Raquel Ribeiro
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Culture, Identities, and Power
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raquelribeiro@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Raquel Ribeiro has a BA in Communication Sciences from NOVA FCSH and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Liverpool, UK (2009). She was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship – Nottingham Advanced Research (University of Nottingham, UK, 2010-2012), to develop a project on the memory of the Cuban presence in Angola’s civil war. She was Visiting Fellow at St Peter’s College, Oxford University (2013-2014) where she taught Brazilian Literature, and lectured in Portuguese Studies at the University of Edinburgh (Assistant and Associate Professor, between 2014-2021). In Edinburgh, she developed several collaborative projects funded by the AHRC: “Afro-Latin (in)visibility and the UN Decade: Cultural politics in motion in Nicaragua, Colombia and the UK” and “Visibilizing Afro Cultural Connections and Geopolitical Dynamics in Nicaragua, Colombia, San Andrés and Providencia“; and “Ixchel: Building understanding of the physical, cultural and socio-economic drivers of risk for strengthening resilience in the Guatemalan cordillera” (funded by the National Environment Research Council/NERC). In 2021, she was a Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust (UK). As a freelance writer and journalist she has published in several media (Portugal, United Kingdom, Luxembourg and in Latin America). She was awarded the Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Periodism Scholarship by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Latinoamericano (Colombia) and is a member of the Cuba Research Forum (Nottingham).
Research fields
- Cultural studies
- History and memory
- Global South
Selected publications
- Ribeiro, Raquel, “Comunidade afetiva transatlântica: Nicolás Guillén e a poesia revolucionária lusófona,” in Heranças pós-coloniais nas literaturas de língua portuguesa, organised by Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and Phillio Rothwell, 245-262. Porto: Afrontamento, 2020. [link]
- Ribeiro, Raquel, “Afro-Latino-América,” in The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development, edited by Julie Cupples, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha and Manuel Prieto, 236-251. London: Routledge, 2019. [link]
- Ribeiro, Raquel, ““Seremos (otra vez) como el Che”? Angola as an “alternative narrative” to Cuba in the 1970s,” in Cuba’s Forgotten Decade. How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution, edited by Emily J. Kirk; Anna Clayfield and Isabel Story, 209-225. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. [link]
- Ribeiro, Raquel. “The meaning of internationalism when the Cubans ‘‘exporting’’ the revolution or becoming ‘‘the good colonizers’’?,” Outre-Mers. Revue d’histoire 102 (2014): 267-286. [PDF]
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “Ixchel: Building understanding of the physical, cultural and socio-economic drivers of risk for strengthening resilience in the Guatemalan cordillera” — Coordinated by Eliza Calder (University of Edinburgh) and funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. 2021-2023 [link]
- Coordinator of the project “Remembering Angola: the cultural memory of the Cubans in the Angolan civil war” — Hosted by the University of Edinburgh and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. 2021
- Researcher in the project “Visibilizing Afro cultural connections and geopolitical dynamics in Nicaragua, Colombia, San Andrés and Providencia” — Coordinated by Julie Cupples (University of Edinburgh) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 2019-2021 [link]
- Collaborator in the project “Afro-Latin (in)visibility and the UN Decade: Cultural politics in motion in Nicaragua, Colombia and the UK” — Coordinated by Julie Cupples (University of Edinburgh) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 2017-2018 [link]
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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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Detalhes do Evento
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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