http://hdl.handle.net/10071/1554 2026-04-08T22:12:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36812 Título próprio: The globalization project of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) Autoria: Herpolsheimer, J.; Seabra, P. Editor: Engel, Ulf; Herpolsheimer, Jens; Mattheis, Frank Resumo: Similar to many other regionalisms that aim to build regions and regional communities, the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) emerged as an effort to manage the effects of contemporary globalization processes, trying to gain or regain some control, and to favorably (re)position different state and nonstate actors in reordering processes at different interconnected spatial scales. In that sense, regionalisms and globalization processes have been mutually influencing and, in fact, co-constitutive. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36781 Título próprio: African Union's quest for peace in Somalia: Contextualizing the transition from AMISOM to ATMIS 1 Autoria: Ajú, M. M. Editor: Záhořík, Jan; Ylönen, Aleksi Resumo: Authorized in March 2007, AMISOM’s mandate officially ended on March 31, 2022 giving place to a newly established African Union Transition Mission in Somalia that came into effect on April 1, 2022. After 15 years of mixed results of success and failure between 2007 and 2022, the African Union has remained resolute in its commitment and on course with the quest for peace and consolidation of state-building in Somalia. It now has a heightened sense of determination with ambitious and clearly defined targets for its mission, tight deadlines, and a well-defined exit strategy, something that was missing before. This chapter explores the challenges of a transition and highlights the salient and possibly insurmountable onus placed into the hands of a still weak Federal Government of Somalia. More specifically, it discusses the prospect for peace and security in the most conflict-ridden nation of the Horn of Africa with the related regional implications and beyond in a post-AMISOM landscape. An assessment of AMISOM’s experience and the overly ambitious transition plan suggests that the emerging scenario could yet again fall short of expectations in the quest for stability and lasting peace will continue to remain an elusive grand ambition. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36348 Título próprio: The rendering of the old far right/ the origin and formation of Chega Autoria: Marchi, R. Editor: Carvalho, João Resumo: In the first two decades of the 21st century, a fourth wave of radical right parties in Europe has succeeded the three waves identified by Klaus von Beyme (1988). The latter were formed by the neofascist parties founded in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War by the defeated of 1945; the populist wave in the 1960s and 1970s that was critic of the fiscal pressure caused by the growth of the welfare state; and the antiimmigration wave from the 1980s onwards. The former of the 21st century – the fourth wave – is nowadays characterized by a marked Euroscepticism caused by disenchantment with the European integration project, the relevance of Islamophobia as a result of global terrorism, the rejection of anti-democratism and violent extremism (Goodwin 2019: 108). In this recent context, radical populist right-wing parties have consolidated and entered or supported national governments with center and right-wing mainstream partners. These parties are no longer mere challenger or niche actors, since they became institutionalized in their national party systems (Mudde 2016: 16). 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10071/36333 Título próprio: Sensing, tracing, walking: Phenomenological investigations of ruins and afterlives of projects Autoria: Gez, Y. N.; Bertin, C.; Eichhorn, B.; Ngure, F.; Kuenberg, K. Resumo: Recent years have seen growing scholarship on ruins and afterlives of projects framed around a range of contexts – modernity, colonialism, infrastructure and international development. While much of this literature overlaps with phenomenological preoccupations – notably, embodied and affective interconnections between people and places – few of these studies directly engage with phenomenology. Acknowledging some scholars’ discomfort with the term, we are inspired by the critical turn among phenomenological thinkers to propose a closer conversation between the two bodies of literature. Such conversation, we argue, can enrich our understanding of ruins and afterlives with further philosophical, conceptual and methodological underpinning. In particular, we draw on ethnographic fieldwork on the remains of a colonial-cum-development intervention in southern Mozambique and on methodological directions oriented around movement and walking. We thus show how, in post-project contexts, phenomenological perspectives can help to trace intimacies between humans and the more-than-human away from grand narratives and consequentialist ends, and to understand experiences of ruins as embodied, affective and embedded within specific socio-historical contexts. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z