Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues
Biography
She is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra on the project "MEMOIRS - Childs of Empire". She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra with the thesis "Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como Território de (Re)conciliação", with the support of a grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, winner of the 2014 Fernão Mendes Pinto Award. Her current recent research interests are various issues related to colonial wars / liberation wars, memory and post-memory, colonization / decolonization, and post-colonialism.
ORCIDLatest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
da Cruz Rodrigues, Fátima (2019), "Vidas deslocadas pelo colonialismo e pela guerra", Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 45, 2, 49-63
Article in Scientific journal
da Cruz Rodrigues, Fátima (2017), "Combattants Africains de l'Armée Portugaise pendant les Guerres Coloniales (1961-1974) : représentations et discours coloniaux,", Portuguese Studies Review., 25 (2), 275-289
Book
da Cruz Rodrigues, Fátima (2017), Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas. A Guerra Colonial como Território de (re)conciliação. Lisboa: Instituto Camões