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Patrícia Alves de Matos is an economic anthropologist trained in Lisbon and London. She is currently a Senior Researcher at CRIA-ISCTE-IUL with the project "Everyday Worlds of Welfare: A Comparative Study of Human Needs, Livelihood Sustainability and Social Policy in Southern Europe" (2022.00400.CEECIND/CP1758/CT0003) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. This project proposes a comparative bottom-up approach to human welfare calculus and welfare sustainability, focusing on the theoretical relevance of the concept of "everyday worlds of welfare" (EWW). Patrícia Alves de Matos is also an Auxiliary Invited Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at FCSH/New University of Lisbon. Her research interests include neoliberalism, precarity and labour; gender, body politics and social reproduction; austerity welfare, needs and moralities of distribution. Manchester University Press published her monograph, "Disciplined Agency: Neoliberal Precarity, Generational Dispossession and Call Centre Labour in Portugal", in July 2020.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Patricia Ribeiro Mendes Alves de Matos
Date of birth
1978/10/22
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Matos, Patricia
  • Alves de Matos, Patrícia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0D14-42EC-8C48
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8230-1955
Scopus Author Id
56071498900 and 57344536300

Email addresses

  • patricia.matos@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
  • pmatos@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
  • patricia.r.m.a.matos@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • Av. das Forças Armadas, Ed. ISCTE-IUL, 1649-026, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Catalan Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2006/09/25 - 2011/05/31
Concluded
 FT MPHIL/PHD ANTHROPOLOGY (Doctor of Philosophy)
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
"Precarious Labour in Portuguese call centres: an anthropological study" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 PASS, NO CORRECTIONS
2004/10/01 - 2005/05/27
Concluded
 Antropologia dos Movimentos Sociais (Master in Anthropology of Social Movements) (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 19 (0-20) - EXCELENT
1996/10/01 - 2003/10/10
Concluded
 Antropologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 15 (0-20) - VERY GOOD
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/04/01 - 2029/03/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/03/31 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/03 - 2022/08/31 Postdoc (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/07 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universitat de Barcelona Departament de d'Antropologia Cultural i d'Història d'Amèrica i Àfrica, Spain
Universitat de Barcelona Departament de d'Antropologia Cultural i d'Història d'Amèrica i Àfrica, Spain
2014 - 2018 Postdoc (Research) Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, Spain
Universitat de Barcelona - Campus Mundet, Spain
2011 - 2014 Postdoc (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/02 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Assistant (University Teacher) Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
Goldsmiths University of London Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/07/01 - Current Coordinator of the Research Group Governance, Policies and Livelihoods Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011 - 2014 Neo-Liberalismo, Reconfiguração do Estado-Providência e Desemprego em Portugal (Neoliberalism, reconfiguration of the welfare-state and unemployment in Portugal)
SFRH/BPD/69035/2010
Post-doc Fellow
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2006 - 2010 Precarious labour in Portuguese Call Centres
SFRH/ BD/ 27684/ 2006
PhD Student Fellow
Goldsmiths University of London Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/04/01 - 2029/03/31 Everyday Worlds of Welfare: a comparative study of human needs, livelihood sustainability and social policy in Southern Europe (https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.00400.CEECIND/CP1758/CT0003)
2022.00400.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/01/01 - 2025/12/31 EPopE - L'écologisation du monde par le bas: penser les écologies populaires du sud au nord de l'Europe
IEA-INSHS No. 322
Research Fellow
Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives Politiques et Sociales, France
 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inovação em Património, Artes, Sustentabilidade e Território
LA/P/0132/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/10/01 - 2025/09/30 Tacking informal employment in Asia: building post-COV19 solutions to precariousness through case-study based evidence on Bhutan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam
GA 101007766
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2024/09/01 Valuable food, essential workers, vulnerable people, and social responses to crisis: Food provisioning systems during the COVID-19 pandemic (FOOD-Pan)
PID2020-114317GB-I00
Researcher
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
 España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2023/03/31 Everyday Worlds of Welfare: a comparative study of human needs, livelihood sustainability and social policy in Southern Europe
Funded by FCT, I. P. (UIDB/04038/2020 e UIDP/04038/2020)
Auxiliary Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/03 - 2021/08 Governação, transformações políticas e negociação de quotidianos: Portugal 2010-2020 /Negotiating Livelihoods under transformative politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2008-20 (LiVEPOLITICS)
PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014 - 2018 Grassroots economics: Meaning, project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood.
