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Ruy Llera Blanes is a Social Anthropologist (PhD University of Lisbon, 2007). In 2022 he is Principal Researcher at the Research Center in Anthropology (CRIA), ISCTE-IUL, and Associate Professor at the School of Global Studies of the University of Gothenburg, and has previously held positions in Norway (University of Bergen), Spain (Spanish National Research Council) and Portugal (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon). His current research site is Angola, where he is working on the topics of politics, social movements, environment and landscape. He is the author of A Prophetic Trajectory (2014, Berghahn) and also coeditor of Atlantic Perspectives (2019, Berghahn Books), Utopian Encounters (2018, Peter Lang), and The Social Life of Spirits (2013, University of Chicago Press), among others.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ruy Llera Blanes

Citation names

  • Blanes, Ruy Llera

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3012-F245-DC98
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7547-8920

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Swedish Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2003 - 2007
Concluded
 Antropologia Social e Cultural (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Aleluia! Música e Identidade num Movimento Evangélico da Península Ibérica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com distinção louvor
1997 - 2001
Concluded
 Antropologia (Licenciatura)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, Spain
2010/04/01 - 2013/03/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/06/01 - 2022/08/31 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2018/01/01 - 2019/05/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/04/01 - 2016/03/31 Postdoctoral Researcher University of Bergen - Department of Social Anthropology, Norway
2013/04/01 - 2016/03/31 Associated Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2010/04/01 - 2013/03/31 Postdoctoral Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2007/04/01 - 2010/03/31 Guest Researcher Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
2003/03/01 - 2007/03/31 PhD Student Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/11/01 - 2024/10/31 Na Mouraria: Heritage-making, (in)securities and urban imaginaries in Lisbon's historic centre.
PExCRIA/2023.2/NaMoura
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2013/10 - 2016/11 Currents of Faith, Places of History: Connections, Moral Circumscriptions and World-Making in the Atlantic Space (CURRENTS)
N/A
 Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
2011/01 - 2014/07 The Politics of Hope: Churches and the Weaving of Society in Post-War Angola
Provided by PTCRIS: 112897
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2010/04/01 - 2013/03/31 Religious Knowledge and Rationality in African Prophetic Churches
BPD/SFRH/27095/2006
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2007/07 - 2010/07 The Christian Atlantic: Ethnographies of religious encounters between African, Brazilian and Portuguese Churches in Lisbon
Provided by PTCRIS: 72155
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2007/04/01 - 2010/03/31 Pluralismo Religioso: Movimentos Cristãos Africanos em Portugal
SFRH/BPD/27095/2006
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 Energo-Geografias Emergentes e Mobilizações Políticas no contexto da Transição Verde: Uma Abordagem Antropológica
2022.07881.PTDC
2022.07881.PTDC
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/02/01 - 2024/01/31 Gas Gospels: Un/Sustainable Development and Environmental Risk in Mozambique
2020-03824
Principal investigator
Vetenskapsradet
2023 - 2024 HELP. Heritage, Environment, Liberty and People. Archaeology of the Spanish refugee camps in Barrancos, Alentejo (1936).
EXPL/In2Past/2023/06
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Landscapes of Terror, Violence and Forensic Heritages in the Postcolonial Lusophone space
EXPL/In2Past/2023/01
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
 In2Past
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Assessing the Angola-Namibia border in the age of environmental and sanitary disaster
0000
Principal investigator
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
 SANORD - Southern African-Nordic Centre
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2022/06/30 Environmental Disaster and Civic Responses in Angola
2019-02321
Principal investigator
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
 Forskningsrådet för miljö areella näringar och samhällsbyggande
Ongoing
2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Emergencias Territoriales. Un Abordaje Antropológico a Nuevos Movimientos Colectivos y Activismos del Lugar en el Espacio Atlántico
IN607D 2017/01
Principal investigator
Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, Spain
 Xunta de Galicia
Cancelled
2013/04/01 - 2016/03/31 Gender and Pentecostal Christianity. A Comparative Focus on Africa and Melanesia
GENPENT
Researcher
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
 Norwegian Research Council
Concluded
2011/01/24 - 2014/07/23 A Politica da Esperança: o Papel das Igrejas na Reconstrução da Angola de Pós-guerra
PTDC/CS-ANT/112897/2009
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2007/04/01 - 2010/03 Recognizing Christianity: How African Immigrants Redefine the European Religious Heritage
RECOGN
Researcher
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 NORFACE
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera. A Revolução Angolana no Século XXI. A dissidência política na Angola do pós-guerra. Lisboa, Portugal: Tinta da China. 2023.
    Published
  2. Annelin Eriksen; Blanes, Ruy Llera; MacCarthy, Michelle. Going to Pentecost. An Experimental Approach to Ethnographies of Pentecostalism. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books. 2019.
    Published
  3. Blanes, Ruy Llera. Uma Trajetória Profética. Ideologias de Tempo, Lugar e Pertença num Movimento Cristão Angolano. Luanda, Angola: Mulemba Waxa Ngola. 2018.
    Published
  4. Blanes, Ruy Llera. A Prophetic Trajectory: Ideologies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement. Berghahn. 2014.
    Published
  5. Ruy Blanes; Diana Espírito Santo; Ian Lowrie. The Social Life of Spirits. Chicago, United States: University of Chicago Press. 2013.
    Published • 10.7208/chicago/9780226081809.001.0001
  6. Blanes, Ruy Llera. Os Aleluias. Ciganos Evangélicos e Música. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2008.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Recentring the Necropolitics of COVID-19. A Perspective From Angola". In State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 33-51. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2023.
    Published
  2. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Phantom power, parallax, and the multiple cities of Luanda: Manifestation and materialization in Angola". In Mattering the invisible: Technologies, bodies, and the realm of the spectral, 222-242. New York, United States: Berghahn Books, 2021.
    Published
  3. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Scaffolding heritage. Transient architectures and temporalizing formations in Luanda". In Sense and essence: Heritage and the cultural production of the real, 158-181. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books, 2019.
    Published
  4. Blanes, Ruy Jesus Llera. "Places of No History in Angola". In Atlantic Perspectives. Places, Spirits, Heritage, edited by Blanes, Ruy; Sarró, Ramon; Balkenhol, Markus. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books, 2019.
    Published
  5. Blanes, R.; Mapril, J.; Blanes, Ruy Jesus Llera ; Mapril, José. "Austerity in Portugal: The ‘middle-classification’ of the public space, migration, and the silences of history". In The global life of austerity: Comparing beyond Europe. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books, 2018.
