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Irina Velicu is a researcher working on political ecology and socio-environmental conflicts at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Velicu was PI of JustFood FCT project (2018-2022), expanding her work on environmental and food justice in Europe. Her work has received funding from international research organizations (including the EU-FCT, Marie Curie, Chevening-OSI). Her recent publications can be found in journals such as Environmental Politics, Ecological Economics, Geoforum, Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Rural Studies, Antipode, Globalizations, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, Capitalism Nature Socialism. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaii (USA) and an MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests revolve around the topics of justice, social transformation and aesthetic politics.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Irina Velicu

Citation names

  • Velicu, Irina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2E12-3CF7-E32E

Email addresses

  • irinavelicu@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 934077648 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Romanian (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011
Concluded
 Political Science (Doutoramento)
Major in Political Science
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, United States
"To Sell or Not to Sell: Resistance to Capital Economy in Post-communist Romania" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very good
2005
Concluded
 PAIS, University of Warwick, UK (Mestrado)
PAIS, University of Warwick, UK, United Kingdom
"Theoretical Foundations for an Open Society as a Basis for the Reform of Global Governance." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 60
2003
Concluded
 Political Science (in English) Department, University of Bucharest, RO (Licenciatura)
Political Science (in English) Department, University of Bucharest, Romania
"Regional Integration versus Global Disenfranchisement: Enhancing the EU as an International Democratic Actor." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 9,75
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018 - 2021 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/07/01 - 2019/07/01 Post-doctoral Researcher Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2013/06/01 - 2014/06/01 Post-doctoral Researcher, Entitle, Marie Curie Project, ICTA-UAB Conduct original research on (post-communist) environmental movements, Deliver Master lectures on Political Ecology Coordination of the ICTA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Democracy and Socio-environmental justice movements in Central and Eastern Europe
DL 572016/CP1341/ CT0022
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2013/05/01 - 2014/06/01 Environmental Justice Movements in PostCommunism
PITN-GA-2011-289374-ENTITLE
Post-doc Fellow
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain
 European Commission
Concluded
2013/03/01 - 2014 ENTITLE European Network of Political Ecology
FP7 nº 289374
Post-doc Fellow
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/10/01 - 2026 GREENPATHS: European Knowledge Hub On Just Transition Pathways
101112305
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Cantabria Consejería de Universidades e Investigación Medio Ambiente y Política Social, Spain
Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2025 PHOENIX The Rise of Citizens Voices for a Greener Europe
101037328
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 National Institutes of Health
Ongoing
2018/07/15 - 2022/02/07 JustFood: From Alternative Food Networks to Environmental Justice
PTDC/GES-AMB/29355/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Velicu, Irina. Dissenting Injustice: Environmental Conflicts in Postcommunist Transitions. 2025.
  2. Insidious toxicity. Insidious Toxicity. 2025.
  3. Velicu, Irina. Political Ecology for Civil Society. 2016.
    Published • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Delibas, Hestia. "Food Sovereignty between Populism and Progressive Rural Politics". In What Follows after Neo-Liberalism?. Cluj University, 2023.
    Accepted
  2. Velicu, Irina; Castro, Irina; Calvário, Rita; Oprea, Anastasia; Ogrezeanu, Andreea. "De Camponeses a Trabalhadores e Vice-Versa? Debatendo a Centralidade do Trabalho na Alimentação em Portugal e na Romênia [From Peasants to Workers and Vice Versa? Debating the Centrality of Work in Food in Portugal and Romania]". In Direto e comida. Do campo à mesa: cidadania, consumo, saúde e exclusão social., edited by Flavia Trentini; Patrícia Branco; Marcos Catalan, 351-369. Belo Horizont, Brazil: Fórum, 2023.
    Published
  3. Velicu, Irina. "The peasant way or the urban way? Queerness of peasantness or why disidentification matters Irina Velicu". In Turning up the heat Urban political ecology for a climate emergency, edited by Maria Kaika; Roger Keil; Tait Mandler; Yannis Tzaninis. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester UP, 2022.
