Paula A Oliveira
Biographic Data
| ID | 1335452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula A Oliveira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula A |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliveira |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVEIRA P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0987-376X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
Promoting socioemotional development in early childhood
NCT07153198, 02/09/2025
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts
In this article, we propose a research agenda towards the critical assessment of processes of memorialisation and heritagization of histories of violence in post-violence and post-authoritarian contexts. Working from the perspective of postcolonial Guinea-Bissau, and based on an interdisciplinary collective brainstorm experiment held between sociologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, museum specialists and historians in Guinea-Bissau, some of…
The Portuguese Republic at War
During Portugal’s troubled and divisive participation in the First World War, successive governments resorted to emergency powers in order to keep order throughout the country, notably in Lisbon. Considering that in 1926 the army took power through a coup d’état, and that this gave way over time to Salazar’s Estado Novo, it is tempting to establish a causal link between these two sets of events. This article suggests, however, that the repeated s…
António Costa Pinto (coord), O Estado Novo de Salazar. Uma Terceira Via Autoritária na Era do Fascismo. Coimbra
Quão “global” foi o apelo do salazarismo, um regime eminentemente nacionalista e paroquial, liderado por um ditador tímido e misantropo, que enquanto chefe de governo não visitou outro país estrangeiro que não a vizinha Espanha? No que toca à sua reputação internacional, habituámo-nos a avaliar o salazarismo pelo prisma do seu relativo isolamento e anacronismo nas décadas de 1960 e parte de 1970 – uma era de europeização, descolonização e grandes…
The Southern European Transitions to Democracy
This text serves as an introduction to the dossier 50 years of Scholarship on the Southern European Democratic Transitions: A Comparative Approach which aims to compare and contrast these processes in Greece, Portugal and Spain, as they unfolded during the 1970s and beyond. Our starting point is that the three Transitions were conceptually linked from the beginning as the vanguard of Huntington’s famous “third wave” of democratic transitions, but…
Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century
The international conference held in Lisbon, Portugal in 2016 on Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century: a comparative approach’, provided a platform to engage with ongoing debate on political persecution, confinement and colonial rule in empire. The present papers which resulted from the above-mentioned conference provide valuable insights into recent research on politically motivated punishment and internment in several colonial contex…
The Cultural Turn and Beyond in International History
This is the introduction to the theme issue I guest edited; see associated records for the theme issue as a whole and my substantive contribution to it
Saved by the Civil War
The article examines the trajectories of ‘loyal’ African troops in Angola before and after the demise of Portugal’s authoritarian regime in 1974. It starts by placing the ‘Africanisation’ drive of the Portuguese counterinsurgency campaign in a historical perspective; it then explores the rocky transition from colonial rule to independence in the territory between April 1974 and November 1975, describing the course of action taken by the Portugues…
A Sense of Hopelessness? Portuguese Oppositionists Abroad in the Final Years of the Estado Novo , 1968–1974
The article examines the role played by the Portuguese oppositionist diaspora in the final years of the Estado Novo dictatorship (c. 1968–c.1974). It advances an explanation for the apparent lack of success met by several exile groups when trying to persuade the Western democracies to withdraw (or at least reduce) their support for Lisbon's authoritarian regime during a period in which the public was increasingly aware of human rights abuses. The…
A arte do compromisso
Entre os diplomatas portugueses de carreira da segunda metade do século XX são poucos os que se poderão comparar a José Calvet de Magalhães em termos de influência ou notoriedade. Já depois da transição à democracia, Calvet construiu para si a imagem de um dos “pais fundadores” das correntes europeístas que, no interior do regime autoritário, procuraram evitar que país perdesse o pé nas várias etapas da integração europeia. Na penumbra terão fica…
Decolonization in Portuguese Africa
The dissolution of Portugal’s African empire took place in the mid-1970s, a decade after the dismantling of similar imperial formations across Europe. Contrary to other European metropoles, Portuguese rulers were unwilling to meet the demands for self-determination in their dependencies, and thus mobilized considerable resources for a long, drawn-out conflict in Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique from 1961 to 1974. Several factors can explain Lisbon’…
The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role
The central role in Portuguese political culture of the identification of Portugal as a colonizing power legitimized a massive mobilization and violent response to the perceived existential threat of decolonization in the shape of prolonged wars in its main African colonies (1961–1974). If, however, this cultural myth of a Greater Portugal overseas was so powerful, how was decolonization eventually possible? The accumulated human and economic cos…
