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Sandra Marisa da Silva Carlos Araújo holds a PhD in Anthropology and is presently Associate Researcher at ICS-ULisboa. Her doctoral work focused on the role of Portuguese intelligence during the Liberation War in Mozambique. Her published works include: Shaping an Empire of Predictions: The Mozambique Information Centralization and Coordination Services (1961-1974). In Policing in Colonial Situations. Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850-1970), edited by E. Blanchard, M. Bloembergen, and A. Lauro, 137-58. Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2017. Knowing ¿Mozambican Islam¿: The Confidential Questionnaire on Islam and Colonial Governance during the liberation War. In Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing Across the Lusophone Community, edited by Conor O'Reilly, 105-28. London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sandra Marisa da Silva Carlos Araújo

Citation names

  • Araújo, Sandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4C14-8FF6-A374
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0442-9176

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2011/11/11 - 2018/12/18
Concluded
Anthropology (Doutoramento)
Major in Specialization in Anthropology of Migration, Ethnicities and Transnationalism,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Um Império de Previsões: Os Serviços de Centralização e Coordenação de Informações de Moçambique e a Governança Colonial do Islão (1961-1974)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Unanimously Approved, with Very Good
2004 - 2008/11/04
Concluded
MA in Contemporary History (Mestrado)
Major in XXth Century Section
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"O Conselho do Império Colonial/Conselho Ultramarino sob o Signo do Estado Novo (1935-1974)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
16 Values
1997 - 2001
Concluded
MA in Contemporary History (Licenciatura)
Major in Scientific branch
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
14 Values
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/06/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019 - 2021/12/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Mindshift - Talent Advisory , Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/12/01 - 2023/11/30 Visiting Research Fellow University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/01/16 - Current Associate Researcher at ICS-ULisboa Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2010 - 2018 Researcher at CRIA/NOVA Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2007 - 2010 Researcher at IHC - NOVA Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011/11/01 - 2015/12/31 Saberes, poderes e mediações: a governança do Islão em Moçambique (1933-1974)
SFRH/BD/70531/2010
PhD Student Fellow
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01 - 2011/10 Immigrant families in dispute: ‘internal’ agencies, media debates and political practices (PTDC/ANT/102343/2008-04)
PTDC/ANT/102343/2008-04
Research Fellow
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/01 - 2010/01 ‘Muslims under pressure’: from local microscopies to the geopolitics dynamics of the colonial and postcolonial word system (PTDC/ANT/71673/2006)
PTDC/ANT/71673/2006
Research Fellow
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2003/11 - 2007/10 História e Património do Grupo Portugal Telecom
n.d.
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2009 - 2014 África Atlântica: Da Documentação ao Conhecimento, Séculos XVII-XIX
PTDC/HIS-HEC/111715/2009
Researcher
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2006 - 2007 Marconi em Lisboa
n.d.
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Concluded
2006 - 2007 Organização do Património Histórico Documental da Fundação Portugal Telecom, POC 16-02-02-00096 / 466/06
POC 16-02-02-00096 / 466/06
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Araújo, Sandra. "Shaping an Empire of Predictions: The Mozambique Information Centralization and Coordination Services (1961-1974)". In Policing in Colonial Empires: Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850-1970), edited by E. Blanchard; M. Bloembergen ; A. Lauro, 137-158. Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang, 2017.
    Published • 10.3726/b10589
  2. Araújo, Sandra. "Knowing Mozambican Islam: the Confidential Questionnaire on Islam and Colonial Governance during the liberation War". In Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy, edited by Conor O'Reilly, 105-128. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Susana Salvaterra Trovão; Sandra Araújo. "Ambivalence, Gender and National Identity Imaginings on Indian Otherness in Mozambique during the Estado Novo (1933-1974)". Gender & History 32 2 (2020): 411-428. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12460.
    Published • 10.1111/1468-0424.12460
  2. Trovão, Susana; Araújo, Sandra. "Ambivalent Relationships: The Portuguese State and the Indian Nationals in Mozambique in the Aftermath of the Goa Crisis, 1961–1971". Itinerario 44 1 (2020): 106-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115320000078.
