André Caiado


Biography

André Caiado is Junior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and PhD candidate in 'Heritages of Portuguese Influence', at the University of Coimbra. He is developing a PhD thesis about the politics of memory and commemoration and memorialization processes of the Portuguese Colonial War. His research focuses the monumentalization and musealization of the conflict. He worked as Research Administrator between 2009 and 2022. He was member of the project "CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times", coordinated by Miguel Cardina and funded by the European Research Council. He holds a Master's degree in International Economics and Management from the University of Porto and a graduation in Political Science and International Relations from the New University of Lisbon. Current research interests focus on the history and memorialization of the Portuguese Colonial War/liberation struggle, war memory studies, monumentalization, musealization, military pilgrimages, and battlefield tourism.


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Caiado, André (2023), Monuments to the colonial war in Portugal, in Miguel Cardina (org.), The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles. London: Routledge, 76-93

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Article in Scientific journal

Caiado, André (2022), "The Representation of "Difficult Pasts" in Military Museums. The Portuguese Colonial War in the Portuguese Armed Forces Museums", Museum Worlds, 10, 1, 61-77

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Article in Scientific journal

Caiado, André (2021), "The monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War: Commemorating the soldier's efforts amid the persistence of imperial imaginaries", Memory Studies, 14, 6, 1208-1225

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