As Lições de Jill Dias

O profícuo legado documental, bibliográfico e fotográfico de Jill Dias (1944-2008) foi doado pela família à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, que delegou no CRIA – Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, a sua gestão. O CRIA empenhou-se na sua inventariação, catalogação e divulgação com o apoio da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, que subsidiou o projeto Jill Rosemary Dias: acervo documental, bibliográfico e fotográfico com vista à concretização desses objetivos. No âmbito desse projeto foram publicados os livros Cadernos de Jill Dias: Inventário de um Arquivo / The Jill Dias Notebooks: Archive Inventory (Lisboa, CRIA, 2011), que inventaria o seu fundo documental depositado no CRIA, e As Lições de Jill Dias: Antropologia, História, África, Academia / The Jill Dias Lessons: Anthropology, History, Africa, Academy (Lisboa, CRIA, 2013), que reúne os contributos de uma homenagem de colegas e estudantes com o mesmo título realizada na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2012), que também patrocinou as atividades e publicações

The Colonial Hotel: spacing violence at the Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique

In spite of its dereliction, the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, has emerged as an iconic African building. The dissonant meanings of this site, offer multiple opportunities to investigate the intersection of space and colonialism. We focus upon the cultural and political topologies of the hotel, and of colonial hotels generally, and make the proposition that they were a particular kind of violent colonial institution. By converging a relational reading of both violence and architecture, we reconstruct through the excavation of archival and related materials, the processes present in the histories of the hotel and city at large, to unmask how they acted as spaces of slow violence. White settler’s activities and rationales were underpinned by deliberative strategies of unknowing, forgetting, disavowal which together formed a kind of cultural agnosia that insulated them from the foundational violence that supported the colonial condition. We use a dispersed concept of violence, understood as a tactical and mutable process, which moves between physical, symbolic, embodied and performative domains. We address these domains in the paper through an analysis of the ways the city of Beira was planned, its architecture shaped and represented, and in the recreational and social performances within the hotel.Fieldwork in Mozambique was possible due to the funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BSAB/1430/2014) and the support from the Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio