André Marinha

PhD candidate
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PhD candidate in Political Science at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of the NOVA University of Lisbon. Researcher in the research project HOME - How Members of Parliament in Africa Represent Their Constituencies [PTDC/CPO-CPO/4796/2020] at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). For his PhD thesis, he is studying the evolution of strategies for the training of colonial administrators in French and Portuguese late colonial empires and how scientific institutions and modernization discourses were instrumental to these strategies.

Research Fields:

Comparative History of Imperialism and Colonialism

Political Elites and Representation in African Democracies 

Social Movements

Recent Publications:

Marinha, A. (2021). Book Review of Della Porta et al. (2020), Contesting higher education: student movements against neoliberal universities. Social Movement Studies.