    Published
  4. Velicu, Irina. ""Direitos rurais: a ressignificação dos direitos humanos nos movimentos camponeses contemporâneos"". In Palavras para lá da pandemia: cem lados de uma crise. Coimbra, Portugal: CES-UC, 2020.
    Published
  5. Velicu, Irina. "From Mining to Becomings: Rosia Montana’s Movement for Democratic Justice". In Political Ecology for Civil Society. 2015.
    Published
  6. Velicu, Irina. "Becoming something else: Emergent socio-environmental movements in Romania, in Dialogues Against Crisis". In For the Commons (in Greek). Free Flights Publishing: Athens, 2014.
  7. Velicu, Irina. "An(Other) Part of the Fall: Stories of Anonymous Women in (Post)communism, in Andreescu". In From Communism to Democracy: Transformations of the Eastern European Female Ideal. Routledge, 2014.
    Published
  8. Velicu, Irina. "Peopling the Globe: New Social Movements". In The SAGE Handbook of Globalization, 629-643. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014.
    10.4135/9781473906020.n36
  9. Velicu, Irina. "Parliamentary Elections and the Economic Crisis". In Elections 2008 – Campaigns, Leaders and Opinion Polls. Bucharest, Romania: Polirom Publishing House, 2009.
    Published
  10. Velicu, Irina. "Public Participation and the Environmental Decision". In Integrated Strategies for Natural Resources Use. Soros Foundation- Romania, 2008.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. D'Alisa G.; García-López, Gustavo A.; Velicu, Irina. "Performing Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses: Rearticulating Democracy, Community and Forests.". Paper presented in International conference to honour Boaventura de Sousa Santos upon the 40th anniversary of the Centre for Social Studies. Imagining the future. Knowledges, experiences, alternatives., Coimbra, 2018.
Edited book
  1. Oprea, Anastasia; Delibas, Hestia. HRANA: O Scurta Colectie de Povestiri Rurale (NOURISH: A Short Collection of Rural Storytelling). Romania. 2022.
    Under revision • Editor
Journal article
  1. Velicu, Irina. "Climate Trauma and the Unbearable Commons". Theory, Culture and Society (2024):
    Submitted
  2. Velicu. I. "Peasant EcoGrief: Insights from the Semi-Periphery of Europe". EcoPsychology (2023):
    Submitted
  3. Velicu, Irina; Oprea, Anastasia; Delibas, Hestia; Pedro, Sergio. "We Grow Earth”: Performing Eco-Agrarian Citizenship at the Semi-Periphery of Europe". Environmental Politics (2023):
    Under revision
  4. Velicu, Irina; Barca, Stefania; Castro, Bela Irina; Oprea, Anastasia. Corresponding author: Velicu, Irina. "'We Juggle with Legality': Seed Commoning in Romania". Journal of Agrarian Change (2023):
    Under revision
  5. Mikulas Cernik; Velicu, Irina. ""We are the limits´ Performing Climate Justice Commoning in the Czech Klimakemp"". Geoforum (2022): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718522002196?dgcid=author&fbclid=IwAR038HoE-KeXbpQEJVbFguyWYuPdv10ULY0XZSIRvg27a_0k3BVfdapcB1g.
    Published
  6. Velicu, Irina; Andreea, Ogrezeanu. "Quiet no More: The Emergence of Food Sovereignty Movement in Romania". The Journal of Rural Studies 89 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.11.024.
    Accepted
  7. Velicu, Irina; Barca, Stefania. "The Just Transition and its work of inequality". Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 16 1 (2020): 263-273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1814585.
    Open access • 10.1080/15487733.2020.1814585
  8. Lucia Alexandra Popartan; Camil Ungureanu; Velicu, Irina; Maria Jose Amores; Manuel Poch. "Splitting urban waters: the politicization of water in Barcelona between populism and anti-populism?". Antipode (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12630.
