José Miguel Ferreira
PhD in History | Editorial manager at IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST (@ihchistory.bsky.social) | Goa, Portuguese empire, colonialism and archival stories | chief editor Práticas da História (@pdh-journal.bsky.social)
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraI watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to. But you should read this.
- My article on the history of colonial forestry in 19th century Portuguese Goa has just been published by the E-Journal of Portuguese History. For anyone interested in forests, Portuguese Asia and environmental history! brill.com/view/journal...
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- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraThis post is a good example of what's wrong with popular ideas of history - the My Lai Massacre is not a 'negative' highlighted just for the sake of saying something bad. It's a basic and undisputable fact. Dividing the past into 'good' and 'bad' things that need to be balanced is a mug's game
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraNikhil Pal Singh offers the most sophisticated analysis yet of Trump’s new regime – a “Homeland Empire” that wants to rule over subjects, not citizens, both domestically and abroad. www.equator.org/articles/hom...
- Win a grant for a two year research project, have to spend most of that time preparing an application for the next one. Repeat.
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraThe idea that digitization is a preservation strategy is not at all popular among archivists (including us digital specialists) and as organizational policy basically always originates from administrators (even with disciplinary training) who don’t understand the issue.
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraIn 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain. alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraKilling in the name of… nothing
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraIn 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.
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraJD 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. 🧵
- 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...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraToday we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series- WRITERS ON EMPIRE We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell linktr.ee/empirepoduk
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraNext 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
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📖🔓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
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📖 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...
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📰 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!
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira“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
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraGreat column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira‘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...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraNew 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...
- 📖🔥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...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraIt was crazy to write about #Indonesia as the situation kept escalating from hour to hour jacobin.com/2025/09/indo...
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira⏰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.
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira“Anyone can get their phone out, but I had tasted the meaning of joie de vivre.” A beautiful defense of language learning.
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraI 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.
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraLer 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
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraO 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 🧵
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📖 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/...
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira🖥 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...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraShout this, by @casmudde.bsky.social, from the rooftops. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraThe 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.
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira✍️ @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...
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira🇵🇹 🌳 🔥 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.
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📖 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/...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraProof this guy is full of SITH.
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraWe're are pleased to announce that Mary Lorena Kenny's article, “Irreconcilable differences? A reckoning with Confederado History in Brazil”, published in #PdH16 received the BRASA Best Article Prize in Social Sciences! Congratulations Mary! brasa.org/bestarticlep...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraWhen politics is moving fast but you already printed the forms… #administration #earlymodern #revolution
- FIREUSES na imprensa! 🔥 observador.pt/2025/04/24/i...
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📰 Na Visão desta semana, uma reportagem com Miguel Carmo e José Ferreira acerca dos resultados do projecto #FIREUSES, que revelou como as políticas florestais do #EstadoNovo e o desprezo pelo saber popular foram grandes factores para o surgimento dos grandes #incêndios em Portugal. Já nas bancas!
- Esta quinta-feira, 24 de Abril, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal! Não percam 🔥
- The closing conference of the #FIREUSES - Burning Landscapes project will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 24 April. Throughout the day, main results will be presented combined with other perspectives and geographies of fire. FREE ENTRY ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/bu... #EnvHist
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira🆕 IHC received the maximum grade — Excellent — in the international FCT Assessment of Portuguese R&D Units! 🤩 Thank you for making us better! #bluestorians #skystorians #bskystorians
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraIn a few hours we launch a brand new series @empirepoduk.bsky.social VICTORIAN NARCOS- THE STORY OF THE OPIUM WARS
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- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira🔴 The IHC fully endorses the statement published by the IFPH, which strongly condemns 'the banning of books, the censorship of historical narratives, the surveillance of students and educators, attacks on memory sites, and the imposition of ideological agendas (...)'. 👉 ifph.hypotheses.org/5720
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreiraan idle thought I've had at the back of my head for a while is that a lot of white collar/middle class jobs used to be legitimately fun and/or intellectually stimulating and/or ludicrously well paid and now they're few or none of those things, and we don't talk about that at all
- Dia 24, conferência final do projeto FIREUSES na BNP. Não percam!!
- The closing conference of the #FIREUSES - Burning Landscapes project will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 24 April. Throughout the day, main results will be presented combined with other perspectives and geographies of fire. FREE ENTRY ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/bu... #EnvHist
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- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreirajust imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”
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- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraWoohoo, our Itinerario special issue 'Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires' is now out in its proper, physical form! 🥳 Check out the introduction by myself and Andreas Greiner here: doi.org/10.1017/S016... And the entire table of contents here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📖🔓"From ‘Anízia Maria’ Indigenous Museum to Museum of the Indigenous Peoples of Piauí" by Anna Bottesi, Elayne da Silva Nascimento and Helane Karoline Tavares Gomes in #PdH19 #openaccess praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view...
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraComing soon! Part 1 of a double podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian Marcus Rediker. Pirates fought every colonial empire, and created their own ways of living free from authority. Listen first by supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/124916009
- Reposted by José Miguel FerreiraOkay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📖🔓"Joint Acquisition and Shared Custody in Art Museums: The Case of the National Gallery of Canada" by Jessica Minier in #PdH19 praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view...
- Se se interessam por história do século XX português, leiam o livro da Marta!
- Reposted by José Miguel Ferreira📖 There's a new issue of @pdh-journal.bsky.social. 👫 It includes the dossier "Collaborative practices: rethinking narratives and musealization processes", coordinated by Rita Juliana Soares Poloni, Diego Lemos Ribeiro, and Elizabete Mendonça. 🔓 #OpenAccess: praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/1...
