J Schubert
Biographic Data
| ID | 44939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Schubert |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schubert |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUBERT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1100-8086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Thinking through material incompletion
In an era of accelerated urban development driven by future orientation—what does incompletion do and what are its social effects? Based on ethnographic work in Lobito, Zurich and Delhi, we push back against what we call here the ‘tyranny of completion’ both analytically and methodologically, by showing how incompletion emerges as a mode of anticipatory future-making. We focus on incompletion as a constitutive element of speculative urbanism, on …
Selling Out Security? Reassessing the Securitisation of Chinese FDI in Europe
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo
Taking China Miéville's novel The City & The City as our point of departure, we develop the idea of "unseeing" as a central cultural skill to make sense of, and live with, contemporary urban inequality. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Luanda and Maputo, we posit unseeing as a useful heuristic to capture the processes by which divisions between disparate urban lifeworlds are produced and upheld. While unseeing is a necessary, entraine…
Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges and realities of climate change adaptation in African coastal cities and beyond. By centring African expertise and actors while accounting for global embeddedness and historically sedimented inequalities, we can come to a more agentive, processual an…
Maintaining a city against nature: Climate adaptation in Beira
The port city of Beira, on Mozambique’s Indian Ocean coast, was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Idai in March 2019. Ever since, a host of unequal international and national actors have been wrangling about the best forms to ‘build back better’, with uneven and socially and spatially unequally distributed results. The institutional set-up and concomitant challenges of making adaptation work are described in a context where the pressures of both gro…
China’s Global Governance as a Tool for Accelerating International Sustainable Development and Pandemic Security
This study explores China’s robust response to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic, employing health diplomacy and soft power strategies to boost international relations and global health outcomes. China’s contributions to international organisations, investments in biotechnology and provision of medical aid underline its pivotal role in health diplomacy. The country’s approach, encompassing the Health Silk Road and vaccine diplomacy, is viewed…
Chalfin, Brenda: Waste Works. Vital Politics in Urban Ghana
Magical math hand-waving: The coloniality of political risk forecasting
Political risk forecasting is an industry that provides specialized analysis to a range of clients, including insurance companies, extractive industries, governments, defense ministries, and NGOs. Risk forecasters aim to help their clients mitigate risks by anticipating political developments that could threaten their investments and assets, especially in the "emerging markets" of the Global South. What can ethnographic analysis reveal about this…
A vision for the future: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique's public sector
Global imaginaries of middle-classness, although resonating in very different ways in specific national contexts, more often than not conform to broadly capitalist-liberal aspirations, through globalised markers of consumption and individual social advancement. However, as this ethnographic material from Mozambique's mining and hydrocarbons sector suggests, even under contemporary conditions of neoliberalism, alternative imaginings of middle-clas…
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship
The 'middle class' has become the subject of euphoric narratives of growth and improving standards of living around the globe, and the object of government interventions and social engineering. Government interventions may be ineffective, have unintended outcomes, or be left barely articulated. Yet the place of the middle classes as embodying national success, stability and modernity has taken on the power of common sense. Modern states have long…
Fear and fainting in Luanda: Paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola
This article unpacks the events and reactions surrounding a mysterious 'fainting wave' that swept through Angolan middle and high schools from early 2011 on. By attending to the historicity and materiality of the fainting wave, the article investigates why the strong conviction took root of a dark political intentionality behind this inexplicable phenomenon, and why this conspiratorial interpretation prevailed over alternative explanations of a m…
Disrupted dreams of development: Neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola
Thanks to oil revenues, since the end of the war in 2002, Angola has largely eschewed the usual donor conditionalities in its state-led reconstruction process; the 2014 oil price drop, however, revealed the limits of this economic miracle. Coupled with a long-overdue political transition inside the ruling party, this moment of designated crisis has opened up spaces for elites to inject their continued projects of accumulation with the moralizing …
The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito
Cargo shipping, as emblematic stand-in for globalization, peddles a seductive imagery of frictionless transnational trade and just-in-time logistics. Backed by the normative might of transnational institutions, instruments such as UNCTAD’s Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA) are being rolled out across “developing countries,” promising the rationalization, acceleration, and “dematerialization” of customs processing, while countries themse…
The positive impact of lockdown in Wuhan on containing the Covid-19 outbreak in China
BACKGROUND: With its epicenter in Wuhan, China, the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). Consequently, many countries have implemented flight restrictions to China. China itself has imposed a lockdown of the population of Wuhan as well as the entire Hubei province. However, whether these two enormous measures have led to significant changes in the spread of COVID…
Colonial Resonances
Jon Schubert explores how fundamental inequalities and unstainable practices of extractive capitalism resonate in the spatial layout and colonial architectural aesthetics of the Angolan port city of Lobito
Un atto d'amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l'integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative
Un atto d'amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l'integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative, è il risultato di un workshop finanziato da LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment Funds dal titolo Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organizzato da Andrea E. Pia e tenuto presso la London School of Economics il 9 settembre 2019
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment-funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organised by Andrea E. Pia and held at the London School of Economics on September 9, 2019
Wilful entanglements: Extractive industries and the co-production of sovereignty in Mozambique
This article looks at how actors commonly associated with the separate spheres of the state, private industry, and civil society, are engaging in wilful entanglements to improve the Mozambican state's capacities in managing the country's nascent extractive industry sector. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, the article suggests that these entanglements renegotiate and co-produce ideas and p…
Neoliberal moral economy: Capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda
This book is ambitious in its scope and argument, seeking to reformulate how Africanist political science thinks about political economy. It does so by investigating how neoliberal reforms in Uganda have changed the moral underpinnings of economic activity and, by extension, society at large. While the thrust of this argument offers a welcome critique of more functionalist, rational-choice type theories of economic life and normative accounts of …
Les « glorieuses familles »1: Liens de parenté situationnels, stratégie agentielle et critique du pouvoir en Angola
L’anthropologie a depuis longtemps examiné les liens entre le symbolisme de la parenté et la légitimité politique en Afrique, selon lesquels l’autorité légitime repose sur des imaginaires familiaux et paternels du pouvoir. Le cas de l’Angola nous offre une occasion de revoir ce trope classique de manière critique : autant les liens de famille qui unissaient les cercles restreints du pouvoir autour de l’ancien Président dos Santos sont de notoriét…
Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the systemâEuro"an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environmentâEuro"Jon Schubert explores what it means and how it feels to be part of the contemporary Angolan polity. Schubert finds …
Seeing is believing: Symbolic politics and the opportunities of non-democratic transition in Angola
Following the resignation of President José Eduardo dos Santos after 38 years in power, the August 2017 elections in Angola were peaceful, yet had questionable results and returned the ruling party, the MPLA (The Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) to power. However, in his first three months in office, the new president, João Lourenço, has proceeded to make some high-profile reshuffles and symbolic actions that have induced a palpable sense o…
A Culture of Immediatism: Co-optation and Complicity in Post-war Angola
This article explores the notion of a 'culture of immediatism' that characterises the current political and socio-economic environment of Angola, according to residents of its capital, Luanda. Analysing the material and symbolic affects of the post-war economic boom in the lives of 'ordinary' citizens, the article proposes to read the discourses and practices deployed on the ideological terrain of 'immediatism' as renegotiations of hegemony. By e…
Against the System, within the System: The Parameters of the Political
The final chapter explores what happens when the ‘hegemonic domination’ sketched out previously reaches its limits. It shows how youth anti-government protests that started in 2011 utilise the discursive repertoires of dominant ideology to challenge the dominance of the regime. By disassembling the discursive and performative reactions by various social actors to those events the chapter draws back together the different elements that make up the…
Angolanidade: Mediating Urbanity through Race and Class
Through the unstable, contested notion of Angolanness ( angolanidade ), this chapter explores the complex interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and nationality in contemporary Angola — all unresolved issues that remain a political taboo and potent identitary discourses. However, the idiom of race is part of the popular political imaginary of the sistema : people in Luanda often perceive their ruling class as strangers, and denounce them as a forei…
Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Offering the first long-term ethnographic study of Angola since the end of its decades-long internal conflict, this book offers an empirically and analytically innovative perspective that balances the ‘Africa rising’ narrative pervading mainstream media reports of post-war Angola, and complicates the clientelist account of Angolan politics that predominates in academic literature. It does so by privileging an ethnographic approach rooted in urban…
Democratisation' and the Consolidation of Political Authority in Post-War Angola
‘Hoje, quando ouvem que vai ter eleições, as pessoas vão comprar sal.’ Por quê? ‘A última vez fugimos sem sal.’1 1 Interview with Anonymous, Head of CPE, Provincial Electoral Commission, 27 April 2007. * Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa When the people today hear that there'll be elections, they go and buy salt. Why? The last time, we fled and forgot to pack salt. ‘Votar significa mudar …
Year Zero: History as Anti-Politics in the 'New Angola
