research: large surveys, statistical databases, etc..
3.3. Intensive research: case studies, field research, participant observation, ethnographic approach, etc.
3.4. Action research and social intervention.
3.5. Comparative research: objectives and problems of comparison.
3.6. Mixed methods.
The learning process proceeds trough theoretical-practical classes, seminar presentations and debate (which are given prevalence), tutorials and students' autonomous work.
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Evaluation along the semester, comprising the following components:
(a) Class participation and presentation of the research and/or intervention project (35%)
b) Final written work: research project and/or intervention (65%).
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Final assessment, consisting of a final written work: research project and/or intervention, complemented with an oral discussion, if the teacher considers necessary (100%).
The evaluation of this course does not include a final exam.
Economies of Africa
The objectives of the course are that the student:
- Gain insights into the dynamics of African economies from a historical perspective and the diversity of trajectories of African economies;
- Develop the capacity to critically analyze the assumptions, methods and theories underlying the research studies on the economy of Africa and the economy of development;
- Explain the repercussions of resource wealth and associated income;
- Understand different sectoral dynamics of economic processes in Africa;
- Identify the dynamics of change in various sectors of African economies and the alternative visions for change;
- Integrate the entrepreneurial phenomena in the understanding of the African economies.
1 The evolution of economic growth in Africa in the long run
- The importance of an historical perspective and the idea of recurrent growth
- The African tragedy and the renaissance in debate
- A diversity of trajectories
2. Analyses of the dynamics of economic growth
- Development and critical perspectives;
- Alternative ways of looking to the economy
- State and market in African economies
- Political economy of economic growth in Africa
3 Natural resources and extractive industry
- The curse of natural resources
- The extractive industry
4 Sectoral dynamics and case studies
- The dynamics of the informal economy and employment
- Agriculture and agricultural transformations
- Industrialization and structural transformation
5. Entrepreneurship in Africa
- Private initiative and entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Innovation and tech-hubs
- Domestic and international funding
1. Assessment throughout the semester (minimal attendance of 70%):
a) Participation in class and demonstration of the reading of the course supporting texts - 20%
b) Preparation, presentation and discussion of an assignment on some syllabus topic - 80%
2. Final assessment
Written exam - 100%
Title: Carneiro, E. & Ennes Ferreira, M. (coord) (2011). África Sub-Sahariana: meio século depois (1960-2010). Centro de Estudos Africanos do CIS.Lisboa: Edições Colibri
Friederici, N., Wahome, M., & Graham, M. (2020). Digital entrepreneurship in Africa: How a continent is escaping Silicon Valley?s long shadow. The MIT Press.
Pereira, R., & Maia, R. (2019). The role of politics and institutional environment on entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence from Mozambique. JANUS.NET, 10(1), 98-111.
Pereira, R., & Maia, R. (2018). Entrepreneurship in Africa: An exploratory analysis using data from the global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM). JANUS.NET, 9(2), 109-123.
Pereira, R. (2020). A historical perspective of entrepreneurship in Angola. JANUS.NET, 11(1), 60-76.
Lopes, C. (2019) Africa in Transformation. Economic Development in the Age of Doubt. Palgrave Macmillan
Celestin M. & Justin Yifu Lin (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics. New York: Oxford University Press
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Title: UNECA, 2013, Rapport économique sur l'Afrique 2013 - http://www.uneca.org/sites/default/files/publications/unera_report_final_french_web.pdf
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_emp/@emp_policy/documents/publication/wcms_127814.pdf
OIT, 2009, The informal economy in Africa: Promoting transition to formality: Challenges and strategies
Moshomba, Richard, E. 2000 Africa in the Global Economy NY, Lynne Rienner
Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Steve, 1999, The African Economy: Policy, Institutions and the Future Londres, Routledge,
Mosca, João, 2005, A Economia de Moçambique Seculo XX, Lisboa, Piaget
Lopes, Carlos, 2012, Candongeiros e Kupatas - acumulação e sobrivivenca na ecnomia informal em Angola, Lisboa, Principia
Estêvão, João (2004), "Desenvolvimento Económico e Mudança Institucional: O Papel do Estado", Working Paper WP 08/2004, Departamento de Economia, ISEG-UTL, Lisboa
Caplan, Gerald, 2008, The Betrayal of Africa. Londres, Groundwood Books
Mkandawire, T. (2010) Running while others walk: knowledge and the challenge of Africa's development
Oya, C. & Santamaría, A. (Ed) (2007) Economía política del desarrollo en África. Madrid: Akal
Chitonge, Horman (2015) Economic growth and development in Africa: understanding trends and prospects.London: Routledge
Adesida, O and Otehy, A (2004) African voices,African visions.The Nordic Africa Institute
RASA (2018) Rapport Alternatif sur l'Afrique. N0, RASA:Dakar
Ndulu, B. et al. (2007) Challenges of African Growth. Washington: World Bank.
