Marta Macedo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3798079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Macedo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Macedo |
| SIGNATURE | MACEDO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2867-8828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women construction workers
Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe
This study describes a non-adult individual with bone features suggestive of β-thalassemia, a disease commonly found in malaria-endemic regions today and in the past. The skeleton of a 5.5- to 6.5-year-old child exhumed from a 16th- to 18th-century CE necropolis in Almeirim (Portugal) was examined macroscopically, with a scanning electron microscope, and by conventional radiology and computed tomography. This individual shows frontoparietal diplo…
Plantations Beyond Monocrops
São Tomé, a small island in the Gulf of Guinea and a former Portuguese colony, is an exemplary place to analyze the development of plantation "cropscapes." These cropscapes emerged around sugar in the sixteenth century, evolved with coffee in the 1850s and consolidated with cocoa from the 1880s onwards. While is impossible to ignore the monocultural nature of São Tomé plantations and the centrality of specific plants for these plantation ecologie…
Colonial Plantations and Their Afterlives
Introduction
In this chapter, we outline our contribution to the study of plantations, building upon a wide and important body of critical literature that has developed on the subject over more than a century of reflections and struggles. Plantations are analyzed according to three main axes: an eco-material dimension that articulates to racial injustices; the long-term material, affective and symbolic imprints of plantations; and their sovereign dimensions. …
Punishment, re-education and agriculture
Punishment, re-education and agriculture: Portuguese internal and imperial penal colonisation in the nineteenth century This paper considers a set of Portuguese state-funded projects for agricultural colonisation using coerced subjects. In the second half of the nineteenth century, mounting urbanisation, joblessness, and deprivation, resulting in depopulated countryside and a fractious urban milieu, drove experts to seek international examples fo…
Global Plantations in the Modern World
This edited collection examines the role of plantations as productive, socio-political and ecological units throughout imperial and post-colonial worlds
Global Plantations in the Modern World
Coffee on the move
In the mid 19th century, plantations began to spread across multiple geographies of the Global South. This paper discusses this particular institution and phenomena, by focusing on the Atlantic circulation of coffee plants, agronomic knowledge and racialized labour practices. Combining approaches from mobilities studies and history of technology, it argues that plantations are particularly well suited to grasp the dynamics of displacement and res…
Disrupted Ecologies
Objects in Motion
Reviewed by: Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology ed. by Nina Möllers, Bryan Dewalt Marta Macedo (bio) Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology. Edited by Nina Möllers and Bryan Dewalt. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016. Pp. 256. $44.99. Objects in Motion, edited by Nina Möllers and Bryan Dewalt, is the tenth volume of the book series Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. The series is the …
Standard Cocoa
In the early 1900s, an obscure Portuguese colony in the equatorial Atlantic rose as the world's leading cocoa producer. Cocoa from the island of São Tomé was grown on large plantations with indentured labor and high technological inputs. This technoscientific system, to control both plants and people, became the model for making an industry-suited cocoa, and the material evidence of the moral and economic virtues of the colonial plantation. Exper…
Technology and Nation
This essay explores the role of technology in building nations as material and cultural artifacts from two peripheral perspectives. First, it brings to the fore what we call epistemic peripheries in the history of technology, be they objects or actors usually neglected when studying the interplay between technology and the nation. Second, it deals with geographic peripheries by focusing on connections, networks, and circulation processes far beyo…
Port Wine Landscape
It is easy to understand why regions that produce very fine goods such as port wine tend to conceal technological and scientific inputs and praise the uniqueness of the terroir. This paper suggests that, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, viticulture in the Douro region of Portugal was as much a product of soil, local farming traditions, and individual entrepreneurship as it was of modern state science and national politics for ag…
Standard Cocoa
In the early 1900s, an obscure Portuguese colony in the equatorial Atlantic rose as the world's leading cocoa producer. Cocoa from the island of São Tomé was grown on large plantations with indentured labor and high technological inputs. This technoscientific system, to control both plants and people, became the model for making an industry-suited cocoa, and the material evidence of the moral and economic virtues of the colonial plantation. Exper…
Coffee on the move
In the mid 19th century, plantations began to spread across multiple geographies of the Global South. This paper discusses this particular institution and phenomena, by focusing on the Atlantic circulation of coffee plants, agronomic knowledge and racialized labour practices. Combining approaches from mobilities studies and history of technology, it argues that plantations are particularly well suited to grasp the dynamics of displacement and res…
Plantations Beyond Monocrops