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/323743/EU
Researcher
Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Geografia i Història, Spain
 European Research Council
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Matos, Patricia. Disciplined Agency: Neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. 2020.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Alves de Matos, Patrícia. ""Work without future": neoliberal precarity, horizons of worthy living and generational dispossession in the Portuguese call center sector". In Pablo López Álvarez; Nuria Sánchez Madrid (eds), Transdisciplinary Approaches to Precarious Work from Spain and Portugal. Social Agency, Political Engagement and Normative Accounts. United States: Lexington Books, 2025.
    In press
  2. Alves de Matos, Patrícia. "O cuidado como agência distribuída: Necessidades humanas, lutas distributivas e horizontes de valor (Care as distributed agency: Human needs, distributive struggles and horizons of value)". In A política vivida. Governação, transformações políticas e negociação de quotidianos em Portugal entre 2010-2020 Lisboa (Organização: Antónia Pedroso de Lima e Catarina Frois), 15-37. Lisbon, Portugal: Tinta da China, 2023.
    Published
  3. Matos, Patricia. "The Politics of Austerity Welfare Charity, Discourses of Deservingness and Human Needs in a Portuguese Church Parish". In Tosic, Jelena & Streinzer, Andreas (eds) Ethnographies of deservingness: unpacking ideologies of distribution and inequality, 199-221. New York, United States: Berghahn Books, 2022.
    Published
  4. Matos, Patricia. "O Desempregado: economia moral da austeridade, senso comum e sacrifício em Portugal (2011-2014) - (The Unemployed: moral economy of austerity, common sense and sacrifice in Portugal (2011-2014)". In Os Sujeitos do Neoliberalismo (The Subjects of Neoliberalism), edited by Fernando Ampudia de Haro; José Nuno Matos. Lisboa, Portugal: Outro Modo & Tigre de Papel, 2021.
    Published
  5. Matos, Patrícia. "Austerity Welfare and the Moral Significance of Needs in Portugal". In Grassroots Economies, 113-130. London, United Kingdom: Pluto Press, 2020.
    Published • 10.2307/j.ctv17ppccg.11
  6. Sarkis, Diana; Matos, Patricia. "The Body Politics of Austerity in Portugal and Spain:". In Grassroots Economies, 192-213. London, United Kingdom: Pluto Press, 2020.
    Published • 10.2307/j.ctv17ppccg.15
  7. Matos, Patrícia Alves de. "Precarity, gender capital and structures of (dis)empowerment in the neoliberal service economy". In Gender, Work and Migration, 158-174. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
    10.4324/9781315225210-10
Journal article
  1. Alves de Matos, Patrícia. "Projetos contestados de reprodução social durante o processo revolucionário: necessidades humanas e horizontes de valor (Contested projects of social reproduction during the revolutionary process: human needs and value horizons)". Etnografica número esp (2024): 271-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.15915.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.15915
  2. Alves de Matos, Patrícia. "A provincialização dos projetos económicos ortodoxos: porosidades, relações e moralidades (The provincialisation of orthodox economic projects: porosities, relationships and moralities)". Agora (2024): https://doi.org/10.25660/agora.0020.py2w-an59.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.25660/agora.0020.py2w-an59
  3. Alves de Matos, Patrícia. "Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal". Critique of Anthropology (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275x231207732.
    10.1177/0308275x231207732
  4. Pusceddu, Antonio Maria; Alves de Matos, Patrícia. "On the common sense of social reproduction: social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe". Dialectical Anthropology 46 4 (2022): 477-496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09668-3.
    10.1007/s10624-022-09668-3
  5. Alves de Matos, Patrícia; Marques, Emília Margarida. "Nas fronteiras da (des)mercadorização: a antropologia perante as desigualdades sociais no capitalismo contemporâneo (On the frontiers of (de-)commodification: anthropology in the face of social inequalities in contemporary capitalism)". Análise Social 245 4 (2022): 728-743. http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/?page_id=1295.
    Open access • Published
  6. Alves de Matos, Patrícia. "Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal". Social Anthropology (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13107.
    Published • 10.1111/1469-8676.13107
  7. Matos, Patricia. "The morality of inequality: distribution, human needs and charity in austerity Portugal, in Loperfido G., Pusceddu A.M. and Narotzky, S. (eds.) ¿Special Issue: The everyday state: Politics and livelihoods in Austerity Europe¿". Antropologia 8 3 (2021): 45-61. http://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/article/view/1827/1693.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.14672/ada2021182747-63
  8. Alves de Matos, Patrícia; Pusceddu, Antonio Maria. "Austerity, the state and common sense in Europe: A comparative perspective on Italy and Portugal". Anthropological Theory (2021): 146349962199132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499621991326.