  9. Velicu, Irina. "Prospective environmental injustice: insights from anti-mining struggles in Romania and Bulgaria". Environmental Politics (2019): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1611178.
    Published • 10.1080/09644016.2019.1611178
  10. Velicu, Irina. "De-growing environmental justice: Reflections from anti-mining movements in Eastern Europe". Ecological Economics 159 (2019): 271-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.021.
    10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.021
  11. Velicu, Irina; García-López, Gustavo. "Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability". Theory, Culture & Society 35 6 (2018): 55-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276418757315.
    Published • 10.1177/0263276418757315
  12. Velicu, Irina; Kaika, Maria. "Undoing environmental justice: Re-imagining equality in the Rosia Montana anti-mining movement". Geoforum 84 (2017): 305-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.012.
    Published • 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.012
  13. Andreucci, Diego; Beltrán, María Jesús; Velicu, Irina; Zografos, Christos. "Capital Accumulation, Hegemony and Socio-ecological Struggles: Insights from the ENTITLE Project". Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 3 (2017): 18-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1355930.
    Published • 10.1080/10455752.2017.1355930
  14. García López, Gustavo A.; Velicu, Irina; D’Alisa, Giacomo. "Performing Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses: Rearticulating Democracy, Community and Forests in Puerto Rico". Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 3 (2017): 88-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1321026.
    Published • 10.1080/10455752.2017.1321026
  15. Velicu, Irina. "Demonizing the Sensible and the ‘Revolution of our Generation’in Rosia Montana". Globalizations 12 6 (2015): 846-858.
    Published
  16. Velicu, Irina. "Moral versus Commercial Economies: Transylvanian Stories". New Political Science 36 2 (2014): 219-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2014.883804.
    10.1080/07393148.2014.883804
  17. Velicu, Irina. "The Aesthetic Post-Communist Subject and the Differend of Rosia Montana". Studies in Social Justice 6 1 (2012): 125-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v6i1.1072.
    Published • 10.26522/ssj.v6i1.1072
  18. Velicu, Irina. "To Sell or Not to Sell: Landscapes of Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization in Transylvania". Globalizations 9 2 (2012): 307-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2012.658253.
    Published • 10.1080/14747731.2012.658253
Journal issue
  1. Velicu, Irina; Andreucci, D., Beltrán; M. & Zografos. "Political Ecologies of Capital and Struggle". Capitalism, Nature and Socialism (2017):
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Velicu, Irina; António Carvalho. "Pandemic Ontologies of Isolation", Undisciplined Environments, 2020, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/04/28/pandemic-ontologies-of-isolation/.
  2. Velicu, Irina. "Whoever does not have Peasants, Should find Them: The Food Injustice of Pandemics", Undisciplined Environments, 2020, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/04/09/whoever-does-not-have-peasants-should-find-them-the-food-injustice-of-pandemics/.
  3. Velicu, Irina. "O sistema alimentar industrial e a Soberania Alimentar", Buala, 2020, https://www.buala.org/pt/a-ler/o-sistema-alimentar-industrial-e-a-soberania-alimentar.
  4. Velicu, Irina; Barca, Stefania; Armieri Marco. "Undisciplining Political Ecology: A Minifesto", Undisciplined Environments, 2019, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2019/10/01/undisciplining-political-ecology-a-minifesto/.
  5. García-López, Gustavo A.; Velicu, Irina. Corresponding author: García-López, Gustavo A.. "Despacito, the crisis is sinking Puerto Rico", Undisciplined Environments, 2017, https://entitleblogdotorg3.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/despacito-the-crisis-is-sinking-puerto-rico/.
