Hestia-Ioana Delibas is PhD Candidate in the program "Democracy in the Twenty-First Century" linked to the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra. Her research interests revolve around the topic of social and environmental justice, emancipatory rural politics and decolonialism with a focus on post-socialist spaces. She completed her master's degree in Advanced Sociological Research and her Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, from Babes-Bolyai University. In 2021, she was a PhD fellow i in the project JustFood: From Alternative Food Networks to Environmental Justice, funded by Foundation for Science and Technology. She received a research scholarship awarded by FCT for her doctoral research project Cultivating Alternatives: Addressing Peasant Resistance to Land Grabbing She is also a member of ECOSOC at CES.
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Personal identification

Full name
Hestia Delibas

Citation names

  • Delibas, Hestia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
611D-3AD6-34FF

Email addresses

  • hestiadelibas@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 912476237 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rus Santa Teresa 9-2 Andar, 3000-359, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Social Sciences - Sociology
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Political Science

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Romanian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Degree Classification
2020 - 2024
Ongoing
 Democracy in the XXI Ccentury (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/01/24 - 2022/02/11
Concluded
 Intensive Course of Portuguese as a Foreign Language - Elementary Level A2, (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/10 - 2020/07
Concluded
 Advanced Sociological Research (Master)
Major in Sociology
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala, Romania
"Alternative Food Networks in Romania: Producer-consumer relations and the “clean food” imaginary " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 10
2014/10/01 - 2017/07
Concluded
 Sociology (Bachelor)
Major in Antropology
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala, Romania
"Liceul de elita în Romania, Studiu de caz: Colegiul National Andrei Saguna (The Elite high School in Romania, Case Study: Andrei Saguna National College)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 10

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/03 - 2020/09 Researcher (Research) Fundatia Noi Orizonturi, Romania
2019/06 - 2019/07 Research Trainee (Research) Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minoritatilor Nationale, Romania

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/03 - 2021/07 JUSTFOOD From Alternative Food Networks to Environmental Justice
29355
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/11 - 2020/07 Peasant box: Forms of solidarity between local producers and consumers
35544/26.11.2019
Research Fellow
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala, Romania
 Universitatea Babes-Bolyai
Concluded

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Delibas, Hestia. "Food Sovereignty between Populism and Progressive Rural Politics". In What Follows after Neo-Liberalism?. Cluj University, 2023.
    Accepted
Book review
  1. Delibas, Hestia. "Laboratoarele Modernitatii: Europa de est si America Latina in (co)-relatie (Modernity laboratories: Eastern Europe and Latin America in (co)-relationship)". (2021):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2021.1940632
Conference abstract
  1. Delibas, Hestia. "Building on trust: contesting the exclusionary effects of organic certification through community-supported agriculture". Paper presented in International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Helsinki, 2021.
    Accepted
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
Journal article
  1. Pedro, Sérgio; Velicu, Irina; Delibas, Hestia; Oprea, Anastasia. Corresponding author: Oprea, Anastasia. "We Grow Earth: Performing Eco-Agrarian Citizenship at the Semi-Periphery of Europe". Environmental Politics (2023):
    Accepted
  2. Delibas, Hestia. "Trust and the clean food imaginaries an analysis of a short food supply chain from Romania". Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture & Society 9 2 (2021): http://www.thefutureoffoodjournal.com/index.php/FOFJ/article/view/365.
    Open access • Published • 10.17170/kobra-202102163258

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07 Debt dependency and the cost of migration: The case of Roma and non-Roma migrants from Baia Mare SIEF2023 16th Congress : Living Uncertainty, Panel Dependence and livelihood in times of uncertainty
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Brno, Czech Republic)
2023/03/23 Suveranitatea alimentara între populism ¿i progresism? Transformari capitaliste în România: dezvoltare inegala ¿i decalaje sociale
Babes Bolyai University (Cluj Napoca, Romania)
2022/07/26 Fighting for justice in times of crisis: the conflict over farmers’ markets closing during Covid 19 pandemic in Romania. Conference EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Belfast, United Kingdom)
2021/06/22 Building on trust: contesting the exclusionary effects of organic SIEF2021 15th Congress : BREAKING THE RULES? POWER, PARTICIPATION, TRANSGRESSION
SIEF ( International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) (Helsinki, Finland)
2020/08/15 The Peasant’s Box: forms of solidarity between consumers and local producers Decolonizing Revolutions: Social Movements, Spiritualities and Commoning - Telciu Conferences
Centru Pentru Studierea Modernitatii si Lumii rurale (Telciu, Romania)
2019/05/19 Poverty as a fault: analysis of the representation of welfare beneficiaries in Mass Media National Conference of Social Sciences "Ecouri din Social"
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
2017/05/20 Elite School in Romania-A case study National Conference of Social Sciences "Ecouri din Social"
Universitatea Babes Bolyai, Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala (Cluj-Napoca , Romania)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/05 - 2022/08 CES Summer School The Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice (2022/07/11 - 2022/07/16)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/01 - 2016/05 National Student Conference "Ecouri din Social" Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2016/05 - 2016/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universitatea Babes-Bolyai Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala, Romania

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/09/17 - 2021/09/17 Speaker at Global Peace Day Celebration - European Session , 17th Sept. 2021 - online event organized by Global Peace Europe; Theme: “Recovering better fot an equitable and sustainable world: The Role of the Youth”
Symposium
 Global Peace Day Celebration - European Session
2021/05/20 - 2021/05/22 Speaker at the roundtable "Capitalist transformations and emerging food movements in Central and Eastern Europe".
Conference
 Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: Inequalities and Social Resistance
Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Romania

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/05 - Current ECOSOC - Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade - working group at Centro de Estudio Sociais (CES) member
2016 - Current Sociolink - Platforma de Sociologie si Antropologie Sociala Reviewer, Editor
2019/11 - 2020/07 Colegiul Virtual de Excelenta Next Generation, STAR-UBB Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/01/19 - Current Guest Lecture - ‘Cultivating Alternatives: Land Grabbing and Community Supported Agriculture in Romania’ Organic Agriculture and Food Systems (Master) Universität Hohenheim, Germany

Other distinction

2020 IELTS Certificate
British Council Cluj, Romania
2016 Erasmus Scholarship
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
2015 Youthpass
Erasmus Plus, Belgium