    10.1177/1463499621991326
  9. Matos, P.. "Building new horizons of value, care and freedom". Anuac, Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale 10 1 (2021): 31-36. https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/4878/4874.
    Published • 10.7340/ ANUAC 2239-625X-4878
  10. Matos, Patricia; Schwaller, Corinne; Perl, Gerhild; Kehr, Janina; Narotzky, Susana; Pusceddu, Antonio Maria. "Valuation Struggles: Rethinking the Economy in Times of Crisis". TSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association 25 (2020): 175-186.
    Open access • Published
  11. Loher, David; Monterescu, Daniel; Matos, Patricia; Strasser, Sabine; Dabagci, Esra; Gallo, Ester; Shore, Cris; et al. "On politics and precarity in academia". Social Anthropology 27 S2 (2019): 97-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12695.
    10.1111/1469-8676.12695
  12. Matos, Patrícia. "Locating precarization: the state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal". Dialectical Anthropology 43 1 (2019): 15-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-019-09543-8.
    Published • 10.1007/s10624-019-09543-8
  13. Matos, Patricia. "Gender commodification and precarity in Portuguese call centres: the (re)production of inequality". Deja Lu - Journal of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (invited reprint of original article published in 2014) 4 (2016): https://www.waunet.org/wcaa/dejalu/issue4.phtml.
    Published
  14. Matos, Patrícia Alves de. "Gender commodification and precarity in Portuguese call centres: the (re)production of inequality". Etnografica vol. 18 (1 (2014): 5-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.3319.
    10.4000/etnografica.3319
  15. Matos, Patrícia. "Call center labor and the injured precariat: shame, stigma, and downward social mobility in contemporary Portugal". Dialectical Anthropology 36 3-4 (2012): 217-243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-012-9276-8.
    Published • 10.1007/s10624-012-9276-8
  16. Matos, Patricia. "Quando o passado é mais do que o presente: dois velhos lembram o passado no contexto de um lar". Revista da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas 18 (2006): 343-364.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Marques, Emília Margarida; Alves de Matos, Patrícia. "Nas fronteiras da (des)mercadorização: a antropologia perante as desigualdades sociais no capitalismo contemporâneo (At the frontiers of (de-) commodification: anthropology in the face of social inequalities)". Análise Social 245 4 (2022):
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Matos, P. ; Deiana, Alessandro. "David Graeber: antropologia, anarchia, attivismo // David Graeber: Anthropology, anarchy, activism". David Graeber: antropologia, anarchia, attivismo // David Graeber: Anthropology, anarchy, activism 10 1 (2021): https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/4707/4877.
    Published • 10.7340/ ANUAC 2239-625X-4707 • Editor
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Matos, Patricia. "Precarious labour in Portuguese call-centres: an anthropological study". PhD, Goldsmiths University of London, 2011. https://research.gold.ac.uk/6531/1/ANT_thesis_Matos_2010.pdf.
  2. Matos, Patricia. "Ser-se mais do que velho: tempo, memória e velhice num contexto de um Lar". Degree, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 2003.
Translation
  1. Matos, Patricia. Sociologia, Anthony Giddens (9º edição). Lisboa, Portugal: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 2013.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10/27 Mundos quotidianos de bem-estar na Europa do Sul: necessidades humanas e vidas sustentáveis (Everyday worlds of well-being in Southern Europe: human needs and sustainable lives) Seminars Research Group 'Governance, politics and livelihoods' CRIA
ISCTE - Institute University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/22 Paper presentation titled "Contested Numbers: hunger, crisis and social change in Portugal"; The Return of the Social. SIAC Fourth National Conference; Sapienza University of Rome; 21-23 September 2023 The Return of the Social. SIAC Fourth National Conference
Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy)
2023/06/10 Distributive agency: care, human needs and ethics beyond freedom, panel "The politicisation of care and distributive struggles in crisis contexts", SIEF2023 16th Congress Brno, Czech Republic: 7-10 June 2023
Institute of Ethnology (Brno, Czech Republic)
2023/05/25 (with Sander van Lanen) Paper presentation titled "Struggles over needs and aspirations: debating a social reproduction framework for investigating urban live and livelihoods" in the International Workshop "What makes urban life worth living? (Re)evaluating the value of urban life" organised by Andrea Pavoni (Dinamia’CET, ISCTE) and Lavínia Pereira (ICS-ULisboa) International Workshop "What makes urban life worth living? (Re)evaluating the value of urban life"
ISCTE - Institute University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/09/08 (com Catarina Fróis/with Catarina Fróis) As políticas da dignidade humana: uma breve introdução (The politics of human dignity: a brief introduction), paper presented at the panel "As políticas da dignidade humana: práticas, projetos e moralidades" (The politics of human dignity: practices, projects and moralities) VIII Congresso APA - Os Novos Anos 20: desafios, incertezas, resistências
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2019 Localizando a precarização: estado, vidas (livelihoods) e a política da precariedade no Portugal contemporâneo VII Congresso Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019 Emergent neoliberalism and labour relations in a Portuguese Shipyard Workshop Life Cycle of Container Ships. Global ethnographic explorations into maritime lives, Elisabeth Shober (org.).
