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My career has been guided by the launch and implementation of editorial projects in the field of social communication, social networks and political activism and anthropology. I started on the radio because of the fascination it caused me and then I went on television helping to set up programs on a television channel in Portugal and Angola Public Television of Angola and TPA International (Public Television of Angola), in 2008. I was also responsible for youth-oriented programs with high levels of popularity such as Bounce Angola (2008/2010), urban dance competition, Elite Model Look (2010/2014) contest responsible for recruiting models in Angola and the program elaborated a mapping of the Kizomba dance movement around the world called Kizomba Nation(2013/2014). I also have experience from several countries such as Germany, the Balkan countries like Northern Macedonia where I lived and worked under the European program European Volunteer Service (2005). In 2011, I presented the film "For the Word", directed in Struga about the UNESCO supported Poetry Festival - Struga Poetry Evenings. Director of the magazine of Fashion and Lifestyle DIVO MAGAZINE and did research, script and interviews of the documentary Bangaologia - the Science of Style (2016). In 2015 I defended my dissertation on the practice and diffusion of kizomba throughout the world under the Master in Anthropology, specialization Globalizations, Migrations and Multiculturalism, with the thesis focused on contemporary flows and circuits in culture and economy. I completed my PhD with research on Semba as intangible heritage – policies, images, and sonorities of culture in Angola, as part of the doctoral program in Culture Policies, Images, and Museology at ISCTE-IUL and NOVA FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, funded by FCT - PD/BD/137669/2018. I am a researcher at CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
André Castro Soares

Citation names

  • Soares, André C.
  • Soares, André Castro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A013-E8BB-6448
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3443-0116

Email addresses

  • andrecastrosoares@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa . Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/05/01 - 2024/07/25
Concluded
Antropologia: Políticas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia (associação) (Doutoramento)
Major in Património Cultural Imaterial
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"O semba enquanto património imaterial: políticas, imagens e sonoridades da cultura em Angola." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/12/31
Concluded
Antropologia: Multiculturalismo e Identidades (Mestrado)
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2005
Concluded
Licenciatura em Comunicação Social (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
14 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/03/15 - 2024/06/25 Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/06/22 - 2024/10/31 Organic Unit Sub-director UNESCO Luanda, Angola
United Nations Development Programme Angola, Angola

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2005/09/01 - 2008/09/05 Jornalista Até ao Fim do Mundo, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/05/01 - 2022/08/31 O semba enquanto património imaterial: políticas e imagens da cultura em Angola
PhD Student Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2002/10/01 - 2003/06/30 A figura do anti-herói no cinema português e alemão [The Figure of the Anti-Hero in Portuguese and German Cinema]
Scholarship Holder in Film Theory (Film- und Theaterwissenschaft) at Freie Universität Berlin]
Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Germany
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/01/01 - 2024/12/31 SPECPAT - "The Liberation Struggle Museum in Luanda: a study on the spectacularization of heritage"
PExCRIA/2023.2/SPECPAT
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Soares, André C.. "Branquidade e etnografia: visões críticas e ativações a partir do trabalho de campo em Luanda [Whiteness and Ethnography: Critical Views and Activations from Fieldwork in Luanda]". In Diálogos de Campo - Pesquisas de Campo Participativas em Debate [Field Dialogues - Participatory Field Research in Debate], edited by Iolanda Évora, 84-94. Lisboa, Portugal: Cesa - Centro de Estudos sobre África e Desenvolvimento, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Soares, André C.. "Sembapatrimonioimaterial.com: performances locais, narrativas nacionais imaginadas, diálogos a partir do terreno [Sembapatrimonioimaterial.com: local performances, imagined national narratives, dialogues from the field]". GIS - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia 6 1 (2021): https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.174219.
    Published • 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.174219
Online resource
  1. Soares, André C.. Caminhando sobre Brasões: a Colonialidade e o Racismo em Portugal [Walking on Coat of Arms: Coloniality and Racism in Portugal]. 2023. https://revistacasacomum.com.br/caminhando-sobre-brasoes-a-colonialidade-e-o-racismo-em-portugal/.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Raposo, P.; Soares, André C.; Silveira, M.. "Lugar de Escuta, uma atitude Antropológica [Place of Listening, an Anthropological attitude]". Preface to Cadernos Nauí, 5-12. Santa Cantarina do Sul, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. 2021.
    Published
  2. Soares, André C.. "Num semba poema, num semba canção, num semba ação: escuta das comunidades de práticas do semba enquanto património imaterial [In a semba poem, in a semba song, in a semba action: listening to the communities of practice of semba as intangible heritage]". Preface to MEMOIRS NEWSLETTER #130, 1-3. --, Portugal: Memoirs. 2021.
    Published
  3. Raposo, P.; Soares, André C.; Silveira, M.; Nascimento, P.. "Lugar de escuta, uma atitude antropológica". Preface to Cadernos Nauí - Dossiê Patrimônios (in)visíveis, colonialidade(s) em escuta, 6-12. --, Brazil: UFSC. 2021.
    Published
Website
  1. Soares, André C.. Semba enquanto património imaterial: políticas, imagens e sonoridades da cultura em Angola - defesa de tese [Semba as intangible heritage: politics, images, and sounds of culture in Angola - thesis defense]. 2024. https://www.buala.org/pt/palcos/semba-enquanto-patrimonio-imaterial-politicas-imagens-e-sonoridades-da-cultura-em-angola-defe.
  2. Soares, André C.. Semba Património Imaterial [Semba Intangible Heritage]. 2019. https://sembapatrimonioimaterial.com/.
Working paper
  1. Soares, André C.; Reis, F.. 2016. "Uma etnografia multi-situada em torno da prática e difusão da Kizomba [A multi-sited ethnography on the practice and diffusion of Kizomba]". https://cria.org.pt/pt/working-papers.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic performance
  1. 2023. Por um jardim sem Impérios [For a Garden without Empires]. Jardins do Império, Lisboa Portugal.
Video recording
  1. André Soares; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (Producer); André Castro Soares (Director). 2020. Viva o Samba - um filme etnográfico [Viva o Samba - an ethnographic film]. Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia.
  2. Soares, André C.; Bei Ling; Até ao Fim do Mundo (Producer); André Castro Soares (Director). 2011. Pela palavra - filme documentário [By the Word - Documentary Film]. Até ao Fim do Mundo.