Since the end of the Angolan conflict in 2002, the ruling Movemento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) party has been promoting a ‘master narrative’ of ‘peace and reconstruction’, through which the Angolan conflict is re-signified as a merely technical issue, and the question of ‘national reconciliation’ is limited to the reconstruction of infrastructures. Conversely, post-war memory politics revisits the past only selectively. While the hist…
A Culture of Immediatism: Co-optation and Complicity in Post-war Angola
This article explores the notion of a 'culture of immediatism' that characterises the current political and socio-economic environment of Angola, according to residents of its capital, Luanda. Analysing the material and symbolic affects of the post-war economic boom in the lives of 'ordinary' citizens, the article proposes to read the discourses and practices deployed on the ideological terrain of 'immediatism' as renegotiations of hegemony. By e…
Wilful entanglements: Extractive industries and the co-production of sovereignty in Mozambique
This article looks at how actors commonly associated with the separate spheres of the state, private industry, and civil society, are engaging in wilful entanglements to improve the Mozambican state's capacities in managing the country's nascent extractive industry sector. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, the article suggests that these entanglements renegotiate and co-produce ideas and p…
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship
The 'middle class' has become the subject of euphoric narratives of growth and improving standards of living around the globe, and the object of government interventions and social engineering. Government interventions may be ineffective, have unintended outcomes, or be left barely articulated. Yet the place of the middle classes as embodying national success, stability and modernity has taken on the power of common sense. Modern states have long…
Seeing is believing: Symbolic politics and the opportunities of non-democratic transition in Angola
Following the resignation of President José Eduardo dos Santos after 38 years in power, the August 2017 elections in Angola were peaceful, yet had questionable results and returned the ruling party, the MPLA (The Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) to power. However, in his first three months in office, the new president, João Lourenço, has proceeded to make some high-profile reshuffles and symbolic actions that have induced a palpable sense o…
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo
Taking China Miéville's novel The City & The City as our point of departure, we develop the idea of "unseeing" as a central cultural skill to make sense of, and live with, contemporary urban inequality. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Luanda and Maputo, we posit unseeing as a useful heuristic to capture the processes by which divisions between disparate urban lifeworlds are produced and upheld. While unseeing is a necessary, entraine…
Maintaining a city against nature: Climate adaptation in Beira
The port city of Beira, on Mozambique’s Indian Ocean coast, was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Idai in March 2019. Ever since, a host of unequal international and national actors have been wrangling about the best forms to ‘build back better’, with uneven and socially and spatially unequally distributed results. The institutional set-up and concomitant challenges of making adaptation work are described in a context where the pressures of both gro…
Magical math hand-waving: The coloniality of political risk forecasting
Political risk forecasting is an industry that provides specialized analysis to a range of clients, including insurance companies, extractive industries, governments, defense ministries, and NGOs. Risk forecasters aim to help their clients mitigate risks by anticipating political developments that could threaten their investments and assets, especially in the "emerging markets" of the Global South. What can ethnographic analysis reveal about this…
China’s Global Governance as a Tool for Accelerating International Sustainable Development and Pandemic Security
This study explores China’s robust response to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 pandemic, employing health diplomacy and soft power strategies to boost international relations and global health outcomes. China’s contributions to international organisations, investments in biotechnology and provision of medical aid underline its pivotal role in health diplomacy. The country’s approach, encompassing the Health Silk Road and vaccine diplomacy, is viewed…
Disrupted dreams of development: Neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola
Thanks to oil revenues, since the end of the war in 2002, Angola has largely eschewed the usual donor conditionalities in its state-led reconstruction process; the 2014 oil price drop, however, revealed the limits of this economic miracle. Coupled with a long-overdue political transition inside the ruling party, this moment of designated crisis has opened up spaces for elites to inject their continued projects of accumulation with the moralizing …
Colonial Resonances
Jon Schubert explores how fundamental inequalities and unstainable practices of extractive capitalism resonate in the spatial layout and colonial architectural aesthetics of the Angolan port city of Lobito
Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges and realities of climate change adaptation in African coastal cities and beyond. By centring African expertise and actors while accounting for global embeddedness and historically sedimented inequalities, we can come to a more agentive, processual an…
A vision for the future: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique's public sector
Global imaginaries of middle-classness, although resonating in very different ways in specific national contexts, more often than not conform to broadly capitalist-liberal aspirations, through globalised markers of consumption and individual social advancement. However, as this ethnographic material from Mozambique's mining and hydrocarbons sector suggests, even under contemporary conditions of neoliberalism, alternative imaginings of middle-clas…
