Abstract

Never Trust Sindarela is a comparative study that feeds on the experiences, subjectivities and intelligibilities of women vendors in informal markets and leaders of popular associations in Maputo, cities on the east coast of Southern Africa and Dili, and on the northern coast of Timor Island in the extreme Southeast Asia.

The commensurabilities and connections became possible and were amplified because the study chairs the logic of the long-time, allowing capture the complexities and to counter-tell this long and complex time; speaking of and describing these old and new cities, colonial and independent capitals and, in them, discovering the women that run and live through them thanks to the symbioses and discrepancies that their work and ideas entwined between past, present and future.
 

Teresa Cunha holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra, is senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra and associate research of the African Studies Centre of Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique and CODESRIA - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. She is a professor in the Higher School of Education of Coimbra. Cunha’s research interests are: feminisms and post-colonialisms in the Indic Ocean; women in post-conflict transition; security; memories; economy and feminism; human rights. She has published, among others: Ensaios pela Democracia. Justiça, dignidade e bem-viver (2011) [Essays for Democracy. Justice, dignity and buen-vivir ]; Elas no Sul e no Norte (2011) [They, Women, in the South and the North]; Raízes da ParticipAcção (2008) [Roots of ParticipAction]; Feto Timor Nain Hitu – Sete Mulheres de Timor (2007) [Nain Feto Timor Hitu - Seven Women of Timor]; Andar Por Outros Caminhos (2007) [Walking on Other Paths]; Vozes das Mulheres de Timor (2006) [Women's Voices of Timor]; Timor-Leste: Crónica da Observação da Coragem (2002) [East-Timor: Chronic Observation of Courage]; in addition to scientific articles and book chapters in several countries