São Tomé, a small island in the Gulf of Guinea and a former Portuguese colony, is an exemplary place to analyze the development of plantation "cropscapes." These cropscapes emerged around sugar in the sixteenth century, evolved with coffee in the 1850s and consolidated with cocoa from the 1880s onwards. While is impossible to ignore the monocultural nature of São Tomé plantations and the centrality of specific plants for these plantation ecologie…
Global Plantations in the Modern World
This edited collection examines the role of plantations as productive, socio-political and ecological units throughout imperial and post-colonial worlds
Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe
This study describes a non-adult individual with bone features suggestive of β-thalassemia, a disease commonly found in malaria-endemic regions today and in the past. The skeleton of a 5.5- to 6.5-year-old child exhumed from a 16th- to 18th-century CE necropolis in Almeirim (Portugal) was examined macroscopically, with a scanning electron microscope, and by conventional radiology and computed tomography. This individual shows frontoparietal diplo…
Technology and Nation
This essay explores the role of technology in building nations as material and cultural artifacts from two peripheral perspectives. First, it brings to the fore what we call epistemic peripheries in the history of technology, be they objects or actors usually neglected when studying the interplay between technology and the nation. Second, it deals with geographic peripheries by focusing on connections, networks, and circulation processes far beyo…
Port Wine Landscape
It is easy to understand why regions that produce very fine goods such as port wine tend to conceal technological and scientific inputs and praise the uniqueness of the terroir. This paper suggests that, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, viticulture in the Douro region of Portugal was as much a product of soil, local farming traditions, and individual entrepreneurship as it was of modern state science and national politics for ag…
Standard Cocoa
In the early 1900s, an obscure Portuguese colony in the equatorial Atlantic rose as the world's leading cocoa producer. Cocoa from the island of São Tomé was grown on large plantations with indentured labor and high technological inputs. This technoscientific system, to control both plants and people, became the model for making an industry-suited cocoa, and the material evidence of the moral and economic virtues of the colonial plantation. Exper…
Technology and Nation
This essay explores the role of technology in building nations as material and cultural artifacts from two peripheral perspectives. First, it brings to the fore what we call epistemic peripheries in the history of technology, be they objects or actors usually neglected when studying the interplay between technology and the nation. Second, it deals with geographic peripheries by focusing on connections, networks, and circulation processes far beyo…
Objects in Motion
Reviewed by: Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology ed. by Nina Möllers, Bryan Dewalt Marta Macedo (bio) Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology. Edited by Nina Möllers and Bryan Dewalt. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016. Pp. 256. $44.99. Objects in Motion, edited by Nina Möllers and Bryan Dewalt, is the tenth volume of the book series Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. The series is the …
Disrupted Ecologies
Coffee on the move
In the mid 19th century, plantations began to spread across multiple geographies of the Global South. This paper discusses this particular institution and phenomena, by focusing on the Atlantic circulation of coffee plants, agronomic knowledge and racialized labour practices. Combining approaches from mobilities studies and history of technology, it argues that plantations are particularly well suited to grasp the dynamics of displacement and res…
Global Plantations in the Modern World
Colonial Plantations and Their Afterlives
Introduction
In this chapter, we outline our contribution to the study of plantations, building upon a wide and important body of critical literature that has developed on the subject over more than a century of reflections and struggles. Plantations are analyzed according to three main axes: an eco-material dimension that articulates to racial injustices; the long-term material, affective and symbolic imprints of plantations; and their sovereign dimensions. …
Punishment, re-education and agriculture
Punishment, re-education and agriculture: Portuguese internal and imperial penal colonisation in the nineteenth century This paper considers a set of Portuguese state-funded projects for agricultural colonisation using coerced subjects. In the second half of the nineteenth century, mounting urbanisation, joblessness, and deprivation, resulting in depopulated countryside and a fractious urban milieu, drove experts to seek international examples fo…
Global Plantations in the Modern World
This edited collection examines the role of plantations as productive, socio-political and ecological units throughout imperial and post-colonial worlds
Possible thalassemia intermedia in a child (16th–18th century) from the westernmost part of Europe
This study describes a non-adult individual with bone features suggestive of β-thalassemia, a disease commonly found in malaria-endemic regions today and in the past. The skeleton of a 5.5- to 6.5-year-old child exhumed from a 16th- to 18th-century CE necropolis in Almeirim (Portugal) was examined macroscopically, with a scanning electron microscope, and by conventional radiology and computed tomography. This individual shows frontoparietal diplo…
Plantations Beyond Monocrops
São Tomé, a small island in the Gulf of Guinea and a former Portuguese colony, is an exemplary place to analyze the development of plantation "cropscapes." These cropscapes emerged around sugar in the sixteenth century, evolved with coffee in the 1850s and consolidated with cocoa from the 1880s onwards. While is impossible to ignore the monocultural nature of São Tomé plantations and the centrality of specific plants for these plantation ecologie…
Women construction workers
Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Economics (5 works)