Catarina Valdigem

Assistant Professor
Catarina Valdigem

catarina.valdigem@ucp.pt

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PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is currently an invited Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal, where she teaches undergraduate and master's degrees in communication sciences. She is also an integrated researcher at the same university's Communication and Culture Research Centre (CECC). Previously, she participated in several research projects at CECC-UCP, ICS-UL, UBI and CIMJ, currently Cic.digital, UNL, respectively. Throughout her career, she has developed research that articulates gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and memory studies, with studies of media representation and reception, as well as migrations and ethnocultural identities. She has published on these themes and, more recently, on the historical reception of radio and music in the Mozambican colonial context, focusing on the case of the Portuguese and Mozambican population of Goan origin.

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Radio and music listening practices in colonial Mozambique

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2024. Journal of African Cultural Studies
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A portugalidade nos e dos documentos do Estado

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2023. Congresso Em Português: falar, viver e pensar no século XXI, Lisboa, Portugal, 27/11/23
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Beyond (Anti)Colonial Broadcasting: The Social Life of South Asian Soundscapes in Colonial Mozambique

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2023. PhD research seminars in Communication Studies, convened by Professor Catarina Burnay
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Memórias da rádio e do colonialismo: estórias de portugueses e de moçambicanos de origem goesa na pós-colonialidade

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2023. Título Provisório "Rádio Con:Vida"
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Radio and Music reception in colonial Mozambique: the Goan experience

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2023. Journal of African Cultural Studies
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The (invisible) place of News Translation in the intelligence services of colonial Mozambique – SCCIM (1961 – 1974)

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2023. Translation and the News: state of the art, dialogues, reflections
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The (invisible) place of news translation in the intelligence services of colonial Mozambique – SCCIM (1961 – 1974)

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2023. Translation and the News: state of the art, dialogues, reflections, Lisbon, Portugal, 26/06/23
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Transoceanic South Asian female silent voices and the bureaucratic weapons of resistance to the state apparatus

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2023. Transatlantic Women's Networks: Cultural Engaggements from the 19th Century to the Present, Lisbon, Portugal, 11/05/23
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Broadcasting Empire

Nelson Ribeiro & Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2022.
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On Islamic Objects of Home Décor and Collective Memories of Belonging

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2022. seminars “late afternoon talks”, under the subject mappings: objects and stories.
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(De)constructing the nation through colonial broadcasting in Angola and Mozambique

Catarina Valdigem (with Rogério Santos). 2021. IAMCR, Rethinking borders and boundaries, Beyond the global/local dichotomy in communication studies
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(Des)construindo sentidos de Indianidade: a recepção de audiovisuais indianos por Portugueses Muçulmanos de origem Indiana e Moçambicana

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2021. PhD research seminars led by Professor Sílvio Santos in the PhD In Sciences of Communications at Universidade de Coimbra
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A circulação de sonoridades indianas no Moçambique Colonial: uma perspetiva intermediática da receção da música de filme hindi

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2021. International Symposium Musics in Africa ISMA’21, 2nd edition subject to the theme “Os media na construção do império português e das nações modernas”
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Beyond (Anti)Colonial Broadcasting: The Social Life of South Asian Soundscapes in Colonial Mozambique

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2021. PhD research seminars in Communication Studies, convened by Professor Catarina Burnay, in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Broadcasting with one single voice?

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2021. 8th ECREA European Communication Conference, Belgium, 6/09/21
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Broadcasting with one single voice? The Radio Clube of Mozambique and its outsourced private colonial production companies

Nelson Ribeiro & Catarina Valdigem (with Ribeiro, Nelson Costa). 2021. 8th ECREA European Conference 2021
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Receção da rádio e da música no Moçambique colonial

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2021. Cultura popular e império
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Recepção da Rádio e da Música no Moçambique Colonial: experiências e subjetividades goesas

Catarina Valdigem 2021. Cultura Popular e Império
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with Nelson Ribeiro, “Transgressing or complying with the colonial rule? The GOLO commercial broadcasts on the Rádio Clube de Moçambique

Catarina Valdigem 2021. IAMCR Rethinking borders and boundaries, Beyond the global/local dichotomy in communication studies
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In-Between the colonial and anti-colonial airwaves: South Asian Soundscapes in colonial Mozambique

Catarina Valdigem 2020. “Crossing Borders with a New Medium: Radio and Imperial Identities”
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Recepção da Rádio e da Música no Moçambique colonial: experiências e subjectividades goesas

Catarina Valdigem 2020. Ed. Nuno Domingos, título provisório "O império colonial português e a cultura popular urbana: visões comparativas das colónias e da metrópole"
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Sebastião Coelho e a construção sonora da angolanidade

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2020. Africana Studia
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Sounds of Resistance: dissident anti-colonial broadcasting practices in colonial Angola and Mozambique (1960-1974)

Catarina Valdigem (with Rogério Santos). 2020. “Crossing Borders with a New Medium: Radio and Imperial Identities”
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Transgressing or complying with the colonial rule?

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2020. IAMCR 2020, Tampere, Finland, 12/07/20
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with Rogério Santos, Sebastião Coelho e a construção sonora da angolanidade

Catarina Valdigem 2020. Africana Studia
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BIPE – Broadcasting in the Portuguese Empire Research Statement

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2019. Coffee-Break of CECC – Research Centre in Communication and Culture, Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
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Memórias da rádio e do colonialismo: estórias de portugueses e de moçambicanos de origem goesa na pós-colonialidade

Catarina Valdigem 2019.
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Sebastião Coelho (1931-2002), locutor, produtor fonográfico e político

Catarina Valdigem (with Rogério Santos). 2019. XI Congresso SOPCOM
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South Asian/ Indian Soundscapes in colonial Mozambique: historical notes of the circulation and the politics of diasporic sounds

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2019. IAMCR international conference titled - Communication, Technology and Human dignity: disputed rights, contested truths
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South Asian/ Indian Soundscapes in colonial Mozambique: historical notes of the circulation and the politics of diasporic sounds

Catarina Valdigem 2019. Communication, Technology and Human dignity: disputed rights, contested truths
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Swagatam: Som do Oriente: história e receção de um programa radiofónico no contexto pós-colonial lusófono

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2019. Congresso “Media: Poder, Representação e Epistemologia”: VI Congresso Internacional de Comunicação, Jornalismo e Espaço Público
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(De)constructing senses of Indian-ness

Catarina Valdigem 2018.
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Food, Belonging and Postcolonial Memories: the case of Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins

Catarina Valdigem 2017.
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Memories of Media Practices and of the Portuguese Empire: the case of Portuguese Muslim of Indian and Mozambican origins

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2017. Audiences 2013, Imagining a Future for Audiences
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Postcolonial Objects of Collective Re-Membering among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2016.
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Dando Género às Tecnologias e aos Lugares: As mulheres de classe operária dos bairros históricos de Lisboa

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2015. A Caixa não Mudou o Mundo – Usos Femininos dos Media no Estado Novo
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"Gendering Technologies and Places: Working class women in the Lisbon historical quarters"

Catarina Valdigem (with José Ricardo Carvalheiro). 2014. As Caixas Mudaram o Mundo? Usos Femininos dos Media no Estado Novo
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"When new audiences were kept out of the world: the arrival of electronic media and female marginalization in mid-20th century Portugal"

Catarina Valdigem (with José Ricardo Carvalheiro). 2014.
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When new audiences were kept out of the world; the arrival of electronic media and female marginalization in mid-20th century Portugal

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2014. MECCSA Conference subject to the theme "Media and the Margins"
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Postcolonial Memories of Media reception and construction of collective belongings: the case of Portuguese Muslim Women of Indian and Mozambican origins

Catarina Valdigem 2013. Gender and the Past: Qualitative Approaches to Broadcasting Reception
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Postcolonial Memories of Media Reception and the construction of Collective Belongings: the case of Portuguese Muslim Women of Indian and Mozambican origins

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2013. Gender and the Past: Qualitative Approaches to Broadcasting Reception
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Beyond the Visualities of Belonging: the case of Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins

Catarina Valdigem 2012.
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Remembering with and through 'media objects' among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins: a family case study