  6. Velicu, Irina. "Producing Humans and Natures – A Feminist Comment to Kallis and Swyngedouw", Undisciplined Environments, 2017, https://entitleblog.org/2017/05/30/producing-humans-and-natures-a-feminist-comment-to-kallis-and-swyngedouw/.
  7. Velicu, Irina. "Rosia Montana’s Movement for Democratic Justice", Undisciplined Environments, 2016, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2016/09/13/rosia-montanas-movement-for-democratic-justice/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/04/21 `Political Ecology Approach to NeuroDiversity`, Discussant during Political Ecology Workshop, organized together with Dr. Rita Serra as part of EcoSoc-CES, https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2023/what-counts-as-life
2023/03/23 Presentation on `Food Sovereignty between Populism and Progressive Rural Politics`, Panel on `Political Ecologies and Food Production`, International Conference on Capitalist Transformations, UBB University, Cluj-Romania, http://www.transformari-capitaliste.ro/?fbclid=IwAR1hbkumXUX2_bCYNA1BjW7K_1htp9UhlRYbdC6fwhtHMfr8aUbhEEXZ3cY Capitalist Transformations in Romania: Uneven Developments and Social Disparities, http://www.transformari-capitaliste.ro/?fbclid=IwAR1hbkumXUX2_bCYNA1BjW7K_1htp9UhlRYbdC6fwhtHMfr8aUbhEEXZ3cY
2022 Climate Trauma and the Unbearable Commons, ISA, Panel on The Politics of Global Commons in Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, March 28th - April 2nd, 2022, https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2022 International Studies Association
ISA (United States)
2021/09/16 ´Pandemic Ontologies: Immunopolitics and Care´´ international conference on Transformative effects of COVID-19 on Globalisation & Law, Netherlands, https://www.lawandglobalisation.nl/tegl-conference-2021/ transformative effects of COVID-19 on Globalisation & Law
University of Amsterdam
2021 ´Deep Just Transitions and Dillemas of Transformations´ Green Academy, Institute for Political Ecology and the Transnational Institute, http://ipe.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Zelena-akademija-2021-FIN.pdf Just Transition and Recovery
Green Academy, Institute for Political Ecology and the Transnational Institute (zagreb, Croatia)
2021 ´A Critical Approach to Just Transition´, part of JUST2CEE Horizon 2020 project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOaGM32axp8 JUST2CEE
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
2021 Discussant in Racism and the Racial State, with David T. Goldberg, Bruno Sena, Center for Glocal Studies, Coimbra, CANAL CES > Racism and the Racial State (uc.pt) Racism and the Racial State,
Center for Social Studies (Portugal)
2021 ´Climate Trauma and the Unbearable Commons´, https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2021/climate-trauma-and-the-unbearable-commons Conversas Desconfinadas II,
Center for Social Studies
2021 ´We Juggle with Legality: Seed Commoning in Romania´, panel on Good Food, Good Work, UK. Royal Geographical Society, Annual International Conference
Royal Geographical Society, Annual International Conference
2021 ´Capitalist Transformations and Emerging Food Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Romania. Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe
UBB-Cluj (Romania)
2021 ´Unbearable Commons´https://www.meetstreams.com/schedule/ Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Transformative Environmental Humanities -STREAMS
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2021 ´Seed Commons and Degrowth´, the ISEE-ESEE-Degrowth Conference ´Building Alternative Livelihoodsin Times of Eco-Political Crisis´, Manchester, UK, https://www.isee-esee-degrowth2021.net/ the ISEE-ESEE-Degrowth Conference ´Building Alternative Livelihoodsin Times of Eco-Political Crisis
University of Manchester
2020/12/19 Transdisciplinary Research Seminar on Just Food: From Alternative Networks to Socio-Environmental Movements´, PhD Program in Political Economy, Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território (DINÂMIA'CET)
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/12/19 Revisiting Environmental Justice https://politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/details/news/online-ipw-lecture-irina-velicu-revisiting-environmental-justice-lessons-from-romania-and-bulgar/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=e72966ea51ae3c9afae96db44016aac1 Political Ecology Course
Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2020/03/03 ´From Peasants to Urban Workers and Back: Debating Agro - Ecology As Socio-Environmental Justice in Romania´, Conference presentation, https://ambiente68.wixsite.com/environment-society/program International Seminar on Environment and Society, Lisbon