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International Relations in Africa
At the end of the curricular unit, each student shall have acquired the skills to:
OA1 - understand and analyze the place of Africa, both as an empirical and theoretical problem, in the field of International Relations.
OA2 - identify contributions derived from the experience of African countries to theoretical debates on International Relations thematics
OA3 - distinguish issues related with the African social, cultural, economic and political affairs in the contemporary world.
1. Africa and International Relations
1.1. Concepts and debates in International Relations
1.2. The places of Africa in the International Relations
1.3. Africa and the global thought on International Relations
2. Africa in the contemporary international system
2.1. International security
2.2. African regional institutions
2.3. Africa, great powers and emerging powers
3. Contexts and subjects
3.1. Migrations and refugees
3.2. Conflicts and civil-military relations
3.3. Health and climate change
3.4. Sovereignty and territoriality
The programme combines theoretical inputs by the teacher with the discussion of selected texts with the students. Audio-visual supports are also used to inspire the debate on current issues related with the syllabus.
1. Assessment throughout the semester
a) Attendance and participation in the class debates - 20% of the final grade
b) Essay (10 pages, maximum) - 80% of the final grade
2. Final exam (100%)
Title: Young, T. (2016) Readings in the International Relations of Africa. Bloomington: Ind. Uni. Press
Mbembe, A. (2013) Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l'Afrique décolonisée. Paris: La Découverte
Mbembe, A. (2016)Politiques de l'inimité. Paris: La Découverte
Duffield, M. (2001)Global Governance and the New Wars The Merging of Development and Security.Zed Books
Cornelissen, S., Cheru, F., Shaw, T. (Eds.)(2012). Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Cooper, F. (2016) Histórias de África. Capitalismo, Modernidade, Globalização. Lisboa: Ed 70
Comaroff J.; Comaroff J.L. (2012) Theory from the South. Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa. Boulder/London: Paradigm Pubs
Clapham, C. (1996) Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival.Cambridge University Press
Chowdhry, G.; Nair, S. (eds.) (2002) Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations. Reading race, gender and class. London: Routledge
9.4.9. Bibliografia :
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Title: Patrício, Marta (2014), "A Fronteira Moçambique-Zimbabué e os ndau: Práticas e representações transfronteiriças no distrito moçambicano de Mossurize (de 1975 à actualidade", Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 27: 79-102
Bereketeab, Redie (2013), Post-Secession State-Building and ReconstructionSomaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, Policy Note 1, The Nordic Africa Institute
3.4.
Williams, Paul D. (2016), War and Conflict in Africa, Cambridge: Polity Press
Hoekstra, Quint (2019), "Conflict diamonds and the Angolan Civil War (1992-2002)", Third World Quarterly, 40(7): 1322-1339
Coning, Cedric de (2017), "Peace enforcement in Africa: Doctrinal distinctions between the African Union and United Nations", Contemporary Security Policy, 38(1): 145-160
3.3.
Marshall-Fratani, Ruth (2006), "The War of 'Who Is Who': Autochthony, Nationalism, and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis", African Studies Review, 49(2): 9-44
Borges Coelho, João Paulo (2003), "Da violência colonial ordenada à ordem pós-colonial violenta. Sobre um legado das guerras coloniais nas ex-colónias portuguesas", Lusotopie, 10: 175-193
3.2.
