Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde A Mnemohistory

• Main Authors: Cardina, Miguel, Nascimento Rodrigues, Inês
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2022; Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Memory Studies: Global Constellations
• Subjects: Africa; African Studies; ambivalent heritage; anthropology; anti-colonial; Cape Verde; Cape Verdean Society; Cape Verdeans; collective memory; Colonialism; Colonialism & Post-colonialism; Colonialism and imperialism; commemoration; Comparative politics; democratisation; democratization; diachronic; Ethnic studies; History; History and Archaeology; History: specific events and topics; independence; Interdisciplinary studies; International migration & colonization; interviews; legacies; liberation struggle; memory; memory studies; menmonic; National Library; nationalism; Political Science; politics; Politics and government; Portuguese Colonialism; post-colonial; Postcolonialism; power; public forgetting; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology & Social Policy; Sociology and anthropology; visual sources; written sources; Young Man; politics; memory; Young Man; post-colonial; sociology; independence; written sources; Cape Verdeans; menmonic; Cape Verdean People; interviews; Labour Intensive; Cape Verde; collective memory; liberation struggle; memory studies; Mozambican Nationalist; nationalism; power; National Library; commemoration; Liberation Wars; Colonial Administration; Portuguese Colonialism; Mnemonic Transition; ambivalent heritage; anthropology; Cape Verdean Women; diachronic; anti-colonial; Cape Verdean Population; Africa; Blue Flag; public forgetting; Cape Verdean Identity; Boa Vista; Cape Verdean Society; PAICV; Mnemonic Battles; Santa Luzia; democratization; Berber Bevernage; visual sources; Cape Verde Culture; legacies; People's Revolutionary Armed Forces; democratisation
• ISBN: 9781000782677; 1000782670; 9781032208459; 9781032201924; 1032201924; 1032208457; 1003265537; 9781003265535; 9781000782707; 1000782700
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003265535

Remembering the Liberation Struggles in Cape Verde: A Mnemohistory takes as its reference from the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and the ways this period has been publicly remembered. Drawing on original and detailed empirical research, it presents novel insights into the complex entanglements between colonial pasts and political memories of anti-colonialism in shaping new nations arising out of liberation struggles. Broadening postcolonial memory studies by emphasising underdeveloped research cases, it provides the first comprehensive research into how the liberation struggle is memorialised in Cape Verde and why it changes over time. Proposing an innovative approach to thinking about this historical event as a political subject, the book argues that the "struggle" constitutes a mnemonic device mobilised while negotiating contemporaneous representations related to the Cape Verdean nation, state and society. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, anthropology and politics with interests in memory studies and public memory, postcolonialisms and African studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.