Inês Nascimento Rodrigues
Biography
Inês Nascimento Rodrigues is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in the research line "Europe and the Global South: heritage and dialogues". She is currently a hired PhD researcher under the project "GHOST. The Afterlives of Contract and Enslavement: Narratives on Indentured Labour between Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe", a research funded by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellowship (MSCA) (2024-2027). Additionally, she was awarded funding in the fifth edition of the Individual Call for Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT (2023-2029). During the period of 2017-2023, she carried out post-doctoral research within the project "CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: colonial and liberation wars in post-colonial times", coordinated by Miguel Cardina and funded by the European Research Council. With a PhD in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship, she was awarded the 11th edition of the CES Prize for Young Portuguese-Speaking Social Scientists in recognition of her study on the "Batepá Massacre" in São Tomé and Principe. She has served as a member of the coordination team for the CES Trauma Observatory between 2022 and 2024. Current research interests include memory studies, postcolonial theories, and debates on forced labour cultural history. She is a review editor and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past and is a member of the Editorial Board of e-cadernos CES.
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Rodrigues, Inês Nascimento; Cardina, Miguel (2024), As vidas presentes de Cabral na Guiné e em Cabo Verde, in José Neves, Rui Lopes, Victor Barros (org.), O mundo de Amílcar Cabral. Lisboa: Fora de Jogo, 157-168.
Book Chapter
Rodrigues, Inês Nascimento; Seibert, Gerhard (2024), Globalizing violence and resistance in São Tomé and Príncipe, in Rui Lopes and Natalia Telepneva (org.), Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. London: Zed Books, 211-226.
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Cardina, Miguel; Rodrigues, Inês Nascimento (2023), O dispositivo mnemónico. Uma história da memória da luta de libertação em Cabo Verde. Coimbra: Coimbra University Press
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