    Published
  6. Blanes, R.. "Past Utopias: Religious and Political Temporalities in Contemporary Angola". In Utopian Encounters. Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias, 29-56. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang, 2017.
    Published
  7. Blanes, R.. "The Ndoki Index. Sorcery, Economy and Invisible Operations in the Angolan Urban Sphere". In Pentecostalism and Witchcraft. Spiritual Warfare in Melanesia and Africa, 93-114. New York, United States: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
    Published
  8. Blanes, R.. "Mutuality, resistance and egalitarianism in a late colonial Bakongo Christian movement". In Essays in anarchism and religion, 51-77. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University Press, 2017.
    Published • 10.16993/bak.c
  9. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Biografias Proféticas". In Quem Faz a História. Ensaios sobre o Portugal Contemporâneo, 41-48. Tinta da China, 2016.
    Published
  10. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Politics of Sovereignty: Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity and Politics in Angola". In The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism, 197-213. New York, United States: NYU Press, 2015.
    Published
  11. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Assessing State and Religious Institutions: A Comment from the Case of Angola". In Nations Under God. The Geopolitics of Faith in the Twenty-First Century. Bristol, United Kingdom: e-International Relations Publishing, 2015.
    Published
  12. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The Possessed Body. Anthropologies of Corporeality in Religious Contexts". In Commun(icat)ing Bodies. Body as a Medium in Religious Symbol Systems, 235-255. Baden Baden & Zurich, Germany: Pano Verlag & Nomos, 2014.
    Published • 10.5771/9783845262123_236
  13. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Extraordinary Times. Charismatic Repertoires in Contemporary African Prophetism". In The Anthropology of Religious Charisma. Ecstasies and Institutions, 147-168. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
    Published • 10.1057/9781137377630_7
  14. José Mapril; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Introduction: Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe". In Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe, 1-18. --, Netherlands: Brill, 2013.
    Published • 10.1163/9789004255241_002
  15. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Espírito Santo, Diana. "Introduction: On the Agency of Intangibles". University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  16. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Prophetic Visions of Europe: Rethinking Place and Belonging Among Angolan Christians in Lisbon". In Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe, 19-36. Brill, 2013.
    Published • 10.1163/9789004255241_003
  17. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Missão, mobilidade e fronteira: a Igreja de Filadélffia e os ciganos na Península Ibérica". In Portugueses Ciganos e Ciganofobia em Portugal, 129-139. Colibri / CEMME - FCSHUNL, 2012.
    Published
  18. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The Personification of a Prophet. Leadership, Charisma and the Globalization of the Angolan Tokoist Church". In Chrétiens Africains en Europe, 69-91. Paris, France: Karthala, 2010.
    Published
  19. Sarró, Ramon; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Profetas e Missionários: Reflexões sobre as Igrejas Angolanas em Lisboa". In Religião em Movimento. Imigrantes e Diversidade Religiosa em Portugal e Itália, 141-153. Porto, Portugal: Estratégias Criativas, 2010.
    Published
  20. Sarró, Ramon; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "O Atlântico Cristão: apontamentos etnográficos sobre encontros religiosos em Lisboa". In Itinerários. A Investigação nos 25 Anos do ICS, 839-854. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2008.
    Published
  21. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Um Cemitério Chamado Europa: Cristianismo, Consciência global e Identidades Migratórias". In A Globalização no Divã, 317-334. Lisboa, Portugal: Tinta da China, 2008.
    Published
  22. Renato do Carmo; Daniel Melo; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Blanes, Ruy Jesus Llera. "Para assentar de vez com a globalização". In A Globalização no Divã, 335-342. Lisboa, Portugal: Tinta da China, 2008.
    Published
  23. Mónica Cornejo Valle; Manuela Cantón Delgado; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Introducción: la religión en movimiento". In Teorías y Prácticas Emergentes en la Antropología de la Religión, 9-20. San Sebastián, Spain: Ankulegi, 2008.
    Published
  24. Melo, D.; Blanes, R.; Carmo, R. M.. "A globalização vista pelo seu redor". In A globalização no divã, 11-21. Lisboa, Portugal: Tinta da China, 2008.
    Published
  25. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Em Nome da Interdenominacionalidade – ligações transnacionais e “novas” práticas musicais entre os ciganos evangélicos portugueses". In Sonoridades Luso-Afro-Brasileiras, 233-256. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2004.
    Published
Book review
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Review of Holy hustlers, schism, and prophecy: apostolic reformation in Botswana by Werbner, Richard". http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7952.
  2. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Recensão de Sánchez-Carretero, C (coord.), El Archivo del Duelo". http://hdl.handle.net/10451/6113.
  3. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Review of Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination". http://hdl.handle.net/10451/6318.
  4. Blanes,Ruy Lera. "Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church". http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732005000100011.
  5. Blanes,Ruy Llera. "Review: Giumbelli, Emerson (2014), Símbolos Religiosos em Controvérsia. São Paulo: Terceiro Nome". (2014): http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412014000200016.
Edited book
  1. Balkenhol, Markus; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Sarró, Ramon. Atlantic Perspectives. Places, Spirits, Heritage. Oxford & Nova Iorque, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books. 2019.
    Published • Editor
  2. Maïté Maskens; Blanes, Ruy Llera. Utopian Encounters. Anthropologies of Empirical Utopias. Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  3. Rio, Knut; MacCarthy, Michelle; Blanes, Ruy Llera. Pentecostalism and Witchcraft. Spiritual Warfare in Melanesia and Africa. New York, United States: Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  4. Mapril, José; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Giumbelli, Emerson ; Wilson, Erin K.. Secularisms in a Postsecular Age? Secularities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective. New York, United States: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-43726-2 • Editor
  5. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina. Being Godless: Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion. Oxford & Nova Iorque, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books. 2017.
    Published • Editor
  6. Blanes, Ruy Llera; José Mapril. Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe. Leiden & Boston, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. 2013.
    Published • 10.1163/9789004255241 • Editor
  7. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Anna Fedele. Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices: Anthropological Reflections. Oxford & Nova Iorque, United Kingdom: Berghahn. 2011.
    Published • Editor
  8. Blanes, Ruy Jesus Llera; Renato do Carmo; Daniel Melo. A Globalização no Divã. Lisboa, Portugal: Tinta da China. 2008.