Norwegian Maritime Museum (Oslo, Norway)
2019 Mundos quotidianos de bem-estar: necessidades, agência distributiva e regimes morais de cuidado Seminário de estudos pós-graduados
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018 (with Antonio Maria Pusceddu) ¿Austerity, charity and deservingness: a comparative perspective between Portugal and Italy" - http://www.ub.edu/thedebt/eventsnews/ Workshop Reciprocity, solidarity, debt: anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives on exchange relations
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2018 (with Diana Sarkys) “The body politics of austerity: gender, agency and work in Portugal and Spain" International Conference Ten Years of Crisis: the ethnography of austerity
University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018 Austerity before austerity: grassroots ethics of reproduction in the making of austerity regimes 15th EASA Biennal Conference: Staying, Moving, Settling
University of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
2017 Locating Precarization: the state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal Labour Politics in an Age of Austerity
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2017 The politics of needs and rights in austerity Portugal Capitalism for Anthropologists
University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway)
2017 The politics of needs and rights: charity, deservingness and distribution in austerity Portugal EASA Anthropology of Economy Network Workshop: Deservingness – power, morality and inequality in contemporary Europe and beyond
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2017 Revisiting (in)formality: wageless livelihoods and the production of needs in austerity Portugal INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The Informal and the Formal in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Insights
International Urban Symposium – IUS; Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA); the University of Peloponnese (Corinth, Greece)
2017 Bodies of and against austerity: agency, crisis and livelihoods in a post-industrial Portuguese city 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association (Washington, United States)
2016 A Economia Moral do Regime Austeritário: burocracia, diferenciação e regulação nos centros de emprego em Portugal Seminários Departamentais
Departamento de Antropologia, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2016 Wageless livelihoods: history, theory and critique 14th EASA Biennial Conference, Anthropological legacies and human futures. University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano, Italy)
2016 A Economia Moral do Regime Austeritário: burocracia, senso comum e regulação do desemprego em Portugal Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados
Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 (with Antonio Maria Pusceddu), ¿Austerity, the state and common sense inv Europe. A comparative perspective on Italy and Portugal" - http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/thirteenth-annual-conference-london-10-13-november-2016 13th Annual Conference Historical Materialism: limits, barriers and borders
School of African and Oriental Studies (London, United Kingdom)
2015 (with Susana Narotzky) Ethnography of Livelihood Responses to the Crisis in Southern Europe: Spain and Portugal URBEUR-QUASI “Social change and economic crisis: new challenges to cities and local systems
University of Milano-Bicocca (Milano, Italy)
2015 Welfare, common sense and bureaucratic encounters in austerity Portugal 114th AAA Annual Meeting American Anthropological Association: “Strange, Familiar”
American Anthropological Association (Denver, United States)
2014 Austerity welfare as ideology: bureaucratic regulation in Portuguese job centres Departmental Seminars
Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2014 The moral and ideological foundations of austerity welfare: an ethnography of bureaucratic regulation in Portuguese job centres ASA14: Anthropology and Enlightenment
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
2013 A Regime of Disciplined Agency?: value, language and call centre labour IUAES 2013, Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds
University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
2012 A Regime of Disciplined Agency?: discipline, quantification and surveillance in the Portuguese call centre sector 4th ICTs and Society-Conference 2012 (Uppsala, May 2nd-4th, 2012): Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media
Uppsala University (Sweden)
2012 The Injured Precariat and call centre labour: shame, stigma and downward social mobility in contemporary Portugal 12th EASA Biennial Conference
Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC) at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Nanterre, France)
2008 From mutuality to precariousness: a case-study in the Portuguese call centre industry 10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
EASA and the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
2007 Towards a definition of ‘implicated observation’: bodies, time and space in the context of a Portuguese call centre 106TH ANNUAL MEETING AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (Washington, United States)
2006 Para uma etnografia da precariedade laboral informada pelo realismo crítico: dados de uma experiência de ‘observação implicada’ para uma análise do tempo e do espaço num centro de atendimento IV Congress of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2006 Critical Realism and Ethnographic Practice in contexts of precarious work: an analysis of time and space in the context of Portuguese call centre 24th International Labour Process Conference
Royal Holloway and Birkbeck (London, United Kingdom)
2004 Ser-se Mais do que Velho: tempo, memória e velhice no contexto de um lar VIII Congresso Luso-Afro Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/04/18 - Current Precariedade e Agência entre intérpretes remotos: um estudo antropológico do capitalismo digital.
Co-supervisor
 Antropologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/10 - Current Representações e experiências do cuidar na velhice – continuidades e heterogeneidades em/entre diferentes configurações do cuidado no domicílio - Co-Orientadora de Sara Canha
Co-supervisor
 Antropologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/12/09 - Current As Assistentes Operacionais Escolares no contexto do trabalho feminino em Portugal: uma contribuição para o debate em torno dos trabalhos de cuidado
Co-supervisor of Maria Beatriz Manguito Costa Rodrigues
 Antropologia (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/10 - Current State, development, and everyday politics at the urban margins Rethinking participation in Lisbon
Supervisor of Gianpiero Iacovelli
 Anthropology (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/10/11 - 2024/04/04 Diversidade e inclusão de gênero e raça nas empresas lusófonas – Os mecanismos que facilitam e que dificultam a presença de mulheres negras e afrodescendentes em cargos de liderança. Um paralelo entre as cidades de São Paulo e Lisboa.
Supervisor of Graziele Neves Da Silva
 Antropologia (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/07/23 - 2024/07/26 Panel organisation with Gerhild Perl (University of Trier), " The politics of distributed agency: livelihood struggles beyond abstract potentials and capabilities" (Discussant: Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge). 18th EASA Biennial Conference EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology University of Barcelona, 23-26 July 2024. (2024/07/23 - 2024/07/26)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universitat de Barcelona Departament de d'Antropologia Cultural i d'Història d'Amèrica i Àfrica, Spain
2023/06/07 - 2023/06/10 Panel coordination of panel with Silvia Bofill, "The politicization of care and distributive struggles in crisis contexts", SIEF2023 16th Congress, Brno, Czech Republic:, 7-10 June 2023 (2023/06/07 - 2023/06/10)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Etnologický ústav Akademie ved Ceské republiky, Czech Republic
2022/11/17 - 2023/06/08 Co-organiser of the series of seminars “Dialogues of Public Anthropology”, which proposes a series of disciplinary exchanges on contemporary themes of anthropological research. (2022/11/17 - 2023/06/08)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09 (com Catarina Fróis/with Catarina Fróis), coordination of panel The politics of human dignity: practices, projects and moralities, at VIII Congresso APA - Os Novos Anos 20: desafios, incertezas, resistências Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal) (2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2022/06/08 - 2022/06/10 with Silvia Bofill and Yolanda Bodoque, panel organisation, “Care, anthropology and feminisms: articulations between research and political practice”. I Congress of Feminist Anthropology, 3-5 June, Basque Country. (2022/06/08 - 2022/06/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Feminist Anthropology Ikerketa Taldea, Spain
2021/06/21 - 2021/06/21 with Antonio Maria Pusceddu and Gerhild Perl, panel organisation, “The politics of human vulnerability: tracing intersections of care, nature and the state". SIEF2021: Breaking the Rules: Power, Participation, Transgression (online congress 21-24 June 2021). (2021 - 2021)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 International Society for Ethnology and Folklore—SIEF, Netherlands
2020 - 2020 with Deborah James, panel organisation, “Human worth in austere times: transformative welfare regimes, human needs and public policy”. EASA 2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe, 21-24 July, ISCTE - University of Lisbon (2020 - 2020)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), United Kingdom
2019 - 2019 with Ana Luísa Micaelo, panel organisation, “Envisioning precarity as a historical, moral and material condition”. VII Congresso Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia. Lisbon, New University of Lisbon. (2019 - 2019)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - 2018 with Andreas Streinzer and Phaedra Balakaki, Panel organisation, “Critical feminism and the politics of austerity: gender regimes and the making of economic orthodoxies” - 15th EASA Biennal Conference: Staying, Moving, Settling (2018 - 2018)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Stockholms Universitet Institutionen för naturgeografi, Sweden
2016 - 2016 with Francisco Arqueros and Michele Fontefrancesco, panel organisation, “New trends in the anthropology of unemployment after the economic crisis of 2008-9” (2016 - 2016)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2015 - 2015 (with Antonio Maria Pusceddu), panel organisation, “Austerity, the state and common sense in Europe” (2015 - 2015)
Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/07/07 - 2024/07/11 Keynote Lecture: "The politics of distributed agency: reproductive struggles beyond abstract potentials and capabilities"; The Political Economy of the European Peripheries Summer School 2024 – The Socio-Economic (Re)Production of Peripheries: Challenges and Possibilities
Other
 The Political Economy of the European Peripheries Summer School 2024 – The Socio-Economic (Re)Production of Peripheries: Challenges and Possibilities
Associação Portuguesa de Economia Política , Portugal
