Francisco Freire
Biographic Data
| ID | 189470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Freire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Freire |
| SIGNATURE | FREIRE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6653-8669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hiking tourism and rural development: The case of the Mondego Walkways, Portugal
This article examines hiking tourism's contribution to rural development, as perceived by both visitors and local stakeholders / residents, with reference to the Mondego Walkways in central Portugal. The study is based on data collected through quantitative and qualitative methods, namely a survey carried out in situwith walkways' visitors (n = 299) and a set of 16 semi-structured interviews conducted with local stakeholders / residents in 2023. …
Nota introdutória a 'Antropologia em língua árabe: Para lá do monopólio discursivo' (Abdellah Hammoudi, 2018)
O texto do antropólogo marroquino Abdellah Hammoudi, que hoje encontramos aqui vertido em português, foi originalmente publicado em árabe, em 2018, como introdução ao livro A distância e a Análise: Para a Formulação de Uma Antropologia Árabe (Al-masāfa wa al-taḥlīl: fī ṣyāghat anthrūbūlūjya ʿarabiyya, Casablanca: Éditions Toubkal). Se a geografia e a história aproximam Portugal e Marrocos, este contexto permanece distante das preocupações e inter…
State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change
This open access book takes a deeper and broader perspective of the Hassaniya-speaking peoples’ struggle for self-determination in the Western Sahara. There has been a surge of interest in the Western Sahara, often centred around sensationalist news reports and policy briefs on these groups. But in-depth understanding and analysis remains neglected and little work has been undertaken on the diverse experiences of the Hassaniya and the contrasting…
Looters vs. Traitors: The Muqawama (“Resistance”) Narrative, and its Detractors, in Contemporary Mauritania
Since 2012, when broadcasting licenses were granted to various private television and radio stations in Mauritania, the controversy around the Battle of Um Tounsi (and Mauritania’s colonial past more generally) has grown substantially. One of the results of this unprecedented level of media freedom has been the propagation of views defending the Mauritanian resistance ( muqawama in Arabic) to French colonization. On the one hand, verbal and writt…
Weapons of the weak, and of the strong: Mauritanian foreign policy and the international dimensions of social activism
This article examines the forms of interplay between the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the international standing recently gained by some of the country's socio-political activists. These different forms of political argumentation are affected by Mauritania's 'Islamic republic' label, which, adopted following independence in 1960, has been opportunistically used by the state and has become a double-edged sword when used…
The Hemeila Riddle: Genealogical Reconfigurations of Pre-colonial Encounters in Southwestern Mauritania
This article will focus on a seldom-considered aspect of Saharan social contexts: the incorporation of European/Christian characters into tribal sociopolitical frameworks. Supported by data from my fieldwork, I will discuss contemporary portrayals of a mid-seventeenth-century woman, Hemeila, whose mother is recognized as a European Christian of Iberian origin. These two women are presently incorporated in different genealogical narratives from So…
Poder e cultura nos iniciais encontros luso-saarianos: Apontamentos etnográficos do sudoeste da Mauritânia (Trarza) / Power and Culture in Early Luso-Saharan Encounters: Ethnographic Notes from Southw…
Poder e cultura constituirão os dois mais marcantes elementos partilhados entre os diferentes projetos Orientalistas. Neste sentido, o artigo procurará tratar as iniciais referências portuguesas ao litoral saariano e suas populações, ensaiando uma "arqueologia" do Orientalismo português, sobre um objeto - "o mouro" (saariano) - que ao longo dos séculos focalizou este debate. Apresentarei também dados relativos aos atuais processos de reconstrução…
Saharan migrant camel herders: Znāga social status and the global age
In the late 20th century, 300 Mauritanian shepherds travelled to the United Arab Emirates in order to tend the herds of some of that country's most prominent leaders. These low-tech subjects of global migration flows were particularly valued and sought after by their Emirati employers for their expertise in raising camels. I analyse the forms and consequences of this migration, focusing on the reintegration of these shepherds into Mauritanian str…
The “Narziguas,” Forgotten Protagonists of Saharan History
This article discusses the processes leading to an almost complete exclusion of some populations native to the western Sahara from oral tradition and historical writing. I will consider the Arabization of this context and its implications in the formation of contemporary identities, when evidence suggests precisely their complexity and non-linearity. In order to assess this argument I will look attentively at a mid-sixteenth-century letter sent t…
Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth Century Western Africa
On Trans-Saharan Trails afirma, no título, trabalhar o contexto oeste-africano, parecendo contudo centrar-se na sua extensão oeste-sariana. Esta precisão bastará para sublinhar o carácter do texto: a complexidade do território trans-sariano, aqui considerado na sua medida mais ampla. Esta obra insere-se num percurso historiográfico há muito trilhado, que nos remete precisamente para o tema do comércio trans-sariano. Face a esta tradição, parece t…
Francisco Freire
A liga dos 'ulamâ da Mauritânia: Islão, 'Modernismo' E Pós-Colonialismo
Este artigo descreve algumas das questões que se colocam aos 'ulamâ da República Islâmica da Mauritânia, interessando-nos acompanhar a reconversão do seu papel contemporâneo face à inovadora figura de um Estado politicamente centralizado. Analisamos aqui os processos que levaram à criação da Liga dos 'Ulamâ da Mauritânia, descrevendo as funcionalidades e discussões que acompanharam a sua afirmação. Desejamos também provar algumas valências episte…
Weapons of the weak, and of the strong: Mauritanian foreign policy and the international dimensions of social activism
This article examines the forms of interplay between the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the international standing recently gained by some of the country's socio-political activists. These different forms of political argumentation are affected by Mauritania's 'Islamic republic' label, which, adopted following independence in 1960, has been opportunistically used by the state and has become a double-edged sword when used…
Saharan migrant camel herders: Znāga social status and the global age
In the late 20th century, 300 Mauritanian shepherds travelled to the United Arab Emirates in order to tend the herds of some of that country's most prominent leaders. These low-tech subjects of global migration flows were particularly valued and sought after by their Emirati employers for their expertise in raising camels. I analyse the forms and consequences of this migration, focusing on the reintegration of these shepherds into Mauritanian str…
The “Narziguas,” Forgotten Protagonists of Saharan History
This article discusses the processes leading to an almost complete exclusion of some populations native to the western Sahara from oral tradition and historical writing. I will consider the Arabization of this context and its implications in the formation of contemporary identities, when evidence suggests precisely their complexity and non-linearity. In order to assess this argument I will look attentively at a mid-sixteenth-century letter sent t…
Looters vs. Traitors: The Muqawama (“Resistance”) Narrative, and its Detractors, in Contemporary Mauritania
Since 2012, when broadcasting licenses were granted to various private television and radio stations in Mauritania, the controversy around the Battle of Um Tounsi (and Mauritania’s colonial past more generally) has grown substantially. One of the results of this unprecedented level of media freedom has been the propagation of views defending the Mauritanian resistance ( muqawama in Arabic) to French colonization. On the one hand, verbal and writt…
The Hemeila Riddle: Genealogical Reconfigurations of Pre-colonial Encounters in Southwestern Mauritania
This article will focus on a seldom-considered aspect of Saharan social contexts: the incorporation of European/Christian characters into tribal sociopolitical frameworks. Supported by data from my fieldwork, I will discuss contemporary portrayals of a mid-seventeenth-century woman, Hemeila, whose mother is recognized as a European Christian of Iberian origin. These two women are presently incorporated in different genealogical narratives from So…
A liga dos 'ulamâ da Mauritânia: Islão, 'Modernismo' E Pós-Colonialismo
Este artigo descreve algumas das questões que se colocam aos 'ulamâ da República Islâmica da Mauritânia, interessando-nos acompanhar a reconversão do seu papel contemporâneo face à inovadora figura de um Estado politicamente centralizado. Analisamos aqui os processos que levaram à criação da Liga dos 'Ulamâ da Mauritânia, descrevendo as funcionalidades e discussões que acompanharam a sua afirmação. Desejamos também provar algumas valências episte…
Francisco Freire
Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth Century Western Africa
On Trans-Saharan Trails afirma, no título, trabalhar o contexto oeste-africano, parecendo contudo centrar-se na sua extensão oeste-sariana. Esta precisão bastará para sublinhar o carácter do texto: a complexidade do território trans-sariano, aqui considerado na sua medida mais ampla. Esta obra insere-se num percurso historiográfico há muito trilhado, que nos remete precisamente para o tema do comércio trans-sariano. Face a esta tradição, parece t…
