Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues (7B1A-013A-5899)

Curriculum Vitae

Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues

Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, the University of Coimbra on the project "MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories" funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union¿s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (no. 648624). She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra with the thesis "Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como Território de (Re)conciliação", [Former African Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces: Colonial War as a Territory of (Re) conciliation "] with the support of a grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, evaluated, in 2013, with unanimous distinction and praise, winner of the 2014 Fernão Mendes Pinto Award. Since 2019, she is vice-chair of COST Action Global Atrocity Justice Constellations (CA18228). Her current recent research interests are social identities, racism and anti-racism and various issues related to colonial wars/liberation wars, memory and post-memory, colonization/decolonization/post-colonialism and crimes committed in war contexts.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues

Citation names

Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz
Rodrigues, Fátima

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 7B1A-013A-5899
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9578-8774

Email addresses

fatimarodrigues@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
frodrigues@direito.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Rua dos Bragas 223, 4050-123, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Law - Criminology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Intermediate (B1)	Proficiency (C2)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Beginner (A1)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/02 - 2020 Concluded	MEMOIRS - Children of Empire and European Post-Memories (ERC Consolidator Grant 648624) (Pós-doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2006 - 2013/02/15 Concluded	Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (Doutoramento) Major in Sociology Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "Former African Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces - Colonial War as a Territory of (Re) Conciliation [Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como Território de Reconciliação" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aproved with Distinction and Praise
2008/08/01 - 2008/09/05 Concluded	Summer Course 'Talking of Life' (Auto) Biographies, Life Histories and Lives of the Artists (Outros) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2006 Concluded	Postcolonialisms and global citizenship (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Very Good
2004 Concluded	“Training course "Creative use of ICT - Level 2” (Outros) CNOTINFOR, Portugal
2001 Concluded	Introductory course “data Analysis in SPSS” (Outros) Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia, Portugal
2000 Concluded	Course "Local Culture and Citizenship - continuities and transformations" (Outros) Universidade de Verão de Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
1999 Concluded	Sociology (Mestrado) Major in sociology of development and social transformation Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "Portuguese Racism and Anti / Racism in Globalization" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good
1999 Concluded	Course "Local Identities and Globalization" (Outros) Universidade de Verão de Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal
1996 Concluded	Course “For an Anti-Racist Education" (Outros) Associação Olho Vivo, Portugal
1987 - 1992 Concluded	Sociology (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto, Portugal	14

Affiliation

Science

2018/02 - Current	Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019 - 2023	Researcher (Research) European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2013 - 2017	Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

2017/09/01 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2018/02/01	Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
1992 - 2010	Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
2001 - 2006	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti, Portugal
1992 - 2004	Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

2019/09/30 - Current	Vice-President Cost European Cooperation in Science & Tecnology, Belgium
2015/09 - 2017/01	President Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
2015 - 2017	Cientific coordinator Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018 - 2020	MEMOIRS - Children of Empires and European Postmemories 648624 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Research Council
2006 - 2010	Life Paths of Former African Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces (1961-1974)[Percursos de Vida de Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas (1961-1974)] SFRH/BD/29932/2006 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019 - 2023	Cost Action - Justice360 - Global Atrocity Justice Constellations CA18228 Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal	European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Outputs

