The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles

Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-50111-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Reihe: Memory Studies: Global Constellations

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 and critical analysis of sources and interviews, the book offers the first plural account of the public memorialisation of this contested past in Portugal and in former colonised territories in Africa, focussing 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 a major 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 Lusophone 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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cardina, Miguel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war 2. Politics of memory and silence: Angola’s liberation struggle in postcolonial times 3. The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique: the war veterans as remains of memory 4. Mantenhas para quem luta! Evoking the liberation struggle in postcolonial Guinea-Bissau 5. Monuments to the colonial war: a 60-year portrait 6. Memoryscapes of the liberation struggle in Cape Verde 7. Historical controversies, netoscapes and public memory in Luanda 8. The past is (not) another country: discursive dynamics and representations of the colonial war in digital space 9. Transitional justice mechanisms and memory: a look into Mozambique’s liberation war narrative 10. Western representations of the liberation struggle in Guinea-Bissau 11. Who is the combatant? A diachronic reading based on Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe 12. The subaltern pasts of the Portuguese colonial war and the liberation struggles: memories in search of a homeland

Über Autor(innen)

Miguel Cardina is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was also the coordinator of the European Research Council-funded CROME – Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times project (2017–2023). His research interests include colonialism, anticolonialism, and the colonial wars; political ideologies in the 60s and 70s; and the relationship between history and memory. He is co-author of Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory (Routledge, 2022, with Inês Nascimento Rodrigues), which is available on an Open Access basis at www.taylorfrancis.com.