Publikationen

Monograph

2017:  Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola, Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press.
Reviewed in: American Ethnologist, Africa, Journal of Southern African Studies, H-Net Luso, Allegralaboratory, Revue française de sciences politiques, and Lusotopie.

Journal articles

2022: Fear and Fainting in Luanda: Paranoid Politics and the Problem of Interpretative Authority in Angola, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

2021: The Work-Intensive Fiction of Frictionless Trade in the Angolan Port of Lobito, for a theme section on ‘Container Economies’, Focaal 89, 64-78.

2020: Colonial Resonances, Roadsides 004, Architecture as Infrastructure, 24-31.

2019: Les « glorieuses familles » : parenté situationnelle, stratégie agentielle et critique du pouvoir en Angola, Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines 234, 515-542.

2018: Wilful Entanglements: extractive industries and the co-production of sovereignty in Mozambique, Ethnography 0.0, 1-22 (online first).

2018: Seeing is believing: symbolic politics and the opportunities of non-democratic transition in Angola, Anthropology Today 34.2, 18-21.

2018: ‘A Culture of Immediatism’: Co-Optation and Complicity in Post-War Angola, Ethnos, 83.1, 1-19 (online first in 2016).

2015: 2002, Year Zero: History as Anti-Politics in the New Angola, Journal of Southern African Studies, 41.4, 835-852. 

2013: A partidarização: ‘democratização’ e consolidação do poder político em Angola, Relações Internacionais, 37, 79-98 (updated Portuguese version of 2010 JSAS article).

2010: ‘Democratisation’ and the Consolidation of Political Authority in Post-War Angola, Journal of Southern African Studies, 36.3, 657-672. 

Edited volume

2018:  Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa. Beyond the Resource Curse, J. Schubert, U. Engel, and E. Macamo, eds. Routledge Studies in African Development. New York, London: Routledge.

Book chapters

2018: J. Schubert, U. Engel and E. Macamo, Boom and Bust: Extractive Industries and African States in the 21^st Century, in Extractive Industries and State Capacities in Africa, J. Schubert, U. Engel, E. Macamo, eds. New York, London: Routledge.

2018: E. Macamo, J. Schubert, and U. Engel, Conclusion: the political ecology of the state, in Extractive Industries and State Capacities in Africa.

2016: Emerging middle-class political subjectivities in post-war Angola, in Melber H. (ed.), The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class, London, New York: Zed Books.