Maria Paula Meneses
Biography
MARIA PAULA MENESES is a Principal researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, being part of the research line on 'Europe and the Global South: legacies and dialogues'; at CES she also integrates the working group on Epistemologies of the South. A Mozambican scholar, she did her graduate studies in Russia (MA in History from St. Petersburg University) and obtained her PhD in the USA, by Rutgers University. In 2022 she was a visiting scholar at Université de Paris 8, France. Her research focus on the political history and socio-legal complexity of southern Africa, especially in Mozambique, Angola and South Africa. At the heart of her interests are the relations between knowledge, power and societies. Paying special attention to people who experienced the violence of the colonial encounter her academics and activist activities seek ways to decolonize knowledge and contribute towards the Epistemologies of the South. At the CES Maria Paula Meneses develops several research projects and teaches in two PhD programs, namely Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship and Human Rights in the 21st th century. Internationally she co-coordinates Karina Bidaseca, CES-CLACSO e-learning specialization course on Epistemologies of the South. Her work has been published in journals, books and reports in several countries, including Mozambique, Spain, Portugal, Senegal, USA, England, Germany, Colombia, amid others.
ORCID
Agenda
May 15 and 16, 2025
Colloquium | Winds of Change - How to read the independences 5 decades on
Projetos
EDU-AM
Revolutionary pedagogies? History of the education projects in Angola and Mozambique (1960s-1980s)
RegRural
Regulating the Colonial Rural: Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism
Latest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Meneses, Maria Paula (2024), "As tramas da memória: espaços para contar. Uma introdução", Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 135, 69-78
Read moreBook Chapter
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Meneses, Maria Paula (2024), As epistemologias do Sul: os saberes nascidos na luta, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Meneses, Maria Paula (org.), Os Saberes Nascidos na Luta: construindo as Epistemologias do Sul. Lisboa: Edições 70, 19-89
Book Chapter
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Meneses, Maria Paula (2024), Conclusões: para construir um mundo pós-abissal, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Meneses, Maria Paula (org.), Os Saberes Nascidos na Luta: construindo as Epistemologias do Sul. Lisboa: Edições 70, 637-643