Publications

Book	Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. Former Combatants of the Portuguese Armed Forces. The Colonial War as a Territory of (Re) conciliation [Antigos Combatentes das Forças Armadas Portuguesas: a Guerra Colonial como território de (re)conciliação]. Portugal: Instituto Camões. 2017. Published • 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199291205.013.0004
Book chapter	Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "Filhos de Memórias Encobertas [Children of Covered Memories]". In Rotas do contemporâneo. Constelações da memória em contextos pós-coloniais [Routes of the contemporary. Constellations of memory in post-colonial contexts], edited by Antonio Sousa Ribeiro. Porto, Portugal: Edições Afrontamento, 2021. In press Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "Que disent les remémorations dela Guerre Coloniale selon les fils des anciens combattants africains des Forces Armées Portugaises ?.". In VOIR / REVOIR: Revenir sur les traces, définir le présent: La Péninsule Ibérique après les dictatures., edited by Graça dos Santos; José Manuel Esteves. Paris, France: Presse Universitaire de Nanterre, 2020. In press
Journal article	Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "Dores da Descolonização no Portugal pós-colonial [Pains of Decolonization in post-colonial Portugal.]". Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani 2 13 (2020): 153-168. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/12174. Open access • Published Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz; Agra, Cândido da; Guedes, Inês de Sousa; Santos, Margarida; Santos, Gilda. "The Intentionality of image and the aesthetics of tragic". (2020): In press Fatima Da Cruz Rodrigues. "Lives displaced by colonialism and war". Estudos Ibero-Americanos 45 2 (2019): 49-63. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2019.2.32405. 10.15448/1980-864X.2019.2.32405 Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "Crimes committed in times of war, recalled by post-memory". 5-6 (2018): 317-327. http://krimteme.fkn.unsa.ba/index.php/kt/article/view/262. Published Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "Combattants Africains de l’Armée Portugaise pendant les Guerres Coloniales (1961-1974) : représentations et discours coloniaux". Portuguese Studies Review 25 2 (2017): 275-289. http://www.maproom44.com/psr/index.html. Published Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "The Luso-tropical way of showing the war [O Modo Luso-Tropical de Fazer Ver a Guerra]". Revista Brasileira de História da Mídia (RBHM), V.5, n.º 1, pp. 85-94. (2016): Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "The demobilization of African combatants from the Portuguese Armed Forces of the Colonial War (1961-1974)[A desmobilização dos combatentes africanos das Forças Armadas Portuguesas da Guerra Colonial (1961-1974)]". Ler História 65 (2013): 113-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/lerhistoria.484. Published • 10.4000/lerhistoria.484
Newsletter article	Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "A tribute to Amadú Bailo Djaló, African Veteran of the Portuguese Armed Forces", MEMOIRS NEWSLETTER #118 , 2020, https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros/4_RESULTS_AND_IMPACT/4.3_NEWSLETTER/MEMOIRS_newsletter_118_FR_en.pdf. Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "Look, I'm not white", MEMOIRS NEWSLETTER #109 , 2020, https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros/4_RESULTS_AND_IMPACT/4.3_NEWSLETTER/MEMOIRS_newsletter_109_FR_en.pdf. Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. ""They defended portuguese territory": an interview with the son of an african veteran of the Portuguese Armed Forces", MEMOIRS NEWSLETTER #98, 2020, https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros/4_RESULTS_AND_IMPACT/4.3_NEWSLETTER/MEMOIRS_newsletter_98_FR_en.pdf. Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "Portuguese Racisms", 2019, https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros/4_RESULTS_AND_IMPACT/4.3_NEWSLETTER/MEMOIRS_newsletter_118_FR_en.pdf. Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. "What you can do when seeing with another person’s eyes", MEMOIRS NEWSLETTER #44 , 2019, https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros/4_RESULTS_AND_IMPACT/4.3_NEWSLETTER/MEMOIRS_newsletter_44_FR_en.pdf.
Online resource	Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. A brief reflection on the The Portuguese Prison Photo Project exhibition at the Museum Aljube - Resistance and Freedom. 2019. https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/index.php?id=22153&id_lingua=3&pag=22823. Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. When not even the dead see the end of a war. 2018. https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/index.php?id=22153&id_lingua=3&pag=22823. Rodrigues, Fátima da Cruz. The National Meeting of Veterans: ‘perhaps during this ceremony we should only hear the bugles play’”, Newsletter MEMOIRS, 10, 7 july 2018.. 2018. https://memoirs.ces.uc.pt/index.php?id=22153&id_lingua=3&pag=22823.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/09/29	Récits d’enfants des guerres coloniales	APELA 2019 Colloquium: Archives matérielles, traces mémorielles et littératures des Afriques Aix-Marseille Université - Campus Aix-en-Provence. (Aix-en-Provence, France)
2019/06/26	African veterans of the Portuguese Armed Forces: between forgetfulness and (re)conciliation	International Conference The Lusophone World: Global and Local Communities Lusophone Studies Association in the University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2019/05/23	The intentionality of image and the aesthetics of tragic: philosophical and empirical analyses of the prison spectacle paper presented at the Prisons in Portugal and Europe	International conference Regimes of Detention and Monitoring of Regimes Museu do Aljube e Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/04/24	Memória, transmissão, pós-memória - o que dizem os filhos do império	Seminare Exchange: MEMOIRS – Filhos de Império e Pós-Memórias Europeias Universidade do Minho. (Braga, Portugal)
2018/10/06	Que disent les remémorations de la Guerre Coloniale selon les fils des anciens combattants africains des Forces Armées portugaises	International colloquium VOIR / REVOIR revenir sur les traces, définir le présent : la péninsule Ibérique après les dictatures Paris Nanterre University (Paris, France)
2018/08/29	Crimes committed in times of war, recalled in post-memory	18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: Crimes Against Humans and Crimes Against Humanity Implications for Modern Criminology EuroCrime (Saraievo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2017/03/29	Una primera lectura criminológica de los crímenes cometidos en la guerra colonial portuguesa	III Simposio de Investigación Criminológica Universidade Miguel Hernández (Valencia, Spain)
2015/11/19	The Damned of the War [Os 'Condenados' da Guerra]	conference 40 Anos de Independências Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC-FCSH/NOVA), the Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-IUL), the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES-Coimbra) and the Fundação Mário Soares entre os dias 18 e 20 de Novembro. (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/11/11	Life paths and identity speeches of former African Armed Forces Combatants [Percursos de vida e discursos identitários de Antigos Combatentes Africanos das Forças Armadas]	Congress From Decolonisation to Postcolonialism: A Global Approach Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. (Porto, Portugal)
2015/05/18	L'analyse des manuels scolaires au Portugal: un point de situation à partir d'une lecture postcoloniale	Séminaire International Manuels Scolaires Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, in Oran-Algeria. (Oran, Algeria)
2014/03/01	African Soldiers of the Portuguese Armed Forces: the Colonial War as a Territory of (Re)conciliation	International Conference Resisting War in the 20th Century, Institute of Contemporary History of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and the Centre for Network Research in Anthropology of the UNL (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/10 - Current	Being a mother in a prison context [Ser mãe em contexto prisional] Supervisor	Criminologia (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2016/02/11 - Current	Member of the organizing committee of CEAUP responsible for the meeting African Studies in Portugal - an impossible agenda? which was held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on 11 February. (2016/02/11) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
2016/05/12 - 2016/05/13	Coordinator of the organizing committee of the International Colloquium "Women's Struggles in the Cinema of Africa and the Middle East", organized by the Center for African Studies at the University of Porto, which took place between 12 and 13 May at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. (2016/05/12 - 2016/05/13) Congress (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal
2014/04/08 - 2014/04/09	Member of the organizing committee of the Conference “Lusíada architecture, Porto Meeting - Experiences in Architecture”. (2014/04/09 - 2014/04/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2014/02/05 - 2014/02/07	Workshop Armed Forces in Times of Decolonisation (1940-1974), as a member of the European network “Armed Forces in the Times of Decolonisation”, organised by the research group “Social and cultural history of the French army during the decolonization” at the German Historical Institute Paris and the European network “Armed Forces in the Times of Decolonisation” (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), University of Birmingham, the University of Siena and German Historical Institute Paris. Seminar	research group “Social and cultural history of the French army during the decolonization at the German Historical Institute Paris and the European network “Armed Forces in the Times of Decolonisation” (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), University of Birmingham, the University of Siena and German Historic

