CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Mário Artur Borda dos Santos Machaqueiro.
Date of birth: 29 July 1963.
Scopus Author ID: 55151556700
Address: maarma@fcsh.unl.pt
A. Academic Qualification:
• 2006: PhD in Sociology with Distinction and Praise in the area of Historical and Economic Sociology, by the University of Coimbra.
• 1999: MA in Sociology with the classification of Very Good in the area of Sociology of Development and Social Change, by the University of Coimbra.
• 1985: Degree in Philosophy by the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon) with the final classification of good (average of 15, in a scale of 1 to 20).
B. Research:
• Since December 2015: Integrated researcher in the Instituto de História Contemporânea [Institute of Contemporary History] of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
• From July 2009 to June 2014: Full-time researcher (Investigador Auxiliar) of CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia [Centre for Research in Anthropology]), hired under the program Ciência 2008.
• 2007-2010: Postdoctoral researcher in the project “Muslims under pressure: from local microscopies to the geopolitics dynamics of the colonial and postcolonial word-system” (PTDC/ANT/71673/2006), funded by the FCT (Foundation of Science and Technology) and developed within the CEMME (Centro de Estudos de Migrações e Minorias Étnicas [Centre of Studies of Migrations and Ethnic Minorities]).
• 2008-2009: Postdoctoral researcher of CRIA.
• 2006-2009: Member of Cluster 7 (Interethnic relations, identity, representation and discrimination) and Cluster B6 (Linguistic, cultural and religious diversity and related policies) of the research network of excellence IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion).
• 2005-2008: Researcher at the CEMME, in the Anthropology Department of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon).
C. Teaching / Coordination of Seminars and Conferences
• 2012-2015: Coordination, with Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC-UNL), Paulo Jorge Fernandes (IHC-UNL) and Bárbara Direito (IHC-UNL), of the seminar “Marcas do Império. Colonialismo e Pós-Colonialismo na Época Contemporânea” (Traces of Empire. Colonialism and Post-Colonialism in the Contemporary Age).
• From 2010 to 2014: Teacher of the discipline “Diásporas: Religiões Transnacionais e Identidade – Portugal, Rússia e Islão: Processos Identitários em Culturas ‘de Fronteira’” [Diaspora: Transnational Religions and Identity – Portugal, Russia and Islam: Identity Processes in ‘Frontier’ Cultures] in MA course “Migrações, Inter-etnicidades e Transnacionalismo” [Migrations, Inter-ethnicities, and Transnationalism].
• 2006: Teacher in the Summer Course of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon.
• From 1986-87 to 2008-09: Teacher of Philosophy in High School level.
D. Supervision of PhD:
• Co-supervisor of Sandra Marisa da Silva Carlos Araújo, who won the scholarship FCT Ref. SFRH/BD/70531/2010.
E. Dissertations:
• 1999: Sobre a Ponte... – Transformações na Teoria Social e na Democracia [On the Bridge... – Changes in Social Theory and Democracy] (MA dissertation).
• 2006: 1917: Percepções de uma Revolução – Identidades, Conflitos e Paradigmas na Revolução Soviética [1917: Perceptions of a Revolution – Identities, Conflicts and Paradigms in the Soviet Revolution] (PhD dissertation).
F. Books, Articles, Papers and Conferences:
1. Muslim, Arab and Colonial Studies
• 2015: “Memórias em conflito ou o mal-estar da descolonização”, in Fernando Rosas, Mário Machaqueiro and Pedro Aires Oliveira (eds.), O Adeus ao Império. 40 Anos de Descolonização Portuguesa [Farewell to Empire. 40 Years of Portuguese Decolonization]. Lisbon: Nova Vega. ISBN 978-989-750-040-4.
• 2015: “Ambiguities of Seduction: Photography and the ‘Islamic’ Policy of Portuguese Colonialism”, Anthropological Quarterly 88 (1), pp. 97-131. ISSN 0003-5491; DOI: 10.1353/anq.2015.0004.
• 2014: “Imagens de muçulmanos em tempos de sedução” [Images of Muslims in Times of Colonial Seduction], in Filipa Lowndes Vicente (ed.), O Império da Visão: Fotografia no
Contexto Colonial Português (1860-1960) [The Empire of Vision: Photography in the Portuguese Colonial Context (1860-1960)]. Lisbon: Edições 70, pp. 259-273. ISBN 978-972-44-1811-7.
• 2013: “Foes or Allies? Portuguese Colonial Policies towards Islam in Mozambique and Guinea”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 41 (5), pp. 843-869. ISSN 0308-6534; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2013.835983
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• 2013: “O ensino na política islâmica do Moçambique colonial: da ansiedade islamofóbica à miragem do ‘Islão português’” [Teaching in the Islamic policy of colonial Mozambique: from Islamophobic anxiety to the mirage of “Portuguese Islam”] Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 25, pp. 95-119.ISSN 1645-3794; DOI: 10.4000/cea.859.
• 2013: “Relações sinuosas: Portugal e o mundo árabe, 1950-1973” [Sinuous relations: Portugal and the Arab world, 1950-1973], Análise Social 206, 48 (1), pp. 4-28. ISSN 0003-2573; ISSN ONLINE 2182-2999.http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/documentos/AS_206_a01.pdf.
• 2013: “Islão/Conhecimento/Poder Colonial: A Produção de Conhecimento e as Políticas Islâmicas Portuguesas em Moçambique e na Guiné, 1956-1974” [Islam/Knowledge/Colonial Power: The Production of Knowledge and the Portuguese Islamic Policies in Mozambique and Guinea, 1956-1974], Paper presented in the International Colloquy Conhecimento e Ciência Colonial [Knowledge and Colonial Science], organized by the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa and the Centro de História do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Fábrica do Braço de Prata, 26-29 November.
• 2013: “Imagens de Muçulmanos em Tempos de Sedução Colonial” [Images of Muslims in Times of Colonial Seduction], Paper presented in the Colloquy O Império da Visão: Fotografia no Contexto Colonial Português (1860-1960) [The Empire of Vision: Photography in the Portuguese Colonial Context (1860-1960)], Lisbon, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 26-28 September.
• 2012: “O ensino na política islâmica do Portugal colonial: da ansiedade islamofóbica à miragem do ‘Islão português’”, Paper presented in the II Congresso Internacional de
Cooperação e Educação [Second International Congress of Cooperation and Education], held at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, 5-6 July 2012.
• 2012: “The Islamic Policy of Portuguese Colonial Mozambique, 1960-1973”, The Historical Journal 55 (4), pp. 1097-1116. ISSN 0018-246X; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X12000258.
• 2012: “Ambivalent Islam: the identity construction of Muslims under Portuguese colonial rule”, Social Identities 18 (1), pp. 39-63. ISSN 1350-4630; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2012.629512.
• 2011: “Portuguese Colonialism and the Islamic Community of Lisbon”, in Veit Bader, Marcel Maussen and Annelies Moors (eds.), Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam: Continuities and Ruptures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 211-232. ISBN 978-90-8964-356-8.
• 2011: “Islão Ambivalente: A Construção Identitária dos Muçulmanos sob o Poder Colonial Português”, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 22, pp. 43-64.ISSN 1645-3794.
• 2011: “Islão transnacional e os fantasmas do colonialismo português” [Transnational Islam and the phantasms of Portuguese colonialism], Relações Internacionais 30, pp. 71-82. ISSN 1645-9199.
• 2011: “Introdução: Sobre a memória e os seus discursos” [Introduction: On memory and its discourses], in AbdoolKarim Vakil, Fernando Amaro Monteiro and Mário Machaqueiro, Moçambique. Memória Falada do Islão e da Guerra [Mozambique. Spoken Memory of Islam and the War]. Coimbra: Almedina, pp. 9-63. ISBN 978-972-40-4596-2.
• 2011: “From Enemies to Allies: Portuguese Policy Towards Muslims in Mozambique during the Colonial War”, Paper presented in the International Conference The End of the Portuguese Empire in a Comparative Perspective, held at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Institute of Social Sciences), Lisbon, 20-21 June.
• 2011: “Spaces of Memory: The Construction of Colonial and Post-Colonial Spaces in the Memories of Former Portuguese Colonizers”, Paper presented in the panel Contested Truths in Africa: Facing Power, Transitional Justice, and Memory Politics, ECAS 2011 – 4th European Conference on African Studies, Uppsala, 15-18 June.
• 2011: “Spaces of Memory: The Construction of Colonial and Post-Colonial Spaces in the Memories of Former Portuguese Colonizers”, Paper presented in the panel Memory and History: Identity, Social Change and the Construction of Places, SIEF2011, held at the FCSH, Lisbon, 17-21 April.
