Rita Calvário (B01F-2DD1-2D0D)

Curriculum Vitae

Rita Calvário

Rita Calvário is an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, the Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies at the University of Lisbon. With extensive experience in multidisciplinary research, she specializes in rural sociology, peasant studies, and political ecology. Her work primarily focuses on rural social movements, agrarian change, food transitions and alternatives, and the power dynamics within agrifood systems, particularly in Southern Europe. Currently, she is leading a project on gender inequalities and the role of rural women in agriculture in Portugal, funded by FCT (CEEC - 5th edition). In addition, she coordinates, as consortium member, the HORIZON SWIFT project at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), which supports women-led innovations in farming and rural territories and is led by CSIC. This project includes research on migrant women in agriculture in both Portugal and Spain. She also heads the FEED project, funded by ISRF, which examines the struggles of rural women in family agriculture in Portugal, Galicia, and the Basque Country. Rita collaborates with the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra and has led and published research in prominent journals over the past five years, including the Journal of Peasant Studies, Sociologia Ruralis, and Antipode. She serves on the Editorial Board of Social Movements, Institutions and Governance, a specialized section of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rita Calvário

Citation names

Calvário, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B01F-2DD1-2D0D
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1424-6573

Email addresses

rita.calvario@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
ritamcalvario@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Environmental Sciences
Agrarian Sciences - Other Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences - Sociology - Sociology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012/12/03 - 2016/12/21 Concluded	Environmental Sciences (Doctor) Major in Political Ecology (Social Aspects) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain "Building emancipatory strategies, producing political subjects: alternative food economies in the Basque Country and Greece in the crisis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/06 - 2015/06 Concluded	Specialised Intensive Course "Navigating the Job Market" (Postgraduate Certificate) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2015/01 - 2015/01 Concluded	Specialised Intensive Course "Project Management and Contribution to Policy" (Postgraduate Certificate) ENT Innovació ambiental al servei de la societat, Spain
2014/12 - 2014/12 Concluded	Specialised Intensive Course "Research for Civil Society" (Postgraduate Certificate) CDCA Centro Documentazione Conflitti Ambientali, Italy
2014/06 - 2014/07 Concluded	Specialized Intensive Course "Effective Communication Skills" (Postgraduate Certificate) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2013/06 - 2013/06 Concluded	Specialised Intensive Course "Research Design and Methods" (Postgraduate Certificate) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2013/05 - 2013/05 Concluded	Specialised Intensive Course on "Social Metabolism and Social Ecology" (Postgraduate Certificate) Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Institut für Soziale Ökologie, Austria
2013/02 - 2013/02 Concluded	Specialised Intensive Course "Advances in Political Ecology Theories" (Postgraduate Certificate) Manchester Metropolitan University Division of Geography and Environmental Management, United Kingdom
2011/09 - 2012/07 Concluded	Climate change and Sustainable Development Policy (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2010/07/13 Concluded	Territorial Planning and Environmental Development (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Política de Desenvolvimento Rural na União Europeia: agricultura, território e ambiente [Policy of Rural Development in the EU: agriculture, territory and the environment]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004/09/01 Concluded	Agronomy, Rural Sociology and Agrarian Economics (Bachelor) Major in Rural Sociology and Agrarian Economics Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal "Timor-Leste: Agricultura, Comunidades Rurais e Desenvolvimento [East Timor: Agriculture, Rural Communities and Development]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/10/01 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal

2022/09/12 - 2024/09/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/03/01 - 2022/09/11	Researcher (Research)	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Spain
	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain
2018/10/01 - 2021/12/28	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/11/01 - 2018/02/28	Research Assistant (Research)	University of Manitoba, Canada
	University of Manitoba Faculty of Arts, Canada
2017/01/03 - 2017/10/31	Researcher (Research)	University of Lisbon - Institute for Social Sciences, Portugal
	University of Lisbon - Institute for Social Sciences, Portugal
2012/12 - 2016/12/21	Research Trainee (Research)	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/01 - 2020/12	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/01 - 2018/09	Political / technical advisor	Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/05 - 2022/04	UFPB no combate à COVID-19: o protagonismo das Mulheres do Campo Quilombolas na Economia Popular Solidária e os seus Fazeres Educativos [Quilombola rural women's role and pedagogy in popular solidarity economy in times of COVID-19] PJ069-2021 Invited Scientist Fellow Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil	Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2021/12/31	JUSTFOOD-From alternative food networks to socio-environmental justice POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029355 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2017/01 - 2017/10	OBSERVA - Observatório de Ambiente, Território e Sociedade Pest-OE/SAGD/LA013/2013 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2012/12/02 - 2016/12/21	ENTITLE-European Network of Political Ecology 289374 PhD Student Fellow Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain	European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Concluded
2012 - 2012	BECOM - Choice despite (In)commensurability: Controversy and Policy Decision-Making on Sustainable Territorial Development FCT- PTDC/CS-ECS/099630/2008 - FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-009234 Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/09 - 2028/09	GEAR - Gender Equality in Agriculture 2021.03735.CEECIND/CP1698/CT0002	Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2026/12/31	SWIFT - Supporting Women-led Innovations in Farming and Rural Territories 101084561 Coordination researcher (PI) at beneficiary partner organization CES	Horizon Europe Food Bioeconomy Natural Resources Agriculture and Environment Ongoing
2024/06/01 - 2025/05/31	FEED - Fighting for Gender and Food Justice: Rural Women’s Struggles in Portugal, Galicia, and the Basque Country Small group project 2024-25 Principal investigator Independent Social Research Foundation, United Kingdom	Independent Social Research Foundation Ongoing
2015/04/27 - 2018/04/24	SINALECO - Social Innovations for Alternative Ecological Economies CSO2014-54513-R SINALECO Researcher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Andreucci, D.; Garcia-López, G.; Calvário, R. et al. Insurgent Ecologies Between environmental struggles and postcapitalist transformations. Canada: Fernwood Publishing. 2024. Published • Editor Calvário, Rita; Kaika, Maria; Velegrakis, Giorgos. The Political Ecology of Austerity: environment, social movements, and economic crisis. Routledge. 2021. Published • Editor
Book chapter	Velegrakis, Giorgos; Calvário, Rita; Kaika, Maria. "Austerity and anti-austerity environmentalism: Insights from Greece during and after the crisis". In Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology Volume Two. 2025. In press Desmarais, A. A., Calvário, R.. "Radicalizing Food Sovereignty: The Power of La Via Campesina’s Feminist Politics". In Insurgent Ecologies Between environmental struggles and postcapitalist transformations. Canada, 2024. Accepted Calvário, Rita; Ertör, Irmak; Brent, Zoe W. "Food sovereignty as Translation: Strengthening Fisherfolk's Struggles and Cultivating Peasant-Fisher Alliances in Brazil". In Insurgent Ecologies Between environmental struggles and postcapitalist transformations. Canada, 2024. In press Andreucci, Diego; García-López, Gustavo A.; Calvário, Rita. "Introduction". In Insurgent Ecologies: Between environmental justice struggles and post-capitalist transformations, edited by Undisciplined Environments Collective; Andreucci, Diego; García-López, Gustavo A.; Calvário, Rita; et al., 3-18. Halifax and Winnipeg, Canada: Fernwood Publications, 2024. In press Velicu, I., Castro, I., Calvário, R., Oprea, A., & Ogrezeanu, A. (2023). De camponeses a trabalhadores e vice-versa?: de. "De camponeses a trabalhadores e vice-versa?: debatendo a centralidade do trabalho na alimentação em Portugal e na Roménia [From peasants to workers and vice-versa: debating the centrality of labour in food systems in Portugal and Romania]". In Direito e comida: do campo à mesa: cidadania, consumo, saúde e exclusão social. Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Fórum, 2023. Published Kaika, Maria; Calvário, Rita; Velegrakis, Giorgos. "Introduction Austerity as an environmentally dangerous idea: A political ecology approach". In The Political Ecology of Austerity. 2021. Published Velegrakis, Giorgos; Calvário, Rita; Kaika, Maria. "The politicised ecologies of austerity Anti-austerity environmentalism during and after the Greek crisis". In The Political Ecology of Austerity. 2021. Published Kaika, Maria; Calvário, Rita; Velegrakis, Giorgos. "Epilogue Austerity from financial to pandemic crisis". In The Political Ecology of Austerity. 2021. Published Calvário, Rita. "Navegar a tensão entre ciência e movimentos sociais: notas a partir da soberania alimentar [Navigating the tension between science and social movements: insights from food sovereignty]". In Reflexões sobre Ambiente, Território e Sociedade: Três Anos do Blogue ATS, 272-278. Lisbon, Portugal: OBSERVA - Observatório de Ambiente, Território e Sociedade. Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, 2019. Published Guerra, João; Mourato, João; Schmidt, Luísa; Calvário, Rita. "Ambiente e autarquias no pós-crise [Local governments and the environment in the post-2008 crisis]". In Mudança da Sociedade Portuguesa Retratos Municipais [Social change and Local Politics]. Lisbon, Portugal: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, 2017. Published Guerra, João; Mourato, Joao; Schmidt, Luísa; Calvário, Rita. "Ambiente e autarquias no pós-crise". In Portugal Social em Mudança - Retratos municipais. Portugal: Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2017. Calvário, Rita. "Reclaiming Democracy through Alternative Economies Activism". In Political Ecology for Civil Society, 149-155. Italy: ENTITLE, 2016. Published Calvário, Rita; Otero, Iago. "Back-to-the-landers". In Degrowth: a Vocabulary for a New Era, edited by Giorgos Kallis; Giacomo D'Alisa; Federico deMaria, 143-145. Routledge, 2014. Published
Journal article	Kaika, Maria; Calvário, Rita; Velegrakis, Giorgos. "Austerity: An environmentally dangerous idea". Journal of Political Ecology 31 1 (2024): 67-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5420. Open access • Published • 10.2458/jpe.5420 Moranta, Joan; Florido-del-Corral, David; López-López, Lucía; Gómez, Sílvia; Agujetas, Julio; Albo-Puigserver, Marta; Brent, Zoe W.; et al. "Sowing potential transformative changes in the fishing and agrifood systems – Conference report". Marine Policy (2023): 105673. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105673. 10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105673 Calvário, Rita; Desmarais, Annette Aurélie. "The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: insights from La Via Campesina's politics". The Journal of Peasant Studies (2023): 1-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2153042. 10.1080/03066150.2022.2153042 Calvário, Rita; Castro, Bela Irina. "A questão alimentar em Portugal: (des)encontros entre políticas públicas, alternativas alimentares cidadãs e a agricultura familiar [The food question in Portugal: (dis)encounters between policy, alternative food initiatives, and family farming]". Análise Social LVII 244 (2022): 570-593. http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/documentos/n244_a06.pdf. Open access • Published Rita Calvário. "The making of peasant subalternity in Portugal: histories of marginalisation and resistance to agrarian modernisation". The Journal of Peasant Studies (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.2020256. 10.1080/03066150.2021.2020256 Calvário, R.; Desmarais, A.A.; Azkarraga, J.. "Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country". Sociologia Ruralis 60 4 (2020): 857-879. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85070717713&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1111/soru.12264 Calvário, R.. "Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory". Journal of Peasant Studies 44 2 (2017): 402-420. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85010635828&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1080/03066150.2016.1259219 Calvário, Rita; Velegrakis, Giorgos; Kaika, Maria. "The Political Ecology of Austerity: An Analysis of Socio-environmental Conflict under Crisis in Greece". Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 3 (2017): 69-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2016.1260147. 10.1080/10455752.2016.1260147 Calvário, R.; Kallis, G.. "Alternative Food Economies and Transformative Politics in Times of Crisis: Insights from the Basque Country and Greece". Antipode 49 3 (2017): 597-616. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84995802387&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/anti.12298 Calvário, Rita; Otero, Iago. "Neorrurales [Back-to-the-landers]". Revista de Ecologia Politica 49 (2015): 29-31. https://www.ecologiapolitica.info/novaweb2/?p=2332. Open access • Published
Magazine article	Calvário, Rita. "Agronegócio vs. direito à alimentação [Agrobusiness vs. Righ to Food]", ESQUERDA, 2019, https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/agronegocio-vs-direito-alimentacao/64678. Calvário, Rita. "Agroecologia em resposta às alterações climáticas [Agroecology in response to climate change]", "Em Rede" from the National Rural Network, Ministry of Agriculture, 2019, http://www.rederural.gov.pt/centro-de-recursos/send/2-agricultura-agroindustria/1715-revista-emrede-n-8-respostas-as-alteracoes-climaticas-agricultura-florestas-e-territorios-rurais.
Online resource	Calvário, Rita. SWIFT participation at the X International Congress of Agroecology. 2024. https://swiftproject.eu/2024/09/13/swift-participation-at-the-x-international-congress-of-agroecology/. Quesada, Soledad; Calvário, Rita. Food at Risk: an Overview of Odemira’s Agricultural Challenges. 2024. https://swiftproject.eu/2024/05/20/food-at-risk-an-overview-of-odemiraa-agricultural-challenges/. Calvário, Rita; Annette, Aurélie Desmarais; Azkarraga, Joseba. Food sovereignty, solidarity from below and countering right wing populism in the Basque Country. 2019. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2019/10/17/countering-right-wing-populism-through-food-sovereignty-and-solidarity-from-below-an-example-from-the-basque-country/. Calvário, Rita. Reclaiming democracy through alternative food economies. 2016. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2016/08/30/reclaiming-democracy-through-alternative-food-economies/. Calvário, Rita. The last days of Tua. 2016. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2016/03/23/the-last-days-of-tua/. Calvário, Rita. "One for all and all for one": Lessons from the Spirit of '45. 2015. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2015/03/02/one-for-all-and-all-for-one-lessons-from-the-spirit-of-45/. Calvário, Rita. The role of pedagogy in the struggles of Brazil's MST. 2015. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2015/06/22/the-role-of-pedagogy-in-the-struggles-of-brazils-mst/. Calvário, Rita. Building alternative economies of food in a context of institutional violence. 2014. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2014/09/02/building-alternative-economies-of-food-in-a-context-of-institutional-violence/. Calvário, Rita. Barcelona, the dead city. 2014. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2014/12/08/barcelona-the-dead-city/. Calvário, Rita. Radical geography in times of crisis, a Spanish perspective. 2014. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2014/08/03/radical-geography-seminars/. Calvário, Rita. Language (dis)encou nters, fieldwork in the land of euskera. 2014. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2014/08/03/language-disencounters-fieldwork-in-the-land-of-euskera/.
Report	Schmidt, Luísa; Mourato, João; Travassos, David; Calvário, Rita. 2017. Áreas naturais protegidas: que modelo de gestão? [Natural Protected Areas: How to best manage them?]. Calvário, Rita. 2016. Addressing food insecurity in times of crisis: lessons from alternative agro-food movements. http://www.politicalecology.eu/documents/courses/87-pb-calvario-rita/file. Calvário, Rita. 2016. Facing the inequalities of the agrifood system: the challenge of food sovereignty. http://www.politicalecology.eu/documents/courses/73-ab-rita-feb2016/file.
Thesis / Dissertation	Calvário, Rita. "Building emancipatory strategies, producing political subjects: alternative food economies in the Basque Country and Greece in the crisis". PhD, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400476. Calvário, Rita. "Política de Desenvolvimento Rural na União Europeia: agricultura, território e ambiente [Policy of Rural Development in the EU: agriculture, territory and the environment]". Master, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2011. https://run-unl.pre.rcaap.pt/handle/10362/5301. Calvário, Rita. "Timor-Leste: Agricultura, Desenvolvimento e Comunidades Rurais [East Timor: Agriculture, Development and Rural Communities]". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, 2004.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/07/22	Women Farmworkers and Gender Politics Within Food Sovereignty Struggles in Europe	II International Workshop Food for Justice Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany)
2024/05/02	Mulheres Rurais na Revolução Portuguesa: Reivindicações, Lutas e Transformações durante o PREC [Rural Women in the Portuguese Revolution: Struggles and Transformations during the PREC]	Congresso Internacional 50 Anos do 25 de Abril [International Congress 50 Years from the 25th April] (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/04/12	“A terra a quem a trabalha”: O papel das mulheres rurais na Reforma Agrária durante o PREC	Comuns: III Encontro de Ecologia Política ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/01/26	Unpacking sovereignties from below. Food and energy struggles in Southern Europe. Presentation at a co-organised session entitled "Green Capitalism and its discontents: the political ecology of socioenvironmental struggles in a changing climate"	7º Encontro Anual de Economia Política [7th Annual Conference of Political Economy] (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/10/14	Produção agrícola e sistemas alimentares [Agricultural production and food systems]	A Terra e o 25 de Abril [The Land Question and 25th April, 1974] Évora University (Évora, Portugal)
2023/04/21	Igualdade de género na política da Vía Campesina [Gender politics of Via Campesina]	MAIs. Mulheres Agricultoras em Territórios do Interior. Para Sempre. [Farm Women in Rural Territories] Politécnico de Viseu (Sabugal, Portugal)
2023/03/17	Soberania alimentar e justiça de género: perspetivas feministas e desafios metodológicos [Food sovereignty and gender justice: feminist approaches and methodological challenges]	in/justiças: II encontro de ecologia política [In/Justices: II Seminar of Political Ecology] CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/02/06	A questão alimentar em Portugal: (des)encontros entre políticas públicas, alternativas alimentares cidadãs e a agricultura familiar [The food question in Portugal: (dis)encounters between the state, AFN and family farming]	Comunicar Ciência na Rede Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis [Comunicate Science for the Sustainable Cities Food Network] Rede Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis [Sustainable Cities Food Network] (online, Portugal)
2023/01/20	La soberanía alimentaria como traducción política: fortalecer las luchas globales y cultivar las alianzas entre personas campesinas y pescadoras en Brasil [Food sovereignty as translation: strengthening global struggles and cultivating aliances between peasants and fishers in Brazil]	IX Congreso Internacional de Agroecología Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, Spain)
2022/11/27	Ecosocialismo ou decrescimento [Ecosocialism vs. Degrowth]	Ecosocialist School Left Bloc (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/08/27	Somos o que comemos? Segurança e soberania alimentar [We are what we eat? Food security and food sovereignty]	Fórum Socialismo [Socialist School] Left Bloc (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/06/29	The agrarian question and the making of peasant subalternity: insights from Portugal	Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference 2022/2023 Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College in Durban, South Africa (Durban, South Africa)
