Da Escravatura à Globalização: a Construção da Modernidade (not translated)
Code
722081041
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Prerequisites
N.A.
Subject matter
Bibliography
Bales, Kevin (2000) Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, London, University of Califórnia Press
Marques, João Pedro (2004) Portugal e a escravatura dos africanos, Lisboa, ICS.
Duffy, James (1967) A Question of Slavery. Labour Policies in Portuguese Africa and the British Protest, 1850-1920, Oxford University Press.
Lovejoy Paul E (2000) Transformations in Slavery. A History of Slavery in Africa, 2 ª ed., Cambridge, Cambridge Unversiy Press.
Miers, Suzanne (2003) Slavery in the Twentieth Century. The Evolution of a Global Problem, New York and Oxford, Altamira Press.
Teaching method
Theoretical/practical lectures based on supporting material handed out in each session; research work; analysis and discussion of theoretical texts and case studies.
Evaluation method
Grading will be based on: oral participation during the unit sessions; oral and written presentation of a text (selected from the unit´s bibliography); and a final paper. The latter can be either an essay about a specific work or about divergent auhtors and perspectives (also from the unit´s bibliography) (c. 20 pages, without bibliography); or it can be a piece of empirical research (c. 30 pages)