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2020/07/22	Transnational criminal cases: media, forensic experts and suspicion performativity. Casos Criminais transnacionais: média, peritos forenses e performatividade da suspeição. (Thesis) Main arguer	Marta Filipa Marques Martins (PhD) Universidade do Minho - Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/12/15	Critical analysis of the criminal policies of prostitution in Portugal (Thesis) Main arguer	Fábio Luís Freitas Pinto (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
2016/07/27	O golpe de estado de 14 de novembro de 1980 na Guiné Bissau: a visão da imprensa” (Thesis) Main arguer	Mário Elisandro Correia Gonçalves (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - Current	AICLP – Associação Internacional de Criminologia de Língua Portuguesa	permanent member
1999 - 2000	Associação Olho Vivo – Association for the Defense of Heritage, Environment and Human Rights	member

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2014 - Current	Project consultant of the “Production de manuels scolaires africains” research coordinated by the CEAUP (Centre of African Studies of the University of Porto) and the CRASC (National Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology of Oran – Algeria)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2003 - Current	Member of the committee of evaluation of the Architecture Degree at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at the Lusíada University of Vila Nova de Famalicão. Member	Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2018/06/04 - 2018/06/04	Entrevista RDP África	A book on ancient African fighting in the Portuguese colonial war has just been published. Who are they and where did they come from? The author, Fátima da Cruz Rodrigues, answers these and other questions.

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2015 - 2017	Africana Studia	CEAUP

Distinctions

Award

2014	Fernão Mendes Pinto

Other distinction

2013	Unanimous distinction and praise Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal