UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; This 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 pr...
UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; This paper examines the intersection of environmental history and the history of science, specifically the impact of forestry science and fire management on land use and community dynamics in rural Portuguese mountains. It further traces the evolution of fire management from an ancestral rural practice to a scientific concern and the subsequent integration of vernacular knowledg...
UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; This text presents a thick description of Portuguese colonial science policy and diplomacy during the era of decolonization with a focus on the social sciences. By examining archival materials from institutions responsible for monitoring Portuguese participation in transimperial organizations for scientific cooperation, it elucidates social-scientific initiatives within the empi...
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UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020 CEECIND/01684/2017; Com base em pesquisas anteriores sobre o desenvolvimento da investigação social agrária em Portugal, a partir dos finais da década de 1930, e sobre a introdução das ciências sociais na Escola Superior Colonial de Lisboa, em meados da década de 1950, este trabalho procura sintetizar investigação em curso acerca do desenvolvimento da primeira investigação social...
UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; Os incêndios rurais convocam um profundo alarme social. À margem do furor mediático e político que suscitam, geraram-se em torno deles elaboradas ideias e práticas burocráticas e científicas a que correspondem, na universidade e na administração central, vastos domínios institucionais. Como tem sido apontado, trata-se de um processo que em Portugal remonta à década de 1950 e que...
UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; Following the Second World War, Portugal actively participates in various forums for trans-imperial technical and scientific cooperation. The most important one was the Commission for Technical Cooperation in Africa South of the Sahara (CTCA), which in 1950 brought together the governments of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Portugal, Union of South Africa, and Southern Rhod...
UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020; Building on prior research on the development of agrarian social research in Portugal at the School of Agriculture, from the late 1930s, and on the introduction of the social sciences at the Colonial School in Lisbon and parallel colonial surveys, in the mid-1950s, this paper presents current research on the development of the first systematic Portuguese industrial social resear...
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UIDB/04209/2020 UIDP/04209/2020; Fires 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. Arsonist...