Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues
Biography
She is an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and a professor at the University Lusíada Norte. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Her thesis "Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como Território de (Re)conciliação" [Former African Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces: the Colonial War as a Territory of (Re)conciliation] won the 2014 Fernão Mendes Pinto Award. She developed her postdoctoral studies within the scope of the MEMOIRS- Children of Empires and European post memories project, funded by the European Research Council, (n.º 648624). She is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in the research line Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues. She is a researcher in the MAPS (FCT - PTDC/LLTOUT/7036/2020) and TRAMES - (Erasmus +) projects. She is vice-president of the COST Global Atrocity Justice Constellations Action (CA18228). Her main research interests are related to issues on colonial/liberation wars, memory and postmemory, colonization, decolonization and postcolonialism, and crimes committed in war contexts.
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Latest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate; Da Cruz Rodrigues, Fátima (2021), "Gestos artísticos e narrativas pós-memoriais: interrogações pós-coloniais em português", Abril, 13, 27, 17-43
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da Cruz Rodrigues, Fátima (2021), Filhos de memórias encobertas, in António Sousa Ribeiro (org.), A cena da pós-memória. O presente do passado na Europa pós-colonial. Porto: Afrontamento, 147-166
Book Chapter
da Cruz Rodrigues, Fátima (2021), Que révèlent les remémorations de la guerre coloniale selon les fils des anciens combattants africains des Forces armées portugaises ?, in Graça dos Santos; José Manuel Esteves; Lina Iglesias; Gonçalo Plácido Cordeiro (org.), Voir / Revoir: Revenir sur les traces, définir le présent: La Péninsule Ibérique après les dictatures. Paris: Presse Universitaire de Paris Nanterre, 81-96
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