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Bárbara Direito

Junior Researcher and Chief Editor at HoST
Department of Applied Sciences, FCT/NOVA

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Research interests

  • History of Imperialism (19th and 20th centuries);
  • History of Medicine and imperial contexts (19th and 20th centuries);
  • History of Veterinary Medicine in imperial contexts (19th and 20th centuries);
  • Environmental History of Africa (19th and 20th centuries);
  • Colonial land policies in Africa (19th and 20th centuries).

Projects

  • Veterinarian Health, Environment and Colonialism in Mozambique, 1875-1975 (CEECIND/01948/2017, since September 2019)
  • Science, health and power: contribution for a history of veterinarian medicine in the Portuguese empire in Africa in the 20th century, post-doctoral research project, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BPD/114805/2016). 2017-2019

Publications (selection)

  1. ”Visions of wildlife and hunting in the 'sportsmen’s paradise' – Exploring hunting photography from the Mozambique Company’s archive”. In Visual Empire – Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa and Asia (1860-1975), edited by Vicente, Filipa; Dias Ramos, Afonso. United Kingdom: Palgrave (in press).
  2. “Pecuária e saúde veterinária no sul de Moçambique no começo do século XX – um olhar a partir do combate à East Coast Fever”, História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (in press).
  3. Terra e colonialismo em Moçambique. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2020. 
  4. “Biomedical health care in Guinea-Bissau, 1900-1974”, em co-autoria com Jorge Varanda, in Poonam Bala (org.), Learning from Empire: Medicine, Knowledge and Transfers under Portuguese rule. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. 
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