  9. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Cantón Delgado, Manuela; Cornejo Valle, Mónica. Teorías y Prácticas Emergentes en la Antropología de la Religión. Donostia, Spain: Ankulegi. 2008.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Processos revolucionários em discurso: descentralizando e desconstruindo os impactos do 25 de Abril em Angola". Etnografica número esp (2024): 261-269. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.16070.
    10.4000/etnografica.16070
  2. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Fatal architectures and death by design: The infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique". Review of African Political Economy N/A (2023): https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/crea20.
    Published • 10.1080/03056244.2023.2261276
  3. Ruy Llera Blanes. "The Ministry of Injustice and No Human Rights in Angola". Lusotopie (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/12j3w.
    10.4000/12j3w
  4. Bjørn Enge Bertelsen; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Cracks in the System and Anthropology". Social Anthropology 30 1 (2022): 140-147. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2022.300111.
    Published • 10.3167/saas.2022.300111
  5. Singleton, Benedict; Gillette, Maris Boyd; Burman, Anders; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Uncomfortable Knowledge: Toward a Pedagogy of Reflexivity". Teaching Anthropology 11 2 (2022): 73-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22582/ta.v11i2.654.
    Published • 10.22582/ta.v11i2.654
  6. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Cardoso, Carolina Valente; Bahu, Helder Alicerces; Fortuna, Cláudio. "Drought Terroirs. Debating anthropological territorialities in the study of climate change and environmental disasters". kritisk Etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology 5 2 (2022): 119-136.
    Published
  7. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Samussuku, Hitler. "Afro-Autarky. Onjangos and Utopias of Contemporary Angolan Activism". Critical Times 5 2 (2022): 475-494. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/5/2/475/329440/Afro-AutarkyOnjangos-and-Utopias-of-Contemporary.
    Published
  8. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The optimistic utopia: sacrifice and expectations of political transformation in the Angolan Revolutionary Movement". Social Anthropology 29 1 (2021): 123-140. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12977.
    Published • 10.1111/1469-8676.12977
  9. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. "Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics". Social Anthropology 29 1 (2021): 5-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13003.
    Published • 10.1111/1469-8676.13003
  10. Leonardsson, Hanna; Kronsell, Annica; Andersson, Erik; Burman, Anders; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Da Costa, Karen; Hasselskog, Malin; Stepanova, Olga; Öjendal, Joakim. "Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative governance". World Development 147 (2021): 105656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105656.
    Published • 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105656
  11. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The Political Afterlives of Death, from Mozambique to Angola". Current Anthropology 62 3 (2021): 299-300.
    Published
  12. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Zawiejska, Natalia. "The Pentecostal Antirevolution: Reflections from Angola". Journal of Religion in Africa 49 1 (2020): 34-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340157.
    Published • 10.1163/15700666-12340157
  13. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The good and the bad of the same: On the political value of historical repetition in Angola". History and Anthropology 30 2 (2019): 212-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2018.1547899.
    Published • 10.1080/02757206.2018.1547899
  14. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Austerity en route, from Lisbon to Luanda". Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 2019 83 (2019): 37-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2019.830104.
    Published • 10.3167/fcl.2019.830104
  15. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "A Febre do Arquivo. O Efeito Benjamin e as Revoluções Angolanas". Práticas da História 3 (2017): 71-92.
    Published
  16. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Alex Flynn; Maïté Maskens; Jonas Tinius. "Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art, relationality, and creativity.". Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 5 1 (2016): 5-20. https://doi.org/10.4000%2Fcadernosaa.1017.
    Published • 10.4000/cadernosaa.1017
  17. Maïté Maskens; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Introduction: Ethnography and the Mutualizing Utopia". Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 8 2 (2016): 125-142. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/26530.
    Published
  18. Blanes, R. L.; Paxe, A.. "Nostalgies impérialisées: Mémoires plurielles et contestations politiques en Angola du Nord". Terrain 65 (2015): 94-113. https://journals.openedition.org/terrain/.
    Published • 10.4000/terrain.15835
  19. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Sarró, Ramon. "Geração, presença e memória: a Igreja Tocoísta em Angola". Etnografica 19 1 (2015): 169-187. https://doi.org/10.4000%2Fetnografica.3948.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.3948
  20. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic. "Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism". Social Analysis 59 2 (2015): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3167%2Fsa.2015.590201.
    Published • 10.3167/sa.2015.590201
  21. Blanes, R. L.; Paxe, A.. "Atheist political cultures in independent Angola". Social Analysis 59 2 (2015): 62-80. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/social-analysis/social-analysis-overview.xml.
    Published • 10.3167/sa.2015.590204
  22. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The Angolan Apocalypse. Prophecies, Imaginaries and Political Contestations in Post-War Angola". Social Sciences and Missions 28 3-4 (2015): 217-234. https://doi.org/10.1163%2F18748945-02803001.
    Published • 10.1163/18748945-02803001
  23. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "O Líder é o Profeta, o Profeta é o Líder. Continuidades e descontinuidades da liderança carismática no contexto angolano". Revista Anthropológicas 25 1 (2015): 107-127. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/22464.
    Published
  24. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Time for Self-Sacrifice: Temporal Narratives, Politics and Ideals in African Prophetism". Ethnos (2014): 406-429. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/23480.
    Published • 10.1080/00141844.2013.806946
  25. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Questionando o Social - A propósito do Homo Academicus de Pierre Bourdieu". Análise Social 210, XLIX 1 (2014): 159-162. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/20650.
    Published
  26. Ian Lowrie. "The Social Life of Spirits ed. by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo". Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 9 2 (2014): 239-242. https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fmrw.2014.0022.
    10.1353/mrw.2014.0022
  27. Eriksen, Annelin; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "What kind of God?". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 3 (2013): 375-375. https://doi.org/10.14318%2Fhau3.3.019.
    Published • 10.14318/hau3.3.019
  28. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Homenagem a Clara Mafra". Religião & Sociedade 33 2 (2013): 204-204. https://doi.org/10.1590%2Fs0100-85872013000200013.
    Published • 10.1590/s0100-85872013000200013
  29. Maskens, Maïté ; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Don Quixote’s choice. A manifesto for a romanticist anthropology". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 3 (2013): 245-245. https://doi.org/10.14318%2Fhau3.3.011.
