Queer Mozambique: From the Mines to the Manas - Paperback

by Francisco P. V. Miguel (Author), Marc Epprecht (Author), Danilo Da Silva (Author)

Author Biography

Francisco P V Miguel (Author)
Francisco P V Miguel holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília. He is a FAPESP postdoctoral fellow based jointly at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil and the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada.

Marc Epprecht (Author)
Marc Epprecht is Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University. He is a visiting research professor at the History Workshop at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Danilo da Silva (Author)
Danilo da Silva is founding executive director of LAMBDA, Mozambique's national LGBTI organization.

Agnaldo Bata (Author)
Agnaldo Bata holds a master's degree in social sciences: urban worlds and social inequalities from Université Paris 8 and is a researcher, writer and a co-founding member of the Health and Society Research Center.

Nicola Biasio (Author)
Nicola Biasio holds a PhD in Women's and Gender Studies at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Culture of the University of Bologna. He is also a literary translator and has translated works by Djamila Ribeiro and Yara Nakahanda Monteiro into Italian.

Maria Judite Chipenembe (Author)
Maria Judite Chipenembe is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Eduardo Mondlane University. She is a gender and social inclusion specialist at the Mozambique Compact Development Office (GDCI-II) in Maputo.

Gustavo Gomes da Costa (Author)
Gustavo Gomes da Costa is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). He is also Affiliate Researcher at the Department of Sociology in the University of Glasgow.

Ditte Haarløv Johnsen (Author)
Ditte Haarløv Johnsen is a documentary maker and photographer. Her award-winning documentaries: One Day, Homeless and Days of Hope, have been screened at numerous international film festivals. Her two photo series Manas and Maputo Diary, which both span over two decades, are the cornerstone of her photographic practice.

Daria Trentini (Author)
Daria Trentini is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Drake University. She is the author of At Ansha's: Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique (2021).

Matthew Waites (Author)
Matthew Waites is a Reader in Sociological and Cultural Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. He is co-editor with Corinne Lennox of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (2013).

Agostão José Zitha (Author)
Agostão José Zitha is a member of the Church of the Nazarene and the National Director of Programmes in the Christian Council of Mozambique.