Saved by the Civil War
The article examines the trajectories of ‘loyal’ African troops in Angola before and after the demise of Portugal's authoritarian regime in 1974. It starts by placing the ‘Africanisation’ drive of the Portuguese counterinsurgency campaign in a historical perspective; it then explores the rocky transition from colonial rule to independence in the territory between April 1974 and November 1975, describing the course of action taken by the Portugues…
Reply to Mustafah Dhada
We are mystified by the reaction of Mustafah Dhada to our article, ‘Cutting Heads or Winning Hearts: Late Colonial Portuguese Counterinsurgency and the Wiriyamu Massacre of 1972’, even if, in the i
Live and Let Live
The aim of this article is to provide an assessment of the interplay between Britain and Portugal in the three decades that witnessed the dissolution of their respective colonial empires. Operating within an authoritarian framework, Portugal's decision-makers were largely exempt from the pressures that in other European democracies contributed to accelerate the pace of decolonization. They were therefore keen to forge a close (and, seen retrospec…
Live and Let Live
In an era of profound changes in the colonial world, it was inevitable that the trajectories of Britain and Portugal would at a certain point intersect. Since differences between their colonial philosophies became more pronounced after the Second World War that intersection was likely to result in a clash of interests, opinions and attitudes, especially when certain developments in Britain’s foreign and imperial policies impacted on Portugal’s in…
Cutting Heads or Winning Hearts
In the early 1970s, Portugal still held on to the oldest European colonial empire, resisting the winds of decolonization in Africa. In this period, the Portuguese were fighting counterinsurgency campaigns in three of its overseas territories: Angola, since 1961; Guinea, since 1963; and Mozambique, since 1964. This article focuses on the counterinsurgency campaign in Mozambique because it was there, in 1972, that the most serious known atrocity to…
Generous Albion? Portuguese anti-Salazarists in the United Kingdom, c . 1960––74
In the 1960s and 1970s, the search for greater personal freedom and economic well-being, as well as the unwillingness to perform military service in Africa, were some of the major factors behind the great wave of Portuguese emigration to Western Europe. Although the United Kingdom was not among the main destinations for Portuguese economic migrants, it became an important haven for political dissidents and cultural expatriates. A tradition of lai…
Grocer meets Butcher’
The visit of the Portuguese premier Marcelo Caetano to London in July 1973 failed to boost Portugal's international respectability. Instead, despite the qualified sympathy of the British Conservative government, the visit highlighted Lisbon's isolation from the realities of the cold war and détente. Public protests punctuated the visit, and the gulf between the attitudes of the main British political parties to Portugal and its African policies w…
The ' Romanization ' of Catholicism and Agrarian Capitalism in Brazil
Cet article examine la relation existant entre l'instauration du capitalisme au Brésil et le processus des transformations internes de l'Eglise Catholique, à partir de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
Le renouveau charismatique au Bresil
This article, based upon a survey carried out in Brazil, is a study of the charismatic renewal as it presents itself within Brazilian Catholicism. First of all, it poses the question of the religious status of the members of this movement : the empirical data which have been gathered indicate clearly that the charismatic renewal is not a movement of conversion, but of re ~activation of Ca tholic spirituality. When we approach the problem of the s…
Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century
The international conference held in Lisbon, Portugal in 2016 on Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century: a comparative approach’, provided a platform to engage with ongoing debate on political persecution, confinement and colonial rule in empire. The present papers which resulted from the above-mentioned conference provide valuable insights into recent research on politically motivated punishment and internment in several colonial contex…
Grocer meets Butcher’
The visit of the Portuguese premier Marcelo Caetano to London in July 1973 failed to boost Portugal's international respectability. Instead, despite the qualified sympathy of the British Conservative government, the visit highlighted Lisbon's isolation from the realities of the cold war and détente. Public protests punctuated the visit, and the gulf between the attitudes of the main British political parties to Portugal and its African policies w…
Decolonization in Portuguese Africa
The dissolution of Portugal’s African empire took place in the mid-1970s, a decade after the dismantling of similar imperial formations across Europe. Contrary to other European metropoles, Portuguese rulers were unwilling to meet the demands for self-determination in their dependencies, and thus mobilized considerable resources for a long, drawn-out conflict in Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique from 1961 to 1974. Several factors can explain Lisbon’…
Cutting Heads or Winning Hearts
In the early 1970s, Portugal still held on to the oldest European colonial empire, resisting the winds of decolonization in Africa. In this period, the Portuguese were fighting counterinsurgency campaigns in three of its overseas territories: Angola, since 1961; Guinea, since 1963; and Mozambique, since 1964. This article focuses on the counterinsurgency campaign in Mozambique because it was there, in 1972, that the most serious known atrocity to…
