and the English version of " #Angola after Dos Santos" is now also available online & open access at cmi.no/publications/9589-ang… and
includes my chapter about 'Lourencismo' as seen from #Lobito.
If you have a master's in history & are interested in a PhD particularly on #Angola, #Mozambique or transnational histories of liberation in southern Africa, I'd be interested in seeing your research proposal.
Applications for the Lisa Maskell PhD programme in History are now open for applicants from African countries.
It is a prestigious 3-year, fully funded scholarship at Stellenbosch University, one of the continent's top universities.
Deadline: 31 July
arts.sun.ac.za/2025/05/28/li…
Out today, "Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo" in @SocietyandSpace, in which Jason Sumich and I took inspiration from #Miéville's brilliant "The City & the City" to think about how urban sociospatial inequality is normalised and upheld.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
While unseeing is an entrained social practice to live with the contradictions of capitalism, urban life also offers opportunities for moments of “breach” that reveal the forces that reassert social division and the potential of practices that seek to ... see rather than unsee.