Miguel Cardina


Biography

Miguel Cardina is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies.He is currently member of the coordination of the thematic line "Europe and the Global South: Heritages and Dialogues". 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). 2024, "The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past"(ed.), New York: Routledge.


Latest Publications

Book

Cardina, Miguel (orgs.) (2024), The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past. London and New York: Routledge

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Book

Cardina, Miguel; Nascimento Rodrigues, Inês (2023), O dispositivo mnemónico. Uma história da memória da luta de libertação em Cabo Verde. Coimbra: Coimbra University Press

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Book Chapter

Cardina, Miguel (2023), Introduction, in Miguel Cardina (org.), The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. London: Routledge, 1-15

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