Miguel Cardina
Biography
He was an European Research Council (ERC) Grantee, with the 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, and articles on the dynamics between history and memory; the processes of memory historicization related to colonialism, anticolonialism, and the colonial wars; and political ideologies in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of his most recent books include: 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", New York: Routledge (ed. in Portuguese by the Coimbra University Press, 2025).
ORCID
Agenda
28 March to 18 October 2026
Projetos
ATHENE
Citizen Science as a methodology for promoting development skills in children and young people
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Cardina, Miguel (2026), Ruptures and Continuities. On the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, in Manos Avgeridis, Magda Fytili and Kostis Kornetis (org.), Dictatorships and Democracies in Greece, Spain and Portugal. Transitions and their Legacies, fifty years on. Athens: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 154-167
Book Chapter
Cardina, Miguel (2026), Introdução, in Alessandro Portelli (org.), A morte de Luigi Trastulli e outros ensaios: ética, memória e acontecimento na história oral. Lisboa: Imprensa de História Contemporânea
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Cardina, Miguel (2025), Introdução, in Miguel Cardina (org.), A guerra colonial e as lutas de libertação: Memória, política e usos do passado. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 9-30
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