2022/05/12	Subalternidad campesina y resistencias. Una mirada al caso portugués [Peasant subalternity and resistance: insights from Portugal]	III Congreso de la Red Española de Historia Ambiental-RUED(H)A University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2022/05/09	The Political Ecology of Austerity: the environmental dimensions of the post-2008 economic crisis	ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES 2021-2022 Lecture Series: Environment/Sustainability, Science, Technology National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece)
2022/05/04	É o capitalismo verde? [Is capitalism green?]	III Jornadas de Debate, ADAUM-Associação de Debates Académicos da Universidade do Minho University of Minho [Minho University] (Braga, Portugal)
2022/04/07	Austerity as environmental politics: a political ecology approach	From Political Ecology to Environmental Sociology and Environmental Humanities Lecture Series in Sustainability, Climate Crisis, Environmental Inequalities and Socioenvironmental Movements University of Crete School of Social Sciences Department of Sociology (Crete, Greece)
2022/03/25	The Political Ecologies of Austerity Book Launch (co-organised session)	Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference - DOPE 2022 Kentucky University (United States)
2021/11/04	"Peasants as essential food producers - Insights from Romania and Portugal" - Policy brief background paper	Just Food Transitions: Addressing the Peasant Question in Europe Centre of Social Studies University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2020/10/14	Dimensões de injustiça em relação à agricultura familiar: resultados do projeto JUSTFOOD [Dimensions of food injustice vis-à-vis family farming in Portugal: findings from the JUSTFOOD project]	Que estratégias para a justiça alimentar em Portugal? [What strategies for food justice in Portugal?] Centre of Social Studies University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2019/12/06	Transformações da Agricultura e do Rural: um olhar a partir da Soberania Alimentar [Agrarian Change and Rural Restructuring: a food sovereignty approach]	VIII Congresso de Estudos Rurais (CER) [VII Rural Studies Congress] Escola Superior Agrária de Ponte de Lima (Ponte de Lima, Portugal)
2019/10/31	Peasant and food sovereignty movements: gendered practices of resistance	Gender and Power in the Global Governance of Food and Agriculture Workshop The Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute (Geneva, Switzerland)
2019/10/25	Invited key-note speaker on Solidarity from below, emancipatory rural politics and food sovereignty struggles in the European countryside	Structural Transformation of the Countryside Freie Universität of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2019/08/28	The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: A critical review of the literature	RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019 "Geographies of trouble / geographies of hope" Royal Geographical Society (London, United Kingdom)
2019/05/27	An emancipatory rural politics: Insights from food sovereignty struggles in the Basque Country	Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Conference and Meeting The University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, Canada)
2019/03/24	The emancipatory politics of food sovereignty: Insights from the Basque Country	People, Politics, Participation: Government of fragile rural areas in Italy and Europe Conference Area Fragile APS (Rovigo, Italy)
2018/03/17	Solidarities from below in the making of an emancipatory rural politics: Insights from food sovereignty struggles in the Basque Country	Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World Conference Institute of Social Science (ISS) (The Hague, Netherlands)
2018/02/09	Invitation to be a key-note speaker on Challenging the politics of austerity by mobilizing alternative socioecologies: insights from Greece	II International Symposium ´Global Crises and Conflicts over Resources` Freie University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2017/05/24	Workshop on Emprego Rural e Desenvolvimento Local [Rural Employment and Local Development]	Planeamento Alimentar Urbano Conceito e Práticas para a Inovação Territorial na AML [Food Planning in Lisbon Metropolitan Area] CCDR LVT (Lisbon , Portugal)
2017/04/24	Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory	Critical Agrarian Studies Colloquium n.º 7 “The future of food and challenges for agriculture in the 21st century” (Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain)
2016/04/02	Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory	Association of American Geographers (AAG) International Conference Association of American Geographers (AAG) (San Francisco, United States)
2016/03/23	The political ecology of austerity: a Gramscian analysis of socio-ecological conflicts in Greece under crisis	ENTITLE International Conference Environmental Humanities Laboratory of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( Stockholm, Sweden)
2015/11/07	From Greek crisis to alternatives: the question of socio-ecological movements in transition strategies	Historical Materialism Conference SOAS (London, United Kingdom)
2015/05/20	Food sovereignty in the Basque Country: a focus on land	Radical Geography seminars Harokopio University (Athens, Greece)
2014/10/30	Economia solidária en sistemas agro-alimentarios: hacer en común para el bien común	Iº Congreso Latino americano sobre Conflictos Ambientales Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS) (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2014/10/22	Solidarity food economies in times of crisis: the case of the “no-middlemen” food distributions in Greece	I Latin American Congress on Political Ecology Geography Department of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile (Santiago, Chile)
2014/09/04	Agency is not enough: challenges to back-to-the-land movements and agri-food downscaling	4th Degrowth International Conference University of Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
