José Miguel Ferreira

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. 🧵

The Disaster Correspondent • Articles • EQUATOR Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans

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...

Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series-
WRITERS ON EMPIRE

We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell
linktr.ee/empirepoduk

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

📖🔓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

Cover of Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi — An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science. Published by Leo S. Olschki Editore

📖 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...

📰 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!

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

História e política dos grandes incêndios em Portugal por Frederico Ágoas, Miguel Carmo & José Ferreira (Le Monde Diplomatique - Edição Portuguesa, Outubro 2025)

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

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

(gift link)

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...

‘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...

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

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...

E acho que PPM também...

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.

📖🔥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...

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...

It was crazy to write about #Indonesia as the situation kept escalating from hour to hour jacobin.com/2025/09/indo...

⏰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.

“Anyone can get their phone out, but I had tasted the meaning of joie de vivre.”
A beautiful defense of language learning.

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.

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

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.

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 🧵

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...

📖 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/...

Imagem ilustrativa do primeiro colóquio internacional do GEIEIPC-IP em Luanda, com o título “50 Anos de Dipanda. A imprensa africana e a democracia”. Luanda, Angola, 28 a 30 de Maio de 2025. O fundo da imagem é uma colagem de excertos de imprensa africana onde algumas expressões se destacam, como “11 de Novembro, primeiro dia de uma nação livre”, “Anti-colonial”, “guerrilheiro” ou “Moçambique independente”. https://coloquiodipanda.weebly.com/

🖥 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...

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

Shout this, by @casmudde.bsky.social, from the rooftops. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.

Illustrative image of the permanent call for papers of Práticas da História. It consists mostly of a photo collage of covers of the latest issues of the journal.

✍️ @pdh-journal.bsky.social has a permanent call for papers. It is an #OpenAccess jounal indexed in #Scopus. It accepts proposals for articles, bibliographical essays, interviews, critical reviews, issues, and thematic dossiers; in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French.
👉 praticasdahistoria.pt

📖🔓My latest article has just been published in the Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi!
It tries to examine the links between politics and agriculture in the 'Age of Revolutions', through the case of the Goan liberal Bernardo Peres da Silva.
www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/the-p...

Les feux de forêt, un héritage de la dictature de Salazar au Portugal

🇵🇹 🌳 🔥 Sous la dictature d’António Salazar, les politiques de boisement ainsi que l’interdiction de diverses techniques de brûlage effectuées par les paysans ont contribué à faire du Portugal une véritable “poudrière incendiaire”, affirme le magazine Visão.

Header of the paper “Pyrostories: New Historical Insights into Portuguese Burning Landscapes”, published in the journal Geographies. Authors: Ana Isabel Queiroz, Frederico Ágoas, Joana Abranches Portela, Joana Sousa e Miguel Carmo. Abstract: “This paper examines Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative. These texts include descriptions of various occurrences and uses of fire and their intertwined social and ecological effects. They shed light on the origins, actors, practices, and impacts of fire, and they reveal past perceptions of fire, namely the role fire played in social processes and in the making of landscapes. It becomes evident that in literary texts, fire is not merely a physical element but also a powerful symbolic force of life, death, and transformation. Furthermore, the literary landscapes of different regions describe fire in distinct ways, reflecting particular geographical, social, and political contexts.” Keywords: fires; literary landscapes; ruralities; cultural geography; modern history; Portugal.

📖 The journal Geographies published a paper by a group of members of the #FIREUSES project on "Pyrostories", ie, Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative.
#LiterayLandscapes #Wildfires
🔓 #OpenAccess: www.mdpi.com/2673-7086/4/...

Proof this guy is full of SITH.