M. Luísa Sousa

Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Applied Sciences, FCT/NOVA

Research interests

  • History of Technology;
  • History of Transports and Mobility;
  • Urban History.

Projects

  • "Hi-BicLab. Laboratório de História para Mobilidades Urbanas Sustentáveis: Políticas cicláveis de Lisboa", FCT– Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., «EXPL/FER-HFC/0847/2021), 2022-2023; Principal Researcher.
  • "Estradas para a circulação e estradas para o fomento: a engenharia rodoviária em Portugal no pós-II Guerra Mundial (1945-1974)" ["Roads for flow and roads for development: highway engineering in Portugal in the post-II World War period (1945-1974)"], post-doc research project, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/93517/2013), 2014-2017.

Participation

Publications (selection)

  1. M. Luísa Sousa, "Roads for the 1940 Portuguese Nationality Commemorations: Modernising by excess in a context of scarcity", The Journal of Transport History, 37, no. 2 (Dec. 2016). DOI 10.1177/0022526616666092. 
  2. M. Luísa Sousa, "Colonial Centres and Peripheries: Low-cost Roads and Portuguese Engineers in the 1950s", in Simone Fari e Massimo Moraglio (eds.), Peripheral Flows: A Historical Perspective on Mobilities between Cores and Fringes,  (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), pp. 169-188. 
  3. M. Luísa Sousa, "A «mobilidade disciplinada» do ponto de vista do automobilista", in Alice Santiago Faria, Pedro M. P. Raposo (eds.), Mobilidade e circulação: perspectivas em História da Ciência e da Tecnologia (Lisboa: CIUHCT/CHAM, 2014), pp. 43-50.
  4. M. Luísa Sousa, A mobilidade automóvel em Portugal. A construção do sistema socio-técnico, 1920-1950 / La mobilité automobile au Portugal. La construction du système socio-technique, 1920-1950, Tese de doutoramento, (Lisboa; Paris: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, 2013).
  5. M. Luísa Sousa, Rafael Marques, "Political transitions, value change and motorisation in 1970s Portugal", The Journal of Transport History, 34, no. 1 (2013): 1-21.
  6. M. Luísa Sousa, Maria Paula Diogo, "Giving with one hand and taking away with the other: the automobile assembly industry in Portugal (1960-1988)", Revista de Historia Industrial, 48: 1 (2012), 155-181.
  7. M. Luísa Sousa, "History of Transport and Mobility in Portugal: a non-field", in Peter D. Norton, Gijs Mom, Liz Millward and Mathieu Flonneau (eds.), Mobility in History. Reviews and Reflections (T2M Yearbook 2012) (Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil – Presses Universitaires Suisses, 2011), pp. 133-143.
  8. M. Luísa Sousa, "Technology as a social collective experience of nation building: David Nye’s American Technological Sublime", HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, 4 (2010).
  9. Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luísa Sousa, "In search of the urban variable : Understanding the roots of urban planning in Portugal", Métropoles, 6, Des mobilités urbaines à la ville mobile. Sur les traces des circulations urbaines, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 18 novembre 2009.
  10. Álvaro Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luísa Sousa, “The 'script' of a new urban layout: mobility, environment and embellishment. Street’s uses in Lisbon between 1880 and 1920”, no Sixth International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), Otava, (2008) (Cd-rom da conferência). Prémio Dr. Cornelius Lely.

Scientific Societies and other institutions

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