
Lisbon and the Great War
Dec 29, 2018 | Papers, Publications

Lisbon and the Great War: food and municipal power, 1916-1918
- Ana Paula Pires
- 2018
- Ler História
- Issue 73
- 169-192
- Language: Portuguese
- DOI: 10.4000/lerhistoria.4267
- ISSN: —
This article aims at analyzing the main measures implemented by the municipality of Lisbon (the first Portuguese city) in order to adapt to the needs created by the war. It will therefore analyze the limits and dimensions of the “politization” of consumptions, emphasizing the impact of food scarcity in workers’ living conditions, stressing the devaluation of salaries, the insufficiency of productions, distribution problems, speculation and hoarding. These events also help us to understand the wave of strikes that affected Lisbon in the Spring and Summer of 1917, reflecting the difficulties that the country suffered since the entrance in the war.
Keywords:
Great War, Lisbon, municipal power, First Portuguese Republic, popular uprisings, food.
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Conference that aims to promote discussion around the thematic, epistemological, and methodological intersections of history and history of art as disciplines. Crafting the Past: Materials, Materialities, Materialisms Gestures such as
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Conference that aims to promote discussion around the thematic, epistemological, and methodological intersections of history and history of art as disciplines.
Crafting the Past: Materials, Materialities, Materialisms
Gestures such as the recent toppling of statues portraying slave owners or confederate soldiers in the UK and USA have ushered in public and historiographical debates about the legacies of colonialism as well the role of material culture and visuality in historical memory. Although the study of the past is always situated, not least disciplinarily, such situatedness should be open for productive intersections between history and history of art. For example, can we consider Cecil Rhodes’ statue an autonomous material manifestation without considering how its materiality is placed in history? Can we historicise artistic objects without engaging with the specific contexts of their material production or with the evolving ideological values that shaped the very conception of ‘art’? Can we talk about history as purely discursive when its material consequences are, at the same time, so palpable and so contested, particularly at a time when bodies and cultures are visibly threatened by global, social, economic, environmental, and health-related crises?
This conference aims to promote discussion around the thematic, epistemological, and methodological intersections of history and history of art as disciplines, focusing on their relationship to issues of materiality and ethics.
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA FCSH and University of Évora, IN2PAST, and University College London
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