Sara Albuquerque

Biografia
Sara Albuquerque concluiu o seu doutoramento em História da Ciência na Universidade de Londres em 2013. Actualmente, é investigadora no IHC — Universidade de Évora. Trabalhou anteriormente no Museu de História Natural em Londres e nos Royal Botanic Gardens Kew como investigadora. Recebeu dois prémios, uma homenagem (Honorary Research Associate, Kew) e é fellow da Linnean Society of London.
Actua nas áreas de Ciências Naturais e Humanidades, com particular interesse em: história da ciência, colecções de história natural, museologia, cultura material, botânica, etnobotânica, botânica económica, redes de conhecimento e encontros inter-culturais.
Áreas de Investigação
- História da ciência
- Colecções de história natural
- Cultura material
- Etnobotânica
Publicações destacadas
- Albuquerque, Sara. “Glimpses of British Guiana at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886,” Culture & History Digital Journal 5 (2016): e010. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2016.010 [PDF]
- Albuquerque, Sara. ““Flower of Aristolochia gigas var. sturtevantii used as a hat by a native of British Guiana” – a photograph from Everard im Thurn at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,” Archives of Natural History 42 (2015): 355-356. [PDF]
- Albuquerque, Sara. “Watercolours of orchids native to British Guiana at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, attributed to Hannah Cassels im Thurn (1854–1947),” Archives of Natural History 39 (2012): 344-347. [PDF]
- Albuquerque, Sara, R. K. Brummitt & Estrela Figueiredo. “Typification of Names Based on the Angolan Collections of Friedrich Welwitsch,” Taxon 58 (2009): 641-646. [link]
Projectos principais
- Coordenadora do projecto “Redes de conhecimento na África Oitocentista: uma abordagem das Humanidades Digitais dos encontros coloniais e do conhecimento local nas narrativas de expedições portuguesas (1853-1888)” — Acolhido pelo IHC — Universidade de Évora e financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2022.01599.PTDC).
- Projecto individual de pós-Doutoramento “Botanical Exchanges and Networks of Knowledge: Friedrich Welwitsch’s African Expedition – Iter Angolense (1853 – 1860)” — Supervisionado por Maria de Fátima Nunes e financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. (SFRH/BPD/108236/2015) [link]
- “Cross-Cultural Histories of Tropical Botany in Latin America” — Dissertação de Doutoramento orientada por Luciana Martins (Birkbeck, University of London) e Christopher Mills (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). Projecto individual financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/112418/2015) e pelo Arts and Humanities Research Council (Reino Unido). [link]
- Investigadora no projecto de campo “Living objects, beyond Museum walls – Field trip do Guyana, South America” — Coordenado por Luciana Martins (Birkbeck, University of London) e financiado pelo pelo Arts and Humanities Research Council (Reino Unido). 2016-2019 [CDA 08/329]
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Detalhes do Evento
Seminário de investigação que procura alargar o campo dos estudos sobre o petróleo para além das narrativas, geografias e fronteiras disciplinares estabelecidas, dando maior destaque às perspetivas do Sul Global e
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Detalhes do Evento
Seminário de investigação que procura alargar o campo dos estudos sobre o petróleo para além das narrativas, geografias e fronteiras disciplinares estabelecidas, dando maior destaque às perspetivas do Sul Global e de outros locais de extracção e resistência.
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.
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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
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Plataforma Zoom
Organizador
Instituto de História Contemporânea — Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Notícias
Nuno Silas expõe no MUHNAC
Abr 29, 2026
É um dos curadores da exposição “Olhares Críticos no Arquivo Colonial – Sombras e Memórias”
Pedro Cerdeira, Prémio Amílcar Cabral, em Lisboa
Abr 28, 2026
Participará no encontro “Desconstruir o Colonialismo: Entre Tradição e Revolução”
Fernando Rosas: o actor da história que estudou
Abr 23, 2026
“É muito importante tornar a história da democracia em Portugal muito presente”