    Accepted • 10.1017/s0165115320000078
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/05 Wiriyamu and Portugal’s Other Killing Fields: Is Reparation the Answer? American Historical Association 137th Annual Meeting
American Historical Association (San Francisco, United States)
2023/12/02 Portugal's Tug of War with Muslims Over the Liberation Struggle 2023 African Studies Association Annual Meeting
African Studies Association (San Francisco, United States)
2023/10/05 Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique: Shortcomings of Counterinsurgent Surveillance Counterinsurgency Policing Workshop
Criminal Justice Centre, University of Warwick and Centre for Criminal Justice, University of Leeds (Warwick , United Kingdom)
2023/10/02 Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74 Centre for Criminal Justice Studies Seminar
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies and School of Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2023/06/03 Colonial Legacies and African Futures. Portugal's Intelligence Services and Their Impact on Mozambique During and After the Liberation War European Conference of African Studies
University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
2018/05/08 Conhecer o inimigo, fabricar o aliado: os saberes do SCCIM e o estudo das populações de religião islâmica Ciência e Império, Seminário Conjunto CIUHCT e ICS
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia - FCUL/FCT-NOVA e Instituto de Ciências Sociais - UL
2017/11/21 Postcolonial Transitions in Southern Africa: Themes and Debates (Round Table) Doutoramento em História Contemporânea e Mestrado em Estudos Históricos Europeus e Africanos DHC -MEHEA: Workshop I (2017 -2018)
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2016/06/04 Dos colaboradores não reza a história? Instrumentalização, coerção e agencialidade dos sujeitos coloniais VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia: “Futuros Disputados”
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/04/29 The Mozambique Information, Centralization and Coordination Services ‘eyes and ears’: exploring transnational intelligence exchanges and informants networks during the Mozambique Liberation War (1964-1974) International Seminar Transnational Connections in Southern Africa (1950-1990)
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2013/12/12 An Empire of Predictions: Intelligence Assessments and Islamic Governance in Colonial Mozambique (1961-1974) International Conference, Policing Empires: Social Control, Political Transition (Post)Colonial Legacies
Royal Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts (Brussels, Belgium)
2013/11/29 An Empire of Predictions: Intelligence Assessments and Islamic Governance during the Liberation War (1964-1974) Colóquio Internacional Conhecimento e Ciência Colonial
Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa e Centro de História do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Lisb, Portugal)
2011/04/15 Policing Islam in Mozambique: Knowledge, Intelligence, Data Collection and Governance during the Liberation War 4th GERN (Post)Colonial Policing Workshop: Reflections on Colonial and Postcolonial Policing in the (Former) Portuguese Empire
Escola de Criminologia Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2010/09/10 'Saber é Poder': o ‘Questionário – Islamismo’ e a governança do Islão em Moçambique (1966-1967) 7.º Congresso Internacional de Estudos Africanos
ISCTE - IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2010/05/28 'Knowledge is Power': Colonial Intelligence and Islamic Policy in 1960s Mozambique Muslims in Europe and Islamophobia , A Workshop of Research in Progress and Symposium
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2009/10/15 O Conselho do Império Colonial/Conselho Ultramarino sob o signo do Estado Novo (1935-1974) IV Ciclo de Conferências Ciência nos Trópicos do IICT
Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Lisboa, Portugal)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016 - Current Southern African Transnational and Comparative History Network (SATCH-NET), Universidade de Évora Member
2016 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
2011 - Current Colonial and Postcolonial Policing Group (COPP) - Open University Member

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2010 - 2010 Collaboration in the scientific revision of the book Moçambique. Memória Falada do Islão e da Guerra, authored by Abdoolkarim Vakil, Fernando Amaro Monteiro and Mário Machaqueiro (Almedina, 2011).
2008 - 2008 Collaboration in the reconstitution of the Portuguese Military Unit Histories, during the Portuguese colonial wars (1961-1974). Material published in the book collection Os Anos da Guerra Colonial, edited by Carlos Matos Gomes e Aniceto Afonso (Correio da Manhã/Quidnovi, 2009).
Distinctions

Award

2022 First Book Grant Competition Award
Independent Social Research Foundation, United Kingdom