    Published • 10.14318/hau3.3.011
  30. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Da confusão à ironia. Expectativas e legados da PIDE em Angola". Analise Social 48 206 (2013): 30-55. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84878475471&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published
  31. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "O Tempo dos inimigos. Reflexões sobre uma antropologia da repressão no século XXI". Horizontes Antropologicos 17 37 (2012): 261-284. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84872807110&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1590/S0104-71832012000100011
  32. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Moral circumscriptions: involuntary mobility, diaspora and ideological configurations in the Angolan Tokoist church". Canadian Journal of African Studies 46 3 (2012): 367-380. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2012.737525?journalCode=rcas20#.Upps-GRdWLk.
    Published • 10.1080/00083968.2012.737525
  33. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Double Presence: Proselytism and Belonging in an Angolan Prophetic Church's Diaspora in Europe". Journal of Religion in Europe 4 3 (2011): 409-428. https://doi.org/10.1163%2F187489211x592021.
    Published • 10.1163/187489211x592021
  34. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Unstable Biographies. The Ethnography of Memory and Historicity in an Angolan Prophetic Movement". (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/20545.
    10.1080/02757206.2011.546854
  35. Sarró, Ramon; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Prophetic Diasporas: Moving Religion across the Lusophone Atlantic". African Diaspora 2 1 (2009): 52-72. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/afdi/2009/00000002/00000001/art00003.
    Published • 10.1163/187254609X430786
  36. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Remembering and Suffering: Memory and Shifting Allegiances in the Angolan Tokoist Church". Exchange 38 2 (2009): 161-181. https://doi.org/10.1163%2F157254309x425391.
    Published • 10.1163/157254309x425391
  37. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "O que é que se passa no tabernáculo? Oração e espacialização na igreja tokoista angolana". Religião & Sociedade 29 2 (2009): 116-133. https://doi.org/10.1590%2Fs0100-85872009000200006.
    Published • 10.1590/s0100-85872009000200006
  38. Sarró,Ramon; Blanes,Ruy. "Apresentação". (2009): http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732009000100001.
  39. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "O Messias Entretanto Já Chegou. Relendo Balandier e o Profetismo Africano na Pós-Colónia". CAMPOS: Revista de Antropologia Social 10 2 (2009): 9-23. https://doi.org/10.5380%2Fcam.v10i2.17937.
    Published • 10.5380/cam.v10i2.17937
  40. Sarró, Ramon; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Apresentação". Análise Social XLIV 1 (2009): 5-13. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732009000100001.
    Published
  41. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Satan, Agent Musical. Le Diable et le pouvoir ambivalent de la musique parmi les tsiganes évangéliques de la Péninsule Ibérique". Terrain 50 (2008): 82-99. http://terrain.revues.org/index9003.html.
    Published
  42. Sarró, Ramon; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "European Christianities at the turn of the millennium: an introduction". Etnografica 12 2 (2008): 371-376. https://doi.org/10.4000%2Fetnografica.1761.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.1761
  43. Sarró, Ramon; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Viegas, Fátima. "La guerre dans la paix. Ethnicité et angolanité dans l'Église kimbanguiste de Luanda". Politique africaine 110 2 (2008): 84-84. https://doi.org/10.3917%2Fpolaf.110.0084.
    Published • 10.3917/polaf.110.0084
  44. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Satan, agent musical : Le pouvoir ambivalent de la musique chez les Tsiganes évangéliques de la péninsule Ibérique". Terrain 50 (2008): 82-99. https://doi.org/10.4000%2Fterrain.9003.
    Published • 10.4000/terrain.9003
  45. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Why Africans do what they do. Arguments, discussions and religious transmission in Angolan Pentecostal churches in Lisbon". Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia 23 1 (2007): 123-137. http://www.raco.cat/index.php/QuadernsICA/issue/view/10986/showToc.
    Published
  46. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Contacto, conhecimento e conflito: dinâmicas cultuais e sociais num movimento evangélico cigano na Península Ibérica". Etnografica 11 1 (2007): 29-54. https://doi.org/10.4000%2Fetnografica.1863.
    Published • 10.4000/etnografica.1863
  47. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The atheist anthropologist: Believers and non-believers in anthropological fieldwork". Social Anthropology 14 2 (2006): 223-234. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33745908561&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1017/S0964028206002552
Magazine article
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera ; Carolina Valente Cardoso; Helder Alicerces Bahu; Cláudio Fortuna. "Drought Terroirs in Southern Angola", Blogal Studies, 2021, https://www.blogalstudies.com/post/drought-terroirs-in-southern-angola.
  2. Blanes, Ruy Llera ; Blanes, Ruy Llera. "On the ‘Futility’ of Provocation and the Micro-Revolutions in Angola", Anthropological Theory Commons, 2021, http://www.at-commons.com/2020/10/16/on-the-futility-of-provocation-and-the-micro-revolutions-in-angola/.
  3. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Towards anthropological self-de-confinement #PostCoronaUniversity", Allegra Laboratory, 2020, https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-anthropological-self-de-confinement-postcoronauniversity/.
  4. Blanes, Ruy Llera ; Carolina Valente Cardoso; Helder Alicerces Bahu; Cláudio Fortuna; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Cardoso, Carolina Valente; Bahu, Helder Alicerces; Fortuna, Cláudio. "Angola's Persistent Drought", Africa is a Country, 2020, https://africasacountry.com/2020/10/angolas-persistent-drought.
  5. Blanes, Ruy Llera ; Hitler Samussuku. "How to Govern Angola", Africa is a Country, 2020, https://africasacountry.com/2020/09/how-to-govern-angola.
Newspaper article
  1. Euclides Gonçalves; Ana Carolina Rodrigues; Blanes, Ruy Llera ; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Gonçalves, Euclides; Rodrigues, Ana Carolina. Corresponding author: Blanes, Ruy Llera. "The Multiple Paths of Extraction, Dispossession, and Conflict in Mozambique: From Tete’s Coal Mines to Cabo Delgado’s LNG Projects", The Journal of Social Encounters , 2023, 7, https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encounters/vol7/iss1/2/.
Online resource
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera ; Blanes, Ruy Llera. How not to respond to drought: lessons from Angola. 2022. http://theconversation.com/how-not-to-respond-to-drought-lessons-from-angola-188015.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Angola". Preface to Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Gale. 2014.
    Published
  2. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Toko, Simão Gonçalves (1918-1984)". Preface to Dictionary of African Biography, 41-42. Oxford University Press. 2011.
    Published
  3. Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Música Cigana". Preface to Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX. Lisboa, Portugal: Círculo de Leitores. 2010.