• 2010: “Políticas para com o Islão em Moçambique, 1965-1974: Mediações e Relações de Poder num Contexto Colonial” [Policies Related to Islam in Mozambique, 1965-1974: Mediations and Power Relations in a Colonial Context], Conference pronounced in the seminar Portugal não é um país pequeno: O Fim do Império Colonial Português e a Cena Internacional [Portugal is not a small country: The end of the Portuguese Colonial Empire and the International Scene], organized by the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, the Centro de Estudos de História Contemporânea of ISCTE (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa) and the Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Institute of Contemporary History of the New University of Lisbon), held at the ISCTE, Lisbon, 16 December.
• 2010: “Representações do Islão no Período da Guerra Colonial: Do muçulmano-ameaça ao muçulmano-aliado” [Representations of Islam in the Period of the Colonial War: From the Muslim as Foe to the Muslim as Ally], Paper presented in the panel A Dimensão Social e Cultural da Guerra Colonial em África: Angola, Guiné-Bissau e Moçambique (1961-1974) [The Social and Cultural Dimension of Colonial War in Africa (1961-1974)] of the 7.º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos [7th Iberian Congress of African Studies], held at the ISCTE, Lisbon, 10 September.
• 2008: “Twisted Relations: the Islamic Community of Lisbon as a Case-Study for Portuguese Colonial Governance of Islam”, paper presented in the expert workshop Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam: continuities and ruptures, organized by the IMISCOE network
of excellence and the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), 29-30 August, Leiden, The Netherlands.
2. Russian Studies
• 2017: Cem Anos de Revolução: Ensaio de Releitura da Revolução Soviética [One Hundred Years of Revolution: An Essay on the Reinterpretation of the Soviet Revolution]. Lisbon: Nova Vega.
• 2013: “Depois da queda: as heranças do fim da URSS” [After the fall: the heritages of the end of the USSR] (recensão bibliográfica de Pedro Aires Oliveira (org.), 2013, O Fim da URSS, a Nova Rússia e a Crise das Esquerdas, Lisboa, Edições Colibri), Público, 26 de Dezembro, pp. 24-26.
• 2010: “Frontier Identity in Portugal and Russia: A Comparative Perspective on Identity Building in Semiperipheral Societies”, in Charles Westin, José Bastos, Janine Dahinden and Pedro Góis (eds.), Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 197-220. ISBN 978-90-8964-046-8.
• 2008: A Revolução Soviética, Hoje: Ensaio de Releitura da Revolução de 1917 [The Soviet Revolution Today: An Essay on the Reinterpretation of the 1917 Revolution]. Porto: Afrontamento. ISBN 978-972-36-0987-5.
• 2007: “Pensar a Revolução Soviética no século XXI: Revolução e estratégias identitárias” [Thinking the Soviet Revolution in the twenty-first century: Revolution and identity strategies], Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 78, pp. 139-172. ISSN 0254-1106.
• 2007: “A Rússia Soviética entre o Ocidente e o Oriente: Geopolítica para uma Ambivalência Identitária” [Soviet Russia between West and East: Geopolitics for an Identity Ambivalence], Conference held on 22 November 2007 in the seminar “Comunismos: História, Poética, Política e Teoria” [Communisms: History, Poetics, Politics, and Theory], organized by the Centro de Estudos de História Contemporânea of ISCTE.
• 2006: “From Post-modernity to the Clash of Civilizations: Some Reflections on Paradigm Shifts in Identity Thinking”, paper presented in the workshop of Cluster 7 of IMISCOE, 20-21 January.
• 2002: “Políticas da Identidade” [Politics of Identity], Ethnologia, new series, no. 12-14, Journal of the Antropology Department of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Lisbon's New University, pp. 337-354. ISSN 0873-1276.
4. Others:
• 2013: “Inside and Outside: from dark caves to bright societies. A psychoanalytic reading of Plato’s Allegory”, Paper presented in the seminar Freud: a century after Totem and Taboo, at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP), Lisbon, 13-14 March.
• 2000: “Contradições e Disfunções no Sistema de Ensino em Portugal”, paper presented in the VI Portuguese Congress of Sociology, University of Coimbra, 17-19 April.
• 1999: “Manifesto a Favor das Fronteiras”, paper presented at the Conference Sociedade, Cultura e Política no Fim do Século – A Reinvenção da Teoria Crítica [Society, Culture and Politics at the End of the Century – The Reinvention of Critical Theory], carried through by the CES (Centro de Estudos Sociais [Centre of Social Studies]) at the Faculty of Economy of the University of Coimbra, 16-17 April 1999.
• 1993: Os Direitos Humanos e a Escola (in co-authorship with Fernando Sousa and Sérgio Luís de Carvalho). Sintra: Sintra Publishers.
F. Award:
• 1999: Honourable Mention of the award CES for Young Social Scientists of Portuguese Official Language.
