
“Isso já não existe nada, isso tudo já acabou”
Feb 19, 2021 | Chapters, Publications

“Isso já não existe nada, isso tudo já acabou” — Pensar a Reforma Agrária através das imagens de uma investigação em curso [“That no longer exists, it’s all over” — Thinking about the Agrarian Reform through the images of an ongoing investigation]
- Maria Alice Samara & Vanessa de Almeida
- Quando a História Acelera. Resistência, movimentos sociais e o lugar do futuro [When History Accelerates. Resistance, social movements, and the place of the future]
- João Carlos Louçã e Paula Godinho (Orgs.)
- 2021
- Lisbon: Instituto de História Contemporânea | Colecção E-IHC
- Language: Portuguese
- ISBN: 978-989-8956-231
- 208-234 p.
Excerpt:
Segundo o guia Michelin, a distância de Almada a Montemor-o-Novo é de 95 km, e demora cerca de 1 hora pela A2 e pela A6. Fruto de um diálogo construído ao longo do tempo, de um posicionamento comum, decidimos partir para um terreno para nós desconhecido com uma certeza partilhada: a nossa motivação não era a derrota, mas a esperança inerente ao processo daquela que terá sido a rutura revolucionária mais vincada nascida com o 25 de Abril de 1974, e onde a luta de classes – entre o proletariado rural e os grandes proprietários –, foi uma realidade. Será estranho dizer que procuramos a esperança num processo que sabemos a priori derrotado, mas de facto assim é. Porque antes da derrota, a exaltação esteve lá. A alegria esteve lá. Parafraseando a moda Alentejo é esperança, da autoria de José Borralho, a Reforma Agrária foi «o tempo mais ditoso, em que o futuro nasceu». Depois das primeiras viagens, mudámos de método de como nos embrenhamos na paisagem. Vamos, sempre que possível, por estradas nacionais e municipais. Às vezes, por caminhos de terra batida. A condução abrandou a velocidade, abrindo a possibilidade de encontros inesperados, de paragens não programadas.
About the book:
Nesta obra, vários autores foram convidados a olhar para momentos do tempo em que, como escreveu Galeano, chove de baixo para cima. A partir de várias formações disciplinares, os investigadores que responderam ao repto olham para o tempo comum, para o dia anterior, para as rotinas que corroem, mas que também permitem sobreviver, para os fluxos de gente que se movimenta à procura de uma vida melhor, para a conquista da cidade e do espaço de reconhecimento, para as margens da vida, com as pequenas histórias das personagens secundárias, dos sobreviventes, dos subversivos, dos indígenas, daqueles que em narrativa estranha são entendidos como falhados, incompletos, fadados ao fracasso, irrelevantes. Conjugar o tempo longo, através da memória, do arquivo, da fotografia e da literatura, é um exercício a partir de um dado presente, num tempo de pandemia em que a duração parece ter coagulado. Contudo, convém retirar o tempo forte do baú, e escapar das debilidades presentistas do fim da história, do presente contínuo em que tudo parece confundir-se. A tanto nos propusemos, com esta obra destinada a interrogar os momentos de aceleração da história, os que os precedem e o lastro num tempo longo.
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Research seminar that seeks to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and
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Research seminar that seeks to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.
Mind the Gap III:
Unearthing Petromodernity: Oil Studies in the Anthropocene
Online Research Seminar
The rise of fossil fuels has been central to the political, economic, cultural, and material transformations of the past two centuries, yet the forms of power, knowledge, and life enabled by carbon energy often remain analytically invisible. As we confront the converging crises of the Anthropocene, the need to rethink the centrality of fossil fuels to modern life has never been more urgent.
At a moment when toxic landscapes, resource frontiers, and environmental inequality reveal the uneven geographies of fossil modernity, the humanities and social sciences are reorienting analytical attention toward the energetic foundations of modern life. From pipelines and refineries to plastics and everyday petrochemical products, the material properties of oil have fundamentally shaped modern infrastructures and forms of life. What forms of political and social power are created through fossil fuel industries? How have fossil fuels shaped modern societies, their economic models, governmental regimes, everyday lives? How have they contributed to uneven global geographies rooted in colonialism and capitalism? What kinds of transitions to post-carbon futures are possible?
Bringing together approaches from history, anthropology, political ecology, and geography, we seek to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.
📎 Download full programme (PDF)
Programme:
Every fortnight we will meet online to discuss an article or book chapter circulated in advance. The sessions will start with a 20–30 minute presentation, followed by discussion. The sessions will take place on Mondays at 2PM.
We will explore key concepts such as petro-culture, carbon democracy, extractivism, fossil capital, energy regimes, and transition imaginaries, examining how energy dependence shapes modern subjectivities, infrastructures, economies, and ecological futures. The texts will be shared with participants in advance.
Everyone is welcome.
To register, please fill out the online form. After registering you will receive the readings and access information ahead of each session.
For more information, please write to unearthingpetromodernity@proton.me.
30 March | Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Selected chapter TBA (Verso, 2011)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Focus: How fossil fuels structured democratic politics, labour power and modern governance
13 April | Adam Hanieh, “Petrochemical Empire: The Geo-Politics of Fossil-Fuelled Production“ New Left Review (139)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Global production networks, the Gulf region and the restructuring of capitalism through petrochemicals
27 April | Carola Hein (ed.), Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Chapter 8: Peyerl, D. “Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology” (Routledge, 2022)
Henrique Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Infrastructure, territorial development and the spatial materiality of oil
11 May | Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Selected chapter TBA (Oxford University Pres, 2014)
Raquel Ribeiro (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Focus: Oil, media, culture, and everyday life in twentieth-century society
25 May | Appel, Mason & Watts (Eds.), Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Introduction: “Oil Talk” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Anthropological and political-economic perspectives on oil extraction and everyday life
8 June | Alice Mah, Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation. Chapter 2: “Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations” (Duke University Press, 2023)
João Pedro Santos (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Environmental justice, pollution, and grassroots activism around petrochemical industries
22 June | Chelsea Schields, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Introduction and Chapter 1. “Crude Bargains” (University of California Press, 2023)
Anita Buhin (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil economies, intimacy, and social relations in offshore extraction zones
6 July | Tim Di Muzio & Matt Dow, “Global capitalism and oil“ in Handbook on Oil and International Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing , 2022)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA), Amedeo Policante & Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil in international relations, financialization and the structure of global capitalism
Organisation:
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Tempo
(Segunda-feira) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Localização
Link to be provided to registered participants
Zoom
Organizador
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology
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