José Miguel Ferreira
@joseferreira.bsky.social
PhD in History | Researcher at IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST (@ihchistory.bsky.social) | Goa, Portuguese empire, colonialism and archival stories | chief editor Práticas da História (@pdh-journal.bsky.social)
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In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
All the pieces in the new @equatormag.bsky.social are amazing, but Lina Mounzer's examination of the "tyranny of hope" and the complacency with which Western media looks at the world struck a chord.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Disaster Correspondent • Articles • EQUATOR
Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans
www.equator.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
All the pieces in the new @equatormag.bsky.social are amazing, but Lina Mounzer's examination of the "tyranny of hope" and the complacency with which Western media looks at the world struck a chord.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
www.equator.org/articles/the...
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Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series-
WRITERS ON EMPIRE
We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
WRITERS ON EMPIRE
We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series-
WRITERS ON EMPIRE
We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
WRITERS ON EMPIRE
We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy
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📖🔓Now online!
#PdH20 is now available on our website.
This special issue, edited by Noemi Alfieri, is dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
#PdH20 is now available on our website.
This special issue, edited by Noemi Alfieri, is dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📖🔓Now online!
#PdH20 is now available on our website.
This special issue, edited by Noemi Alfieri, is dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
#PdH20 is now available on our website.
This special issue, edited by Noemi Alfieri, is dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge"
praticasdahistoria.pt
#openaccess #openaccessjournal
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📖 In a paper published in the Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, @joseferreira.bsky.social writes about Bernardo Peres da Silva (1775-1844), the first and only Indian to be appointed governor of the Portuguese #Empire in Asia.
👉 www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/the-p...
👉 www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/the-p...
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📖 In a paper published in the Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, @joseferreira.bsky.social writes about Bernardo Peres da Silva (1775-1844), the first and only Indian to be appointed governor of the Portuguese #Empire in Asia.
👉 www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/the-p...
👉 www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/the-p...
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📰 O número 47 do jornal MAPA inclui uma entrevista de três páginas à equipa do projecto #FIREUSES — "Paisagens de Fogo", na qual falaram sobre mega-incêndios, o fogo como sujeito político, os eucaliptos, a gestão da paisagem em Portugal, entre outros temas.
Já nas bancas!
Já nas bancas!
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📰 O número 47 do jornal MAPA inclui uma entrevista de três páginas à equipa do projecto #FIREUSES — "Paisagens de Fogo", na qual falaram sobre mega-incêndios, o fogo como sujeito político, os eucaliptos, a gestão da paisagem em Portugal, entre outros temas.
Já nas bancas!
Já nas bancas!
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“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Porque temos um país que arde todos os anos?
No número de outubro da edição portuguesa do Le Monde Diplomatique, o @fredericoagoas.bsky.social, o Miguel Carmo e eu tentamos responder a esta questão examinando a história e as políticas de florestas e fogos em Portugal.
pt.mondediplo.com/11741
No número de outubro da edição portuguesa do Le Monde Diplomatique, o @fredericoagoas.bsky.social, o Miguel Carmo e eu tentamos responder a esta questão examinando a história e as políticas de florestas e fogos em Portugal.
pt.mondediplo.com/11741
História e política dos grandes incêndios em Portugal
por Frederico Ágoas, Miguel Carmo & José Ferreira (Le Monde Diplomatique - Edição Portuguesa, Outubro 2025)
pt.mondediplo.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Porque temos um país que arde todos os anos?
No número de outubro da edição portuguesa do Le Monde Diplomatique, o @fredericoagoas.bsky.social, o Miguel Carmo e eu tentamos responder a esta questão examinando a história e as políticas de florestas e fogos em Portugal.
pt.mondediplo.com/11741
No número de outubro da edição portuguesa do Le Monde Diplomatique, o @fredericoagoas.bsky.social, o Miguel Carmo e eu tentamos responder a esta questão examinando a história e as políticas de florestas e fogos em Portugal.
pt.mondediplo.com/11741
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‘Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire. The deepfakes are fascistic dream machines.’
@clairelwilmot.bsky.social on the far-right deepfakes proliferating online:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
@clairelwilmot.bsky.social on the far-right deepfakes proliferating online:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines
Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
‘Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire. The deepfakes are fascistic dream machines.’
@clairelwilmot.bsky.social on the far-right deepfakes proliferating online:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
@clairelwilmot.bsky.social on the far-right deepfakes proliferating online:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"
by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"
by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
📖🔥After another fiery summer in Portugal, our latest article presents a brief overview of the long transition from a rural economy based on the extensive use of fire to a forested landscape that is regularly devastated by large wildfires.
www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/roca...
www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/roca...
Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal
In 1966, historian Albert Silbert highlighted the longstanding importance of fire in the traditional Portuguese rural economy, at a time when such practices were being erased from the landscape.
www.environmentandsociety.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📖🔥After another fiery summer in Portugal, our latest article presents a brief overview of the long transition from a rural economy based on the extensive use of fire to a forested landscape that is regularly devastated by large wildfires.
www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/roca...
www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/roca...
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It was crazy to write about #Indonesia as the situation kept escalating from hour to hour jacobin.com/2025/09/indo...
The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy
The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a yo...
jacobin.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It was crazy to write about #Indonesia as the situation kept escalating from hour to hour jacobin.com/2025/09/indo...
