Research: Currently: measles and smallpox abord migrant vessels in post-abolition plantation labour mobilities. Previously: AIDS; syphilis/STIs; epidemics in colonial settings -- smallpox, cholera, leprosy, etc. In general: the subjective and collective experience of epidemics; political responses; power & knowledge; containment and confinement; racialization and profiling in epidemic contexts.
Currently leading the project 'The Colour of Labour – the racialized lives of migrants', supported by the European Research Council Advanced Grant # 695573.
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https://cristianabastos.org/
http://colour.ics.ulisboa.pt/
https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/pessoa/cristiana-bastos
Relevant publications include:
Bastos, C. 2020. 'Febre a bordo: migrantes, epidemias, quarentenas'. Horizontes Antropológicos 57: 27-55
Bastos, C. 2018. 'The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice: Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial Hierarchies'. Social Analysis, 62 (2): 76- 97
Bastos, C. 2017. 'Displayed Wounds, Encrypted Messages: Hyper-realism and Imagination in Medical Moulages'. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies on Health and Illness, 36(6): 533-550
Bastos, C. & A.C. Roque. 2016. 'Medicine on the edge: Luso-Asian encounters in the Island of Chiloane, Sofala'. In A. Winterbottom & F. Tesfaye (Eds.), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World: the modern period, Vol. 2. p. 171-195. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan
Bastos, C. 2012. 'Teaching European medicine in nineteenth-century Goa: local and colonial agendas'. In: Bala, P. (ed), Contesting colonial authority: medicine and indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India, pp. 13-28. Lanham: Lexington Books
Bastos, C. 2012. 'Together and Apart: Catholic Hospitals in Plural Goa'. In F. Speziale (ed.), Hospitals in Iran and India (1500-1950) Leiden: Brill, pp 133-157
Bastos, C., 2010. 'Tracking global flows and still moving: the ethnography of responses to AIDS'. In: Melhuus, M., Mitchell, J. P. and Wulff, H. (eds). Ethnographic practice in the present, pp. 135-151. New York: Berghahn Books
Bastos, C., 2010. 'The Social determinants of Health and the Hierarchies of Knowledge'. In: Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Sharon Messenger and Caroline Overy (eds), Social Determinants of Health: Assessing Policy, Theory and Practice, pp. 263-271. Delhi: Orient BlackSwan
Bastos, C. 2009. 'Borrowing, Adapting, and Learning the Practices of Smallpox: Notes from Colonial Goa', Bulletin of The History of Medicine, 83(1):141-63
Bastos, C. 2008. 'From global to local and back to global: the articulation of politics, knowledge and assistance in Brazilian responses to AIDS'. In Maj-Lis Follér & Håkan Thörn (eds.) The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society (New york: Palgrave Macmillan) pp. 225-241
Bastos, C. 1999. Global Responses to AIDS – science in emergency. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.