Jonas Prinzleve

jonas.prinzleve@campus.ul.pt

Project Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective - CITCOM

Ciência ID 0416-BAB6-6F56

Jonas Prinzleve holds an MA in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017). Since 2018/19, he is a PhD candidate in the International PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (PhD-COMP) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (FLUL), where he develops the research project A decolonial turn in public memory? Hamburg and Lisbon compared with an FCT Doctoral Grant. At the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp) he is a member of the FCT-funded research project “Constellations of Memory: A Multidirectional Study of Migration and Postcolonial Memory” (PTDC/SOC-ANT/4292/2021). In 2022, he became an international fellow at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2019, he has been appointed to the Advisory Board on the Decolonisation of Hamburg by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media. He is an author of the digital project ReMapping Memories Lisboa- Hamburg that is hosted by the Goethe Institute of Lisbon. In addition, he is the co-organizer, with Morgane Delaunay, of the seminar cycle Memory, Culture and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Nations in the framework of the Research Line Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective.


Areas of research

Cultural heritage and memory studies
Postcolonial theory and (de-)coloniality
Cities, migration and urban culture
Museum studies and postcolonial civil society


Selected publications

Prinzleve, J. (2022). Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity.Memory Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221122161.

Prinzleve, J. (2021). "Lisboa e a Memória do Império: Património, Museus e Espaço Público. Elsa Peralta. Recensão". Análise Social, 2 (239): 399-402.

Prinzleve, J. (2021).Lugares de memória pós-coloniais: O conceito de lugar de memória no contexto do projeto ReMapping Memories Lisboa-Hamburg. Disponível em: https://www.re-mapping.eu/pt/contextos.

Prinzleve, J. (2021). Linhas de conexão: Acerca do legado colonial comum das cidades portuárias de Lisboa e Hamburgo. Disponível em: https://www.re-mapping.eu/pt/contextos.