Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa

Mad women in Romantic writing

This book is a truly admirable history of the College's first two centuries. Its involvement with the medicine of Philadelphia and its responses to events elsewhere in America and in the wider world are as clearly set out as are the detailed biographical sketches, at which Dr Bell excels, of the many personalities, many long forgotten, who served the College in so many capacities through so man...

Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: concise writing for Portuguese speakers

As post-doctoral fellow in 2013, I published an editorial based on my experience as a translator, called ‘‘Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers’’ (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/ clinics/2014(03)(01) (1). It focused on the repeated ‘‘simple’’ mistakes I observed while revising manuscripts of Brazilian friends and colleagues. I d...

Women in Africa

Living on edge: New perspectives on anxiety, refuge, and colonialism in southern Africa

Archaeologies of colonialism have have called for exploring the culturally dynamic entanglements of people and objects while acknowledging the violence that accompanied these entanglements. Heeding these calls requires attention to how the state and state power were materialised, particularly in settler colonies where state apparatuses advanced unevenly, insidiously, and clumsily. Here, I explo...

Income Inequality and Colonialism

This paper proposes that Colonialism is a major explanation behind today’s differences in Income Inequality among countries. We argue that colonies that received an important number of European settlers were characterized by a concentration of economic and political power in the hands of these last ones. Moreover, European settlers later achieved independence from the metropolis and were able t...