Irina Velicu (2E12-3CF7-E32E)

Curriculum Vitae

Irina Velicu

Irina Velicu is a political scientist working on socio-environmental conflicts in post-communist countries. She is currently the Principle Investigator of the JustFood FCT project, expanding her work by looking at food justice in Europe. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaii (USA) and an MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick (UK). Her work has received funding from national and international research organisations (including the EU-FCT, Marie Curie, Chevening). Dr. Velicu worked as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher within the ENTITLE European Network of Political Ecology coordinated by Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). Her recent publications can be found in Antipode, Environmental Politics, Theory, Culture and Society, Ecological Economics, Geoforum, New Political Science, Globalizations.

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Irina Velicu

Nomes de citação

Velicu, Irina

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 2E12-3CF7-E32E

Endereços de correio eletrónico

irinavelicu@ces.uc.pt (Profissional)

Telefones

Telemóvel

934077648 (Pessoal)

Domínios de atuação

Ciências Sociais - Ciências Políticas

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão	Peer-review
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)	Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Romeno (Idioma materno)
Espanhol; Castelhano	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador elementar (A1)
Português	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A2)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2011 Concluído	Political Science (Doutoramento) Especialização em Political Science University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Estados Unidos "To Sell or Not to Sell: Resistance to Capital Economy in Post-communist Romania" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Very good
2005 Concluído	PAIS, University of Warwick, UK (Mestrado) PAIS, University of Warwick, UK, Reino Unido "Theoretical Foundations for an Open Society as a Basis for the Reform of Global Governance." (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	60
2003 Concluído	Political Science (in English) Department, University of Bucharest, RO (Licenciatura) Political Science (in English) Department, University of Bucharest, Roménia "Regional Integration versus Global Disenfranchisement: Enhancing the EU as an International Democratic Actor." (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	9,75

Percurso profissional

Ciência

2019 - Atual	Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) (Investigação) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018 - 2021	Investigador principal (carreira) (Investigação) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Outros

2014/07/01 - 2019/07/01	Post-doctoral Researcher Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2013/06/01 - 2014/06/01	Post-doctoral Researcher, Entitle, Marie Curie Project, ICTA-UAB Conduct original research on (post-communist) environmental movements, Deliver Master lectures on Political Ecology Coordination of the ICTA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Espanha

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2018 - 2021	JustFood: From Alternative Food Networks to Environmental Justice 29355 Investigador responsável Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013 - 2014/06/01	Environmental Justice Movements in PostCommunism PITN-GA-2011-289374-ENTITLE Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Espanha	European Commission

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2019 - 2025/01/31	Democracy and Socio-environmental justice movements in Central and Eastern Europe DL 572016/CP1341/ CT0022 Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Velicu, Irina. "Quiet no More: The Emergence of Food Sovereignty Movement in Romania". The Journal of Peasant Studies (2021): Velicu, Irina. "Just Food: A Comparative Analysis between Portugal and Romania". Sustainability journal (2021): Velicu, Irina; Camil Ungureanu; Lucia Alexandra Popartan; Maria Jose Amores; Manuel Poch. "Splitting urban waters: the politicization of water in Barcelona between populism and anti-populism?". Antipode (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12630. Velicu, Irina; Mikulas Cernik. ""We are the limits´ Performing Climate Justice in the Czech Klimakemp"". Environmental Politics (2020): Velicu, Irina. "Prospective environmental injustice: insights from anti-mining struggles in Romania and Bulgaria". Environmental Politics (2019): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1611178. Publicado • 10.1080/09644016.2019.1611178 Velicu, Irina. "De-growing environmental justice: Reflections from anti-mining movements in Eastern Europe". Ecological Economics 159 (2019): 271-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.021. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.021 Velicu, Irina. "Beyond Minority Report: Addressing Democracy in EJ Theory". Antipode (2019): Submetido Velicu, Irina; García-López, Gustavo. "Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability". Theory, Culture & Society 35 6 (2018): 55-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276418757315. Publicado • 10.1177/0263276418757315 Velicu, Irina; Kaika, Maria. "Undoing environmental justice: Re-imagining equality in the Rosia Montana anti-mining movement". Geoforum 84 (2017): 305-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.012. Publicado • 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.10.012 Andreucci, Diego; Beltrán, María Jesús; Velicu, Irina; Zografos, Christos. "Capital Accumulation, Hegemony and Socio-ecological Struggles: Insights from the ENTITLE Project". Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 3 (2017): 18-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1355930. Publicado • 10.1080/10455752.2017.1355930 García López, Gustavo A.; Velicu, Irina; D’Alisa, Giacomo. "Performing Counter-Hegemonic Common(s) Senses: Rearticulating Democracy, Community and Forests in Puerto Rico". Capitalism Nature Socialism 28 3 (2017): 88-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2017.1321026. Publicado • 10.1080/10455752.2017.1321026 Velicu, Irina. "Demonizing the Sensible and the ‘Revolution of our Generation’in Rosia Montana". Globalizations 12 6 (2015): 846-858. Publicado Velicu, Irina. "Moral versus Commercial Economies: Transylvanian Stories". New Political Science 36 2 (2014): 219-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2014.883804. 10.1080/07393148.2014.883804 Velicu, Irina. "The Aesthetic Post-Communist Subject and the Differend of Rosia Montana". Studies in Social Justice 6 1 (2012): 125-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v6i1.1072. Publicado • 10.26522/ssj.v6i1.1072 Velicu, Irina. "To Sell or Not to Sell: Landscapes of Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization in Transylvania". Globalizations 9 2 (2012): 307-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2012.658253. Publicado • 10.1080/14747731.2012.658253
Artigo em revista (magazine)	Velicu, Irina; António Carvalho. "Pandemic Ontologies of Isolation", Undisciplined Environments, 2020, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/04/28/pandemic-ontologies-of-isolation/. Velicu, Irina. "Whoever does not have Peasants, Should find Them: The Food Injustice of Pandemics", Undisciplined Environments, 2020, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/04/09/whoever-does-not-have-peasants-should-find-them-the-food-injustice-of-pandemics/. Velicu, Irina. "O sistema alimentar industrial e a Soberania Alimentar", Buala, 2020, https://www.buala.org/pt/a-ler/o-sistema-alimentar-industrial-e-a-soberania-alimentar. Velicu, Irina; Barca, Stefania; Armieri Marco. "Undisciplining Political Ecology: A Minifesto", Undisciplined Environments, 2019, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2019/10/01/undisciplining-political-ecology-a-minifesto/. Velicu, Irina. "Limity jsme my! (We are the limits!) The first International Climate Camp in Czech Republic,", Undisciplined Environments, 2017, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2017/07/20/limity-jsme-my-we-are-the-limits-the-first-international-climate-camp-in-czech-republic-horni-jiretin/. Velicu, Irina. "Producing Humans and Natures – A Feminist Comment to Kallis and Swyngedouw", Undisciplined Environments, 2017, https://entitleblog.org/2017/05/30/producing-humans-and-natures-a-feminist-comment-to-kallis-and-swyngedouw/. Velicu, Irina. "Rosia Montana’s Movement for Democratic Justice", Undisciplined Environments, 2016, https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2016/09/13/rosia-montanas-movement-for-democratic-justice/.
Capítulo de livro	Velicu, Irina. "The Peasant Way: Reflecting on the Political Logic of the Food Sovereignty Movement". In Urban Political Ecology: beyond the Urbanization of Nature Thesis, editado por Maria Kaika; Roger Keil; Tait Mandler; Yannis Tzaninis. 2021. Velicu, Irina. ""Direitos rurais: a ressignificação dos direitos humanos nos movimentos camponeses contemporâneos"". In Palavras para lá da pandemia: cem lados de uma crise. Coimbra, Portugal: CES-UC, 2020. Publicado Velicu, Irina. "From Mining to Becomings: Rosia Montana’s Movement for Democratic Justice". In Political Ecology for Civil Society. 2015. Publicado Velicu, Irina. "Becoming something else: Emergent socio-environmental movements in Romania, in Dialogues Against Crisis". In For the Commons (in Greek). Free Flights Publishing: Athens, 2014. Velicu, Irina. "An(Other) Part of the Fall: Stories of Anonymous Women in (Post)communism, in Andreescu". In From Communism to Democracy: Transformations of the Eastern European Female Ideal. Routledge, 2014. Publicado Velicu, Irina. "Peopling the Globe: New Social Movements". In The SAGE Handbook of Globalization, 629-643. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014. 10.4135/9781473906020.n36 Velicu, Irina. "Parliamentary Elections and the Economic Crisis". In Elections 2008 – Campaigns, Leaders and Opinion Polls. Bucharest, Roménia: Polirom Publishing House, 2009. Publicado Velicu, Irina. "Public Participation and the Environmental Decision". In Integrated Strategies for Natural Resources Use. Soros Foundation- Romania, 2008. Publicado
Edição de número de revista	Velicu, Irina; Andreucci, D., Beltrán; M. & Zografos. "Political Ecologies of Capital and Struggle". Capitalism, Nature and Socialism (2017): Publicado
Entrada de dicionário	Velicu, Irina. "Commons". In ALICE, 2019. https://alice.ces.uc.pt/dictionary/?id=23838&pag=23918&id_lingua=1&entry=24255. Publicado
Livro	Velicu, Irina. Socio-Environmental Conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe: Reflections from Romania, Bulgaria and Czech Republic. East European Monographs, Columbia University Press. 2021. Velicu, Irina. Just Food Europe: From Alternative Food Networks to Socio-Environmental Justice. 2021. Velicu, Irina. Political Ecology for Civil Society. 2016. Publicado

