Michael Vina (9B1C-8FDA-2698)

Curriculum Vitae

Michael Vina is an environmental anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Bergen, Norway (2019). His interests include human-fish relations, fishers'¿ ecological knowledge, the political ecology of marine spaces and fishers' well-being, and the environmental history of coastal dunes. Michael has conducted his research on the Ecuadorian coast and the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Costa Rica. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for History at the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Letters) in the European Research Council (ERC) project, ¿Sea, Sand and People: An Environmental History of Coastal Dunes with a focus on dune management and human-animal relations in the United Kingdom and Brazil. He is also an affiliated researcher at Arizona State University, exploring the relationship between marine conservation technology, sea turtles, and fishermen in Ecuador and Costa Rica.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Michael Vina

Citation names

Vina, Michael

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9B1C-8FDA-2698
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9331-3556

Telephones

Mobile phone

(+351) 913752888 (Personal)

Addresses

Rua Bartolomeu Dias #1 R/C Retaguarda , 2620-091, Povoa de Santo Adriao , Odivelas , Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Humanities - Other Humanities

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/03/15 Concluded	Department of Social Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Social Anthropology Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for sosialantropologi, Norway "When Rivers do not Meet the Sea: Discordant Rhythms, Uncertain Paths, and Brackish Livelihoods in Southern Coastal Manabi Province, Ecuador " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012/05/20 Concluded	Department of Anthropology (Master) Major in Cultural Anthropology New Mexico State University, United States "Invoking the Past to Negotiate the Present: Local Knowledge, Wildlife, and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006/05/15 Concluded	Department of Anthropology (Bachelor (1st cycle)) Major in Anthropology Florida Atlantic University Dorothy F Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, United States

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/02/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09/15 - 2021/12/20	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
	Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01 - Current	Researcher	Arizona State University, United States

2020 - 2021	Research Associate	Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
	Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
2019/06/15 - 2020/06/15	Visiting Researcher	Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
	Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Costa Rica
2013/10/13 - 2017/10/13	Doctoral Fellow	Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
	Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for sosialantropologi, Norway
2010/10/01 - 2013/09/30	Environmental Project Coordinator	University of Washington School of Marine Affairs, United States
	University of Washington School of Marine Affairs, United States
2008/08/22 - 2010/05/18	Graduate Teaching Assistant	New Mexico State University, United States
	New Mexico State University College of Arts and Sciences, United States

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/02/01 - Current	DUNES: Sea, Sand and People: An Environmental History of Coastal Dunes 802918 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal	Ongoing
2021 - Current	Global Environmental Imaginaries & Constrained Choice: Using Electronic Monitoring to Protect the Environment & Human Rights in Fisheries 2121656 Researcher Arizona State University, United States	National Science Foundation Ongoing
2019/06/15 - 2020/06/15	Configurations of Socio-ecological wellbeing of the small-scale fishing sector in Costa Rica: A Comparative Study of four Coastal Communities: Isla Venado, Isla Caballo, Cahuita y Manzanillo. 0297-16 Invited Scientist Fellow Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Costa Rica	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Vina, Michael. "El Nino's Pulsations: Volatile Memories, Creative Adaptations and Shrimp Fishing on the Ecuadorian Coast". In Fishing Territories: Resilience, Local Knowledge and Change in Latin America, edited by Fernando Represa Perez, 19-53. Manta, Ecuador: Cuerpo de Voces Ediciones, 2022. Published Vina, Michael. "Conservation, Wellbeing and Ecologíes of Sharing in the Southern Coast of Manabi Province, Ecuador". In Deep America: Visions and Convergences of the Social Oceanography of the Continent, edited by Nemer E. Narchi; Christine Beitl. Michoacan, Mexico: Colegio de Michoacan, 2022. Published Vina, Michael. "Between the Specialization and Diversification of LIvelihoods: Wellbeing and Adaptation in the Artisanal and Industrial Fisheris of the Ecuadorian Coast". In We sow, we eat, we live: Agroecological knowledge from the south, edited by Antonio Ortega. Granada, Spain: Editorial Comare, 2022. Published
Conference paper	Vina, Michael. "From the Periphery to the Center and Back: Marginal Dunescapes as Zones of Opportunity for Rabbit (Un) Domestication in the UK". Paper presented in EURHO Rural History 2023 Conference, Cluj-Napoca, 2023. Accepted Vina, Michael. "Undomesticated Dune Landscapes: Human-Rabbit Assemblages and Biodiversity Conservation in Coastal Wales". Paper presented in III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: More than Just Biodiversity, Peniche, 2022. Vina, Michael. "Natural Succession or Biodiversity? Human-Rabbit Assemblages in the Management of Coastal Dunes in the UK". Paper presented in XII BRASPOR Network Meeting, Joao Pessoa, 2022. García-Pereda, Ignacio; Freitas, Joana Gaspar de; Vina, Michael. "Dunes and Pines in Southern Portugal: Similarities and Differences of the Iberian Cases". Paper presented in III RUED(H)A Congress: Pulling the Emergency Break. Environmental History and the Global Crisis, Granada, 2022. Richard Pollnac; Nikita Gaibor; Vina, Michael. "Adaptation to Environmental Extremes of El Nino and La Nina in Coastal Ecuador". Paper presented in 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Salt Lake City, 2022. Perez, Fernando Represa; Vina, Michael. "Globalizations from Below in the Fishing Communities of Southern Manabi (Ecuador)". Paper presented in IV Ecuadorian Congress of Anthropology and Archaeology, 2021. Vina, Michael; Silvia Rojas Herrera. "Challenges of Community Self-Management in the Context of Overexploited Fisheries and Ungovernability in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica". Paper presented in IV Iberoamerican Meeting of Socioeconomics, Heredia, 2019. Vina, Michael. "Well-Being and Protected Areas: Ecologies of Sharing, Fishers' Ecological Knowledges, and Conservation Conflicts". Paper presented in Society of Ecuadorian Ethnobiology 3rd Annual Conference, Quito, 2019. Vina, Michael. "What is a Fish? Current Trends in Multispecies Ethnography". Paper presented in Workshop on Current Research Trends in Anthropology and Sociology, Heredia, 2019. Vina, Michael. "Walking in the Anthropocene: Exploring Multispecies Relations in Coastal Ecuador". Paper presented in Workshop in Research Methods for Volatile Lifeworlds in the Hydrosocial Anthropocene, Cologne, 2018. Vina, Michael. "Prepare Your Gear, El Nino is Coming! Seascape Engagements and Adaptive Assemblages in the Rush for Fish and CRustaceans in Coastal Ecuador". Paper presented in American Anthropological Association, 2015.
Journal article	Vina, Michael; D.M.R. Sampath; Freitas, Joana Gaspar de. Corresponding author: D.M.R. Sampath. "Patchy Anthropocoasts: A transdisciplinary perspective on dunes, plants, rabbits, and humans in the United Kingdom". Shima 18 1 (2024): In press Vina, Michael. "The Ruined Seascapes of the Wasteocene: On the Lives of Fishers and Gravid Fish in Coastal Ecuador". Environmental Humanities (2024): Under revision Pollnac, Richard; Beitl, Christine ; Vina, Michael; Gaibor, Nikita. Corresponding author: Beitl, Christine. "How Perceptions of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and La Nina Shape Fishers' Adaptive Capacity and Resilience". Social Sciences (2024): Under revision Perez, Fernando Represa; Vina, Michael. Corresponding author: Vina, Michael. "Fishing Communities under the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Southern Coast of Manabi Province (Ecuador)". PLURAL Antropology from Latin America and the Caribbean 10 (2023): 413-435. Open access • Published Santana-Mero Alexis; Viña Michael. "The Artisanal Fishery of the Pámpano (Peprilus Medius, Peters, 1869) in Machalilla, Ecuador". Revista Científica Arbitrada de Posgrado y Cooperación Internacional CLAUSTRO 5 10 (2022): 39-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.56124/claustro.v5i10.0052. 10.56124/claustro.v5i10.0052 Perez, Fernando Represa; Vina, Michael. Corresponding author: Vina, Michael. "From below and from within: fishing communities under the COVID-19 pandemic and other globalizations in southern Manabí, Ecuador". Territory, Politics, Governance (2021): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2021.1960595. 10.1080/21622671.2021.1960595 "Practical Recommendations to Help Students Bridge the Research-Implementation Gap and Promote Conservation". Conservation Biology 27 5 (2013): 958-967. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12089. 10.1111/cobi.12089
Online resource	Vina, Michael. Where Have the Rains Gone? Fish, Mosquitos, and Water Management in Coastal Ecuador. 2017. https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/en/wissenstransfer/voices-from-around-the-world/social-water.
Working paper	Vina, Michael. 2018. "Walking the Anthropocene: Exploring Multispecies Relations in Coastal Ecuador".

