Inês Nascimento Rodrigues


Biography

Inês Nascimento Rodrigues 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 part of the coordination team of the Trauma Observatory at CES since 2022. She develops the project "PRESENCE. The ghostly lives of colonial indentured labour in S. Tomé and Príncipe and Cape Verde (XX-XXI centuries)", under the FCT Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Program (CEEC). Rodrigues was a member of the project "CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times" (2017-2023), coordinated by Miguel Cardina and funded by the European Research Council. She holds a PhD in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship from CES/FEUC, in which she produced a study of the «Batepá Massacre» in São Tomé and Príncipe, winner of the 11th edition of the CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists. Her current research interests include memory and cultural studies, postcolonial theories and the debates about the representation and commemoration of the Colonial-Liberation wars. She is book review editor and member of the editorial board of Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past and is part of the editorial board of e-cadernos CES.


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Rodrigues, Inês Nascimento; Seibert, Gerhard (2024), Globalising Violence and Resistance in São Tomé and Príncipe, in Natalia Telepneva and Rui Lopes (org.), Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. London: Bloomsbury, [a publicar em 5 Setembro 2024, acesso aberto].

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Book

Cardina, Miguel; Rodrigues, Inês Nascimento (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

Rodrigues, Inês Nascimento (2023), Mantenhas para quem luta! Evoking the liberation struggle in postcolonial Guinea-Bissau, in Miguel Cardina (org.), The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past. Londres e Nova Iorque: Routledge, 61-75.

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