Miguel Cardina
Biography
Miguel Cardina is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. He was an European Research Council (ERC) Grantee (project: «CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times» (2017-2023). He is the author or co-author of several books, book chapters or papers on colonialism, anticolonialism and the colonial wars; political ideologies in the sixties and seventies; and the dynamics between history and memory. Last books: 2022, Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde. A mnemohistory. London e New York: Routledge (with Inês Nascimento Rodrigues). Ed. in Portuguese by the Coimbra University Press. 2023, O Atrito da Memória. Colonialismo, guerra e descolonização no Portugal contemporâneo (ed. in Italian by Meltemi; ed. in Portuguese by Tinta-da-china; ed.in spanish Verso). 2024, "The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past"(ed.), New York: Routledge.
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Agenda
July 21, 2025, 15h00
News
2025-07-04 Vários | Fonte: Lusa
Amílcar Cabral e luta de libertação longe do consenso em Cabo Verde
2025-07-01 Antena 1
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Cardina, Miguel (2025), The colonial war and the end of Portuguese colonialism: trajectories and impacts, in Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha and Pedro Ramos Pinto (org.), Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution. Londres: Bloomsbury, 151-168
Book Chapter
Cardina, Miguel (2025), O lugar das lutas estudantis no ocaso da ditadura portuguesa, in Paula Godinho, Miguel Cardina e Pablo Pozzi (org.), Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria A 50 años del asesinato de José António Ribeiro Santos.. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 27-40
Read moreArticle in Scientific journal
Cardina, Miguel (2025), "Portugal's Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization", Current History, 124, 860, 101-106