2024/06/24 - 2024/06/25 Invited speaker: "Everyday Economies of Welfare: a research agenda" ; Debating “popular ecologies”: empirical cases and theoretical perspectives Internal workshop of the EPOPE group, Lille, 24th and 25th of June
Workshop
 Debating “popular ecologies”: empirical cases and theoretical perspectives
Université de Lille, France
2024/05/21 - 2024/05/22 Invited paper: "The politics of distributed agency in crisis contexts: livelihood struggles beyond abstract potentials and capabilities"; Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, 21-22/5/2024
Conference
Panteion Panepistemio Koinonikon kai Politikon Epistemon, Greece
2024/03/18 - 2024/03/18 Invited speaker "Etnografias do Neoliberalismo" (Ethnographies of neoliberalism)
Seminar
 Como estudar o neoliberalismo (How to Study Neoliberalism)
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2023/11/03 - 2023/11/03 Invited chair of the panel "The Possibilities and Disappointments of Migration" in the EuroNet (Europeanist Network of EASA) Workshop “Overlapping crises in Europe (or a never-ending crisis)”, organized by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and Panas Parampampas, 2 and 3 November, ICS, University of Lisbon
Workshop
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2023/08/31 - 2023/09/03 Invited Participation in the Mid-Term Meeting Project "Tacking informal employment in Asia: building post-COV19 solutions to precariousness through case-study based evidence on Bhutan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam" - EUROPEAN COMMISSION RESEARCH EXECUTIVE AGENCY - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange - GA 101007766
Meeting
Marmara Üniversitesi, Turkey
2022/12/05 - 2022/12/05 Invited talk titled "ECONOMIAS MORAIS DA AUSTERIDADE: SENSO COMUM, ECONOMIAS POPULARES E CONSENSO EM PORTUGAL" (Moral Economies of Austerity: common sense, popular economies and consensus in Portugal)
Seminar
 Neoliberalismo e Austeridade: o Sul da Europa na Crise da Zona Euro (2010-2017)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura Espaço e Memória, Portugal
2022/12/02 - 2022/12/03 Invited talk titled: "Gender inequalities in crisis contexts: anthropological approaches", Loulé, Algarve
Conference
 JORNADAS AEPEA Portugal - Percursos Identitários
Association Européenne de Psychopathologie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent (A.E.P.E.A.), Portugal
2022/09/23 - 2022/09/24 Invited paper titled "Hidden histories of precarisation and the goal of explanation: humans disguised as robots in call centre labour", presented at the workshop "Vision and Method in Anthropology: Forty Years of Eric Wolf’s “Europe and the People Without History” organized by Don Kalb and Susana Naroztky
Workshop
Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for sosialantropologi, Norway
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09 Invited discussant in the panel "Concrete and abstract labour: work and workers between social value and market value", coordinated by Emília Margarida Marques. VIII Congresso APA - Os Novos Anos 20: desafios, incertezas, resistências Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
Conference
2021/05/21 - 2021/05/21 Invited presentation, with Antonio Maria Pusceddu, of the paper "Making do with less: Common sense and ideologies of care and social reproduction in the making of austerity welfare"
Workshop
 Workshop "Common Sense and the Contemporary Modes of the Political", organised by Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tossic
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
2021/05/20 - 2021/05/21 Invited paper, wtih Antonio Maria Pusceddu, "Making do with less: Common sense and ideologies of care and social reproduction in the making of austerity welfare", Workshop Common Sense and the Contemporary Modes of the Political, Transcultural Studies, School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) (via zoom), 20-21 May; [online]
Workshop
 Workshop Common Sense and the Contemporary Modes of the Political, Transcultural Studies, organized by Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tosic
University of St Gallen, Switzerland
2021/03/26 - 2021/03/26 Invited speaker at the GRAFO (Research Group on Fundamental and Oriented Anthropology ) Open Seminar Series, based at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Title of the talk: "Care as distributive agency: immediate needs and struggles for worth in austerity Portugal"
Seminar
 "Care as distributive agency: immediate needs and struggles for worth in austerity Portugal"
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural, Spain
2020/11/24 - 2020/11/26 Invited speaker on informality and space in the "I Workshop Internacional sobre Economía Informal y empleo No Declarado" (I International Workshop in the informal economy and non-declared employment)
Conference
 I Workshop Internacional sobre Economía Informal y empleo No Declarado
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
2019 - 2019 Invited workshop leader, “Embodying austerity in southern Europe: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth” - Anthropology Talks (https://www.anthro.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/anthropology_talks/3_anthropology_talks_2019_mit_susana_narotzky/index_ger.html)
Workshop
 Anthropology Talks
Fernfachhochschule Schweiz - Regionalzentrum Bern, Switzerland
2019 - 2019 Invited discussant roundtable, Workshop Making Medicine in Austere Times: materialities, moralities and policies of care, Janina Kerh (org.)
