Pedro Aires Oliveira

Comparative Political History – Regimes, Transitions, Colonialism, and Memory
Contact:
opa@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Pedro Aires Oliveira is an Associate Professor at the History Department of NOVA FCSH and full researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History.
His main research topics are International History and Portuguese colonialism and decolonization on which he has published several articles in academic journals (Portuguese Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, European Contemporary History, among others), as well as a number of books, including the monograph which adapts his PhD thesis on Britain and Portugal’s late colonial period and decolonization (Mário Soares Foundation Prize, 2007).
He has extensive experience as supervisor of MA and PhD students, and has curated historical exhibitions on the cultural impact of the Great War (2017) and the centenary of the League of Nations (2020). He is a member of the steering committee of MA program History in the Public Sphere.
Research fields
- International history
- Colonialism and decolonization
- Portuguese foreign relations
- Anglo-Portuguese relations
Selected publications
- Oliveira, Pedro Aires & Bruno Cardoso Reis. “The Power and Limits of Culture Myths in Portugal’s search for a post-imperial role,” The International History Review 40 (2018): 631-653. [link]
- Costa, João Paulo Oliveira e, José Damião Rodrigues & Pedro Aires Oliveira. História da expansão e do império Português. Lisbon: Esfera dos Livros, 2014. [link]
- Oliveira, Pedro Aires. “Live and Let Live: Britain and Portugal’s imperial endgame (1945-1975),” Portuguese Studies 29 (2013): 209-226. [link]
- Oliveira, Pedro Aires. Os Despojos da Aliança. A Grã-Bretanha e a questão colonial portuguesa, 1945-1975. Lisbon: Tinta da China, 2007. [link]
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “”Tell me how it was”: Public policies and child labor in Portugal and the Portuguese colonies” — Coordinated by Pedro Goulart (ISCSP-ULisboa) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/IIM-ECO/5303/2014). 2014-2017 [link]
- Coordinator of the project “Memória Oral da Diplomacia Portuguesa” — Developed by the Associação dos Amigos do Arquivo Histórico-Diplomático do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Instituto Diplomático and the Institute of Contemporary History, and funded by the Fundo para as Relações Internacionais do MNE. 2012- [link]
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The latest book authored by Irene Flunser Pimentel, about the informants of the Portuguese political police during Estado Novo, will be presented by Paulo Marques da
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The latest book authored by Irene Flunser Pimentel, about the informants of the Portuguese political police during Estado Novo, will be presented by Paulo Marques da Silva and Luís Reis Torgal in Coimbra.
Informadores da PIDE: Uma Tragédia Portuguesa
Esta obra analisa o modo como o regime ditatorial português do Estado Novo e a sua polícia política contaram com portugueses para denunciar outros, de que forma os recrutaram e porque aceitaram muitos colaborar com a polícia, prejudicando e destruindo vidas. Revela também que muitos se candidataram a informador da PIDE/DGS junto da tutela do Ministério do Interior ou de outros organismos do Estado, mas também que muitos menos foram aceites por essa polícia para o serem. Com recurso a exemplos, demonstra de que maneira uma cultura de denúncia abalou o sentido ético em Portugal, marcando a sua História de forma trágica.
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(Quarta-feira) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Temas e Debates and Almedina Bookstores
News
Victor Pereira is the new Director of the Contemporary History Press
Jun 8, 2022
The Contemporary History Press has been renewed, with the appointment of Victor Pereira as Director.
Maria Inácia Rezola receives award in Leiria
Jun 6, 2022
Maria Inácia Rezola received the Afonso Lopes Vieira Trophy, in the Personality category.
Práticas da História indexed by Scopus
Jun 1, 2022
The journal Práticas da História was accepted for indexing by the Scopus platform.
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