Vasco Martins


Biography

Vasco Martins is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, inserted in the Research Group on Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies (NHUMEP), and affiliated to the project 'CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times'. He obtained his PhD in African Studies at the Lisbon University Institute, with a thesis entitled The Plateau of Trials: Modern Ethnicity in Angola. He attended a MSc in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict at the University of London and a BA in International Relations at the University of Minho. He has authored several articles on issues of memory, war, ethnicity and nationalism, and has recently published the book Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola (Routledge, 2021). He is also member of the editorial board of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos. His research interests are related to issues of memory, war and nationalism in circumstances of state and nation formation, particularly in countries that experienced colonial/liberation wars and civil conflict. 


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Martins, Vasco (2023), Historical controversies, Netoscapes and public memory in Luanda, in Miguel Cardina (org.), The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Routledge, 113-129

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Book Chapter

Martins, Vasco (2023), Politics of memory and silence: Angola's liberation struggle in postcolonial times, in Miguel Cardina (org.), The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Routledge, 31-46

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Article in Scientific journal

Martins, Vasco (2022), "'Grande Herói da Banda': The Political Uses of the Memory of Hoji ya Henda in Angola", The Journal of African History, 63, 2, 231-247

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