The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role
The central role in Portuguese political culture of the identification of Portugal as a colonizing power legitimized a massive mobilization and violent response to the perceived existential threat of decolonization in the shape of prolonged wars in its main African colonies (1961–1974). If, however, this cultural myth of a Greater Portugal overseas was so powerful, how was decolonization eventually possible? The accumulated human and economic cos…
Le renouveau charismatique au Bresil
This article, based upon a survey carried out in Brazil, is a study of the charismatic renewal as it presents itself within Brazilian Catholicism. First of all, it poses the question of the religious status of the members of this movement : the empirical data which have been gathered indicate clearly that the charismatic renewal is not a movement of conversion, but of re ~activation of Ca tholic spirituality. When we approach the problem of the s…
Saved by the Civil War
The article examines the trajectories of ‘loyal’ African troops in Angola before and after the demise of Portugal's authoritarian regime in 1974. It starts by placing the ‘Africanisation’ drive of the Portuguese counterinsurgency campaign in a historical perspective; it then explores the rocky transition from colonial rule to independence in the territory between April 1974 and November 1975, describing the course of action taken by the Portugues…
The ' Romanization ' of Catholicism and Agrarian Capitalism in Brazil
Cet article examine la relation existant entre l'instauration du capitalisme au Brésil et le processus des transformations internes de l'Eglise Catholique, à partir de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
Le renouveau charismatique au Bresil
This article, based upon a survey carried out in Brazil, is a study of the charismatic renewal as it presents itself within Brazilian Catholicism. First of all, it poses the question of the religious status of the members of this movement : the empirical data which have been gathered indicate clearly that the charismatic renewal is not a movement of conversion, but of re ~activation of Ca tholic spirituality. When we approach the problem of the s…
The ' Romanization ' of Catholicism and Agrarian Capitalism in Brazil
Cet article examine la relation existant entre l'instauration du capitalisme au Brésil et le processus des transformations internes de l'Eglise Catholique, à partir de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
Grocer meets Butcher’
The visit of the Portuguese premier Marcelo Caetano to London in July 1973 failed to boost Portugal's international respectability. Instead, despite the qualified sympathy of the British Conservative government, the visit highlighted Lisbon's isolation from the realities of the cold war and détente. Public protests punctuated the visit, and the gulf between the attitudes of the main British political parties to Portugal and its African policies w…
Generous Albion? Portuguese anti-Salazarists in the United Kingdom, c . 1960––74
In the 1960s and 1970s, the search for greater personal freedom and economic well-being, as well as the unwillingness to perform military service in Africa, were some of the major factors behind the great wave of Portuguese emigration to Western Europe. Although the United Kingdom was not among the main destinations for Portuguese economic migrants, it became an important haven for political dissidents and cultural expatriates. A tradition of lai…
Cutting Heads or Winning Hearts
In the early 1970s, Portugal still held on to the oldest European colonial empire, resisting the winds of decolonization in Africa. In this period, the Portuguese were fighting counterinsurgency campaigns in three of its overseas territories: Angola, since 1961; Guinea, since 1963; and Mozambique, since 1964. This article focuses on the counterinsurgency campaign in Mozambique because it was there, in 1972, that the most serious known atrocity to…
Reply to Mustafah Dhada
We are mystified by the reaction of Mustafah Dhada to our article, ‘Cutting Heads or Winning Hearts: Late Colonial Portuguese Counterinsurgency and the Wiriyamu Massacre of 1972’, even if, in the i
Live and Let Live
The aim of this article is to provide an assessment of the interplay between Britain and Portugal in the three decades that witnessed the dissolution of their respective colonial empires. Operating within an authoritarian framework, Portugal's decision-makers were largely exempt from the pressures that in other European democracies contributed to accelerate the pace of decolonization. They were therefore keen to forge a close (and, seen retrospec…
Live and Let Live
In an era of profound changes in the colonial world, it was inevitable that the trajectories of Britain and Portugal would at a certain point intersect. Since differences between their colonial philosophies became more pronounced after the Second World War that intersection was likely to result in a clash of interests, opinions and attitudes, especially when certain developments in Britain’s foreign and imperial policies impacted on Portugal’s in…
Saved by the Civil War
The article examines the trajectories of ‘loyal’ African troops in Angola before and after the demise of Portugal's authoritarian regime in 1974. It starts by placing the ‘Africanisation’ drive of the Portuguese counterinsurgency campaign in a historical perspective; it then explores the rocky transition from colonial rule to independence in the territory between April 1974 and November 1975, describing the course of action taken by the Portugues…
