Elisa Scaraggi

Biography
Elisa Scaraggi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Studies (2020) at the University of Lisbon, with a fellowship by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
She is interested in how colonialism and coloniality shaped the political, social, and cultural context of nations that emerged from the dissolution of the Portuguese empire, with emphasis on Angola and Brazil. Her research addresses questions regarding the production of art and culture in violent and authoritarian environments, focusing on the entanglement between personal and collective experiences in personal archives, as well as in autobiographies, memoirs, and other pieces of life-writing.
Her current research focuses on Angolan nationalist Mário Pinto de Andrade’s personal archive as a key to uncover new narratives on Angola’s recent past and the relation between culture and nationalism.
Research fields
- Personal archives
- Angola
- Liberation struggles
- Decolonization
Selected publications
- Scaraggi, Elisa. “A Tiny Spark. History and Memory of the Angolan Anticolonial Struggle in José Luandino Vieira’s Papéis da prisão,” Luso-Brazilian Review 58 (2022): 54-80. [link]🔓
- Scaraggi, Elisa, Daniel Lourenço, Susana Araújo & Cristina Martínez Tejero. “Tracing the Contexts of Imprisonment: Perspectives on Incarceration between the Human and Social Sciences. An Introduction,” Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 120 (2019): 107‑116. [link]🔓
- Scaraggi, Elisa, “Witness narratives in context: analysing the political prison writings of Graciliano Ramos and José Luandino Vieira,” in Context in Literary and Cultural Studies, edited by Jakob Ladegaard and Jakob Gaardbo Nielsen, 37–54. London: UCL Press, 2019. [link]🔓
Main projects
- Individual project “Implacable Archives: Reviving Mário Pinto de Andrade’s Personal Archive” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the European Commission (Marie Sklowdowska Curie Actions, Individual Fellowship, Grant agreement ID 101062643). 2022-2024 [link]
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Online course of the NOVA FCSH Summer School that focuses on the history of the management of diamond mines and the mineworkers. A Global History
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Online course of the NOVA FCSH Summer School that focuses on the history of the management of diamond mines and the mineworkers.
A Global History of Diamond Mining
Teacher: Tijl Vanneste
Schedule: 4 to 12 August | 4 August, 8 to 11AM; following days, 8 to 10AM
Duration: 15h
Type: online
Goals:
Students will develop an understanding of the global history of diamond mining, particularly the management of the mines and the mineworkers. They will also be able to connect this history to the larger histories of slavery, colonialism, labour, technology and capitalism. Secondly, studying diamond mining allows for students to improve their skills in comparative history, and will expand their know-how on relating the present to the past. A number of issues that have been crucial in diamond mining are still extremely relevant today – child’s labour in dangerous circumstances, ecological damage, the mixing of private and state interests. Diamond mining offers an historical interpretation of these phenomena.
Summary programme:
- Session 1 – Introduction
- Session 2 – Diamonds from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
- Session 3 – The History of Diamonds in Brazil
- Session 4 – The Discovery of Diamonds in Africa
- Session 5 – The De Beers empire
- Session 6 – Mining in the Post-Colonial World
- Session 7 – Ecological Concerns & Roundtable
The course will be taught in English
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Tempo
(Segunda-feira) 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Localização
Link to be provided to registered students
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA FCSH and Luís Krus Centre — Life-long Trainingclk.flv@fcsh.unl.pt Avenida de Berna, 26-C — 1069-061 Lisbon
News
Práticas da História celebrates 10 years
Jul 24, 2025
The first issue of the journal was published in July 2015
José Neves joins the new FCSH Board
Jul 21, 2025
He was appointed Deputy Director for Planning and Infrastructures
Fourth edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize
Jul 17, 2025
Applications are open until 30 September
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