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Currently undertaking a PhD in Urban Studies at the Nova University of Lisbon + ISCTE-IUL, Portugal. Masters degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal, with a dissertation entitled "Migrations, cosmopolitanisms and city-making: an ethnographic approach to small businesses in Bonfim". Bachelors degree in Social Communication with a specialism in Journalism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil) in 2004. Attended modules on the Master's/PhD programme in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo with a focus on urban anthropology and urban ethnography. Regular participation in the Anthropology of the City Study Group (GEAC) since 2018. As a journalist, mostly dedicated to themes such as cities, urbanity and urban activism for Brazilian publications including Galileu, Vida Simples, Folha de São Paulo and Vice.com, in addition to producing content for NGOs, local governments and private companies. Worked for eight years at Abril (from 2006 to 2010) and Globo (2010 to 2014), two large publishing houses and media conglomerates in Latin America. Member of the commission for the first TEDx conference in Brazil, held in São Paulo in 2009, and of TEDx Amazônia, 2010. Took part in the Brazilian commission for the COP15 UN Climate Summit 2009, in Copenhagen. Won the Globo Journalism Award (Society and Behaviour category), and finalist in the Health category. One of the Top Three Journalists and Bloggers nominated for the 2011 GreenBest Award, the largest Brazilian sustainability award at the time. Working areas: Communication Sciences/Journalism and Social Sciences with a focus on Urban Sociology and Urban Anthropology. Main research interests: urban ethnography, production of urban space, migration, ethnoracial exclusion, global and urban inequalities.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Priscilla Santos

Citation names

  • Santos, Priscilla
  • Priscilla Santos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9E11-3053-D49D

Email addresses

  • Priscilla_Santos@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Journalism and Social Media

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09/01 - 2025/09/30
Ongoing
 Urban Studies (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/09/14 - 2021/07/19
Concluded
 Sociology (Mestrado)
Major in Sociology
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Migrações, cosmopolitismos e produção de cidade: uma etnografia dos pequenos comerciantes no Bonfim. Classificação da tese: 19 valores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2018/03/01 - 2019/06/30
Attended
 Isolated modules in Urban Anthropology (Master)
Major in Social Anthropology
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
 18
2000/02/02 - 2004/10/01
Concluded
 Social Communication/Journalism (Graduado)
Major in Journalism
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
 19
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - 2026/09/01 Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/05/15 - 2022/06/01 News curator and researcher in themes such as sustainable cities, mobility, urbanity, digital innovation, technology and commerce. Newsmonitor, Brazil
2005/01/01 - 2020/07/01 Journalist. Reporter and news editor for Brazilian publications including Galileu, Vice.com and Folha de S. Paulo, focused on cities, urban activism, lifestyle and technology. Autônoma/freelancer, Brazil
2005/01/01 - 2019/07/01 Content producer working for NGOs, local governments and private companies with a focus on cities, arts and lifestyle. Autônoma/freelancer, Brazil
2010/05/01 - 2014/01/20 Editor at Galileu science and technology magazine (galileu.globo.com), focused on smart and sustainable cities, new social movements and urban activism. Organizações Globo, Brazil
2006/04/05 - 2010/04/30 Reporter and editor at Vida Simples magazine (vidasimples.co), with a focus on cities, urban activism, sustainability and human rights. Grupo Abril, Brazil
2008/04/01 - 2010/04/01 Co-creator and and editor of the blog O Guia Verde (The Green Guide) on sustainable small businesses in São Paulo, Brazil. Autônoma/freelancer, Brazil
2006/04/01 - 2008/04/01 Desk research and field research for brands such as Nike, Pernod Ricard and Natura in varied themes such as street basketball, lower class women beauty habits and social initiatives in sustainability. Autônoma/freelancer, Brazil
2004/12/01 - 2005/03/31 Copywriter at a press office for restaurants, bars, cafés and nightclubs in São Paulo, Brazil KRP Relações Públicas, Brazil
2004/01/05 - 2004/08/20 Events organiser and press officer for Sempre um Papo: organising book launches in central and peripheral areas of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Projeto Sempre um Papo, Brazil
2003/08/01 - 2004/01/01 TV UFMG scholarship holder. TV producer and reporter with a focus on the dissemination of scientific research in varied fields. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Centro de Comunicação Social da UFMG, Brazil
2003/07/01 - 2003/12/20 Scholarship holder at the press office of the Centro de Ação Cultural da UFMG, responsible for the cultural programme of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Diretoria de Ação Cultural da Reitoria da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
2001/02/01 - 2001/08/29 LabMedia Scholarship holder. Laboratory monitor; production and editing of documentaries and TV programmes at the Department of Social Communication Electronic Media Laboratory. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/09/01 - 2026/09/01 Migração, espaço e diferença: uma etnografia dos pequenos comerciantes imigrantes nos Anjos/Lisboa e Bonfim/Porto
2022.09498.BD
PhD Student Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ferro, Lígia; Santos, Priscilla. "Da pluralidade dos espaços à complexidade das relações: João Teixeira Lopes". In Espaço, lugar e território: pensadores contemporâneos de língua portuguesa, edited by Carmo, André. Portugal: Afrontamento, 2022.
    In press
Conference abstract
  1. Santos, Priscilla. "Migration, small commerces and city-making: a case study in Bonfim, Porto". Paper presented in 15a European Sociological Association Conference – Sociological Knowledges for Alternative Futures, Barcelona, 2021.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Santos, Priscilla. "A cidade pelo estrangeiro: projetos, práticas e narrativas urbanas de comerciantes imigrantes no Porto, Portugal". Iluminuras 23 63 (2022): 234-260. https://doi.org/10.22456/1984-1191.125766.
    DOI: 10.22456/1984-1191.125766
  2. Santos, Priscilla. "Dissensos em torno das margens e centros: planeamento urbano e contestação na zona oriental do Porto". Cadernos IS-UP 1 (2022): 9-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/2975-8033/cad1a1.
    Open access • 10.21747/2975-8033/cad1a1
  3. Santos, Priscilla; Soeiro, José. "A arte de (re)existir: a precariedade e as lutas laborais no setor da cultura na última década em Portugal - Parte I e Parte II". Plataforma Barómetro Social (2021) (2020): http://www.barometro.com.pt/2021/01/06/a-arte-de-reexistir-a-precariedade-e-as-lutas-laborais-no-setor-da-cultura-na-ultima-decada-em-portugal-parte-i/.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Santos, Priscilla. "Entrevista com cientista social Maurício de Alcântara: "Este antropólogo afirma que a hipsterização não gentrificou SP: Após anos de estudo na Vila Buarque, Maurício de Alcântara concluiu que a invasão de modernos não provocou tantas mudanças sociais quanto se pensa".", vice.com, 2019, https://www.vice.com/pt_br/article/j574yd/este-antropologo-afirma-que-a-hipsterizacao-nao-gentrificou-sp.
  2. Santos, Priscilla. "Entrevista com antropólogo Michel de Paula Soares sobre investigação sobre boxe de rua: "Este antropólogo levou muito soco para entender o boxe de rua: por mais de dois anos, Michel de Paula Soares subiu nos ringues de São Paulo e destrinchou a complexa relação entre raça, imigração, classe e masculinidade no esporte".", vice.com, 2018, https://www.vice.com/pt_br/article/xwjv34/este-antropologo-levou-muito-soco-para-entender-o-boxe-de-rua-de-sao-paulo.
  3. Santos, Priscilla. "Entrevista sobre tese de doutoramento em ciências sociais: "Um bate-papo com Gleicy Silva sobre empreendedorismo e cultura afrobrasileira"", Rede Manual, 2018, http://redemanual.com.br/noticias/2018/11/10/a-antroploga-gleicy-silva-fala-sobre-empreendedorismo-ativismo-e-cultura-afrobrasileira.
  4. Santos, Priscilla. "Edição especial revista Vida Simples "Vá de Bicicleta", sobre bicicleta como meio de transporte urbano", Vida Simples, 2008, https://portfoliopriscillasantos.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/especial-bike-2/.
    Editor
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Santos, Priscilla. "Migrações, cosmopolitismos e produção de cidade: uma etnografia dos pequenos comerciantes no Bonfim". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/134822.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/03/29 Leituras EtnoURB - reading and debate of urban ethnography text: Migrant Margins: The Streetlife of discrimination (Hall, S. 2018). In a partnership with the module Urban Ethnography and Community Development, at the Masters in Sociology at the Faculty of Arts of University of Porto. Leituras ETNOURB
Universidade do Porto; Cies-ISCTE (Porto and online, Portugal)
2022/10/07 Creating a sense of belonging through everyday urban practices: a case study of migrants in a Porto neighbourhood. V ESA RN 37 Midterm Conference
Research Network 37 on Urban Sociology, European Sociological Association (Berlin, Germany)
2022/09/09 Pequenos comerciantes migrantes no Bonfim/Porto: projetos de vida, imaginários e práticas urbanas. VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA)
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) (Évora, Portugal)
2022/03/29 Os pequenos comércios de migrantes no Bonfim/Porto: repertórios globais e resistência ao mainstream Comunicação oral no âmbito da unidade curricular "Questões de Teoria Sociológica Contemporânea II", no Mestrado em Sociologia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Lígia Ferro, Mestrado em Sociologia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/09/16 A Cidade pelos Comerciantes: Práticas e Projetos de Vida no Porto Seminário Aberto Geac: A Cidade pelos Comerciantes: Práticas e Projetos de Vida no Porto e em Lisboa
Grupo de Estudos de Antropologia da Cidade (Geac), coordenação prof. dr. Heitor Frúgoli Júnior. Comentários de prof. dr. Luís Vicente Baptista (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (online, Brazil)
2021/09/01 Migration, small commerces and city-making: a case study in Bonfim, Porto 15th ESA Conference
European Sociological Association (Online, Spain)
2021/05/20 Migração, cosmopolitismos e produção de cidade: uma etnografia dos pequenos comércios (e comerciantes) migrantes no Bonfim Jornadas Duplas de Investigação Mestrado Sociologia 2020-2021
Mestrado em Sociologia Flup (online)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/06/03 - 2023/04/14 Coletivo de Antropologia Urbana (CAU): co-organization of monthly reading seminars in urban studies, urban anthropology and urban sociology. (2022/06)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
2021/09/16 - 2021/09/16 Seminário "A Cidade pelos Comerciantes: Práticas e Projetos de Vida no Porto e Lisboa", do Grupo de Estudos de Antropologia da Cidade (Geac-USP) (2021/09/16 - 2021/09/16)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2010/02/01 - 2010/11/29 Member of the commission for the first TEDx conference in Brazil, held in São Paulo in 2009. (2010/11/06 - 2010/11/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 TEDx, United States
2009/12/07 - 2009/12/18 Member of the commission for TEDx Amazônia, 2010. (2009/11/07 - 2009/12/18) TEDx, United States

