Collapse and catastrophe: radical routinization of everyday insecurity and improvisation: the Guineas Bissau case

• Grant number: 12/21652-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: February 01, 2013
• End date: January 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
• Grantee: Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
• Visiting researcher: Mamadu Jao
• Visiting researcher institution: Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, Bissau (INEP),
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Professor Dr. Mamadou Jao, with solid training in History and Social Anthropology of Contemporary Africa, has focused in recent years on understanding how the urban Bissau creatively interrogates the successive crises that have affected the region and Guinea-Bissau in recent decades. He will have a crucial role not only with regard to the consolidation of an area of African studies among our graduate programs Social Anthropology and History, but also in a broader discussion on relations between humanities and contexts defined by notions such as crisis or disaster. (AU)