Whitaker, Beth Elise (2017), "Migration within Africa and Beyond", African Studies Review, 60(2): 209-220
Maher, Stephanie (2018), "Out of West Africa: Human Smuggling as a Social Enterprise", Annals, AAPSS, 676: 36-56
3.1.
3. Contextos e temas / Contexts and subjects
Sarkin, Jemery (2009), "The Role of the United Nations, the African Union and Africa'sSub-Regional Organizations in Dealing with Africa's Human Rights Problems: Connecting Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect", Journal of African Law, 53: 1-33
Mamdani, Mahmood (2010), "Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?", Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 4(1): 53-67
2.3.
Okhonmina, Stephen (2009), "The African Union: Pan-Africanist Aspirations and the Challenge of African Unity", The Journal of Pan African Studies, 3(4): 85-100
Hartmann, Christof (2017), "ECOWAS and the Restoration of Democracy in The Gambia", Africa Spectrum, 52(1): 85-99
2.2. Instituições regionais africanas
Oliveira, Guilherme Ziebell de (2015), "Política africana do Brasil: Mudança entre Lula e Dilma?", Conjuntura Austral, 6(29): 33-47
Jörg Friedrichs (2019), "Explaining China's popularity in the Middle East and Africa", Third World Quarterly, 40(9): 1634-1654
2.1.
2. África no sistema internacional contemporâneo / Africa in the contemporary international system
Castro, Marina & Brener Seixas (2013), "O ponto de partida para um repensar de África nas relações internacionais: as origens das contribuições pan-africanistas", Conjuntura Internacional, 10(3): 15-23
Richey, Lisa Ann & Lene Bull Christiansen (2018), "Afropolitanism, celebrity politics and iconic imaginations of Nort-South relations", African Affairs, 117(467): 238?260
1.3.
Tella, Oluwaseun (2018), "Agenda 2063 and Its Implications for Africa's Soft Power", Journal of Black Studies, 49(7): 714-730
Brown, William (2006), "Africa and international relations: a comment on IR theory, anarchy and statehood", Review of International Studies, 32 (1): 119-143
1.2.
Seth, Sanjay (2011), "Postcolonial Theory and the Critique of International Relations", Millennium, 40(1): 167-183
Niang, Amy (2016), "The imperative of African perspectives on International Relations (IR)", Politics, 36(4): 453-466
Capan, Zeynep Gulsah (2017), "Decolonising International Relations?", Third World Quarterly, 38(1): 1-15
1.1.
1. África e Relações Internacionais / Africa and the International Relations
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Contemporary African Issues and Debates
The course aims to deepen the students' knowledge of contemporary African issues in the political, social, economic and cultural fields. Thus, the learning outcomes of the course are:
- to identify diverse ideologies in Africa,
- to develop a comparative vision of political regimes in Africa,
- to identify key African international institutions and know how they relate with traditional and emerging powers,
- to understand the various manifestations and constructions of citizenship in the continent,
- to understand the importance of information and communication technologies in Africa.
It is intended that students understand the main concepts of the current debates in African Studies on the selected subjects. The students should also apply the knowledge acquired and discuss in an informed way the subjects under analysis.
1. Ideologies: liberation and post-colonialism
2. Political regimes: compared democracies
3. Rising powers and institutions in Africa
4. Citizenship and human rights
5. Digital communications
1. Assessment throughout the semester
a) Individual oral presentation based on one or more texts suggested by the lecturer: 25%
b) Individual written essay on one of the topics on the programme, with special emphasis on the literature review: 75%.
2. Final exam
Title: Bogaards, Matthijs and Elischer, Sebastian (Eds.), 2016, Democratization and Competitive Authoritarianism in Africa, Comparative Governance and Political Special Issue 6, Springer
Bruijn, Mirjam, van Dijk, Rijk e Foeken, D., 2001, Mobile Africa: changing patterns of movement in Africa and beyond, Leiden: Brill
Cooper, Frederick, 2002, Africa since 1940: the past of the present, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Ellis, Stephen and van Kessel, Ineke (Ed.), 2009, Movers and Shakers Social Movements in Africa, Leiden: Brill
Lauer, Helen e Anyidoho, Kofi (Org.), 2016, O Resgate das Ciências Humanas e das Humanidades através de Perspectivas Africanas, Brasília: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão
Loomba, Ania, Kaul, Suvir, Bunzl, Matti, Burton, Antoinette and Esty, Jed (Ed.), 2005, Postcolonial Studies and Beyond, Durham: Duke University Press
Obadare, Ebenezer (Ed.), 2014, The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa, New York: Springer
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Title: 1. Ideologias: libertação e pós-colonialismo
Biko, Steve, 1987, "White Racism and Black Consciousness", in Steve Biko: I Write what I Like: A Selection of Writings, London: Penguin Books
Césaire, Aimé, 1978, Discurso sobre o Colonialismo, Lisboa: Sá da Costa
Mbembe, AchilIe (2004) "Writing the World from an African Metropolis", Public Culture, 16 (3): 347-372
Simala, Kenneth Inyani, 2003, "Pan-Africanism and the Language Question: Re-reading African Cultural and Intellectual History", African Journal of International Affairs, 6 (1 & 2): 19-53
Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe, 2009, "What Happened to the African Renaissance?: The Challenges of Development in the Twenty-First Century", Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 29 (2): 155-170
2. Regimes políticos: democracias comparadas
Bratton, Michael, Bhavnani, Ravi and Chen, Tse-Hsin, 2012, "Voting Intentions in Africa: Ethnic, Economic or Partisan?", Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 50 (1): 27-52
Cheeseman, Nic, 2015, Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Manning, Carrie, 2005, "Assessing African Party Systems after the Third Wave", Party Politics, 11 (6): 707-727
Van de Walle, Nicolas, 2002, "Africa's Range of Regimes", Journal of Democracy, 13 (2): 66-80
3. Poderes emergentes e instituições em África
Abdenur, Adriana Erthal e Neto, Danilo Marcondes de Souza, 2014, "O Atlântico Sul e a cooperação em defesa entre o Brasil e a África", in Nasser, Reginaldo Mattar e Moraes, Rodrigo Fracalossi (Org.), O Brasil e a Segurança no seu Entorno Estratégico: América do Sul e Atlântico Sul, Brasília: IPEA: 215-238
Fayomi, Oluyemi and Adeola, Gabriel Lanre, 2015, "ECOWAS and Sub-Regional Integration in West Africa: An Appraisal", Covenant University Journal of Politics and International Affairs, 3 (1): 29-40
Shaw, Timothy M., Cooper, Andrew F. and Chin, Gregory T., 2009, "Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance?", Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 36 (1): 27-44
Tieku, Thomas Kwasi, 2004, "Explaining the Clash and Accommodation of Interests of Major Actors in the Creation of the African Union", African Affairs, 103 (411): 249-267
Vickers, Brendan, 2013, "Africa and the rising powers: bargaining for the 'marginalized many'", International Affairs, 89 (3): 673-693
4. Cidadania e direitos humanos
Geschiere, Peter, 2005, "Autochthony and Citizenship: New Modes of Understanding in the Struggle over Belonging and Exclusion in Africa", Forum for Development Studies, 33 (2): 371-384
Mamdani, Mahmood, 2001, "Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43 (4): 651-664
Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 2007, "From Bounded to Flexible Citizenship: Lessons from Africa", Citizenship Studies, 11 (1): 73-82
Raimundo, Filipa e Sá, Ana Lúcia (Ed.), 2017, "O Tribunal Penal Internacional em Àfrica", Special Issue R:I, Relações Internacionais, 54
5. Comunicações digitais
Ekine, Sokari (Ed.), 2010, SMS Uprising Mobile Phone Activism in Africa, Cape Town, Dakar, Nairobi and Oxford: Pambazuka Press
Fuchs, Christian and Horak, Eva, 2008, "Africa and the digital divide", Telematics and Informatics, 25(2): 99-116
Kock, Ned and Gaskins, Lebrian, 2014, "The Mediating Role of Voice and Accountability in the Relationship Between Internet Diffusion and Government Corruption in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa", Information Technology for Development, 20 (1): 23-43
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji and Lal, Kaushalesh, 2005, "Internet diffusion in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-country analysis", Telecommunications Policy, 29 (7): 507-527
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Research Methods in Social Sciences
By the end of the CU, each student should have acquired the necessary competencies to:
OA1. Define the stages of a research process in the social sciences, identifying the role of methods and research techniques in the production of scientific knowledge;
OA2. Distinguish between extensive and intensive methodological strategies, demonstrating their characteristics, potentials, and limitations;
OA3. Develop and validate instruments for data collection in the context of extensive research, including defining the sampling process and constructing questionnaires;
OA4. Develop and validate instruments for use in intensive research, including designing interview guides and defining fieldwork;
OA5. Understand the structure of a database, classify variables, and interpret tables and graphs;
OA6. Analyze and interpret qualitative data, using content analysis of interviews and other documents.