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⏰Don't forget our ongoing call for papers for the special issue "Radical Histories, Distorted Pasts: The Far Right and the Political Instrumentalisation of History"!
Proposals (up to 500 words) until 17 September.
Proposals (up to 500 words) until 17 September.
✍️We have an open #CallForPapers for our special issue "Radical Histories, Distorted Pasts: The Far Right and the Political Instrumentalisation of History"
Send your proposals (up to 500 words) until 17 September 2025, via the journal’s website.
More: bit.ly/40XpweP
#OpenAccess #UsesOfThePast
Send your proposals (up to 500 words) until 17 September 2025, via the journal’s website.
More: bit.ly/40XpweP
#OpenAccess #UsesOfThePast
September 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
⏰Don't forget our ongoing call for papers for the special issue "Radical Histories, Distorted Pasts: The Far Right and the Political Instrumentalisation of History"!
Proposals (up to 500 words) until 17 September.
Proposals (up to 500 words) until 17 September.
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“Anyone can get their phone out, but I had tasted the meaning of joie de vivre.”
A beautiful defense of language learning.
A beautiful defense of language learning.
'The west is unusual. Most people in the world are bilingual or multilingual. Many of them learn more than one tongue from birth.'
And a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/45VI8gW
And a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/45VI8gW
Why learn French when your phone can do it for you?
Learning a foreign language is hard, using AI is easy . . . but Henry Mance thinks the rewards are worth the effort
www.ft.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“Anyone can get their phone out, but I had tasted the meaning of joie de vivre.”
A beautiful defense of language learning.
A beautiful defense of language learning.
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I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
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Ler livros é um esquema em pirâmide. A pessoa lê livros, que lhe fazem ter vontade de ler outros livros num ciclo perpétuo em que a lista de livros para ler está constantemente a aumentar.
August 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Ler livros é um esquema em pirâmide. A pessoa lê livros, que lhe fazem ter vontade de ler outros livros num ciclo perpétuo em que a lista de livros para ler está constantemente a aumentar.
🔥O projeto FIREUSES divulga 3 entrevistas em torno do estudo do fogo em Portugal. As entrevistas com a geógrafa Raquel Soeiro de Brito, com o engenheiro silvicultor João Filipe Bugalho e com o engenheiro agrónomo João Castro Caldas contaram com a colaboração da produtora TERRATREME.
rb.gy/ljvuck
rb.gy/ljvuck
July 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🔥O projeto FIREUSES divulga 3 entrevistas em torno do estudo do fogo em Portugal. As entrevistas com a geógrafa Raquel Soeiro de Brito, com o engenheiro silvicultor João Filipe Bugalho e com o engenheiro agrónomo João Castro Caldas contaram com a colaboração da produtora TERRATREME.
rb.gy/ljvuck
rb.gy/ljvuck
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O programa do Governo conhecido este fim de semana traz várias novidades, mas há opções que se mantêm. Enquanto se acena com a descida dos impostos, a obsessão com os excedentes orçamentais continua a travar o investimento necessário em várias áreas 🧵
Que vida para além das contas certas?
Enquanto se acena com a descida dos impostos, a obsessão com os excedentes orçamentais continua a travar o investimento necessário em várias áreas.
reversodamoeda.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
O programa do Governo conhecido este fim de semana traz várias novidades, mas há opções que se mantêm. Enquanto se acena com a descida dos impostos, a obsessão com os excedentes orçamentais continua a travar o investimento necessário em várias áreas 🧵
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📖 In History of Science, Inês Gomes and @fredericoagoas.bsky.social examine ‘the intersection of environmental history and the history of science, specifically the impact of forestry science and fire management on land use and community dynamics’.
#FIREUSES
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#FIREUSES
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons - Inês Gomes, Frederico Ágoas, 2025
This paper examines the intersection of environmental history and the history of science, specifically the impact of forestry science and fire management on lan...
journals.sagepub.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📖 In History of Science, Inês Gomes and @fredericoagoas.bsky.social examine ‘the intersection of environmental history and the history of science, specifically the impact of forestry science and fire management on land use and community dynamics’.
#FIREUSES
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#FIREUSES
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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🖥 O colóquio “50 Anos de Dipanda. A imprensa africana e a democracia”, que decorrerá em Luanda entre 28 e 30 de Maio, vai ter transmissão online. podem encontrar o link Zoom no nosso site.
ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/50-an...
ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/50-an...
May 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🖥 O colóquio “50 Anos de Dipanda. A imprensa africana e a democracia”, que decorrerá em Luanda entre 28 e 30 de Maio, vai ter transmissão online. podem encontrar o link Zoom no nosso site.
ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/50-an...
ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/50-an...
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Shout this, by @casmudde.bsky.social, from the rooftops. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Shout this, by @casmudde.bsky.social, from the rooftops. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The final, grim confluence of Marxism and rightwing populism will be the understanding that "real" jobs are dirty, nasty ones that people wish they could leave, and only "elites" have work they might possibly enjoy, or gain satisfaction from.
similarly, in the US there are *far* more people working in museums than in coal mining. there are some industries that have salience as 'working people' and 'hearts of the community' (often after decades of intentional managed decline) and some that do not.
A reminder that more people are employed in the yoga industry than there are registered fishers working in the UK.
May 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The final, grim confluence of Marxism and rightwing populism will be the understanding that "real" jobs are dirty, nasty ones that people wish they could leave, and only "elites" have work they might possibly enjoy, or gain satisfaction from.