Fear and fainting in Luanda: Paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola
This article unpacks the events and reactions surrounding a mysterious 'fainting wave' that swept through Angolan middle and high schools from early 2011 on. By attending to the historicity and materiality of the fainting wave, the article investigates why the strong conviction took root of a dark political intentionality behind this inexplicable phenomenon, and why this conspiratorial interpretation prevailed over alternative explanations of a m…
Les « glorieuses familles »1: Liens de parenté situationnels, stratégie agentielle et critique du pouvoir en Angola
L’anthropologie a depuis longtemps examiné les liens entre le symbolisme de la parenté et la légitimité politique en Afrique, selon lesquels l’autorité légitime repose sur des imaginaires familiaux et paternels du pouvoir. Le cas de l’Angola nous offre une occasion de revoir ce trope classique de manière critique : autant les liens de famille qui unissaient les cercles restreints du pouvoir autour de l’ancien Président dos Santos sont de notoriét…
Publikationen des modernen chinesisch-tibetischen Schrifttums
Democratisation' and the Consolidation of Political Authority in Post-War Angola
‘Hoje, quando ouvem que vai ter eleições, as pessoas vão comprar sal.’ Por quê? ‘A última vez fugimos sem sal.’1 1 Interview with Anonymous, Head of CPE, Provincial Electoral Commission, 27 April 2007. * Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa When the people today hear that there'll be elections, they go and buy salt. Why? The last time, we fled and forgot to pack salt. ‘Votar significa mudar …
Year Zero: History as Anti-Politics in the 'New Angola
Since the end of the Angolan conflict in 2002, the ruling Movemento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) party has been promoting a ‘master narrative’ of ‘peace and reconstruction’, through which the Angolan conflict is re-signified as a merely technical issue, and the question of ‘national reconciliation’ is limited to the reconstruction of infrastructures. Conversely, post-war memory politics revisits the past only selectively. While the hist…
Violence and the Everyday in Angola's Civil War
With one of the longest-running armed conflicts in the 20th century, Angola was, especially during the 1990s, portrayed as a paradigmatic case of an increasingly senseless ‘bush war’, with the deva
Against the System, within the System: The Parameters of the Political
The final chapter explores what happens when the ‘hegemonic domination’ sketched out previously reaches its limits. It shows how youth anti-government protests that started in 2011 utilise the discursive repertoires of dominant ideology to challenge the dominance of the regime. By disassembling the discursive and performative reactions by various social actors to those events the chapter draws back together the different elements that make up the…
Angolanidade: Mediating Urbanity through Race and Class
Through the unstable, contested notion of Angolanness ( angolanidade ), this chapter explores the complex interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and nationality in contemporary Angola — all unresolved issues that remain a political taboo and potent identitary discourses. However, the idiom of race is part of the popular political imaginary of the sistema : people in Luanda often perceive their ruling class as strangers, and denounce them as a forei…
Epilogue: Reconfiguring the System
The epilogue updates the book with the most recent political developments in Angola (2012-2016), focusing on the growing repression of dissidence since the 2012. It appears that the cultivation of consent is reaching its limits, and that the regime is increasingly relying on the armor of coercion to ensure its survival. This chapter then offers a further perspective on the ways the system is being remade and reproduced in a moment of crisis, and …
Year Zero: The Foundations of the New Angola
Since the end of the Angolan conflict in 2002, the ruling MPLA party has been promoting a ‘master narrative’ of ‘peace and reconstruction’ through which the Angolan conflict is resignified as a merely technical issue, and the question of ‘national reconciliation’ is limited to the reconstruction of infrastructures. This chapter analyses the discursive strategies and performative acts employed in these processes, and looks at the symbolic and mate…
Conclusion: Making the System Work
The conclusion restates the main points of the book: Working through the emic understanding of contemporary Angolan society as a system that needs to be understood, mastered, and managed to successfully navigate daily life, this ethnography encompasses both the symbolic and material affects of power in people’s lives. By focusing on the relational, sensuous and reciprocal dimensions of power, this study seeks to understand the co-production of th…
Cunhas: Situational Kinship and Everyday Authority
This chapter looks at practices of situative kinship in everyday interactions between citizens and agents of the state, and the ideas of power and hierarchy expressed in these practices. This reveals the tensions between what people see as the real functioning of society, and their perspectives on how society should work. However, the idea of kinship an oppositional discourse must be complicated through the exploration of the everyday practice of…
A Culture of Immediatism: Co-optation and Complicity
This chapter looks at the desires produced by Angola’s oil wealth and analyses the material and symbolic effects of the post-war economic boom on the lives of Luandans. It does so by exploring the often-cited emic notion of a ‘culture of immediatism’ to show how the dynamics of economic growth and the commodification of politics are perceived and utilized by the population. Contrary to popular interpretation the idea that regime critics are simpl…
Sambizanga: The Affects of Place and Memory
This chapter looks at the affects of place in the ‘historic’ neighbourhood of Sambizanga: how does the material transformation of a specific place seep into people’s memories? How does the engagement with urban space, and narrative-making stabilise the unruliness and disruptive potential of past violence that cannot publicly be spoken of? The chapter discusses the multiple ways in which memories are a central element to the renegotiation and dial…
Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Offering the first long-term ethnographic study of Angola since the end of its decades-long internal conflict, this book offers an empirically and analytically innovative perspective that balances the ‘Africa rising’ narrative pervading mainstream media reports of post-war Angola, and complicates the clientelist account of Angolan politics that predominates in academic literature. It does so by privileging an ethnographic approach rooted in urban…
Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the systemâEuro"an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environmentâEuro"Jon Schubert explores what it means and how it feels to be part of the contemporary Angolan polity. Schubert finds …
Seeing is believing: Symbolic politics and the opportunities of non-democratic transition in Angola
Following the resignation of President José Eduardo dos Santos after 38 years in power, the August 2017 elections in Angola were peaceful, yet had questionable results and returned the ruling party, the MPLA (The Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) to power. However, in his first three months in office, the new president, João Lourenço, has proceeded to make some high-profile reshuffles and symbolic actions that have induced a palpable sense o…
A Culture of Immediatism: Co-optation and Complicity in Post-war Angola
This article explores the notion of a 'culture of immediatism' that characterises the current political and socio-economic environment of Angola, according to residents of its capital, Luanda. Analysing the material and symbolic affects of the post-war economic boom in the lives of 'ordinary' citizens, the article proposes to read the discourses and practices deployed on the ideological terrain of 'immediatism' as renegotiations of hegemony. By e…
Neoliberal moral economy: Capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda
This book is ambitious in its scope and argument, seeking to reformulate how Africanist political science thinks about political economy. It does so by investigating how neoliberal reforms in Uganda have changed the moral underpinnings of economic activity and, by extension, society at large. While the thrust of this argument offers a welcome critique of more functionalist, rational-choice type theories of economic life and normative accounts of …
Les « glorieuses familles »1: Liens de parenté situationnels, stratégie agentielle et critique du pouvoir en Angola
L’anthropologie a depuis longtemps examiné les liens entre le symbolisme de la parenté et la légitimité politique en Afrique, selon lesquels l’autorité légitime repose sur des imaginaires familiaux et paternels du pouvoir. Le cas de l’Angola nous offre une occasion de revoir ce trope classique de manière critique : autant les liens de famille qui unissaient les cercles restreints du pouvoir autour de l’ancien Président dos Santos sont de notoriét…
The positive impact of lockdown in Wuhan on containing the Covid-19 outbreak in China
BACKGROUND: With its epicenter in Wuhan, China, the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). Consequently, many countries have implemented flight restrictions to China. China itself has imposed a lockdown of the population of Wuhan as well as the entire Hubei province. However, whether these two enormous measures have led to significant changes in the spread of COVID…
Colonial Resonances
Jon Schubert explores how fundamental inequalities and unstainable practices of extractive capitalism resonate in the spatial layout and colonial architectural aesthetics of the Angolan port city of Lobito
Un atto d'amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l'integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative
Un atto d'amore: Manifesto Open Access per la libertà, l'integrità e la creatività nelle scienze umane e nelle scienze sociali interpretative, è il risultato di un workshop finanziato da LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment Funds dal titolo Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organizzato da Andrea E. Pia e tenuto presso la London School of Economics il 9 settembre 2019
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment-funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom, Academic Integrity and Open Access in the Social Sciences, organised by Andrea E. Pia and held at the London School of Economics on September 9, 2019
Wilful entanglements: Extractive industries and the co-production of sovereignty in Mozambique
This article looks at how actors commonly associated with the separate spheres of the state, private industry, and civil society, are engaging in wilful entanglements to improve the Mozambican state's capacities in managing the country's nascent extractive industry sector. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, the article suggests that these entanglements renegotiate and co-produce ideas and p…
The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito
Cargo shipping, as emblematic stand-in for globalization, peddles a seductive imagery of frictionless transnational trade and just-in-time logistics. Backed by the normative might of transnational institutions, instruments such as UNCTAD’s Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA) are being rolled out across “developing countries,” promising the rationalization, acceleration, and “dematerialization” of customs processing, while countries themse…
A vision for the future: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique's public sector
Global imaginaries of middle-classness, although resonating in very different ways in specific national contexts, more often than not conform to broadly capitalist-liberal aspirations, through globalised markers of consumption and individual social advancement. However, as this ethnographic material from Mozambique's mining and hydrocarbons sector suggests, even under contemporary conditions of neoliberalism, alternative imaginings of middle-clas…
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