    Published
Report
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera ; Cardoso, Carolina Valente; Helder Alicerces Bahu; Fortuna, Cláudio; Blanes, Ruy Llera; Bahu, Helder Alicerces. 2022. Drought in Angola. Situation Report 2020-2021. Causes, Responses and Solutions.
Website
  1. Blanes, Ruy Llera. Drought in Angola - Seca em Angola. 2021. https://secaangola.hypotheses.org/.

Other

Other output
  1. Climate Colonialism and Green Transitions. Energy Anthropology Network Bloh. 2023. Blanes, Ruy Llera. https://ean.hypotheses.org/ean-conferences/lisbon-2023/ean-fan-workshop-2023-climate-colonialism-and-green-transitions.
  2. Drought expectations: from the future projections of colonial infrastructure to present-day hydropower in Southwestern Angola. Simpósio Internacional: Seca, Fome e Colonialismo Português em África – História e Memória (séculos XIX-XXI). 2023. Blanes, Ruy Llera.
  3. Mapas confusos: notas sobre as novas territorialidades energéticas em Portugal e na Europa. Etnografica Agora Blog. 2023. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Silva, Luís; Pusceddu, A.M.; Freire, Francisco; Lima, Antónia; Mendes, Paulo. https://etnografica.cria.org.pt/pt/agora/131.
  4. On the Democracy of Buildings. Thoughts on Urban Architecture and PoliScal Struggles Through the Case of the Prédio da Lagoa in Luanda. Urban Trajectories: Comparing Integration, Enclaving and Development in Africa and China. 2023. Blanes, Ruy Llera.
  5. Forensic Heritage. Uma reflexão sobre processos de patrimonialização/memorialização da violência, a partir de Angola. II Seminário de Património Cultural. 2023. Blanes, Ruy Llera.
  6. Locating Conflict in New Extractivist Developments in Mozambique. AFREXTRACT Conference: Lived Experiences of Environmental Change in African Localities of Resource Extraction. 2023. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Rodrigues, Ana Carolina.
  7. Movimentos camponeses, desafios industriais e in/justiça: o caso da UNAC no Norte de Moçambique. In/justiças: II encontro de ecologia política. 2023. Blanes, Ruy Llera.
  8. Mapas confusos: notas sobre as novas territorialidades energéticas em Portugal e na Europa. 2023. Ruy Blanes; Antonio Maria Pusceddu; Antónia Lima; Luís Silva.
    10.25660/agora0001.hbtp-zg56
  9. A Machamba Invisível. Infraestruturas Territoriais dos Processos de Reassentamento, Fuga e Refúgio em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique. VIII Congresso da Associação Portugesa de Antropologia. 2022. Blanes, Ruy Llera. https://apa2022.apantropologia.org.
  10. Landscapes of Terror, Violence and Forensic Heritages in the Postcolonial Lusophone Space. Encontro Inaugural do laboratório In2Past. 2022. Blanes, Ruy Llera.
  11. Entre o desenvolvimentismo e o desastre do capitaloceno: contra-topografias existenciais no Sudoeste de Angola. Seminário do GI Diversidades, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. 2022. Blanes, Ruy Llera.
  12. ‘Drought Terroirs’ in Southern Angola. Blogal Studies. 2021. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Cardoso, Carolina Valente; Alicerces Bahu, Helder; Fortuna, Cláudio. https://www.blogalstudies.com/post/drought-terroirs-in-southern-angola.
  13. Towards anthropological self-de-confinement #PostCoronaUniversity. Allegra Laboratory. 2020. Blanes, Ruy Llera. https://allegralaboratory.net/towards-anthropological-self-de-confinement-postcoronauniversity/.
  14. How to govern Angola. Africa is a Country. 2020. Blanes, Ruy Llera; Samussuku, Hitler. https://africasacountry.com/2020/09/how-to-govern-angola.
  15. On the Margins of Religion. 2009. Blanes,Ruy Llera. http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732009000400014.
  16. A globalização e o seu redor. Introdução, Editorial. 2008. Blanes, Ruy Jesus Llera; Renato do Carmo; Daniel Melo.
  17. Introducción: la religión en movimiento. Introdução, Editorial. 2008. Blanes, Ruy Jesus Llera; Manuela Cantón Delgado; Mónica Cornejo Valle.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/09/10 A Machamba Invisível. Infraestruturas Territoriais dos Processos de Reassentamento, Fuga e Refúgio em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2022/06/01 Notes on Afrofuturism Afrofuturism Workshop
University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway)
2022/02/10 Extração, Infraestrutura e Energopolítica: uma abordagem antropológica preliminar ao Gás Natural em Cabo Delgado Seminário Kaleidoscopio
Kaleidoscopio (Maputo, Mozambique)
2020/09 Lutas Locais, Mobilização Nacional: o ativismo dos jovens angolanos no pós-15+2 II Seminário Internacional de Angolanística "A juventude em Angola face aos desafios do futuro Forças e fraquezas"
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (ISDC) ANGOLA RESEARCH NETWORK (ARN) (Portugal)
2019 Topografias Ativistas no Pós 15+2 em Angola Activisms in Africa
(Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
2019 On Religious and Problems. Thoughts on Religious Affairs in Complicated Times Seminarium Afrykanistyczne
Jagiellonian University Krakow (Cracóvia, Poland)
2019 The First Angolan Rocket Ship to the Sun: Future Dictatorships in Present-Day Angola Sci-Fi Futures
(Londres, United Kingdom)
2019 O Mambo do CD com o Ministério das Finanças. Rap, Ativismo Relacional e Segurança de Estado em Angola Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2018 The Pentecostal Anti-Revolution in Angola Anthropology Seminar
University of Edinburgh (Edimburgo, United Kingdom)
2018 Doppelganger: Revolution and its Evil Twin in Angola Revolution Talks
Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2018 The Prophetic Skill Skill and Scale II
University of Cologne (Colónia, Germany)
2017 Largo 1º de Maio Activisms in Africa
ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Statehood and the Manufacture of Religion in Angola Lusophone Christianity in Africa
SOAS (Londres, United Kingdom)
2017 Re-remembering and the usual cyclicity Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Society for the Anthropology of Religion (New Orleans, United States)
2017 On re-occupation as political signification SIEF Congress
University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany)
2017 The current state of anomy in Angola Durkheim Workshop
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2017 El índice ndoki Les Absències Presents Aparicions Desaparicions i altres Remordiments
Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2017 New revolutionary and utopian routes in post-Spring Angola American Anthropological Association
(Washington, United States)
2017 Estereoscopías urbanas Reunión de Antropología del Mercosur
Universidad de Misiones (Posadas, Argentina)
2016 Austerity en Route American Anthropological Association
(Minneapolis, United States)
2016 A colonial prison in the postcolony. Legacies of imprisonmnet in Bentiaba Angola Colonial Incarceration in the 20th Century
Museu do Aljube (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Inescapable Courtesy and the Production of Immunio in Angola Hospitality Workshop
Universidad de San Martín (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2016 The production of immunio in Angola Mastery and hospitality in Amazonia and Beyond
Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2015 Past utopias: religious and political temporalities in contemporary Angola Brussels Anthropology Seminar
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bruxelas, Belgium)
2015 Profecías Políticas, Temporalidades, Movilidades en Angola
(San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
2015 Antropología, imaginarios y temporalidades utópicas Congreso Internacional Imaginarios Utópicos
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2015 The energeia of spiritual possession: human-spirit relationality, creativity and micro-utopias SIEF Congress
(Zagreb, Croatia)
2014 Ethno-religious sensibilities in contemporary Angola II International Conference on Angola
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2014 Utopia and time: rethinking temporality through utopian thought and practice EASA Biennial conference
(Tallinn, Estonia)
2014 Charisma, sorcery and invisible operations in the Angolan urban sphere American Anthropological Association
(Washington, United States)
2013 Géneros y morfologías carismáticas
FLACSO (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/15 - Current Neo-extractivism, environment and inequality in Latin America
Co-supervisor of Vicky Alejandra Saravia
 Ciências Sociais (PhD)
Universidad Mayor San Simón, Portugal
2023/12/15 - Current Between Walls - The Pedreiras Neighborhood
Supervisor of Joana Caetano
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/12/15 - Current Precariedade, Identidade e Resistência no território de Luanda: Um estudo de caso do bairro Rocha Pinto.
