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oapen-20.500.12657-761572023-09-08T09:31:36Z The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles Cardina, Miguel Africa;Angola;anthropology;anti-colonial;archival research;commemoration;documentary sources;Guinea-Bissau;interviews;Liberation struggles;Mozambique;memorialisation;memorialization;memory;memory studies;mnemohistory;Portugal;Portuguese Colonialism;postcolonial;postcolonialism;post-colonial;post-colonialism;S. Tomé and Príncipe;sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTQ Colonialism & imperialism The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe. Covering more than six decades and based on original archival research, critical analysis of sources and interviews, the book offers a plural account of the public memorialization of this contested past in Portugal and in former colonized territories in Africa, focusing on diachronic and synchronic processes of mnemonic production. This innovative exercise highlights the changing and crossed nature of political memories and social representations through time, emphasizing three modes of mnemonic intersections: the intersection of distinct historical times; the intersection between multiple products and practices of memory; and the intersection connecting the different countries and national histories. The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past is the major and final output of the research developed by CROME – Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence, a project funded by a Starting Grant (715593) from the European Research Council (ERC). The book advances current knowledge on Portugal and Africa and deepens ongoing conceptual and epistemological discussions regarding the relationship between social and individual memories, the dialectics between memory, power and silence, and the uses and representations of the past in postcolonial states and societies. 2023-09-07T10:13:03Z 2023-09-07T10:13:03Z 2024 book 9781032501123 9781003396925 9781032501116 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76157 eng Memory Studies: Global Constellations application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000990713.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003396925 10.4324/9781003396925 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb H2020 European Research Council Universidade de Coimbra 9781032501123 9781003396925 9781032501116 European Research Council (ERC) Routledge 221 715593 open access
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The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe.
Covering more than six decades and based on original archival research, critical analysis of sources and interviews, the book offers a plural account of the public memorialization of this contested past in Portugal and in former colonized territories in Africa, focusing on diachronic and synchronic processes of mnemonic production. This innovative exercise highlights the changing and crossed nature of political memories and social representations through time, emphasizing three modes of mnemonic intersections: the intersection of distinct historical times; the intersection between multiple products and practices of memory; and the intersection connecting the different countries and national histories.
The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past is the major and final output of the research developed by CROME – Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence, a project funded by a Starting Grant (715593) from the European Research Council (ERC). The book advances current knowledge on Portugal and Africa and deepens ongoing conceptual and epistemological discussions regarding the relationship between social and individual memories, the dialectics between memory, power and silence, and the uses and representations of the past in postcolonial states and societies.
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