Other

Other output
  1. Entre Luanda, Lisboa, Milão, Miami e Cairo: difusão e prática da Kizomba [Between Luanda, Lisbon, Milan, Miami, and Cairo: diffusion and practice of Kizomba]. This thesis aims to analyze critically and reflectively the diffusion process of kizomba, a dance genre coming from Angola that has gained huge popularity worldwide. Describes, in particular, the role that festivals of this dance genre play in this diffusion process and the concept of "battlefield" to characterize their competitive, teaching and entertainment aspects.. 2015. Soares, André C.. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/11211.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/10 Colonialidades Contemporâneas [Contemporary Colonialities] Colonialidades Contemporâneas [Contemporary Colonialities]
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/11/16 Semba enquanto património imaterial - diálogos a partir do terreno [Semba as Intangible Heritage - Dialogues from the Field] Semba enquanto património imaterial - diálogos a partir do terreno [Semba as Intangible Heritage - Dialogues from the Field]
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/09/09 Performance e Decolonial [Performance and Decolonial] Performance e Decolonial [Performance and Decolonial]
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/05 Semba: bandas, grupos tradicionais e carnaval – um estudo de caso [Semba: bands, traditional groups, and carnival – a case study] UC de Perspectivas Antropológicas da Música, pela Professora Nélia Dias da Licenciatura em Antropologia do ISCTE-IUL [Anthropological Perspectives on Music, by Professor Nélia Dias from the Undergraduate Degree in Anthropology at ISCTE-IUL]
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/06/28 Kizomba: the party as a place of memory in times of war. Memory Studies Association Conference
Universidade Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2019/06/05 “Semba versus Petróleo”: usos e valor dos patrimónios identitários como alternativa à economia do petróleo em Angola [“Semba versus Oil”: uses and value of identity heritages as an alternative to the oil economy in Angola] Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
Nova FCSH (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/03/12 Luanda Hums and Buzzes: Urban Soundscapes, Club Music, and Dance UC Perspetivas Antropológicas sobre a Música
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2018/11/22 - 2018/11/22 3º Encontro do Grupo de Investigação – Práticas e Políticas da Cultura do CRIA Ano Europeu do Património Cultural. Pesquisas em Curso, Processos e Desafios [3rd Meeting of the Research Group – Practices and Policies of Culture at CRIA European Year of Cultural Heritage. Ongoing Research, Processes, and Challenges] (2018/11/22)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2018/10/24 - 2018/10/24 Diálogos – 2º Encontro de Doutorandxs do CRIA [Dialogues – 2nd Meeting of PhD Students at CRIA] (2018/10/24)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/04/17 - 2018/04/17 Café com Antropologia #2 | Música e performance como lugares de batalha [Anthropology Café #2 | Music and performance as battlefields] (2018/04/17)
Round table (Co-organisor)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2017/12/01 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia [Portuguese Anthropological Association]

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019/09/19 - 2022/09/30 I provided pro bono consultancy services at the National Heritage Institute of Angola, focusing on intangible cultural heritage in alignment with the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Instituto Nacional do Património Cultural , Angola

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021/02 "As festas de quintal, o fazer conversa, a beleza no dançar e no andar", entrevista a André Castro Soares [“Backyard parties, making conversation, the beauty in dancing and walking," interview with André Castro Soares] BUALA

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2016/12 - 2016/12 Bem-vindos Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Apresentação dos resultados da tese de Mestrado [Presentation of Master's Thesis Results]
Distinctions

Award

2024 Promoção da Kizomba [Promotion of Kizomba]
Associação Original Kizomba, Angola