Saved by the Civil War
The article examines the trajectories of ‘loyal’ African troops in Angola before and after the demise of Portugal’s authoritarian regime in 1974. It starts by placing the ‘Africanisation’ drive of the Portuguese counterinsurgency campaign in a historical perspective; it then explores the rocky transition from colonial rule to independence in the territory between April 1974 and November 1975, describing the course of action taken by the Portugues…
A Sense of Hopelessness? Portuguese Oppositionists Abroad in the Final Years of the Estado Novo , 1968–1974
The article examines the role played by the Portuguese oppositionist diaspora in the final years of the Estado Novo dictatorship (c. 1968–c.1974). It advances an explanation for the apparent lack of success met by several exile groups when trying to persuade the Western democracies to withdraw (or at least reduce) their support for Lisbon's authoritarian regime during a period in which the public was increasingly aware of human rights abuses. The…
A arte do compromisso
Entre os diplomatas portugueses de carreira da segunda metade do século XX são poucos os que se poderão comparar a José Calvet de Magalhães em termos de influência ou notoriedade. Já depois da transição à democracia, Calvet construiu para si a imagem de um dos “pais fundadores” das correntes europeístas que, no interior do regime autoritário, procuraram evitar que país perdesse o pé nas várias etapas da integração europeia. Na penumbra terão fica…
Decolonization in Portuguese Africa
The dissolution of Portugal’s African empire took place in the mid-1970s, a decade after the dismantling of similar imperial formations across Europe. Contrary to other European metropoles, Portuguese rulers were unwilling to meet the demands for self-determination in their dependencies, and thus mobilized considerable resources for a long, drawn-out conflict in Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique from 1961 to 1974. Several factors can explain Lisbon’…
The Power and Limits of Cultural Myths in Portugal's Search for a Post-Imperial Role
The central role in Portuguese political culture of the identification of Portugal as a colonizing power legitimized a massive mobilization and violent response to the perceived existential threat of decolonization in the shape of prolonged wars in its main African colonies (1961–1974). If, however, this cultural myth of a Greater Portugal overseas was so powerful, how was decolonization eventually possible? The accumulated human and economic cos…
The Cultural Turn and Beyond in International History
This is the introduction to the theme issue I guest edited; see associated records for the theme issue as a whole and my substantive contribution to it
Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century
The international conference held in Lisbon, Portugal in 2016 on Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century: a comparative approach’, provided a platform to engage with ongoing debate on political persecution, confinement and colonial rule in empire. The present papers which resulted from the above-mentioned conference provide valuable insights into recent research on politically motivated punishment and internment in several colonial contex…
The Portuguese Republic at War
During Portugal’s troubled and divisive participation in the First World War, successive governments resorted to emergency powers in order to keep order throughout the country, notably in Lisbon. Considering that in 1926 the army took power through a coup d’état, and that this gave way over time to Salazar’s Estado Novo, it is tempting to establish a causal link between these two sets of events. This article suggests, however, that the repeated s…
António Costa Pinto (coord), O Estado Novo de Salazar. Uma Terceira Via Autoritária na Era do Fascismo. Coimbra
Quão “global” foi o apelo do salazarismo, um regime eminentemente nacionalista e paroquial, liderado por um ditador tímido e misantropo, que enquanto chefe de governo não visitou outro país estrangeiro que não a vizinha Espanha? No que toca à sua reputação internacional, habituámo-nos a avaliar o salazarismo pelo prisma do seu relativo isolamento e anacronismo nas décadas de 1960 e parte de 1970 – uma era de europeização, descolonização e grandes…
The Southern European Transitions to Democracy
This text serves as an introduction to the dossier 50 years of Scholarship on the Southern European Democratic Transitions: A Comparative Approach which aims to compare and contrast these processes in Greece, Portugal and Spain, as they unfolded during the 1970s and beyond. Our starting point is that the three Transitions were conceptually linked from the beginning as the vanguard of Huntington’s famous “third wave” of democratic transitions, but…
Introduction
Promoting socioemotional development in early childhood
NCT07153198, 02/09/2025
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts
In this article, we propose a research agenda towards the critical assessment of processes of memorialisation and heritagization of histories of violence in post-violence and post-authoritarian contexts. Working from the perspective of postcolonial Guinea-Bissau, and based on an interdisciplinary collective brainstorm experiment held between sociologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, museum specialists and historians in Guinea-Bissau, some of…
Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · History (14 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Portuguese (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · African history and culture studies (10 works)