Pedro Gomes is postdoctoral researcher at CICS.NOVA of New University of Lisbon. His research interests currently focus on the transnational history of Angolan sport in the post-independence period during the Cuban Civil Mission.
In 2021 he was awarded his PhD in Sociology (Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon) in 2021, with the work Leisure, Popular Culture and Colonialism in Luanda: sociability and translocal resistance in a story about music and cars (1957-1975).
He has published on the social history of sports and music in colonial Angola and Portugal.
Research unit: Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA)
Research areas: Oral History, Musical Cultures, Leisure Studies, Sports and colonialism, Grounded Theory, Historical Sociology, Popular Culture, African socialism