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/16 - Current Member in the Etno.URB Urban Ethnography Network Etno.URB
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Sociologia, Portugal

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
2018/08/01 - 2022/08/15 Member in the Anthropology of the City Study Group (GEAC), University of São Paulo, since 2018
Seminar
 Seminários de Leitura Geac (Grupo de Estudos em Antropologia da Cidade)
Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Filosofia Letras e Ciências Humanas, Brazil
2009/12/07 - 2009/12/18 Member of the Brazilian commission for the COP15 UN Climate Summit 2009, in Copenhagen.
United Nations, United States

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/06/23 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (Portuguese Anthropological Association- APA) Member
2022/03 - Current RN37 - Research Network 37 Urban Sociology, European Sociological Association Member
2021/01/01 - Current European Sociological Association Membro

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2022/09/07 Interviewed by Paulo Alexandre Neves from Porto.pt (institutional website of the Porto Municipality) about my master's thesis. Porto.pt
2022/03/03 Interviewed by Susana Oliveira from Visão magazine (issue 1513, "Bonfim: A Oriente, (Quase) Tudo de Novo, 103-105) about the Bonfim neighbourhood, the subject of my master's thesis. Visão
Distinctions

Award

2011 Won the Globo Journalism Award (Society and Behaviour category)
Organizações Globo, Brazil
2011 Top Three Journalists and Bloggers nominated for the 2011 GreenBest Award
Greenvana, Brazil
2011 Finalist in the Globo Journalism Award - Health category