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CES Summer School Second Edition ‘Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Rac...

Book of Abstracts. Summer School "Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Rac...

Perfect victims and monstrous invaders: media, borders, and intersectionality i...

This article explores the reconfiguration of public, political and media discourses on migration to Italy’s Southern coasts since the re-making of the Mediterranean border regime, beginning in 2013. Combining our respective anthropological and cultural studies approaches, this article looks at how borders filter and control, and examines the semiotic implications of borders through shared reflections on the tig...

Borders, race, and global mediascapes: deconstructing violence in politics and ...

This article deals with discourses about the Covid-19 pandemic in the Portuguese media from 2020-2021. Through thematic qualitative content analysis, we explore how migrants, refugees/asylum seekers and Afro-descendants – that is, racialised people who are often read as non-Portuguese – have been portrayed by the media, and the idea of ‘non-Portugueseness’, constructed in relation to this phenomenon. The pandem...

Razza, nazione e musica. Comunità immaginata e voci discordanti

Dalle distopie dell’Antropocene alle utopie della cura

Il presente testo riassume l’introduzione al volume Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene. A Postcolonial Critique pubblicato dall’autrice nel 2021 per i tipi di Routledge. Questo contributo è stato reso possibile attraverso il sostegno della FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – attraverso il progetto: (De)Othering: Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on m...

The Anthropocene and its Discontents

Recently, the Anthropocene as a concept and as a set of processes and phenomena has been brought to the center of debates in politics, as well as the arts, culture, and academia. Controversially, its more mainstream meaning refers to processes that have been traced back by scholars either to the second or the third industrial revolutions, when human intervention supposedly began having a great impact on the geo...

Media discourses and alterity

Pandemic-war analogy

Pandemic: a six-handed study

The present six-handed study is a journey into some of our pandemic emotions through photography. It is the result of a collective investigation and some improvisation in a Lisboan interior. The subject of this collective research is the impact of the pandemic on affects and the body. Body and affects are seen here as concepts and emotions deeply affected by the social and planetary transformations generated by...