The “Narziguas,” Forgotten Protagonists of Saharan History
This article discusses the processes leading to an almost complete exclusion of some populations native to the western Sahara from oral tradition and historical writing. I will consider the Arabization of this context and its implications in the formation of contemporary identities, when evidence suggests precisely their complexity and non-linearity. In order to assess this argument I will look attentively at a mid-sixteenth-century letter sent t…
Saharan migrant camel herders: Znāga social status and the global age
In the late 20th century, 300 Mauritanian shepherds travelled to the United Arab Emirates in order to tend the herds of some of that country's most prominent leaders. These low-tech subjects of global migration flows were particularly valued and sought after by their Emirati employers for their expertise in raising camels. I analyse the forms and consequences of this migration, focusing on the reintegration of these shepherds into Mauritanian str…
Poder e cultura nos iniciais encontros luso-saarianos: Apontamentos etnográficos do sudoeste da Mauritânia (Trarza) / Power and Culture in Early Luso-Saharan Encounters: Ethnographic Notes from Southw…
Poder e cultura constituirão os dois mais marcantes elementos partilhados entre os diferentes projetos Orientalistas. Neste sentido, o artigo procurará tratar as iniciais referências portuguesas ao litoral saariano e suas populações, ensaiando uma "arqueologia" do Orientalismo português, sobre um objeto - "o mouro" (saariano) - que ao longo dos séculos focalizou este debate. Apresentarei também dados relativos aos atuais processos de reconstrução…
The Hemeila Riddle: Genealogical Reconfigurations of Pre-colonial Encounters in Southwestern Mauritania
This article will focus on a seldom-considered aspect of Saharan social contexts: the incorporation of European/Christian characters into tribal sociopolitical frameworks. Supported by data from my fieldwork, I will discuss contemporary portrayals of a mid-seventeenth-century woman, Hemeila, whose mother is recognized as a European Christian of Iberian origin. These two women are presently incorporated in different genealogical narratives from So…
Looters vs. Traitors: The Muqawama (“Resistance”) Narrative, and its Detractors, in Contemporary Mauritania
Since 2012, when broadcasting licenses were granted to various private television and radio stations in Mauritania, the controversy around the Battle of Um Tounsi (and Mauritania’s colonial past more generally) has grown substantially. One of the results of this unprecedented level of media freedom has been the propagation of views defending the Mauritanian resistance ( muqawama in Arabic) to French colonization. On the one hand, verbal and writt…
Weapons of the weak, and of the strong: Mauritanian foreign policy and the international dimensions of social activism
This article examines the forms of interplay between the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the international standing recently gained by some of the country's socio-political activists. These different forms of political argumentation are affected by Mauritania's 'Islamic republic' label, which, adopted following independence in 1960, has been opportunistically used by the state and has become a double-edged sword when used…
State, Society and Islam in the Western Regions of the Sahara: Regional Interactions and Social Change
This open access book takes a deeper and broader perspective of the Hassaniya-speaking peoples’ struggle for self-determination in the Western Sahara. There has been a surge of interest in the Western Sahara, often centred around sensationalist news reports and policy briefs on these groups. But in-depth understanding and analysis remains neglected and little work has been undertaken on the diverse experiences of the Hassaniya and the contrasting…
Nota introdutória a 'Antropologia em língua árabe: Para lá do monopólio discursivo' (Abdellah Hammoudi, 2018)
O texto do antropólogo marroquino Abdellah Hammoudi, que hoje encontramos aqui vertido em português, foi originalmente publicado em árabe, em 2018, como introdução ao livro A distância e a Análise: Para a Formulação de Uma Antropologia Árabe (Al-masāfa wa al-taḥlīl: fī ṣyāghat anthrūbūlūjya ʿarabiyya, Casablanca: Éditions Toubkal). Se a geografia e a história aproximam Portugal e Marrocos, este contexto permanece distante das preocupações e inter…
Hiking tourism and rural development: The case of the Mondego Walkways, Portugal
This article examines hiking tourism's contribution to rural development, as perceived by both visitors and local stakeholders / residents, with reference to the Mondego Walkways in central Portugal. The study is based on data collected through quantitative and qualitative methods, namely a survey carried out in situwith walkways' visitors (n = 299) and a set of 16 semi-structured interviews conducted with local stakeholders / residents in 2023. …
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