André Caiado
Biography
André Caiado is Junior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and PhD candidate in the doctoral programme '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 is a team member of the project "CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times", hosted by CES, coordinated by Miguel Cardina and funded by the European Research Council. Current research interests focus on the history and memorialization of the Portuguese Colonial War, war memory studies, monumentalization, musealization, military pilgrimages, and battlefield tourism.
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Latest Publications
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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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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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Caiado, André; Ferreira, Verónica; Cardina, Miguel (2021), "Os regressos da guerra: espaço público, mundo digital e (re)produções mnemónicas", Ler História, 2, 79, 215-240
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