Workshop
 Making Medicine in Austere Times: materialities, moralities and policies of care
Fernfachhochschule Schweiz - Regionalzentrum Bern, Switzerland
2017/06/26 - 2017/06/27 Invited paper titled "The needs of capital and the needs of the people: charity, welfare and distribution in austerity Portugal" presented at CAPITALISM FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS’ University of Bergen26-28 June 2017; Launching “Frontlines of Value: Class and Social Transformation in 21st Century Capitalism”
Workshop
 ‘CAPITALISM FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS’ - https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/programme_capitalism_workshop_bergen_june_2017.pdf
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/04/04 Diversidade e inclusão de género nas empresas lusófonas: Uma perspetiva comparada entre Brasil e Portugal (Diversity and inclusion of gender in Portuguese-speaking companies: A comparative perspective between Brazil and Portugal)
Supervisor
 Graziele Neves da Silva (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/03/06 Examiner of PhD thesis "Safar a vida: incerteza e sustento nos contextos piscatórios de Olhão e Setúbal"
(Thesis) Arguer
 Vanessa Iglésias Calado Carvalhal Amorim (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/11/29 Examiner of PhD Thesis "A Casa Ganha Sempre: uma etnografia sobre o trabalho nos casinos em Portugal"
(Thesis) Arguer
 João André Nicolau Gomes (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
2021/11/24 President of the juri and examiner in the PhD Dissertation Defense of Amanda Elizabeth Bruck. Thesis Title: The (un)deserving mother? Lived realities and socially supportive relationships of mothers experiencing deprivation poverty in austerity-era Britain
(Thesis) Arguer
 Amanda Elizabeth Bruck (PhD)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Spain
2021/05/31 “E o que é que é preciso para ser voluntário?” Voluntariado como modelo de governança em contextos de crise. Portugal 2012-2018
(Thesis) Arguer
 Fernanda Maria Rivas Oliveira (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/10/01 - 2024/10/15 American Ethnologist (00940496)
2024/09/16 - 2024/09/19 Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (1469-8676 ) Berghan Journals
2024/04/17 - 2024/04/18 Etnográfica (2182-2891) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
2024/04/16 - 2024/04/17 Economic Anthropology (2330-4847) Wiley
2023/11/01 - 2023/11/02 Focaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (1558-5263 ) Berghahn Open Anthro
2023/04/11 - 2023/04/14 Análise Social ICS - UL
2022/02/03 - 2022/02/05 Anthropological Theory (14634996) Sage
2021/05/19 - 2021/05/22 Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH) (0010-4175) Cambridge University Press
2020/04/07 - 2020/04/09 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1467-9655) Wiley
2020/03/17 - 2020/03/20 American Ethnologist (1548-1425) Wiley
2019/07/22 - 2019/07/25 Dialectical Anthropology (1573-0786) Springer
2019/03/18 - 2019/03/20 Medical Anthropology (01459740) Taylor and Francis Ltd.
