http://hdl.handle.net/10174/979 2026-05-02T21:12:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41881 Title: Ivory and Empire: Monopoly Trade from Angola to Lisbon, 1723–1833 Authors: Miranda, Susana Münch; Salvado, João Paulo Abstract: This article offers a systematic quantification of the ivory trade in Portuguese Southwestern Africa during the long eighteenth century. Drawing upon newly compiled datasets from Angolan export records and Lisbon import data, it reconstructs patterns in ivory commerce under Portuguese imperial rule. The findings show a gradual increase in ivory exports, albeit at lower levels than those by Dutch and British traders. The article demonstrates how Portugal’s state monopoly imposed structural constraints that limited the overall scale of the trade. Nevertheless, ivory occupied an important place within the imperial economy, generating revenue for the Crown and sustaining a domestic manufacturing sector in Lisbon. By integrating quantitative and institutional analysis, this study offers new insights into the economic and environmental significance of ivory within the Portuguese empire. 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/40674 Title: Cidade Educadora, uma possibilidade de cidadania sustentável: a articulação entre as esferas empírica, política e académica Authors: Santos, Maria Teresa; Correia, Maria das Dores Abstract: Este texto inscreve-se no âmbito de um projeto desenvolvido na Universidade de Évora sobre o movimento das Cidades Educadoras. Investiga-se em particular a relação entre as esferas empírica, política e académica, numa perspectiva de defesa de uma cidadania sustentável. Seguindo o método de uma hermenêutica fenomenológica procuraremos, no primeiro ponto, contextualizar o surgimento do projeto internacional das Cidades Educadoras como desafio a uma formação ao longo da vida dentro, com e para a cidade. No segundo ponto distinguem-se e articulam-se as esferas de ação da Cidade Educadora – empírica, política e académica – mobilizadas, respetivamente, por sujeitos cidadãos reais, por gestores políticos que administram a cidade a partir dos municípios e por académicos que abordam a cidade como espaço público de formação e intervenção. Os resultados apontam para a necessidade da Cidade Educadora como um espaço aberto de formação e de renovada compreensão de todas as dimensões da interação humana, sem deixar de apontar para alguns aspetos críticos. A conclusão indicia desequilíbrios entre as esferas enunciadas, ou seja, entre as dimensões da compreensão e da ação educadora na cidade. This text is part of a project developed at the University of Évora on the Educating Cities movement. In particular, the relationship between the empirical, political and academic spheres is investigated, from the perspectiveof defending sustainable citizenship. Following the method of phenomenological hermeneutics, we will seek, in the first point, to contextualize the emergence of the international project of Educating Cities as a challenge to lifelong education within, with and for the city. In the second point, the spheres of action of the Educating City are distinguished and articulated – empirical, political and academic – mobilized, respectively, by real citizen subjects by political managers who administer the city from the municipalities and by academics who approach the city as a public space for training and intervention. The results point to the need for the Educating City as an open space for training and renewed understanding of all dimensions of human interaction, whilst highlighting some critical aspects. The conclusion indicates imbalances between the spheres mentioned, that is, between the dimensions of understanding and educational action in the city. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/40661 Title: PISTA DIGITAL AS A TOOL (ALSO) TO ENHANCE TEACHING AND LEARNING: AN APPLICATION OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING TO IDENTIFY SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PRACTICES IN HOTELS Authors: Serra, Jaime; Borges, Maria do Rosário; Marujo, Noémi Editors: Abranja, Nuno Abstract: The global tourism industry, while a major economic driver, faces mounting pressure to adopt sustainable practices. Hotels, as central players in tourism, significantly contribute to resource depletion and environmental degradation. This study explores the integration of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) with the PISTA Digital system to enhance sustainable tourism education. PBL, an inquiry-based pedagogical approach, fosters critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration - key skills for addressing sustainability challenges in the hotel sector. The research employs a case study methodology, to assess environmental practices in a selected hotel. The PISTA Digital system provides students with a data-driven platform to analyse sustainability indicators, including water and energy consumption, waste management, and accessibility. Findings suggest that combining PBL with digital monitoring tools strengthens students’ ability to identify sustainability gaps and propose evidence-based solutions. This study underscores the potential of sustainability-focused education in shaping future professionals capable of driving environmental and social change in the hospitality sector. 2025-04-05T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/40628 Title: Living in Religious Life in the Early Modern Period: Rules, Daily Life, and Reforms in Portuguese Nunneries—The Case of the Cistercian Order. Authors: Conde, Antónia Fialho Editors: MDPI Abstract: This article focuses on the choice of the religious life for women during the early modern period, following a Rule that ensured harmony within the cloister. We trace the emergence of codes of life for female communities across time, with particular attention to the Rule of St. Benedict and its adoption by Cistercian communities, where silence assumed a particular significance. Silence, sounds, and monastic daily life as governed by the Rule, by the Tridentine decrees and, in the case of Portuguese Cistercian communities, obedience to the Autonomous Congregation of Alcobaça and to its supervisory mechanism of Visitations, were elements that shaped both the discourse presented here and its interpretive framework. While the Council of Trent emphasized the importance of vocation and simultaneously imposed upon women the so-called “fourth vow” (enclosure), documentary evidence allows us to observe to what extent the conventual milieu, composed of women from diverse social origins, remained engaged with the wider world outside cloister; nunneries became both a mode of existence and a space of affirmation for women, one that fostered creativity (in music, writing, painting) and upheld authority and power, embodie 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z