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Pyrostories: New Historical Insights into Portuguese Burning Landscapes
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Ágoas, Frederico; Portela, Joana; Sousa, Joana; Carmo, MiguelThis paper examines Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative. These texts include descriptions of various occurrences and uses of fire and their intertwined social and ecological effects. They shed light on the origins, actors, practices, and impacts of fire, and they reveal past perceptions of fire, namely the role fire played in social processes and in the making of land...
The literary arsonist
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Ágoas, Frederico; Portela, Joana Abranches; Sousa, Joana; Carmo, MiguelFires in rural landscapes were imagined and represented in Portuguese literature from the early 20th century to the present. We analysed a set of 55 excerpts from 43 published texts produced by 29 writers. These excerpts, which we call pyrostories, convey a literary and historical perspective of how and why those fires occur and their impacts as socioecological drivers. Arsonists are found in a third of these p...
The spectre of historical crop losses: Challenging questions and methodological...
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Gomes, Inês; Amorim, InêsCalamities in agricultural production have emerged as a relevant research topic for global food security in the current context of adaptation to climate change. Historians have been participating in this research by examining crop losses in the past. However, they face challenging questions and methodological issues when evaluating the magnitude, intensity and social relevance of damages caused by adverse clima...
Disasters, environmental changes, and migration in historical perspective. An i...
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Gomes, Inês; Soares, FilipaU we Lübken is professor of American History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, in Munich. He has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, Münster, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, dc. He has published several monographs, edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) Transnational History and the “History of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes”....
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Pest and power: history of the “orange tree devourer” (Azores, Portugal, 1840-1...
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Alves, DanielThe “orange tree devourer” (Coccus hesperidum, also known as the “Brown Soft Scale”) was the agent of a crisis with economic and political implications that affected orange production in the Azores between 1840 and 1860. This article analyzes the origin, expansion, and impact of the pest, and how island and central powers intervened very quickly to protect populations against pests and diseases in the context o...
Alien plant species: environmental risks in agricultural and agro-forest landsc...
Vicente, Joana R.; Vaz, Ana Sofia; Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Buchadas, Ana R.; Guisan, Antoine; Kueffer, Christoph; Marchante, Elizabete; Marchante, HéliaAlien plant species have been essential for farming and agro-forestry systems and for their supply of food, fiber, tannins, resins or wood from antiquity to the present. They also contributed to supporting functions and regulating services (water, soil, biodiversity) and to the design of landscapes with high cultural and scenic value. Some of those species were intentionally introduced, others arrived accidenta...
Interview “Disasters, environmental changes and migration in historical perspec...
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Gomes, Inês; Ferreira Soares, FilipaUwe Lübken is professor of American History at the Ludwig- -Maximilians-University, in Munich. He has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, Münster, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, dc. He has published several monographs, edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) Transnational History and the “History of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes”...
Introdução à geografia literária do fado
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Alves, DanielDesenvolvido no IELT-Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional da FCSH -Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, o Atlas das Paisagens Literárias de Portugal Continental (http://paisagensliterarias.ielt.org) é um projecto de investigação interdisciplinar, colectivo e cooperativo, que visa ligar a literatura ao território português, potenciando a valorização das obras literár...
Walking Through the Revolution: A Spatial Reading of Literary Echoes
Queiroz, Ana Isabel; Alves, DanielThis paper presents an embryo of a literary guide on the Carnation Revolution to be explored for educational historical excursions other than leisure and tourism. We propose a historical trail through the centre of Lisbon, city of the Carnation Revolution, called Walk through the Revolution. The trail aims to reinforce collective memory about the major events that occurred in the early moments leading to the co...