Supervisor of Cláudio dos Anjos Ramos Fortuna
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2027/12/31 - 2027/12/31 Environmentalities in transition, an approach to the infrastructures of green governance. The case of wind and natural parks in rural socio-ecosystems of Tarifa, Andalucía.
Supervisor of Felipe Campos Mardones
 Antropologia (PhD)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2021 - 2025 Precariedade, Identidade e Resistência no Território de Luanda: Um Estudo de Caso do Bairro Rocha Pinto
Co-supervisor
 Antropologia (PhD)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Identities, Discourses and Mobilizations around Sacrifice Territories in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Co-supervisor of Redner Quiroz
 Ciências Sociais (PhD)
Universidad Mayor San Simón, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Livelihood and Stateness: A Study of Displacements in Central Mozambique
Supervisor of Ana Carolina Rodrigues
 Antropologia (PhD)
University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Infrastructural Care, Labour, Affect, and Posthuman Entanglements in Mumbai's Urban Transport Networks
Supervisor of Proshant Chakraborty
 Antropologia (PhD)
University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies, Portugal
2019/09 - 2020/04/30 Puerto Ricans Rooted in Discontent: The 2019 Social Movement Against the State
Supervisor
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/01 - 2019/12 Pokot Young Pastoralists at the Crossroads: Tradition, Modernity and Land Tenure Transformations in East Pokot, Kenya
Supervisor
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2018/09 - 2019/06 Unaccompanied Afghan Migrants in the Swedish Media and their Prospects
Supervisor
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2013 - 2017 Transatlantic Jerusalems: grassroots prophetism, alternative politics and making the land in contemporary Peru
Supervisor
 Programa de Doutoramento (PhD)
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2012 - 2016 O Papel da Igreja Católica na Questão da Feitiçaria em Angola
Co-supervisor
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/07/23 - 2024/07/26 EASA2024: Doing and Undoing Anthropology (2024/07/23)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2024/02/01 - 2024/02/02 IV Encontro do In2Past (2024/02/01 - 2024/02/02)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2023/09/01 - 2023/12/15 Seminários do GI Desafios Ambientais, Etnografia e Sustentabilidade (CRIA): Quintas de Debate (2023/09/01)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
2023/10/19 - 2023/10/20 Primeiro Encontro das Organizações LGBTIQ+ dos Países de Expressão Portuguesa Sul-Sul sobre Direitos Humanos, Integração Sócio-Política e Cultural (2023/10/19)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
2023/05/03 - 2023/05/04 Violência, Memória e a Patrimonialização Possível. Um Debate desde a Guiné-Bissau e o Contexto Pós-colonial Lusófono (2023/05/03)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
2023/03/16 - 2023/03/17 In/Justiças: II Encontro de Ecologia Política (2023/03/16)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
2022/07/01 - 2022/07/01 Evento de Networking "IPNA-CSIC - School of Global Studies University of Gothenburg" (2022/07/01)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
2019/09 - 2020/06 Higher Seminars in Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (2019/09 - 2020/06)
Seminar
 Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2018/08/15 - 2018/08/15 Panel “Divine Mobilities: How Gods and Spirits Move Through the World”, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Biannual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden. (2018/08/15 - 2018/08/15)
Other (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropology, Belgium
2018/03/10 - 2018/03/15 International Workshop "Afrotopias", Zanzibar, Tanzania. (2018/03/14 - 2018/03/18)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, United States
2017/01 - 2017/01 Panel "Urban Encounters: Politicizing the Everyday in African Cities", in International Conference Activisms in Africa, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, 11-13 January 2017. (2017/01/11 - 2017/01/13)
Other (Co-organisor)
2017 - 2017 International workshop "Conviviality and its Discontents: Rethinking Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Urban Settings", EASA Network of the Anthropology of Religion meeting, Lisbon, 18-19 September 2017. (2017/09/18 - 2017/09/19)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropology, Belgium
2017 - 2017 Symposium "Etnografiando Prácticas Espirituales: Sentido y Compromiso frente a la Utopía", XIV Congreso de Antropología, FAAEE, Valencia, Spain. (2017/09/05 - 2017/09/08)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
2016 - 2016 International Workshop “Utopia, Vitality and Sacrifice”, Stromboli, Italy. (2016/06/03 - 2016/06/06)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
2016 - 2016 International Workshop "Hospitality from the South", Buenos Aires, Argentina. (2016/03/03 - 2016/03/06)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
2015 - 2016 Bergen Social Anthropology Seminars, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (2015 - 2016)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
2015 - 2015 Panel ”Micro- utopias: exploring connections in anthropology, relationality and creativity”, SIEF Meeting, Zagreb, Croatia. (2015/06/21 - 2015/06/25)
Other (Co-organisor)
2014 - 2014 Panel ”Anthropological utopias: debating personal, political and idealist expectations in the intersection of theory and ethnographic practice”, European Association of Social Anthropologists Biannual Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia. (2014/07/31 - 2014/08/03)
Other (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropology, Belgium
2014 - 2014 International Workshop "Connections in the Religious Atlantic: Faiths, Encounters, Circulations", Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. (2014/04/22 - 2014/04/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Panel ” The good shepherd. Secularities, religiosities and subjectivities”, at the Conference Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge, European Association for the Study of Religion, Groningen, Netherlands. (2014/05/11 - 2014/05/14)
Other (Co-organisor)
2013/11 - 2013/11 Session “The Gender of Christian Charisma: Debating Ethnographies of Agency, Power and Engendered Leadership in Contemporary Christianity”, American Anthropological Association 113th Annual Meeting, Chicago. (2013/11/20 - 2013/11/25)
Other (Co-organisor)
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2013 - 2013 V Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia , Vila Real, Portugal. (2013/09/08 - 2013/09/11)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2013 - 2013 International workshop “I Know What I Saw: Debating Ethnographies of Sight and Visibility in the Anthropology of Religion” (with Ramon Sarró and Diana Espírito Santo)”, London School of Economics. (2013/05/28 - 2013/05/28)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2013 - 2013 Working Group (GT) Práticas Religiosas em Interface com Violência, Pobreza e Etnia, in the XVII Jornadas sobre Alternativas Religiosas na América Latina, Porto Alegre. (2013/11/10 - 2013/11/14)
Other (Co-organisor)