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2011.
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Remembering with and through ‘media objects’ among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican Origins: family case study

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2010.
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Sensing memories and belongings through media consumption among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican Origin

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2010. IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research
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Sensing memories and belongings through media consumption among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican Origins

Catarina Valdigem 2010.
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Managing Focus Groups: some concerns about the method

Catarina Valdigem 2008.
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Sensing memories among Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2008. EASA 2008: Experiencing diversity and mutuality, Workshop 110 "Enacting pasts and futures: memory, identity and imagination"
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Sensing memories among Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin

Catarina Valdigem 2008. EASA - European Association of Social Anthropologists
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Diasporic Identities and media consumption: the case of Indian-Mozambican Muslims in Lisbon, Portugal

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2007. ECREA, Mediations of Cultural Difference: Debating Media and Diversity - 1st Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section European Workshop
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Managing Focus Groups: some concerns about the method

Catarina Valdigem 2007.
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Imagens dos Idosos na Televisão Portuguesa

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2006.
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Imagens dos Idosos na Televisão Portuguesa: Estudo de caso relativo a 2004

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2006. LUSOCOM 2006 - VII Congresso Internacional de Comunicação lusófona
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Media Uses and Identity: Brazilian Women in a Hairdressing Salon

Catarina Valdigem 2006. Media & Jornalismo
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Métodos de Pesquisa de Recepção: Os Usos da Telenovela Brasileira O Clone e a construção da identidade

Catarina Valdigem 2006.
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Minorias Étnicas e os Média

Catarina Valdigem 2006.
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Representing Minorities on Prime-Time TV

Catarina Valdigem 2006. Media, Imigração e Minorias Étnicas II
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Televisão e Memória: histórias de Mulheres idosas

Catarina Valdigem 2006. A Televisão das Mulheres: ensaios sobre a recepção
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Televisão e Memória: histórias de Mulheres idosas

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2006. A Televisão das Mulheres: ensaios sobre a recepção
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Usos dos Media e Identidade

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2006. Media & Jornalismo
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Usos dos Media e Identidade: Mulheres brasileiras num salão de beleza

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2006. Media & Jornalismo
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A Indústria cultural televisiva como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2005. LIVRO DE ACTAS – 4º SOPCOM
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A indústria cultural televisiva como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural: estudo de recepção da telenovela brasileira "O Clone"

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2005.
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A Indústria cultural televisiva como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural: Estudo de recepção da telenovela brasileira O Clone”

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2005. 4ª SOPCOM - Repensar os Media: Novos Contextos de Comunicações e Informação
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A Televisão como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2005.
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Brasileiros e ciganos no prime-time português

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2005. Comunicação & Cultura
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Brasileiros e ciganos no prime-time português: estudo de caso

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2005. Comunicação & Cultura
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Brasileiros e ciganos no prime-time português: estudo de caso

Catarina Valdigem 2005. Comunicação & Cultura
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Images of the Elderly on Portuguese Television: a 2004 Case Study

Catarina Valdigem 2005. LUSOCOM 2006 - VII Congresso Internacional de Comunicação Lusófona
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Media analysis of Migrations in Portugal

Catarina Valdigem 2005.
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Os Usos da Telenovela Brasileira O Clone em Portugal: Fragmentos de construção da Identidade

Catarina Valdigem (with Valdigem, Catarina). 2005. INTERCOM 2005 - Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação, XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação
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Presentation of the Research Project "Television and the Images of Difference“

Catarina Valdigem 2005.
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The Uses of the Brazilian Soap Opera O Clone in Portugal: Identity fragments under construction

Catarina Valdigem 2005.
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Da descodificação à perspectiva dos média enquanto prática: recepção da rádio no lar goês no Moçambique colonial

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). MA research seminars on Recent Tendencies of Ethnomusicology convened by Professor Marco Freitas, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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Radio and Music reception in colonial Mozambique: the Goan experience

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). Radio in Southern Africa: Past and Present, a joint symposium held by the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and the Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Johannesburg, Investcorp Theatre, St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK.
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The uses of the Brazilian Soap Opera O Clone and the processes of construction of Identities

Catarina Valdigem