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Ana Maria Moledo Pouso

Ana Maria Moledo Pouso

Wiss. Mitarb. SFB

Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
Strohsackpassage
Nikolaistraße 10
04109 Leipzig

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Kurzprofil

Ana Moledo works as a junior researcher in the project A07 ‘“Free radicals”? Political mobilities and postcolonial re-spatialization processes in the second half of the 20th century’ within the SFB 1199 at Leipzig University. Her research interests lie in the field of global and transnational history, particularly with regard to colonialism and decolonization, transnational activism and radical politics as well as the Cold War in Southern Africa. She earned a doctoral degree (Dr. phil.) in Global Studies in 2024 with her thesis "Spaces of Liberation: networks, practices and imaginaries of Lusophone African liberation movements' diplomatic revolution (1960s–1974)"



Berufliche Laufbahn

  • seit 01/2020
    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, SFB 1199 “Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen", Universität Leipzig
  • 06/2017 - 06/2018
    Pre-Doc Fellow, SFB 1199 “Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen", Universität Leipzig
  • 04/2016 - 06/2017
    Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, SFB 1199 “Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen", Universität Leipzig
  • 06/2011 - 01/2014
    Communications Officer and Project Assistant at the International Institute for the Development of Citizenship (Brazil)

Ausbildung

  • 09/2018 - 06/2024
    Dr. phil. Global Studies, Leipzig University
  • 10/2014 - 08/2016
    M.A. Global Studies, University of Wrocław (Poland) and Leipzig University
  • 01/2013 - 12/2013
    Postgraduate Training in Planning and Management of Development Cooperation Projects, UNED/OEI (Spain)
  • 09/2006 - 06/2010
    Undergraduate studies in Journalism and Political Science, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Tampere University (Finland) and Ramon Lull University (Spain)

Spaces of Liberation: networks, practices and imaginaries of Lusophone African liberation movements' diplomatic revolution (1960s–1974)


In the 1960s, as anticolonialism reached its peak and dozens of newly independent states emerged, a cohort of activists from the Portuguese-ruled colonies strove to make space for their claims in a transnational political sphere increasingly shaped by post-colonial governments and pan-Africanist aspirations of unity. The trajectories and practices of anticolonial activists from Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau are the entry point to this investigation of how spaces for liberation politics were realised, which forms they took and how they were used to advance diplomatic and propaganda strategies.


The thesis shows that anticolonial mobilities and connectivity were rooted in dynamic networked spaces in and from which certain activists managed to mediate between nationalist organisational structures and targets of advocacy, thus bridging diverse scales of action. The spatial entrepreneurs that shaped these networks were also key in developing and publicising respatialisation strategies and imaginaries that reified revolutionary nation- and region-building narratives. Such a focus on the spatial practices of anticolonial actors not only reveals new nuances about their activism and political projects, but also sheds light on the multifarious nature of African decolonisation and its spatial transformations.



  • SFB 1199/A07: „Freie Radikale“? Politische Mobilitäten und postkoloniale Verräumlichungsprozesse in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
    Marung, Steffi
    Laufzeit: 01.2020 – 12.2023
    Mittelgeber: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Beteiligte Organisationseinheiten der UL: Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe); Global and European Studies Institute; SFB 1199: Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen
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  • Z-Projekt des SFB 1199 “Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen”
    Middell, Matthias
    Laufzeit: 01.2016 – 12.2019
    Mittelgeber: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Beteiligte Organisationseinheiten der UL: Centre for Area Studies; Global and European Studies Institute; SFB 1199: Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen
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weitere Forschungsprojekte

  • Moledo Pouso, A. M.
    The Struggle for Southern Africa: Constructing Imaginaries Around the Unliberated Region
    In: Lopes, R.; Telepneva, N. (Hrsg.)
    Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa. Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2024.
    ISBN: 9781350378308
    Details ansehen
  • Moledo Pouso, A. M.
    The Quest for the Solidarity of the World’s Working Class: Luso-African Liberation Movements and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) during the 1960s and early 1970s
    In: Dallywater, L.; Saunders, C.; Fonseca, H. A. (Hrsg.)
    Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa. New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1990s. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. S. 81–102.
    ISBN: 9783110779264
    Details ansehen
  • Moledo Pouso, A. M.
    "A New Phase of Anti-Imperialist Cooperation": The Making of Liberation Alliances in 1960s' (Unliberated) Southern Africa
    Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. 2020. 29 (4). S. 13–29.
    Details ansehen

weitere Publikationen

  • Einführung in die Globalgeschichte (Tutorium)

    Co-taught with Dr. Steffi Marung

    Winter term 2017/2018 & 2018/2019

    Global and European Studies Institute , Leipzig University 

  • Deutschland und die postkoloniale Welt (Seminar)

    Co-taught with Dr. Jürgen Dinkel

    Summer term 2019

    Historisches Seminar, Fakultät für Geschichte und Kunst- und Orientwissenschaften,  Leipzig University

  • Das südliche Afrika und der Kalte Krieg (Seminar)

    Co-taught with Robin Möser

    Winter term 2020–2021

    Global and European Studies Institute , Leipzig University