2014/03/06	Re-peasantization and rural politics in the crisis	Human Geography seminars University of Lund (Lund, Sweden)
2014/02/26	Back-to-the-land, alternative food networks and rural politics in the crisis	Ecological Economics seminars ICTA-Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2013/08/01	Return-to-the-land in times of crisis: theoretical insights	XXV European Society for Rural Sociology Congress European Society for Rural Sociology (Florence, Italy)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/11/01 - Current	La defensa del campo: Proyectos educativos-pedagógicos de formación agroecológica para la transformación territorial. Caso: Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero [Defending the countryside: popular education and agroecology for socioterritorial transformation in Mexico] Co-supervisor	PhD Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
2019/02 - 2019/09	Analysing social capacity in the struggle for degrowth: a reflection through rural squatting in the face of state repression Co-supervisor	Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability (Master) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/09/05 - 2024/09/05	Organisation of a Round Table ‘Women, migration and food sovereignty. Retos desde la agroecología’, with the participation of a representative from SLG, Galicia, a peasant farmer from the Basque Country and member of EHNE, and an ex-immigrant farm worker from Odemira, in which I was moderator. Event organised as part of the SWIFT project at the X International Congress of Agroecology. (2024/09/04 - 2024/09/06) Congress (Other)	Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
2024/05/29 - 2024/05/29	Organisation of workshop "Processos de mudança organizacional feminista: Uma abordagem a partir de experiências de Economia Solidária" [Feminist organisational change: insights from solidarity economy initiatives], by Marta Maicas Pérez (2024/05/29 - 2024/05/29) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2024/04/11 - 2024/04/19	Comuns: III Encontro de Ecologia Política [Commons: III Conference of Political Ecology] (2024/04/11 - 2024/04/12) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	CRIA, CES, ICS, Portugal
2023/05/22 - 2023/05/22	Organization of workshop on "Financialization and farmland concentration: methodological approaches - the case of Canada" with Annette A. Desmarais, University of Manitoba. (2023/05/22) Workshop	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021/11/04 - 2021/11/04	Co-organiser of the online symposium "Just Food Transitions: Addressing the Peasant Question in Europe". This event presented the final findings of the JUSTFOOD project . It included invited speakers from academia and small farmers organisations from both Romania and Portugal. It brought together over 30 participants. (2021) Symposium (Co-organisor)
2021/07/12 - 2021/07/12	Lead organiser of the online workshop "Que Política Públicas para a Justiça Alimentar em Portugal?" [What policies for food justice in Portugal?]. This workshop developed a Word Cafe method to discuss policy recommendations for food justice in PT (equality/inclusion, sustainability, democracy). It included invited speakers from family farmers, environmental, anti-poverty, local development, and right to food organisations. It brought together over 40 participants. (2020/10/14 (2021/07/12 - 2021/07/12) Workshop (Co-organisor)
2020/10/14 - 2020/10/14	Lead organiser of the online workshop "Que Estratégias para a Justiça Alimentar em Portugal?" [How to build food justice in Portugal?]. This workshop presented the findings of the JUSTFOOD project in Portugal and focused on the (in)justices towards family farmers, women farmers and immigrant farmworkers . It included key-note speakers from CNA (family farmers' organisation), MARP (women farmers organisation), SOLIM (immigrants rights' NGO) and a representative from the Ministry of Agriculture. It brought together over 60 participants. (2020/10/14 - 2020/10/14) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/08/28 - 2019/08/28	Co-organisation of session entitled, "Is food sovereignty a feminist practice and struggle? Interrogating the gender dimensions of food sovereignty." The session consisted of two panels held at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographic Society held in London, UK., sponsored by the Food Geographies Working Group (2019/08/27 - 2019/08/30) Conference	Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom
2017/01/26 - 2017/01/26	Co-organisation of film projection “Before the flood” followed by debate with invited speakers o “The future of climate change”. Conference Clima 360 (2017/01/26 - 2017/01/26) Workshop (Co-organisor)	University of Lisbon - Institute for Social Sciences, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Co-organiser of Seminar entitled, "Áreas Protegidas: Que Modelo de Gestão?" [Protected Natural Areas: What Management Model?], held at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (2017 - 2017) Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Co-organiser of session entitled, "Stories of dispossession, reappropriation of life and political struggle in Southern Europe", held at 7th International Conference of Critical Geography (ICCG). Ramallah, Palestine. (2015 - 2015) Conference (Other)
2014 - 2014	Co-organiser of session entitled, "Environmental struggles and socio-ecological alternatives", heald at 1st Latin-American Congress on Environmental Conflicts (COLCA). Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014 - 2014) Conference (Other)	Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
2014 - 2014	Co-organisation of session entitled, "Struggles in shaping the commons: Between social movements, the state and the market", held at the 1st Latin American Congress on Political Ecology. Santiago de Chile, Chile. (2014 - 2014) Congress (Other)	Universidad de Chile, Chile

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/04/20 - Current	Participation in the event Confluência pela Agroecologia [Convergence for Agroecology] joining practitioners, scientists, researchers, public officers, NGOs, CSOs, among other interested people for forming the Portuguese Network for Agroecology. Workshop	Confluência pela Agroecologia [Convergence for Agroecology]
2023/03/07 - Current	Participation in the webinar "Gender and Agroecology" Workshop	Gender and Agroecology Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
2022/10/27 - 2022/10/28	Attendance to the 2-day workshop "Feminist research on urban environments, climate change, and intersectionality", organised by BCNUEJ, with 3 invited speakers: Malini Ranganathan (American University, US), Alice McClure (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Maria Rodó-Zárate, (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Workshop	Feminist research on urban environments, climate change, and intersectionality Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain
2022/06/27 - 2022/07/01	Participation at the Summer School "Plantation Europe", sponsored by The Colour of Labour (ERC AdG 695573), included expert lectures, seminar discussions, guided field trips, group reports, and artistic works related to the plantation and labour experience (film, photographs, performances). Other	Summer School Plantation Europe Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022/03/31 - 2022/03/31	Attendance to the BCNUEJ seminar "Transforming places together: citizens and community engagement responding to climate change" by Prof. L.G. (Ina) Horlings, University of Groningen Seminar	Transforming places together: citizens and community engagement responding to climate change Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain
2015/06/15 - 2015/06/20	Summer School "Institutions, Justice & Democracy", organised by the EU-FP7 project ENTITLE (scientific training) Workshop	Summer School "Institutions, Justice & Democracy" Bogaziçi Üniversitesi, Turkey
2014/02/01 - 2014/04/30	Research stay of 3 months in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Lund (Sweden) Other	Visiting period of 3 months Department of Human Geography of Lund University, Sweden
2014/03/30 - 2014/04/04	Summer School "Social Movements", organised by the EU-FP7 project ENTITLE (scientific training) Workshop	Summer School on Social Movements Lund University, Sweden
2013/10/01 - 2013/12/02	Secondment of 2 months in EHNE-Bizkaia, a Basque small farmers organisation Other	Secondment of 2 months in EHNE-Bizkaia EHNE-Bizkaia, Spain
2013/07/08 - 2013/07/15	Summer School "Commons, Conflicts and Disasters", organised by the EU-FP7 project ENTITLE (scientific training) Workshop	Summer School on Commons, Conflicts and Disasters Charokopeio Panepistemio, Greece