University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, ISS Lisbon (Portugal)
2019/12 Borders and Commons, Seminar of Migrating Rights od the DeOthering 2020 Migrating Rights, FCT project
Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/11 Undoing Environmental Justice, in Workshop on Face à vulnerabilidade da vida: criatividade social e novas compreensões do ser humano Facing the vulnerability of life: social creativity and new understandings of the human being, https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/face-a-vulnerabilidade-da-vida & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ILbKn84a0&feature=emb_title
Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10 JustFood: From AFNs to Socio-Environmental Justice Lecture for MA course on Inovação social e empreendedorismo social e solidário, https://mestradoisie.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/ciclo-de-conversas-inovacao-social-e-empreendedorismo-social-e-solidario/
FEUC UC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10 From Peasants to Urban Workers and Back. Debating Agro-Ecology as Socio-Environmental Justice in Romania As múltiplas faces do Antropoceno: política, agência e crise ontológica, Workshop organized by FCT funded project TROPO, event here https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/as-multiplas-faces-do-antropoceno
Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10 Book discussion «Towards a political economy of degrowth» Book discussion «Towards a political economy of degrowth» https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/towards-a-political-economy-of-degrowth-ed
Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05 The convergences of two movements, food sovereignty and justice, as theories in praxis workshop Pensar a comida, pensar o mundo, ALICE, CES-UC, https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/oficina-i
Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/10 Polenta and Cyanide: PostCommunist Insights on Justice Environmental Humanities conference, “(Um)weltschmerz: An exercise in humility and melancholia”
Rachel Carson Centre (Munich, Germany)
2018/09 Presentation @ Summer school of political ecology Summer school of political ecology
Centre for Political Theory, University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2017/08/15 Degrowthing Environmental Justice: Insights from Anti-mining Struggles in Romania and Bulgaria Post-Socialist/Post-Colonial Rurality
Center for Modernity and the Rural World, Telciu, Romania (Telciu, Romania)
2017/04/04 Desiring Limits or How Might Earth Live, American Association for Geographers, USA
American Association for Geographers, USA (Boston, United States)
2016/06/02 Post-socialist Environmental Justice? A ‘Here and Now’ Approach for Romania and Bulgaria” Political Ecology in the Centre and East of Europe: Green Past, Present and Prospects”,
Centre d’étude de la vie politique (Cevipol, Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB). (Bruxelles, Belgium)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/10/14 - Current Que estratégias para a justiça alimentar em Portugal? Debate a caminho da Cimeira da ONU sobre Sistemas Alimentares (2020/10/14)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/10/13 - Current Romania and the EU Agricultural Strategies https://www.facebook.com/ecoruralis/videos/351480069406951 (2020/10/13)
Workshop
 Eco Ruralis, Romania
2020/01 - Current Seminar on Food Justice and the Peasant Question, ECOSOC https://www.ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2020/food-justice-and-the-peasant-question-in-europe (2020/01)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - Current Organisation of International Workshop: Micro-Politics of Justice (2018)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016 - Current International Conference: Undisciplined Environments (2016)
Conference (Other)
 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sweden
2016 - Current Political Ecology Reading Group: Environmental (In)Justice (2016)
Meeting (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021/07/23 - 2021/07/25 Participatory Workshop in Romania, ´The Right to Seed´, with Eco-Ruralis, https://www.ecoruralis.ro/2021/07/28/intalnirea-grupului-de-lucru-pentru-dreptul-la-seminte-2021/ (2021 - 2021)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
