Miguel Cardina
Biography
Miguel Cardina is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. He was an European Research Council (ERC) Grantee (project: «CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times» (2017-2023). He is the author or co-author of several books, book chapters or papers on colonialism, anticolonialism and the colonial wars; political ideologies in the sixties and seventies; and the dynamics between history and memory. Last books: 2022, Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde. A mnemohistory. London e New York: Routledge (with Inês Nascimento Rodrigues). Ed. in Portuguese by the Coimbra University Press. 2023, O Atrito da Memória. Colonialismo, guerra e descolonização no Portugal contemporâneo (ed. in Italian by Meltemi; ed. in Portuguese by Tinta-da-china; ed.in spanish Verso). 2024, "The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past"(ed.), New York: Routledge (ed. in Portuguese by the Coimbra University Press, 2025).
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Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Cardina, Miguel; Nascimento Rodrigues, Inês (2025), As paisagens memoriais da luta de libertação em Cabo Verde, in Miguel Cardina (org.), A guerra colonial e as lutas de libertação. Memória, política e usos do passado. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 149-172
Book Chapter
Cardina, Miguel (2025), «No podemos meter esto debajo de la alfombra»: el debate sobre legados coloniales y reparaciones en Portugal, in Celeste Muñoz e Oriol López (org.), Qué hacemos con el pasado colonial? Justicia, reparación y memoria. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 93-114
Book Chapter
Cardina, Miguel (2025), Portugal e a memória pública da guerra colonial, in Miguel Cardina (org.), A guerra colonial e as lutas de libertação. Memória, política e usos do passado. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 31-52