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/02 - Current	Shark Bycatch in the Longline Fleet of Continental Ecuador Supervisor	Aquatic Resources witha a focus on Fisheries (Master) Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
2022/02 - Current	Implementation of the Participatory Monitoring Program of the Concha Prieta resource with Fishing Organizations of the Southern Zone of the Province of Esmeraldas Co-supervisor	Aquatic Resources with a focus on Fisheries (Master) Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
2021/11 - 2022/08	Participatory Assessment of the Pampano Fishery (Peprilus Medius, Peters, 1869) in Machalilla, Puerto Lopez, Ecuador Supervisor	Aquatic Resources with a focus on Fisheries (Master) Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2021/10/13 - 2021/10/15	Event co-organizer of online symposium titled: "Small-scale Fishing: Local Challenges and Global Solutions." (2021/10/13 - 2021/10/15) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Geografia, Mexico Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
2020/09/04 - 2020/11/23	Event co-organizer of online symposium titled: "International Virtual Forum on Artisanal Fishing Communities." (2020/09/04 - 2020/11/23) Symposium	Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
2020/10/29 - 2020/10/29	Event co-organizer of an online symposium titled "Social Vulnerability in Coastal Communities." (2020/10/29 - 2020/10/29) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
2019/08/28 - 2019/08/29	Workshop organizer titled: "Cultural Ecology in the Anthropocene: Transformations and Interdisciplinary Dialogues between the Natural and Social Sciences." (2019/08/28 - 2019/08/29) Workshop (Other)	Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2015/11/18 - 2015/11/22	Panel co-organizer for American Anthropological Association Meetings 2015 titled: "Contemporary Perspectives on Environmental and Ecological Knowledge in Marine Contexts." Conference	American Anthropological Association 114th Annual Meeting American Anthropological Association, United States

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/09/15 - Current	Llull Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
2022/04/05 - 2022/04/15	Coastal Studies and Society	Sage
2021/09 - 2021/09	Etnobiologia	Asociación Etnobiológica Mexicana

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021/09/15 - 2021/12/22	Socio-ecological Systems	Aquatic Resources and Fisheries (Master)	Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador
2019/09/20 - 2019/12/10	Introduction to the Anthropology of Fishing	Social Sciences (Bachelor)	Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
2016/01/10 - 2016/05/03	Comparative Regional Ethnography--Latin America	Anthropology (Bachelor)	Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for sosialantropologi, Norway
2015/01/10 - 2015/05/15	Methodology of the Anthropology of Development	Anthropology (Master)	Universitetet i Bergen Institutt for sosialantropologi, Norway