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	Geoforum
2023/11 - Current	Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2023/06 - Current	Food, Culture & Society	Taylor & Francis
2023/06 - Current	Antipode	Wiley
2023 - Current	Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
2022 - Current	Regional Studies
2021 - Current	Journal of Agrarian Change
2019 - Current	Sustainability MDPI
2019 - Current	Partecipazione e conflitto
2019 - Current	Journal of Peasant Studies
2018 - Current	Journal of Political Ecology
2018 - Current	Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024/05/01 - Current	Rede de Ecologia Política [Portuguese Network of Political Ecology]	Co-founder and member
2019 - Current	Alimentar Cidades Sustentáveis - Uma Rede Nacional de Partilha de Informação sobre Alimentação e Agricultura [Food, Cities and Sustainability Portuguese Network ]	Member
2018 - Current	ERPI Europe - Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative	Member
2016 - Current	Undisciplined Environments Collective	Co-founder and co-editor of the website
2015 - Current	POLLEN - Political Ecology Network	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024/06/01 - Current	Invitation to be member of the Scientific Committee for the European Society for Rural Sociology’s (ESRS) bi-annual conference in 2025 Member

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/10/27 - 2022/10/27	Class taught on "The agrarian question, peasants, and political ecology" at the Political Ecology module of the Master in "Political Ecology Degrowth And Environmental Justice" (5th edition)	(Master)	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Spain
2020 - 2020	Invited lecturer in the Course on The Ecological Crisis: environmental cultures, movements, and politics	Doctoral Program Democracy in the twenty first century (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Invited Lecturer in the Course on Theory in Praxis: Environmental justice movements	Doctoral Program Democracy in the twenty first century (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2019 - 2019	Evaluation of applications to the Hertha Firnberg-Position, from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Evaluator		Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
2018 - 2018	Leading Fellows PostDoc Program Evaluator		Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND
2018 - 2018	Member of the selection panel for the project JUSTFOOD - From Alternative Food Networks to Environmental Justice to hire one research assistant Member	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2017 - 2017	Evaluator of candidates for the Judiciary Centre Studies - sociology Evaluator	University of Lisbon - Institute for Social Sciences, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2022/09/24 - Current	Há vida(s) nesta Cidade! [There's life in this city!] #18	About the cycle of debates "Think food, think the world"

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/08/22 - Current	Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (Review Editor)

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2024/05/20 - 2024/08/19	Organizational feminist methodologies and solidarity economies	Marta Maicas Pérez
2021/09 - 2021/12	Migration labor in agriculture and food justice in Southern Europe	Soledad Castillero Quesada
2020/12 - 2021/02	Possible pathways to overcome the environmental crisis	Alessandra Matos Portella
2020/12 - 2021/02	Food sovereignty as a decolonial and territorial struggle	Tiago Botellho
2018/12 - 2019/02	Seeds and Environmental Justice	Ana Paula Moreira da Silva

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/04/05 - Current	Invited external jury for evaluating a PhD project proposal	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2023/03 - 2023/04	Invited jury for peer review of Book proposal by the Amsterdam University Press	Amsterdam University Press BV, Netherlands

Distinctions

Award

2016	International Doctoral Research Component Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain