Catarina Valdigem

Assistant Professor

Catarina Valdigem

Assistant Professor

Bio

Catarina Valdigem earned her PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2016. She is currently an assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) and an integrated researcher at the Communication and Culture Research Centre (CECC) at UCP. Throughout her career, she has participated in several research projects, having developed interdisciplinary research that articulates the social and ethnocultural identities of minority groups, migrants and postcolonial diasporas with their representations and practices of media reception, both from a contemporary and historical perspective. Her recent research intersects postcolonial criticism and the history of broadcasting in the context of the Portuguese colonial empire, with special emphasis on the Angolan and Mozambican cases. Currently, she studies the intermedia circuits of Hindi film music and respective memories of reception in colonial Mozambique; as well as the media uses and practices of migrant workers in the Greater Lisbon area.

Areas of Research:

Communication Sciences

Publications

Book Chapter

Transoceanic South Asian women’s weapons of resistance to the state apparatus

Catarina Valdigem (with Catarina Valdigem Pereira). 2026. Transatlantic women's networks

Fase especial de candidaturas aos programas de Licenciatura

A administração Trump está a mostrar-se incompetente?

20th European Research Conference on Home­less­ness

Catarina Valdigem

Catarina Valdigem

Bio

Transoceanic South Asian women’s weapons of resistance to the state apparatus

Memórias da rádio e do colonialismo: estórias de portugueses e de moçambicanos de origem goesa na pós-colonialidade

Os legados coloniais da portugalidade

Radio and music listening practices in colonial Mozambique

A portugalidade nos e dos documentos do Estado

Beyond (Anti)Colonial Broadcasting: The Social Life of South Asian Soundscapes in Colonial Mozambique

Radio and Music reception in colonial Mozambique: the Goan experience

The (invisible) place of news translation in the intelligence services of colonial Mozambique – SCCIM (1961 – 1974)

The (invisible) place of News Translation in the intelligence services of colonial Mozambique – SCCIM (1961 – 1974)

Transoceanic South Asian female silent voices and the bureaucratic weapons of resistance to the state apparatus

Broadcasting Empire

On Islamic Objects of Home Décor and Collective Memories of Belonging

(De)constructing the nation through colonial broadcasting in Angola and Mozambique

(Des)construindo sentidos de Indianidade: a recepção de audiovisuais indianos por Portugueses Muçulmanos de origem Indiana e Moçambicana

A circulação de sonoridades indianas no Moçambique Colonial: uma perspetiva intermediática da receção da música de filme hindi

Beyond (Anti)Colonial Broadcasting: The Social Life of South Asian Soundscapes in Colonial Mozambique

Broadcasting with one single voice?

Broadcasting with one single voice? The Radio Clube of Mozambique and its outsourced private colonial production companies

Receção da rádio e da música no Moçambique colonial

Recepção da Rádio e da Música no Moçambique Colonial: experiências e subjetividades goesas

with Nelson Ribeiro, “Transgressing or complying with the colonial rule? The GOLO commercial broadcasts on the Rádio Clube de Moçambique

In-Between the colonial and anti-colonial airwaves: South Asian Soundscapes in colonial Mozambique

Recepção da Rádio e da Música no Moçambique colonial: experiências e subjectividades goesas

Sebastião Coelho e a construção sonora da angolanidade

Sounds of Resistance: dissident anti-colonial broadcasting practices in colonial Angola and Mozambique (1960-1974)

Transgressing or complying with the colonial rule?

with Rogério Santos, Sebastião Coelho e a construção sonora da angolanidade

BIPE – Broadcasting in the Portuguese Empire Research Statement

Memórias da rádio e do colonialismo: estórias de portugueses e de moçambicanos de origem goesa na pós-colonialidade

Sebastião Coelho (1931-2002), locutor, produtor fonográfico e político

South Asian/ Indian Soundscapes in colonial Mozambique: historical notes of the circulation and the politics of diasporic sounds

South Asian/ Indian Soundscapes in colonial Mozambique: historical notes of the circulation and the politics of diasporic sounds

Swagatam: Som do Oriente: história e receção de um programa radiofónico no contexto pós-colonial lusófono

(De)constructing senses of Indian-ness

Food, Belonging and Postcolonial Memories: the case of Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins

Memories of Media Practices and of the Portuguese Empire: the case of Portuguese Muslim of Indian and Mozambican origins

Postcolonial Objects of Collective Re-Membering among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins

Dando Género às Tecnologias e aos Lugares: As mulheres de classe operária dos bairros históricos de Lisboa

"Gendering Technologies and Places: Working class women in the Lisbon historical quarters"

"When new audiences were kept out of the world: the arrival of electronic media and female marginalization in mid-20th century Portugal"

When new audiences were kept out of the world; the arrival of electronic media and female marginalization in mid-20th century Portugal

Postcolonial Memories of Media reception and construction of collective belongings: the case of Portuguese Muslim Women of Indian and Mozambican origins

Postcolonial Memories of Media Reception and the construction of Collective Belongings: the case of Portuguese Muslim Women of Indian and Mozambican origins

Beyond the Visualities of Belonging: the case of Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican origins

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

Remembering with and through ‘media objects’ among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican Origins: family case study

Sensing memories and belongings through media consumption among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican Origin

Sensing memories and belongings through media consumption among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican Origins

Managing Focus Groups: some concerns about the method

Sensing memories among Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin

Sensing memories among Portuguese Muslims of Indian-Mozambican origin

Diasporic Identities and media consumption: the case of Indian-Mozambican Muslims in Lisbon, Portugal

Managing Focus Groups: some concerns about the method

Imagens dos Idosos na Televisão Portuguesa

Imagens dos Idosos na Televisão Portuguesa: Estudo de caso relativo a 2004

Media Uses and Identity: Brazilian Women in a Hairdressing Salon

Métodos de Pesquisa de Recepção: Os Usos da Telenovela Brasileira O Clone e a construção da identidade

Minorias Étnicas e os Média

Representing Minorities on Prime-Time TV

Televisão e Memória: histórias de Mulheres idosas

Televisão e Memória: histórias de Mulheres idosas

Usos dos Media e Identidade

Usos dos Media e Identidade: Mulheres brasileiras num salão de beleza

A Indústria cultural televisiva como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural

A indústria cultural televisiva como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural: estudo de recepção da telenovela brasileira "O Clone"

A Indústria cultural televisiva como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural: Estudo de recepção da telenovela brasileira O Clone

A Televisão como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural

Brasileiros e ciganos no prime-time português

Brasileiros e ciganos no prime-time português: estudo de caso

Brasileiros e ciganos no prime-time português: estudo de caso

Images of the Elderly on Portuguese Television: a 2004 Case Study

Media analysis of Migrations in Portugal

Os Usos da Telenovela Brasileira O Clone em Portugal: Fragmentos de construção da Identidade

Presentation of the Research Project "Television and the Images of Difference“

20th European Research Conference on Homelessness

A Indústria cultural televisiva como fonte mediadora de processos de hibridação cultural: Estudo de recepção da telenovela brasileira O Clone