Este trabalho é a primeira investigação exaustiva sobre a forma como a luta de libertação tem sido publicamente recordada em Cabo Verde. Através de uma abordagem inovadora, onde se propõe pensar este acontecimento histórico enquanto sujeito político, o livro argumenta que a noção de luta constitui um dispositivo mnemónico que é mobilizado na negociação de representações contemporâneas da nação, do Estado e da s...
This article aims at analyzing the memorialization of the political change in Portugal, Spain and Greece. The three transitions to democracy occurred in the same historical period and all three countries followed a common path of political democratization and integration in the institutional space of EEC/EU. Although this general background influenced to a certain degree those memorialization processes, each co...
The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Covering more than six decades and based on or...
In the introduction the general sense of this book is characterised, pointing out the relevance of the colonial war and the liberation struggles in the political and social changes that occurred in Portugal and in the former African colonies. The public memory of these events has undergone significant modulations in recent decades, inviting a comparative exercise which seeks to surprise similarities and differe...
From a diachronic perspective, this chapter explores how distinct memoryscapes of the liberation struggle have been produced in Cape Verde since independence. It will analyse how these memorial landscapes have been created over the past 45 years, their constituent elements and characteristics, the practices used to implement them, and the narratives of the past of the struggle which they present (or silence). W...
The colonial war was a key moment in the contemporary history of Portugal. Since the late 1970s, the war and the context and circumstances in which it took place have remained the stage for fragmented evocations and persistent amnesia. This chapter examines the processes of memorialising and silencing the war in Portugal, with a focus on the evolution of the memory of the conflict in democratic Portugal and, at...
Starting from a cross-cutting analysis of two African archipelagos with anticolonial histories – Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe – this chapter examines how the mnemonic category of “combatant” has been diachronically defined, produced, and negotiated over time through a specific politics of memory and silence. Mapping the political, social, and economic changes experienced in the two postcolonial countrie...
Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory takes as its reference from the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and the ways this period has been publicly remembered. Drawing on original and detailed empirical research, it presents novel insights into the complex entanglements between colonial pasts and political memories of anti...
This article aims to highlight the impacts that the floods of November 1967, in the Lisbon region, had on public health and the analysis of the role played by the self-organized action of health students, particularly medicine. The method was based on a systematic review of the literature carried out in public and private archives and in the PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Disasters databases. Several video ...
Este artigo tem como objetivo evidenciar os impactos que as inundações de novembro de 1967, na região da Grande Lisboa, provocaram na saúde pública e a análise do papel desempenhado pela ação auto-organizada dos estudantes da área da saúde, particularmente de medicina. O método baseou-se na revisão sistemática da literatura realizada em arquivos públicos e privados e nas bases PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science e D...