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
October 18, 2023, 15h30
Seminar | The Unknown Marx and Engels
Projetos
RegRural
Regulating the Colonial Rural: Wartime Villagization in Late Portuguese Colonialism
EDU-AM
Revolutionary pedagogies? History of the education projects in Angola and Mozambique (1960s-1980s)
TRAMES
TRAnsmmitting and educating through European MEmories and historieS
Latest Publications
Article in Scientific journal
Nazareno, Elias; Meneses, Maria Paula (2023), "Educação Intercultural Indígena na Universidade Federal de Goiás: escolas indígenas e o papel dos temas contextuais nas escolas indígenas", Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Educativos, LIII, 3, 125-156
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Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Meneses, Maria Paula (2023), Colonial Legal Duality: The Creation of Legal Codes for Indigenous Populations, in Boaventura de Sousa Santos (org.), Law and the Epistemologies of the South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 269-292
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Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Meneses, Maria Paula (2023), The Rise of a Micro Dual State: A Case of Highly Politicised Legal Pluralism, in Boaventura de Sousa Santos (org.), Law and the Epistemologies of the South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 332-362
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