Contribution short abstract:

A Lecturer of Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Visual Anthropology Review, Lee Douglas unpacks how the past is reconstructed and the future reimagined through engagements with the traces of political violence and decolonization in Spain, Portugal & the Iberian Atlantic.

Contribution long abstract:

Lee Douglas an anthropologist, curator, and filmmaker and a Lecturer of Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths. Combining ethnographic research and multimodal media production, she unpacks how the past is reconstructed and the future reimagined through collective and individual engagements with the traces of political violence, displacement, and decolonization in Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian Atlantic.

She was the head researcher of the project “Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories” (MSCA-IF-2019-895197) which analyzed individual and collective uses of the material and visual traces left by entangled historical events: the Carnation Revolution that marked an end to Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship; the conclusion of the Portuguese imperial project; and the return migrations sparked by these events. She has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA University in Lisbon and at the Collections Department at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

She is the Co-Editor in Chief of Visual Anthropology Review, a member of the Writing with Light Editorial Collective, and a Working Group Leader for the TRACTS Cost Action Network.

As a scholar, educator, and practitioner, Douglas is committed to forms of collaborative visual research capable of mobilizing anthropological research findings across disciplines and borders. In this spirit, she has undertaken multimodal media projects to elucidate how the past bears on the present through diverse visual forms.