Moçambique e Angola para a África do Sul: Entrevista com Pamila Gupta

Abstract

Pamila Gupta é Professora Associada do Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), na Universidade de Witwatersrand, Joanesburgo, África do Sul. É doutorada em Antropologia Sociocultural pela Columbia University. A sua investigação incide sobre vínculos e legados lusófonos (pós) coloniais na Índia e em África. Tem publicado nas revistas Interventions, South African Historical Journal, African Studies, Critical Arts, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Ler História e Ecologie&Politique. Co-organizou Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean, com Isabel Hofmeyr e Michael Pearson (UNISA, 2010). Em 2014, publicou The Relic State: St. Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India, na Manchester University Press. A sua mais recente colecção de ensaios, intitulada Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography, foi publicada pela Bloomsbury Press, em 2018

Pamila Gupta is na Associate Professor at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. Her research explores Lusophone (post)colonial links and legacies in India and Africa. She has published in Interventions, the South African Historical Journal, African Studies, Critical Arts, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, Ler História, Ecologie & Politique, and Public Culture, and is the co-editor of Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean with Isabel Hofmeyr and Michael Pearson (UNISA, 2010). Her monograph entitled The Relic State: St. Francis Xavier and the Politics of Ritual in Portuguese India was published in 2014 by Manchester University Press. Her newest collection of essays entitled Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2018.