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Bárbara Direito
Bárbara Direito is an associate researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her doctoral thesis (2013) focused on land policies in a central region of colonial Mozambique between the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among other works, her publications include ‘Land and colonialism in Mozambique – Policies and practice in Inhambane, c.1900–c.1940’, Journal of Southern African Studies (39:2, 2013, pp. 353–69) and ‘Caçados e caçadores nas fotografias do arquivo da Companhia de Moçambique’ (‘Hunters and hunted in the photographs in the Company of Mozambique archive’), in O império da visão: fotografia no contexto colonial português (1860–1960) (The Empire of Vision: Photography in the Portuguese Colonial Context [1860–1960]) (ed. Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Lisbon: Edições 70, 2014).