Ana Paula Silva

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

Research interests

  • History of Technology in Portugal and in the Portuguese African Empire (Angola and Mozambique) (19th to 21st centuries);
  • History of Science, especially of electricity (19th to 21st centuries);
  • Globalisation of Science and Technology (knowledge transfer, networks, centre(s)/peripherie(s)).

Projects

  • "The Electrification of African Portuguese Colonies”, post-doc research project, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/44257/2008), 2014-2017.

Publications (selection)

  1. Ana Paula Silva, “The Centrality of Peripheral Nodes in Global Flows - the Portuguese Case(s)” in Simone Fari e Massimo Moraglio (ed.) Peripheral flows. Mobilities between core(s) and fringe(s) in a historical perspective, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2016, 236-265. 
  2. Ana Paula Silva, “Planos integrados, lagos artificiais e medicina tropical – o caso de Cahora Bassa nos anos 1960-1970” in Anais do Instituto e Higiene e Medicina Tropical, 2016; 16:175-182.
  3. Ana Paula Silva, "Cabos Submarinos" [Submarine Cables] in Maria Fernanda Rollo et al. (org.) Dicionário da I República e do Republicanismo [Dictionary of the First Republic and Republicanism], (Lisboa: Assembleia da República, 2013).
  4. Ana Paula Silva, Mário E. Lisboa, A. M. Martins, "Locality in the Global World: facts and reflections on the Lusitanian land. Examples of the heritage of submarine cables", in Economics and politics in submarine telegraph cables (XIXth and XXth centuries). A global perspective between history, heritage and preservation, Storia economica (monograph volume), 2013, 321-352.
  5. Ana Paula Silva, "Anfitrião ou Refém: O Papel da Rede Telegráfica Portuguesa no Xadrez Mundial (da Regeneração ao Estado Novo" in Maria Paula Diogo, Isabel Maria Amaral, A outra face do Império. Ciência, tecnologia e medicina (sécs. XIX-XX), (Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2012), pp.109-129.
  6. Ana Paula Silva, "Interconnectivity in the European Periphery: Portuguese Telegraphs as Global Links", in Jonas Harvard, Frank Schipper (eds). Asymetries of Technological Globalization: the Electric Telegraph, Comparativ, Jg. 21, H. 6, (Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl., 2011), pp. 68-86.
  7. Ana Paula Silva, “Portugal and the Building of Atlantic Telegraph Networks – the role of a loser or a winner?”, HoST – journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 2, fall 2008.
  8. Ana Paula Silva, Maria Paula Diogo, “Host and Hostage: Portugal, Britain and the Atlantic Networks”, in Erik van der Vleuten, Arne Kaijser (eds.), Networking Europe. Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2006), pp. 51-69.
  9. Ana Paula Silva, “As Redes de Comunicações Eléctricas”, in Luís Nuno Madureira (ed.), A História da Energia. Portugal 1890-1980, (Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2005), pp. 141-170.
  10. Ana Paula, “Shaping the 29th Century Portuguese Empire: the Telegraph and the Radio”, ICON. Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 2001, vol. 7, 106-122.

Scientific Societies and other institutions

  • Associação de Professores de Filosofia: Founding Member.
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