2018/10/06 - 2018/10/09 ANUAC: Journal of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology (2239-625X)
2018/09/10 - 2018/09/12 Focaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (1558-5263 ) Berghahn Open Anthro
2018/06/05 - 2018/06/08 Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society (1799-8972)
2018/02/03 - 2018/02/04 Etnográfica (2182-2891) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/07/17 - Current Full Member of Associação Portuguesa de Economia Política (Portuguese Association of Political Economy)
2022 - Current Full Member of SIEF - International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
2019 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Portuguese Association of Anthropology) Full Member
2014 - Current EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Full Member
2015 - 2017 Full Member of AAA (American Anthropological Association)
2013 - 2015 Full Member of IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023/03/16 - Current Member of the editorial board of Anthropological Theory
Other
2018 - Current Member of the editorial board of ANUAC: Journal of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology
Member
 Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy
2014 - Current Member of the GER Grup d’estudis sobre reciprocitat, University of Barcelona http://www.ub.edu/reciprocitat/, University of Barcelona
Member
 Universitat de Barcelona Departament de d'Antropologia Cultural i d'Història d'Amèrica i Àfrica, Spain
2011 - 2019 Member of the International Advisory Board - Journal Critique of Anthropology
Advisor / Consultant
 Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - 2023/12/10 Evaluation of book proposal for Bristol University Press Bristol University Press and Policy Press, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/05 - 2025/03/04 Lecturer - core module of Economic Anthropology in the undergraduate course of anthropology (2nd year students) Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/02/14 - 2024/05/31 Lecturer of optional course for 2º and 3º year BA students of anthropology - Anthropology of Emotions Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/03/21 - 2024/03/21 Invited guest lecturer in the master of Social Service with session titled: "Políticas sociais, necessidades humanas e economias morais de cuidado: um estudo de caso no Portugal austeritário" (Social policies, human needs and moral economies of care: a case study in austerity Portugal) Serviço Social (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização)) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes Centro de Estudos Transdisciplinares para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2023/12/15 Lecturer - core module of Economic Anthropology in the undergraduate course of anthropology (2nd year students) Anthropology (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/02/20 - 2023/07/28 Lecturer - core module of Urban Anthropology in the undergraduate course of anthropology (2nd and 3rd-year students) Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22 Invited guest lecturer in the joint PhD course (FCSH/UNL and ISCTE/IUL); 2-hour session titled: "Hidden histories of precarisation and the goal of explanation in anthropology: humans disguised as robots in call centre labour" Antropologia (Doutoramento) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/09/19 - 2023/01/27 Lecturer - core module of Economic Anthropology in the undergraduate course of anthropology (2nd year students) Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/02/21 - 2022/08/31 Lecturer - core module of Economic Anthropology in the undergraduate course of anthropology (2nd year students) Anthropology (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/01 Lecturer of optional course for 2º and 3º year BA students of anthropology - Anthropology of Emotions Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2021/11/02 - 2021/11/02 Invited guest lecturer in the joint PhD course (FCSH/UNL and ISCTE/IUL); 3-hour session titled: Políticas de bem-estar social, necessidades humanas e economias morais de cuidado no Portugal austeritário (Welfare Policies, human needs and moral economies of care in austerity Portugal) Anthropology (Doutoramento) ISCTE Business School, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/08 Lecturer - core module of "Temas do Pensamento Antropológico" (Themes in Anthropological Thought) in the undergraduate course of anthropology Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/08 Invited guest lecturer in the Summer School "Verão com ciência 2020" organized by CRIA: "Antropologia Pública e os desafios etnográficos em contextos de intervenção social" (Public Anthropology: ethnographic challenges in contexts of social intervention), ISCTE-IUL. ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/05/15 - 2019/05/15 Invited guest lecturer. 3-Hour Session titled: "Bodies off and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for human worth" in the course 'Gender, emotions and power' coordinated by Antónia Lima Anthropology ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Visiting Tutor: Economics, Politics and Social Change (Undergraduate core module) Anthropology (Outros) Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024 Sobral, J. M., & Alves de Matos, P. (2024). Entrevista a José Sobral. Agora. https://doi.org/10.25660/AGORA0017.4X9P-FJ72 Etnográfica - Agora
2020/05 Valuation Struggles: Rethinking the Economy in Times of Crisis. A conversation with Susana Narotzky, Patrícia Matos and Antonio Maria Pusceddu Tsantsa: Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/02/20 - 2023/06/02 Tutoring of internship at CRIA/FCSH-UNL of BA Student Ana Luiza Miranda Ana Luiza Miranda
2021/07/01 - 2021/09/30 Tutoring of internship at CRIA/FCSH of BA Student Beatriz Figueiredo Beatriz Gomes Figueiredo

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/10/01 - 2022/10/30 Member of evaluation panel - Call for applications for the award of 2 (two) research grants, under the FCT Research Grant Regulations (RBI) and the Research Grant Holder Statute (EBI). The grant will be funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Protocol for the Funding of the Pluriannual Research Grant Plan for Doctoral Students, signed between FCT and CRIA (UI 4038). Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/01/24 - 2022/02/07 Member of evaluation panel - Call for applications for the award of 1 research grant under the FCT Research Grant Regulations (RBI) and the Research Grant Holder Statute (EBI). The grant will be funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Protocol for the Funding of the Pluriannual Research Grant Plan for Doctoral Students, signed between FCT and CRIA (UI 04038) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 Prémios Científicos de I&D Iscte (Scientific Award of Research and Internationalisation)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 Prémios Científicos de I&D Iscte (Scientific Award of Research and Internationalisation)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal