Gerhard Seibert (Centro de Estudos Africanos, Lisbon, Portugal)

Submitted: Wed, 10 June 2009


Dr. Gerhard Seibert 
Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA)
Instituto Superior de Ciéncias do Trabalho
 e da Empresa--Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL)
Avenida das Foras Armadas
1649-026
Lisboa
Portugal

phone: +351 21 790 30 67
fax:   +351 21 795 53 61
e-mail:  mailseibert@yahoo.com
Web: http://cea.iscte.pt


Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Leiden University, 1999)

Research interests: 

Lusophone Africa, cultural, political and economic anthropology, social 
and cultural issues of development, political culture, state and society 
relations, democratization processes, African Christianity, natural 
resources politics


Recent publications:

Comrades, Clients and Cousins. Colonialism, Socialism and 
Democratization in São Tomé and Príncipe. 
Leiden: CNWS Publications, 1999.

Camaradas, Clientes e Compadres. Colonialismo, Socialismo e 
Democratização em São Tomé e 
Príncipe. Lisbon: Vega, 2001 (2nd edition 2002).

"São Tomé and Príncipe." In: Africa South of the 
Sahara 2005, 34th edition, pp. 929-949, London: Europa Publications 
Ltd.

"The Vagaries of Violence and Power in Post-Colonial Mozambique." In: Jon 
Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn, Klaas van Walraven (eds.), Rethinking 
Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History, African Dynamics, 
vol. 2, pp. 253-276. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2003.

"São Tomé and Príncipe." In: Herbert M. Kritzer, 
Legal Systems of the World. A Political, Social and Cultural 
Encyclopedia, 4 vols., pp. 1403-1409, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
 
"São Tomé Pr?ncipe." In: Patrick Chabal et al, A History 
of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, pp. 291-315, Bloomington and 
Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, London: Hurst, 2002.

"The Bloodless Coup of July 16 in São Tomé e 
Príncipe." Lusotopie: Enjeux contemporains dans les espaces 
lusophones. 2003. Violences et Contrôle de la violence au 
Brésil, en Afrique et à Goa, pp. 245-260, Paris: Editions 
Karthala. http://www.lusotopie.sciencespobordeaux.fr/seibert2003.pdf
 
"The February 1953 Massacre in São Tomé: Crack in the 
Salazarist Image of Multiracial Harmony and Impetus for Nationalist 
Demands for Independence." Portuguese Studies Review 10 (2), 
2002, pp.52-77.