CP1 - The Research Process
1.1 Introduction to the Research Process in Social Sciences
1.2 The Stages of the Research Process
1.3 Research Methods and Techniques: Key Notions and Characteristics
CP2 - Extensive Research
2.1 Extensive Research: Main Characteristics
2.2 Planning and Conducting Surveys using Questionnaires
2.3 Key Sampling Techniques
2.4 Types of Questions, Construction, and Validation of Questionnaires
2.5 Online Surveys
CP3 - Intensive Research
3.1 Intensive Research: Main Characteristics
3.2 Types of Interviews and Levels of Directiveness
3.3 Planning and Conducting Interviews
3.4 Developing Interview Guides
3.5 Observation and Fieldwork
CP4 - Analysis and Interpretation of Quantitative and Qualitative Data
4.1 Exploitation and Analysis of Databases using SPSS
4.2 Production and Interpretation of Tables and Graphs
4.3 Content Analysis of Interviews and Other Documents
Students can choose one of the two assessment methods established for this UC in accordance with the General Regulation on Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (RGACC) of ISCTE: Assessment throughout the semester and Assessment by exam.
Assessment throughout the semester: This assessment method consists of two components: Methodological Applications Pathway (60%) and Group Assignment (40%).
a) Methodological Applications Pathway: This component consists of a sequence of methodological exercises that challenge students to apply the knowledge acquired in each block of programmatic contents of the UC. The exercises are completed individually throughout the semester, either synchronously or asynchronously, allowing for continuous assessment of students and their progress in the field of social research methods. To remain assessed throughout the semester, students may opt to skip the submission of only one of the proposed methodological exercises. The grade obtained in this component accounts for 60% of the final grade for the UC.
b) Group Assignment: This component involves analyzing two empirical studies, one intensive and one extensive, based on the examination of two master’s theses related to the students' areas of interest. Preference should be given to analyzing master’s theses developed within the scientific field of the student's enrolled master's program. The work can be done in groups (two members) or individually. The document must be written according to the structure proposed by the teaching team. To remain assessed throughout the semester, students must achieve a minimum grade of 10 points on the Group Assignment. The grade obtained in this component accounts for 40% of the final grade for the UC.
In addition to the minimum requirements for each component, assessment throughout the semester requires students to attend at least 60% of the classes.
Assessment by exam: This assessment occurs exclusively during the exam period and covers all the material taught in the curricular unit, with both theoretical and theoretical-practical questions. It consists of an individual written exam designed to evaluate both the practical skills for applying social research methods and the theoretical knowledge gained from reading the main bibliography. Students who have chosen this assessment method, as well as those who did not pass the assessment throughout the semester, are eligible for this assessment method.
Title: Albarello, L. et al. (2011). Práticas e métodos de investigação em ciências sociais. Gradiva.
Bardin, L. (2020). Análise de conteúdo (Edição revista e ampliada). Edições 70.
Beaud, S., & Weber, F. (2007). Guia para a pesquisa de campo. Editora Vozes.
Bryman, A. (2022). Social research methods (6th ed.). Oxford University Press.
Campenhoudt, L. V., Marquet, J., & Quivy, R. (2023). Manual de investigação em ciências sociais (2ª ed. rev.). Gradiva.
Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2018). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (5th ed.). SAGE Publications.
Flick, U. (2018). An introduction to qualitative research (6th ed.). SAGE Publications.
Foddy, W. (1996). Como perguntar – Teoria e prática da construção de perguntas para entrevistas e questionários. Celta Editora.
Ghiglione, R., & Matalon, B. (1992). O inquérito – Teoria e prática. Celta Editora.
Maroco, J. (2021). Análise estatística com o SPSS Statistics (7ª ed.). ReportNumber.
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Title: Becker, H. (1997). Métodos de pesquisa em Ciências Sociais. Hucitec.
Bertaux, D. (2020). As narrativas de vida. Mundos Sociais.
Bryman, A. & Cramer, D. (1993). Análise de dados em ciências sociais: introdução às técnicas utilizando o SPSS. Celta Editora.
Burgess, R. (2001). A pesquisa de terreno: uma introdução. Celta Editora.
DeCastellarnau, A. (2018). A classification of response scale characteristics that affect data quality: A literature review. Quality & Quantity, 52(4), 1523-1559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-017-0533-4
Della Porta, D., & Keating, M. (Orgs.). (2008). Approaches and methodologies in the social sciences: A pluralist perspective. Cambridge University Press.
Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (Eds.). (2018). The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (5th ed.). SAGE Publications.
Laureano, R., & Botelho, M. C. (2017). IBM SPSS Statistics: O meu manual de consulta rápida (3ª ed.). Sílabo.
Moreira, J. M. (2004). Questionários: Teoria e Prática. Almedina.
Oliveira, A. et al. (2021). O questionário online na investigação em educação: reflexões epistemológicas, metodológicas e éticas. Universidade Aberta.
Paugam, S. (Coord.). (2015). A pesquisa sociológica. Editora Vozes.
Silva, A. S., & Pinto, J. M. (2014 [1986]). Metodologia das ciências sociais. Edições Afrontamento.
Silverman, D. (2011). Interpreting qualitative data (4th ed.). SAGE Publications.
Sue, V. e Ritter, L.A. (2012). Conducting Online Surveys (2ª ed.), Thousand Oaks, Sage.
Vicente, P., Reis, E. & Ferrão, F. (2001). Sondagens. A amostragem como factor decisivo de qualidade. Sílabo.
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Sociological Theory
(a) Acquisition of basic knowledge about the main currents of sociological theory.
(b) Acquisition of basic knowledge about key issues in sociological theory.
(c) Development of skills for use of key sociological concepts and analytical statements.
01 Introduction: controversies and domains in sociological theory
I History of sociological theory
02 Classical sociological theory
03 Modern sociological theory
04 Contemporary sociological theory
II Domains of sociological theory
05 Interaction as exchange
06 Symbolic interaction
07 Stratification
08 Institutions
09 Groups and networks
10 Organisations
One individual paper, with a maximum of 20,000 characters including spaces, on a subject that each student choose from a fixed list. Deadline: December 29, 2023.
Title: Pires, Rui Pena (2007), ?Árvores conceptuais: uma reconstrução multidimensional dos conceitos de ação e de estrutura?, Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 53, pp. 11-50.
Scott, John (2011), Conceptualising the Social World: Principles of Sociological Analysis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Turner, Jonathan H. (1994, 1999), Sociologia: Conceitos e Aplicações, São Paulo, Makron Books.
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Title: * Bibliografia de trabalho / referências das aulas
Baert, Patrick, e Filipe Carreira da Silva (2014), Teoria Social Contemporânea, Lisboa, Mundos Sociais:
cap. 3, ?O enigma da vida quotidiana: o interacionismo simbólico, a abordagem dramatúrgica e a etnometodologia?, pp. 81-112.
Fulcher, James, e John Scott (2011), Sociology, 4.ª ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press: cap. 2, ?Theories and theorizing?, pp. 20-68.
Pires, Rui Pena (2014), ?Modelo teórico de análise sociológica?, Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 74, pp. 31-50.
Ritzer, George, e Jeffrey Stepnisky (2018), Sociological Theory, 10.ª ed., Nova Iorque, McGraw-Hill:
[complementar] cap. 6, ?A historical sketch of sociological theory: The later years?, pp. 261-311;
cap. 13, ?Micro-macro and agency-structure integration?, pp. 592-647.
Turner, Jonathan H. (1991), The Structure of Sociological Theory, 5.ª ed., Belmont (Cal.), Wadsworth: cap. 1, ?Sociological theory: diversity and disagreement?, pp. 1-30.
Turner, Jonathan H. (1994, 1999), Sociologia: Conceitos e Aplicações, São Paulo, Makron Books:
cap. 1, ?A natureza e as origens da sociologia?, pp. 1-16;
cap. 2, ?Propostas teóricas e metodológicas na sociologia?, pp. 17-32;
cap. 7, ?Grupos e organizações?, pp. 93-110;
cap. 8, ?Desigualdades: classe, etnia e género?, pp. 111-134;
cap. 9, ?Instituições?, pp. 137-166.
Turner, Jonathan H. (2010), Theoretical Principles of Sociology, vol. 1, Macrodynamics,
Nova Iorque, Springer:
[complementar] cap 4, ?The dynamics of institutional domains?, pp. 105-151.
[complementar] cap 5, ?The dynamics of stratification systems?, pp. 153-214.
Turner, Jonathan H. (2012), Theoretical Principles of Sociology, vol. 3, Mesodynamics,
Nova Iorque, Springer:
[complementar] cap. 5, ?The dynamics of groups?, pp. 171-212;
[complementar] cap. 6, ?The dynamics of organizations?, pp. 213-301.
Turner, Jonathan H. (2013), Theoretical Sociology: 1830 to Present, Londres, Sage:
[complementar] cap. 15, ?Exchange theorizing?, pp. 520-573.
Turner, Jonathan H. (2014), Theoretical Sociology: A Concise Introduction to Twelve Sociological Theories, Londres, Sage:
cap 5, ?Exchange theorizing?, pp. 73-95;
[complementar] cap. 6, ?Symbolic interactionist theorizing?, pp. 96-116;
[complementar] cap. 7, ?Dramaturgical theorizing?, pp. 117-135.
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Master Dissertation in African Studies
The course has the following objectives:
O1. To formulate a research problem to be developed in the master's thesis;
O2. To consolidate the processes of preparing a literature review;
O3. Formulate research questions, research objectives and hypotheses;
O4. Define the methodological framework appropriate to the objectives and hypotheses;
O5. Explain data collection processes and the use of primary and secondary sources;
O6. Writing a research paper;
O7. Oral presentation of research results.
1. Presentation of the course and the notes for guidance of the Master's dissertation.
2. Design of a research project: research problem, research questions, objectives and hypotheses.
3. Theoretical framework and definition of methods and techniques.
4. Literature review.
5. Data collection and databases in African Studies.
6. Presentation by the students of the developments of the research projects.
A jury will assess the dissertation in public exams after the supervisor confirms that the dissertation is ready to be presented to a jury. The classification assigned by the jury will be the final note of this course.
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Bryman, A., 2012 (4th edition) Social research methods. Oxford : Oxford University Press
Clifford, J. & G. Marcus (ed.), 1986, Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Hannerz, U., 1980, Exploring the City. Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology, New York, Columbia University Press.