2013 - 2013 Panel “Religions, Jurisdictions, Sovereignties: ethnographies of religious and political contestations”, Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Vila Real, Portugal. (2013/09/08 - 2013/09/11)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Workshop “The Pragmatics of Religious Transmission”, at the Congress of the SIEF (Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et Folklore), Lisbon. (2011/04/18 - 2011/04/21)
Other (Co-organisor)
2011 - 2011 2011, host and co-organizer (with Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic) of the international workshop “Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-searching Belief and Experience”, University College London. (2011/09/21 - 2011/09/21)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 University College London Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, United Kingdom
2010 - 2010 Session “Researching Spirit Biographies: Locating the Selves and Histories of Immaterial Entities in Religious Experience and Knowledge”, American Anthropological Association 2010 Annual Meeting, New Orleans. (2010/11/16 - 2010/11/21)
Other
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2009 - 2009 IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Lisboa, Portugal. (2009/09/09 - 2009/09/11)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2020/09 Living in times of climate change Weather-related understandings, realities, and entanglements among Guarani people in the Bolivian Chaco
(Thesis) Arguer
 Vanesa Martín Galán (PhD)
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/12/12 Dissertation “Towards a Spiritualised Society. Auroville, An Experiment in Prefigurative Utopianism”.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith (PhD)
University of Sussex School of Global Studies, United Kingdom
2019/09/14 Dissertation “The New Portuguese Presence in Angola”.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Carolina Valente Cardoso (PhD)
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2018 Dissertation “Deus é Brasileiro: vivências religiosas e o quotidiano entre imigrantes brasileiros católicos e evangélicos”.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Elisabete Curtinhal (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2014/12 Dissertation “Going for God: Mobility, Place and Temporality among Evangelical Guineans in Lisbon”.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ambra Formenti (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2012/11 Dissertation “On the Threshold of a Healer’s Mosque: Spiritual Healing, Hazard and Power in Northern Mozambique”.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Daria Trentini (PhD)
SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
2012/09 Dissertation “O Tokoismo como Elemento da Identidade Angolana (1950-1965)”.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cléria Ferreira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011/06 Dissertation “Ciganos e Não Ciganos em Trás-os-Montes: Investigação de um Impasse Inter-Étnico”.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Lurdes (PhD)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Pólo de Chaves, Portugal
2010/06 Dissertation “Religião no Feminino: Experiências da Mulher Kimbanguista em Portugal”.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Joana Santos (Master)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2010/04 Dissertation “Exibição e Manejos do Segredo como Estratégia de Representação entre Portugueses Ciganos”.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ana Evangelista Brinca (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023/06/01 - 2024/08/01 Membro do Comité Científico da conferência internacional EASA2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology
Advisor / Consultant
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2012 - 2020 Co-editor of journal "Advances in Research: Religion and Society" Berghahn Books Inc, United States
2012 - 2020 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board in journal "Debates do NER". Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2013 - 2019 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board in "Journal of Religion in Africa". Brill Academic Publishers, Netherlands
2013 - 2016 Associate editor of the journal "HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory"
2010 - 2013 Vice-Presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
President / Vice-president
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2007 - 2010 Tesoureiro da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
Member
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2005 - 2008 Editorial assistant in journal "Etnográfica". ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019 Book proposal review for Bloomsbury Books Bloomsbury International, United Kingdom
2018 - 2018 Book proposal review for Berghahn Books Berghahn Books Inc, United States
2017 - 2017 Book proposal review for Editorial CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2016 - 2016 Book proposal review for Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
2013 - 2013 Book proposal review for Berghahn Books Berghahn Books Inc, United States
2010 - 2010 Book proposal review for Berghahn Books Berghahn Books Inc, United States
2010 - 2010 Book proposal review for Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
2009 - 2009 Book proposal review for Imprensa de Ciências Sociais

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2023/01 Methods in Anthropology: Research in Intangible Cultural Heritage Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/09/20 - 2022/12/13 Antropologia: Políticas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia Antropologia: Políticas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/15 Tradiciones Teóricas en Ciencias Sociales Tradiciones Teóricas en Ciencias Sociales (Doktor (PhD)) Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Bolivia
2022/01/01 - 2022/06/30 Anthropological Theory Anthropological Theory (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2022/01/01 - 2022/06/30 The Global Politics of Heritage The Global Politics of Heritage (Master) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2020/11 - 2021/01 Gender, Structure and Agency (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2020/03 - 2020/06 Global Politics of Heritage Masters Programme in Global Studies (Mestrado) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2020/03 - 2020/06 Anthropological Theory BA in Social Anthropology (Bachelor (1st cycle)) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2020/01 - 2020/03 Migration, Power and Identity Masters Programme in Global Studies (Master) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2020/01 - 2020/03 Global Gender Studies: Discourses and Theories on Power and Politics Undergraduate Programme in Gender Studies (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2020/01 - 2020/03 Latin American History and Present Time (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/09 - 2019/12 Theory and Method in Anthropology Undergraduate track in Social Anthropology (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/09 - 2019/12 Global Gender Studies: Agency and Structure Undergraduate Programme in Gender Studies (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/09 - 2019/12 Theories and Perspectives in Globalization Masters Programme in Global Studies (Master) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/09 - 2019/12 Latin American Social and Political Movements (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/09 - 2019/11 Global Studies: Key Concepts Museion (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/01 - 2019/03 Ethnographic Methods PhD Programme in Social Anthropology (Doktor (PhD)) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2019/01 - 2019/03 Global Gender Studies: Discourses and Theories on Power and Politics Undergraduate Programme in Gender Studies (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2018/09 - 2018/12 Theories and Perspectives in Globalization Masters Programme in Global Studies (Master) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2018/09 - 2018/10 Anthropological Theory PhD Programme in Social Anthropology (Doktor (PhD)) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2018/03 - 2018/06 Theory and Method in Anthropology Undergraduate Programme in Social Anthropology (Bachelor) Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden
