Lee Douglas

Staff details

Lee Douglas

Position

Lecturer, Convenor MA Visual Anthropology

Department

Anthropology

Email

l.douglas (@gold.ac.uk)

A ethnographer, image-maker, and curator, my work considers memory and forgetting in post-violence contexts.

Combining ethnographic research and multimodal media production, I unpack 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. Crossing geographic boundaries, my projects address the legacies of colonialism, fascism and imperial settler projects on the Iberian Peninsula and among its former colonies.

I was the Head Researcher for “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 Estado Novo and Portugal's imperial project and the return migrations sparked by these events.

I am 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 Network.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD Sociocultural Anthropology 2017
  • Graduate Certificate in Culture & Media 2015
  • MSc Visual Anthropology 2008

Publications and research outputs

Article

Douglas, Lee. 2023. The Probable Revolution: Archival Images, (Im)materiality, and the Reactivation of Portuguese Militant Cooperative Cinema. Romanic Review, 114(2), pp. 360-379. ISSN 0035-8118

Douglas, Lee. 2021. Seeing like a scientist: subjunctive forensics and shared ways of seeing in the Spanish forensic archive. Huarte de San Juan. Geografía e Historia, 28, pp. 143-165. ISSN 2341-0809

Douglas, Lee. 2021. Buscar, pero no encontrar: la producción del conocimiento histórico en un mundo de ausencias. Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos, ISSN 1626-0252

Edited Journal

Douglas, Lee and Feser, Ali, eds. 2024. Mediation, Iteration, Possibility, Visual Anthropology Review, 40(1). 1058-7187

DeAngelo, Darcie and Douglas, Lee, eds. 2023. The Death of the Page: Image-driven Scholarship, Image Ethics, and Rethinking Publishing Futures, Visual Anthropology Review, 39(2). 1058-7187

DeAngelo, Darcie and Douglas, Lee, eds. 2023. Polyvocalities, Visual Anthropology Review, 39(1). 1058-7187

Film/Video

Douglas, Lee and Moreno Andrés, Jorge. 2017. What Remains.

Project

Douglas, Lee. 1 January 2022 - 31 December 2023 Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories: The Visual and Material Traces of Revolution and Return in Contemporary Portugal.