Kuper, A. (ed), 1992, Conceptualizing Society, London, Routledge
Mudimbe, V. Y., 1988, The invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge, London, James Currey
Nordstrom, C. & A. Robben (ed.), 1995, Fieldwork under fire: contemporary studies of violence and survival, Berkeley, University of California Press
Pujadas, J. J., 1992, El método biográfico: el uso de las historias de vida en ciencias sociales, Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas
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Title: Adams, Glenn, 2014, 'Decolonizing methods: African studies and qualitative research', Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31(4): 467-474
Della Porta, Donatella e Michael Keating (eds.) (2008), Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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
Gerring, John, 2004, 'What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for'?, American Political Science Review, 98 (2): 341-354
Bhattacherjee, Anol, 2012, "Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices", Textbooks Collection. Book 3
Punch, Keith F., 2006, Developing effective research proposals, London: Sage
Ridley, Diana, 2008, The literature review: a step-by-step guide for students, London: Sage
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2nd Cycle Internship
The learning outcomes of the Internship are adapted to each internship and the institution where it is developed. These are:
LO1. To acquire technical skills linked to methods and techniques for action within different kinds of institutions related to the general objectives and learning outcomes of the master's degree;
LO2. To develop research and action-research skills within organizations related to the master's degree;
LO3. To prepare an internship report that reveals analytical reflection of the professional or academic context;
LO4. Develop indicators for recording and evaluating professional practice.
1. Topic and problem of the internship
2. Internship plan
3. Theoretical and methodological framework
4. Methodology of collaborative action research
5. Evaluation
6. Report
Individual report, which contains the following elements:
a) Characterization of the institutional context (history, organization, policies and services, activities, organizational structure and functioning);
b) Framing the internship institution;
c) Description of the activities developed (roles, responsibilities, agents, work processes, methodologies used)
d) Critical and theoretically based conclusions
e) References
The UC does not contemplate the modality of evaluation by Exam.
Title: - Sweitzer, H. Frederick e King, Mary A. (2014), The Successful Internship: Personal, Professional, and Civic Development in Experiential Learning, Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
- Reeher, Gant e Mariani, Mack (2002), The Insider's Guide To Political Internships: What To Do Once You're In The Door, Nova Iorque: Basic Books
- Neves, José, Garrido, Margarida, Simões Eduardo (2008), Manual de Competências Pessoais, Interpessoais e Instrumentais. Teoria e Prática, Lisboa: Editora SÍLABO
- Della Porta, Donatella e Keating Michael (eds.) (2008) Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences. A Pluralist Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Courtney, Roger (2013), Strategic Management in the Third Sector, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Capucha, Luís (2008), Planeamento e Avaliação de Projetos. Guião Prático, Lisboa: ME/DGIDC
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Recommended optative
Optional courses will only be held if they achieve a minimum number of enrollments.
04575 - Contemporary Africa: History and Actors
Objectives
One of the principal objectives of the work is to prepare its students for research and professional activity in the interdisciplinary academic field of African Studies. The course also aims to promote students' capacities of analysing and proposing solutions to complex problems that are socially and ethically responsible, and integrating knowledge and information from various sources regarding situations which require an interdisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, the course enables students to develop the skills to understake innovative projects in specialized areas in a self-driven and independent manner. These projects may occur in diverse institutional and professional contexts, such as research institutes, teaching, international organizations, public and private companies, civil society organizations, etc.
- Investigative and professional skills in the interdisciplinary academic field of African Studies, in two main aspects: analysis of the economic, social, and political processes in African societies and management of economic and social development in Africa.
- The capacity to propose concrete, socially and ethically responsible solutions in a multidisciplinary and complex context, as well as to integrate available knowledge and manage information from various sources.
- The knowledge to evaluate crises and be able to apply acquired knowledge to the resolution of concrete problems.
- The capacity to communicate the conclusions of their work to a diverse audience.
- Skills that permit the development of innovative projects in specialized areas in a self-driven and independent manner throughout life and in many different institutional frameworks -- research organizations, teaching, international organizations, public and private businesses, CSOs, etc.
Thesis / Final work
The Master in African Studies concludes with either a dissertation or a project to be carried out in accordance with the general regulations of Iscte. The dissertation or the project is worth 48 credits.
The option of choosing between a master's dissertation and an original project is justified by the diverse nature of the students, which include on the one hand, students and technicians who wish to continue their studies of second cycle, and on the other, professionals who intervene directly in the areas under analysis in the scope of the course.
The preparation of the dissertation or project is guided by a professor, a researcher or a specialist of recognized merit, and it is subject to public discussion before an appointed jury.