2016/06 - 2016/06 Posibilidades para una Antropologia de la Utopía Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
2016/04 - 2016/04 Comparison: Foundations in Anthropological Theory and Methodology Con Amore Programme (Bachelor) Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for sosialantropologi, Norway
2013/10 - 2013/10 Indivíduo, Representações Coletivas e Movimentos Sociais Psicologia (Master) Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola
2012/03 - 2012/06 Antropologia da Performance Licenciatura em Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2011/09 - 2012/01 Introdução à Antropologia Licenciatura em Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2010/10 - 2011/01 Simbolismo e Ritual Mestrado em Antropologia (Mestrado) Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2009/09 - 2009/12 Ethnographies of the Atlantic: Religious Imagination in Africa and the Diaspora Mestrado em Antropologia (Mestrado) Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2008/01 - 2008/06 Antropologia e Teatro Licenciatura em Teatro (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2022 - 2022 The Research Council of Norway, referee panel assessment Researcher Projects 2022 (Panel 10.6)
Evaluator
 Norwegian Research Council
2018 - 2020 Research project application assessment, Proyectos de Investigación Convocatorias 2018, Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain.
Evaluator
2014 - 2016 Evaluation of Research Project proposals, National Science Center (NCN), Poland
Evaluator
2010 - 2010 Research Project final report assessment, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal.
Evaluator
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2016/09/28 - Current Interview in show "Bem Vindos" (RTP África)

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019 - 2019 American Ethnologist (1548-1425) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2019 - 2019 Focaal (1558-5263) Berghahn Books
2019 - 2019 Social Anthropology (1469-8676) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2019 - 2019 Etnográfica
2019 - 2019 Religião e Sociedade
2018 - 2018 Ethnos (1469-588X) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2018 - 2018 Mana (0104-9313) SciELO
2018 - 2018 Cadernos de arte e antropologia (2238-0361) OpenEdition
2018 - 2018 Ethnologia Europaea (1604-3030) Open Library of Humanities
2018 - 2018 Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2049-1115) The University of Chicago Press
2017 - 2017 Visual Studies (1472-586X) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2017 - 2017 The Journal of Peasant Studies (1743-9361) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2017 - 2017 Journal de la Société des Américanistes (1957-7842) PERSEE Program
2017 - 2017 PentecoStudies An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (1871-7691) Equinox Publishing
2017 - 2017 African Diaspora (1872-5465) Brill
2016 - 2016 American Ethnologist (1548-1425) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2016 - 2016 Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2049-1115) The University of Chicago Press
2016 - 2016 Journal of Religion in Africa (1570-0666) Brill
2016 - 2016 Religião e Sociedade
2016 - 2016 Avá
2015 - 2015 Anthropological Quarterly (1534-1518) Project MUSE
2015 - 2015 Ethnos (1469-588X) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2015 - 2015 Ciências Sociais e Religião
2015 - 2015 African Diaspora (1872-5465) Brill
2015 - 2015 Diskus
2015 - 2015 Etnográfica
2015 - 2015 Anthrovision
2014 - 2014 Current Anthropology (1537-5382) The University of Chicago Press
2014 - 2014 Anthropological Theory (1463-4996) SAGE Publications
2014 - 2014 Social Analysis (1558-5727) Berghahn Books
2014 - 2014 Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2049-1115) The University of Chicago Press
2014 - 2014 Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares (1988-8457) Editorial CSIC
2014 - 2014 Análise Social (2182-2999) Instituto de Ciencias Sociais
2014 - 2014 Etnográfica
2014 - 2014 Religion and Gender (1878-5417) Brill
2014 - 2014 Religião & Sociedade (0100-8587) SciELO
2013 - 2013 Social Anthropology (1469-8676) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2013 - 2013 Social & Cultural Geography (1470-1197) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2013 - 2013 RUNA - Revista de Antropología
2013 - 2013 Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares (1988-8457) Editorial CSIC
2013 - 2013 Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2049-1115) The University of Chicago Press
2013 - 2013 Etnográfica
2012 - 2012 Sociologia Problemas e Práticas (2182-7907) Centro de Investigacao e Estudos de Sociologica
2012 - 2012 Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement (2158-9100) Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2012 - 2012 Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2049-1115) The University of Chicago Press
2012 - 2012 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1467-9655) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2012 - 2012 Interseções Revista de Estudos Interdisciplinares (2317-1456) Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro UERJ
2011 - 2011 Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (2182-7435) OpenEdition
2011 - 2011 Análise Social (2182-2999) Instituto de Ciencias Sociais
2010 - 2010 Análise Social (2182-2999) Instituto de Ciencias Sociais
2009 - 2009 Etnográfica
2007 - 2007 Etnográfica
Distinctions

Award

2012 Programa para a Internacionalização das Ciências Sociais 2012, € 5,000.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2011 Estímulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalização em Ciências Sociais, 1,720€.
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Title

2019 Associate Professor
Göteborgs universitet Institutionen för globala studier, Sweden

Other distinction

2018 International Workshop "Afrotopias" (Wenner Gren workshop)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, United States
2017 International workshop "Conviviality and its Discontents: Rethinking Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Urban Settings"
European Association of Social Anthropology, Belgium
2016 International Workshop "Hospitality from the South"
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
2015 International Workshop “Utopia, Vitality and Sacrifice”
European Association of Social Anthropology, Belgium
2011 International Workshop “Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-searching Belief and Experience”
European Association of Social Anthropology, Belgium