2021 - 2021 Final conference of JUSTFOOD, ´Just Food Transitions: Addressing the Peasant Question in Europe´ https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2021/just-food-transitions (2021 - 2021)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Discussant for´´Berries del cuarto mundo: abordar la “esencialidad” de los trabajadores alimentarios de Europa`, with Soledad Castillero Quesada (Universidad de Granada) https://www.ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2021/berries-del-cuarto-mundo (2021 - 2021)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2020/03/02 - 2020/03/03 Two panels on Ecologia Critica, with ECOSOC scientific group, https://ambiente68.wixsite.com/environment-society/program (2020/03/03)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021 Invited Chair for Keynote of Manuel González Molina, International Conference ´Sapiens, Health and Environment´, Portuguese Network of Environmental History, https://chsc.uc.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Programme_Participantsv2.pdf
Conference
 ´Sapiens, Health and Environment´
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2014/06/01 - Current Member of the editorial collective of the platform Undisciplined Environments, a space of debate of scholars and activists working on political ecology - https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2014/06/01 - Current POSTRADE aims primarily at promoting the development of critical reading and of new perspectives on problems that affect today’s societies: welfare State sustainability, the market and the civil society roles on social protection, fragmentation of labour markets, demographic evolution, global environmental change, quality of life and equality of opportunities.
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013/06/01 - Current Ecosoc, Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015 - 2021 "Democracy in the Twenty-First Century" The Ecological Crisis (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Political Ecology Political Ecology (Mestrado) ICTA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
2010 - 2013 Theories of IR Globalization, Theories of IR (Licenciatura) Universitea Spiru Haret, Romania
2010 - 2011 Political Inquiry, Introduction to Global Politics Political Inquiry, Introduction to Global Politics University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, United States
2007 - 2007 Political Inquiry and Analysis Political Inquiry and Analysis (Licenciatura) University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, United States
2005 - 2007 Introduction to Political Science, World Politics Introduction to Political Science, World Politics (Licenciatura) University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, United States

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2014/09/21 The Gold-mine of Rosia Montana, Mass protests agains one of the largest open cast gold mine in Europe, <Rosia Montana, Romania Undisciplined Environments , Transnational Scholar-Activits Platform on Political Ecology, republished from Oikotrives
2013/12/01 The Gold-mine of Rosia Montana also in English, in X-pressed, http://www.x-pressed.org/?xpd_article=interview-with-researcher-irina-velicu-on-the-gold-mine-of-rosia-montana-romania Oikotrives, Greece
2013/12/01 Mass protests again one of the largest open cast mine in Europe, Rosia Montana, Romania Oikotrives

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2021 - 2021 (What we have in Common?)´Ce avem in Comun?´, PODCAST CONTRASENS in Romanian, https://soundcloud.com/contrasens/25-ce-avem-in-comun-polemici-despre-dreptate-drepturi-si-alte-bunuri Commons and Justice

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019 - Current Doing European Citizenship: Eco-villages From Policy to Everyday Practice Anastasia Oprea
2019 - Current The conditions for coal mining resistance in Poland and the Czech Republic Mikuláš Cerník
2019 - Current Commoning State Democratic Institutions: Addressing trans-formations in Political Subjectivities Riccardo Buonanno
2019 - Current Mães proibidas: A retirada de crianças Guarani-Kaiowá, maternidade indígena e etnocídio Karina Almeida Guimarães Pinhão

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018 - Current External reviewer or member of selection panel to: project JUSTFOOD - From Alternative Food Networks to Environmental Justice, CES, UC; Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017 - Current Peer-reviewer for the international academic journals: Sustainability Science; Environmental Humanities Journal, Annals of American Association of Geographers, International Journal of the Commons, Studia Politica, Journal of Political Ecology, Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2014 FCT Postdoctoral fellowship
2013 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
2009 Soros Fellow- Doctoral research
2004 Teaching Assistant
2003 Chevening Scolar, OSI and British Council
University of Warwick, United Kingdom