Contact
Email:
paulofvasconcelos@gmail.com
Short project description
The PhD project, The Eucalypt Plantation in Portugal and Angola: Policies, Interests, and Environmental Dilemmas (1933–1974), examines how eucalyptus afforestation shaped territorial, political, and ecological transformations in metropolitan and colonial settings. It analyses how forestry policies, industrial interests, and technical expertise under the Estado Novo contributed to reordering landscapes and power relations across Portugal and Angola. The project interprets the eucalypt plantation as a form of social and environmental engineering — a tool of governance and control that generated ecological change, social tension, and resistance.
Short Bio
Paulo Vasconcelos holds BA and MA degrees in History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto. Since March 2022, he has been a researcher at CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Centre ‹Culture, Space and Memory (R&D Unit 4059 of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)), Institutional DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04059/2020. He is currently pursuing a PhD in History at the same institution with FCT support (UI/BD/152807/2022). His research interests include Environmental History, forestry and industrial policies, protected areas, and the environmental legacies of colonialism.