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2020/03/03	´From Peasants to Urban Workers and Back: Debating Agro - Ecology As Socio-Environmental Justice in Romania´, Conference presentation, https://ambiente68.wixsite.com/environment-society/program	International Seminar on Environment and Society, Lisbon University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, ISS Lisbon (Portugal)
2019/12	Borders and Commons, Seminar of Migrating Rights od the DeOthering	2020 Migrating Rights, FCT project Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/11	Undoing Environmental Justice, in Workshop on Face à vulnerabilidade da vida: criatividade social e novas compreensões do ser humano	Facing the vulnerability of life: social creativity and new understandings of the human being, https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/face-a-vulnerabilidade-da-vida & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ILbKn84a0&feature=emb_title Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10	JustFood: From AFNs to Socio-Environmental Justice	Lecture for MA course on Inovação social e empreendedorismo social e solidário, https://mestradoisie.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/ciclo-de-conversas-inovacao-social-e-empreendedorismo-social-e-solidario/ FEUC UC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10	From Peasants to Urban Workers and Back. Debating Agro-Ecology as Socio-Environmental Justice in Romania	As múltiplas faces do Antropoceno: política, agência e crise ontológica, Workshop organized by FCT funded project TROPO, event here https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/as-multiplas-faces-do-antropoceno Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10	Book discussion «Towards a political economy of degrowth»	Book discussion «Towards a political economy of degrowth» https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/towards-a-political-economy-of-degrowth-ed Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05	The convergences of two movements, food sovereignty and justice, as theories in praxis	workshop Pensar a comida, pensar o mundo, ALICE, CES-UC, https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2019/oficina-i Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/10	Polenta and Cyanide: PostCommunist Insights on Justice	Environmental Humanities conference, “(Um)weltschmerz: An exercise in humility and melancholia” Rachel Carson Centre (Munich, Alemanha)
2018/09	Presentation @ Summer school of political ecology	Summer school of political ecology Centre for Political Theory, University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Eslovénia)
2017/08/15	Degrowthing Environmental Justice: Insights from Anti-mining Struggles in Romania and Bulgaria	Post-Socialist/Post-Colonial Rurality Center for Modernity and the Rural World, Telciu, Romania (Telciu, Roménia)
2017/04/04	Desiring Limits or How Might Earth Live,	American Association for Geographers, USA American Association for Geographers, USA (Boston, Estados Unidos)
2016/06/02	Post-socialist Environmental Justice? A ‘Here and Now’ Approach for Romania and Bulgaria”	Political Ecology in the Centre and East of Europe: Green Past, Present and Prospects”, Centre d’étude de la vie politique (Cevipol, Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB). (Bruxelles, Bélgica)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2020/01 - Atual	Seminar on Food Justice and the Peasant Question, ECOSOC https://www.ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2020/food-justice-and-the-peasant-question-in-europe (2020/01) Seminário (Coorganizador)	Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - Atual	Organisation of International Workshop: Micro-Politics of Justice (2018) Oficina (workshop) (Coorganizador)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016 - Atual	International Conference: Undisciplined Environments (2016) Conferência (Outra)	KTH Royal Institute of Technology Centre for Autonomous Systems, Suécia
2016 - Atual	Political Ecology Reading Group: Environmental (In)Justice (2016) Encontro (Outra)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/03/02 - 2020/03/03	Two panels on Ecologia Critica, with ECOSOC scientific group, https://ambiente68.wixsite.com/environment-society/program (2020/03/03) Conferência (Coorganizador)	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2015 - 2018	"Democracy in the Twenty-First Century"	The Ecological Crisis (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013 - 2014	Political Ecology	Political Ecology (Mestrado)	ICTA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Espanha
2010 - 2013	Theories of IR	Globalization, Theories of IR (Licenciatura)	Universitea Spiru Haret, Roménia
2010 - 2011	Political Inquiry, Introduction to Global Politics	Political Inquiry, Introduction to Global Politics	University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Estados Unidos
2007 - 2007	Political Inquiry and Analysis	Political Inquiry and Analysis (Licenciatura)	University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Estados Unidos
2005 - 2007	Introduction to Political Science, World Politics	Introduction to Political Science, World Politics (Licenciatura)	University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Estados Unidos

Entrevista (jornal / revista)

	Descrição da atividade	Jornal / Forum
2014/09/21	The Gold-mine of Rosia Montana, Mass protests agains one of the largest open cast gold mine in Europe, <Rosia Montana, Romania	Undisciplined Environments , Transnational Scholar-Activits Platform on Political Ecology, republished from Oikotrives
2013/12/01	The Gold-mine of Rosia Montana also in English, in X-pressed, http://www.x-pressed.org/?xpd_article=interview-with-researcher-irina-velicu-on-the-gold-mine-of-rosia-montana-romania	Oikotrives, Greece
2013/12/01	Mass protests again one of the largest open cast mine in Europe, Rosia Montana, Romania	Oikotrives

Membro de comissão

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de participação	Instituição / Organização
2014/06/01 - Atual	Member of the editorial collective of the platform Undisciplined Environments, a space of debate of scholars and activists working on political ecology - https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/ Membro	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2014/06/01 - Atual	POSTRADE aims primarily at promoting the development of critical reading and of new perspectives on problems that affect today’s societies: welfare State sustainability, the market and the civil society roles on social protection, fragmentation of labour markets, demographic evolution, global environmental change, quality of life and equality of opportunities. Membro	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2013/06/01 - Atual	Ecosoc, Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade Membro	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Outro júri / avaliação

	Descrição da atividade	Instituição / Organização
2018 - Atual	External reviewer or member of selection panel to: project JUSTFOOD - From Alternative Food Networks to Environmental Justice, CES, UC;	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017 - Atual	Peer-reviewer for the international academic journals: Sustainability Science; Environmental Humanities Journal, Annals of American Association of Geographers, International Journal of the Commons, Studia Politica, Journal of Political Ecology,	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Tutoria

	Tópico	Nome do aluno
2019 - Atual	Doing European Citizenship: Eco-villages From Policy to Everyday Practice	Anastasia Oprea
2019 - Atual	The conditions for coal mining resistance in Poland and the Czech Republic	Mikuláš Cerník
2019 - Atual	Democracia no século XX	Karina Pinhao
2019 - Atual	Commoning State Democratic Institutions: Addressing trans-formations in Political Subjectivities	Riccardo Buonanno
2019 - Atual	Mães proibidas: A retirada de crianças Guarani-Kaiowá, maternidade indígena e etnocídio	Karina Almeida Guimarães Pinhão

Distinções

Outra distinção

2014	FCT Postdoctoral fellowship
2013	Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
2009	Soros Fellow- Doctoral research
2004	Teaching Assistant
2003	Chevening Scolar, OSI and British Council University of Warwick, Reino Unido