ARCHLABOUR

Architecture, Colonialism and Labour

“ArchLabour: Architecture, Colonialism and Labour” develops a theoretical framework for assessing mass labour in former colonial territories, in order to shine a spotlight on invisible workers, thus establishing a connection between historical subalternity and today’s inequalities. read more

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[CALL FOR ABSTRACTS] Displacing the Drafting Board: Women, Labor, and the Construction Site
subalternitypolicygenderCommunicationAna Vaz MilheiroFrancesca Vita

[CALL FOR ABSTRACTS] Displacing the Drafting Board: Women, Labor, and the Construction Site

Mar 30, 2026 2 min read
[CALL FOR PAPERS] A+I WPS #03 Architecture, Colonialism, and East Asian Labour
subalternityraceconflictresilienceNews – LabourmapJournal ArticleNewsWorking PapersPublicationWorking Paper

[CALL FOR PAPERS] A+I WPS #03 Architecture, Colonialism, and East Asian Labour

May 5, 2026 4 min read
Villages as Construction Sites. Recording Compulsory Settlement in the Zambezi Valley Through Aerial Photographs, Mozambique (1970–1974)
Journal ArticleAna Vaz Milheiro

Villages as Construction Sites. Recording Compulsory Settlement in the Zambezi Valley Through Aerial Photographs, Mozambique (1970–1974)

Apr 22, 2026 3 min read
The Technical Gaze. Exploring Photographic Dissonances and Colonial Narratives in the Mabubas Dam, Angola, 1948–1954
Journal ArticleAna Vaz MilheiroBeatriz Serrazina

The Technical Gaze. Exploring Photographic Dissonances and Colonial Narratives in the Mabubas Dam, Angola, 1948–1954

Apr 22, 2026 3 min read
Participation in Seminar “Buildings, Space, Power: Postcolonial and Decolonial Histories of the Built Environment”
CommunicationBeatriz SerrazinaSeminar

Participation in Seminar “Buildings, Space, Power: Postcolonial and Decolonial Histories of the Built Environment”

Apr 22, 2026 2 min read
A construção territorial de Cabo Verde – Diálogos entre ilhas: As facetas invisíveis da ocupação do interior
Fernando PiresProceedings

A construção territorial de Cabo Verde – Diálogos entre ilhas: As facetas invisíveis da ocupação do interior

Apr 21, 2026 2 min read
A Arquitecta Milanka Lima Gomes na Guiné-Bissau: da cooperação internacional às “brigadas” técnicas e de construção
conflictgenderProceedingsFrancesca VitaLeonor Matos Silva

A Arquitecta Milanka Lima Gomes na Guiné-Bissau: da cooperação internacional às “brigadas” técnicas e de construção

Apr 21, 2026 2 min read
Concrete Colonialism: Material Power and Non-human Agency in Angola and Mozambique
CommunicationBeatriz SerrazinaFrancesca Vita

Concrete Colonialism: Material Power and Non-human Agency in Angola and Mozambique

Mar 30, 2026 3 min read
Fragmentos de resistência. Uma contranarrativa sobre os aldeamentos estratégicos na Guiné- Bissau (1968-1974)
conflictresilienceCommunicationFrancesca Vita

Fragmentos de resistência. Uma contranarrativa sobre os aldeamentos estratégicos na Guiné- Bissau (1968-1974)

Mar 20, 2026 3 min read
Impérios corporativos: As genealogias transnacionais da arquitectura sócio-recreativa no colonialismo português (1930–1970)
raceCommunicationBeatriz Serrazina

Impérios corporativos: As genealogias transnacionais da arquitectura sócio-recreativa no colonialismo português (1930–1970)

Mar 19, 2026 3 min read
Construction and labour in motion. A methodological approach to film images of colonial infrastructures
CommunicationAna Vaz MilheiroBeatriz SerrazinaFrancesca Vita

Construction and labour in motion. A methodological approach to film images of colonial infrastructures

Feb 20, 2026 2 min read
Colonial Construction Practices in Portuguese News (1960s–1970s)
subalternityCommunicationBeatriz Serrazina

Colonial Construction Practices in Portuguese News (1960s–1970s)

Feb 19, 2026 2 min read
Typology in Transition: Modern Housing and Postcolonial Urbanism in Luanda (Working Paper)
resilienceMaria Alice CorreiaInês Lima RodriguesWorking Paper

Typology in Transition: Modern Housing and Postcolonial Urbanism in Luanda (Working Paper)

Feb 25, 2026 2 min read
Tracing Public Works and Labour in Historical Archives: From the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino to the National Archives of Cabo Verde
Filipa LopesWorking PaperSónia Pereira Henrique

Tracing Public Works and Labour in Historical Archives: From the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino to the National Archives of Cabo Verde

Feb 13, 2026 2 min read
Promising forms and people: narrating the “Golden Age of Construction” in colonial Hong Kong
EventCecilia Chu

Promising forms and people: narrating the “Golden Age of Construction” in colonial Hong Kong

Feb 11, 2026 1 min read
Building the Cunene agricultural settlement in Angola: a perspective on labour
raceCommunicationFilipa Fiúza

Building the Cunene agricultural settlement in Angola: a perspective on labour

Feb 13, 2026 3 min read
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