Constantino Piçarra
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Political History — Regimes, Transitions, and Memory
Contact:
constantino.p@sapo.pt
Biography
Manager and senior technician at Dialogoriginal, Bibliotecas, Museus e Arquivos, Lda., in which he is responsible for the current restructuring the museological project of the Museum of Rurality in the municipality of Castro Verde and coordinating the work of inventorying and cataloguing the archive of the Grémio da Lavoura in this municipality. He is an integrated researcher at NOVA FCSH’s Institute of Contemporary History.
He has a Degree in History from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (1983), with a Specialization Course in Documentary Sciences from the same School (1996) and a Diploma of Specialization in Educational Sciences (DUECE), in the area of “Evaluation in Education ”, by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has a pedagogical certificate for teaching obtained at the Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (1986/88) and a Masters in History of the 19th – 20th century (2000) from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is and doctoral candidate in Contemporary History at the same School, with a thesis, nearing completion, on the revolution and counter-revolution in the fields of Portugal in 1975 – 1977.
His research interests are centred on the agrarian question on 20th century Portugal, on the social struggles in the countryside during the same period and on the revolutionary process that resulted from the 25th of April 1974.
Research fields
- The agrarian question (20th century)
- Social conflicts in the fields (20th century)
- Opposition to the Estado Novo
- The Portuguese revolutionary process and democracy after the 25th of April 1974
Selected publications
- Piçarra, Constantino. “O impacto político, económico e social da reforma agraria nos campos do Sul de Portugal, 1975-1977,” Investigaciones Históricas 40 (2020): 57-84. [link] 🔓
- Louçã, António, Constantino Piçarra, Fernando Rosas, Francisco Louçã, José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro, Miguel Pérez Suárez, Rui Bebiano & Thaiz Senna. A Revolução Russa – 100 Anos Depois. Lisbon: Parsifal, 2017. [link]
- Piçarra, Constantino. As Ocupações de Terras no Distrito de Beja, 1974 – 1975. Coimbra: Almedina, 2008. [link]
- Piçarra, Constantino, “O Movimento Social dos Assalariados Agrícolas do Distrito de Beja,” in Uma Revolução na Revolução: Reforma Agrária no Sul de Portugal, directed by António Murteira. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2014.
Main projects
- Inventory and cataloging of the Grémio da Lavoura de Castro Verde. Coordination: Dialogoriginal, Bibliotecas, Museus e Arquivos, Lda — Funded by the Castro Verde Municipality.
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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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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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(Terça-feira) 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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