Raquel Lima


Biography

Raquel Lima is currently a PhD Candidate in Post-colonialisms and Global Citizenship from the Centre for Social Studies at Coimbra University with a FCT Scholarship. Her research interest focus on Orature, Slavery and afrodiasporic movements. She has been collaborating with the project ALICE - South Epistemologies of CES since 2016. She holds a BA in Artistic Studies - Performative Arts from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2008). She made two international internships, firstly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2009) with a grant INOV-ART from DGArtes/Ministry of Culture and secondly in Paris, France (2010) with a Leonardo Da Vinci's grant. She published her poetry in several languages as a spokenword performance artist and have been organizing poetry workshops, highlighting the 'Workshop Poetry, Race and Gender: for an intersectional poetic writing'. She is member of the advisory board of the research project "(DE)OTHERING - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes" (2020-2021) at CES. In 2019 she co-coordinated the 7th Afroeuropeans Conference: "Black In/Visibilities Contested" and published her poetry book Ingenuidade Inocência Ignorância (BOCA and Animal Sentimental).


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Lima, Raquel (2021), Intrasectionality: air, earth, water, fire and ether (parts 1 and 2), in Natasa Petresin-Bachelez (org.), Not Fully Human, Not Human at All. Hamburg: Kadist, 320 - 327

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Article in Scientific journal

Lima, Raquel (2021), "Intrasectionality: air, earth, water, fire and ether (parts 3 and 4)", Kadist

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Book Chapter

Lima, Raquel (2021), Negotiating the will of colonialism: self-liberation, double crisis and home, in César Schofield Cardoso e Monica De Miranda (org.), Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and their Diasporas. Lisboa: Hangar Books, 124 - 131

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