Ana Alcântara
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Economy and Society — State, Classes, and Gender
Contact:
anaralcantara@gmail.com
Biography
Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History since 2008.
She holds a PhD in History, with a speciality in Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH), with the thesis “Espaços da Lisboa Operária. Trabalho, habitação, associativismo e intervenção operária na cidade na última década do século XIX“.
She holds a Master’s degree in Science and Geographical Information Systems (NOVA Information Management School), with the dissertation “Caminho-de-ferro e População na Cova da Beira (1878-1930). Um modelo de acessibilidade”. Graduated in History-Archaeology (NOVA FCSH).
She is the author of the scientific writings:
“Uma geografia da Lisboa operária em 1890”, Proceedings of the I Congresso de História do Movimento Operário e dos Movimentos Sociais em Portugal, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2016, pp. 38-52
“A indústria conserveira e a evolução urbana de Setúbal, (1854-1914)”, MUSA – Museus, Arqueologia & Outros Patrimónios, vol. 3, 2010, pp. 237-247
She is the co-author of, among others, the scientific writings:
“Population and Railways in Portugal (1801 – 1930)”, História, Património e Infraestruturas do Caminho-de-Ferro: Visões do Passado e Perspectivas do Futuro, 2014, pp. 63 – 89.
“The Evolution of Population Distribution on the Iberian Peninsula: A Transnational Approach (1877-2001)”, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2013, pp. 157-174.
“The impact of railroad accessibility on the population of Portugal’s Inland North Region (1878-1930). The Tua and the Beira Baixa lines”, Railroads in Historical Context: construction, costs and consequences, 2012, pp. 95-117.
“Caminhos-de-ferro, população e desigualdades territoriais em Portugal, 1801-1930”, Ler História, no. 61, 2011, pp.7-39.
Research fields
- Urban history
- History of labour, of industry, and of transports
- Geographical information systems applied to history
- 19th century
Selected publications
- Alcântara, Ana, “Uma geografia da Lisboa operária em 1890,” in Atas do I Congresso de História do Movimento Operário e dos Movimentos Sociais em Portugal, 13-15 de março de 2013, FCSH-UNL, Vol. I., coordinated by António Simões do Paço, Cátia Teixeira, Paula Godinho, Raquel Varela, and Virgílio Borges Pereira, 38–52. Lisbon: Instituto de História Contemporânea, 2016. [link] 🔓
- Espinha da Silveira, Luís, Daniel Alves, Marco Painho, Ana Cristina Costa & Ana Alcântara. “The Evolution of Population Distribution on the Iberian Peninsula: A Transnational Approach (1877-2001),” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 46 (2013): 157-174. [link].
- Espinha da Silveira, Luís, Daniel Alves, Nuno Miguel Lima, Ana Alcântara & Josep Puig. “Population and Railways in Portugal, 1801-1930,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42 (2011): 29-52. [link]
- Espinha da Silveira, Luís, Nuno Miguel Lima & Ana Alcântara, “The impact of railroad accessibility on the population of Portugal’s Inland North Region (1878-1930). The Tua and the Beira Baixa lines,” in Proceedings of the FOZTUA International Conference: Railroads in Historical Context: Construction, costs and consequences. Volume I, edited by Anne McCants, Eduardo Beira, José M. Lopes Cordeiro, and Paulo Lourenço, 95-117. Vila Nova de Gaia: Inovatec, 2011.
Main projects
- Research technician of the project “The Development of European Waterways, Road and Rail Infrastructures: A Geographical Information System for the History of European Integration (1825-2005)” — Coordinated by Jordi Marti-Henneberg (Departament de Geografia i Sociologia – Universitat de Lleida) and funded by the European Science Foundation and the Foundation for Science and Technology. 2008-2011 [link]
- Team member of the project “DICTIONARIUM – Cartografar as Memórias Paroquiais de 1758” — Coordinated by Luís Espinha da Silveira and funded by POS_Conhecimento POS_C644/4.2/C/REG. 2007-2008.
- Team member of the project “Desenvolver o Sigma – Sistema de Informação Geográfica e Modelação de Dados Aplicado à História de Portugal” — Coordinated by Luís Espinha da Silveira and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. [POCTI/HAR/39204/2001] 2002-2005
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Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
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Event Details
Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop
A dietary mainstay in non-European societies and a cornerstone of dishes like Northern Italian risotto, rice has diverse culinary significance. However, the timing of its introduction to Northern Italy remains unclear. Examining this event offers insights into the process of integrating new crops into both diet and cultural imagination. This talk is about the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy between the sixteenth and the eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. Bringing together the history of knowledge and environmental history, in this talk I will reflect on how rice was appropriated by several actors, and on how these appropriations were intertwined with perceptions and constructions of the landscape and material environment. By interlacing narratives of rice cultivation and of the landscapes rice forms, alongside discussions of infrastructural development and knowledge systems, I will also delineate the progression of interactions between humans and their environments, as well as the evolution of water management practices, scientific advancements, medical understandings, and political-economic ideologies across different historical periods. Additionally, the talk will highlight how resources were conceptualized in the early modern period, reconnecting to contemporary debates on the Anthropocene and on the agency of non-humans.
About IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar:
Lavinia Maddaluno is Assistant Professor in early modern history at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, working on David Gentilcore’s ERC project The Water Cultures of Italy 1500-1900. She is a historian of science interested in exploring the nexus between humans, nature and economy in early modern Europe. Lavinia has just completed her first monograph Science and political Economy in Enlightenment Milan (1760-1805), forthcoming with the Voltaire Foundation in autumn 2024. She is currently editing a book on rice in the Mediterranean with Rachele Scuro and a special issue on Water Knowledge with Giacomo Savani and Davide Martino. Lavinia has held multiple fellowships since the end of her PhD (Cambridge UK, 2018), from a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome, to a Max Weber Fellowship at the EUI and a joint Warburg/I Tatti Fellowship in the History of Science. More recently, she has been Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Fondazione Einaudi, working on a new project on rice-related knowledge networks between France and Italy in the Enlightenment.
Attendance is free.
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(Tuesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanitiescomunicacao.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt Avenida de Berna, 26C - 1069-061 Lisbon
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