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Raquel Mendes Pereira has a PhD in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology (ISCTE- IUL and NOVA FCSH), a Master in Anthropology: Globalization, Migration and Multiculturalism (ISCTE-IUL) and a Degree in Anthropology (ISCTE-IUL). Her PhD thesis, based on long-term fieldwork in Goa (India), examined the complex and conflicting reality of protected areas, taking as a case study the relationship between a group of artisanal fishermen and the implementation of environmental conservation projects in their villages. She is a researcher (full member) at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST; Research Group: Environmental Challenges, Sustainability and Ethnography) and an Invited Adjunct Professor at ESCS-IPL. Her work includes peer-reviewed publications, participation in national and international scientific events and other institutional encounters. She presented various communications, co-organized panels and seminars. She participated as a research fellow in the Project "Biosphere Reserves: Sustainable Territories, Resilient Communities", funded by the EEA Grants, and as a researcher and outreach worker in other European research projects with highly competitive financing. She was a PhD FCT Fellowship and obtained an award and two distinctions. She is a member of various associations, such as APA and AAA. She also studied Photography for four years at the Centre of Art & Visual Communication, and multimedia at CENJOR - Centre for Professional Training of Journalists. She has professional experience, including as a trainer, in the visual field. Her academic and professional background has given her a high level of proficiency in conducting ethnographic research based on long-term fieldwork in national and international contexts and on a variety of other skills: participant-observation, interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, visual media, archival research, oral memory collection, management of research digital infrastructures, citizen science, competences in literature review, systematization and data analysis, action-research and netnography, international collaboration with scientific networks, inter-institutional articulation, academic teaching and training actions for students, peers, institutions and other stakeholders, and local interventions with strong social and public policy impact. Environmental Anthropology, Critical Heritage Studies, Cultural Policy, and Ethnography comprise her broader research interests.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Raquel Maria Mendes Pereira
Date of birth
1982/04/27
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Mendes Pereira, Raquel Maria
  • Pereira, Raquel Maria Mendes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1A1C-A245-AA20
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3778-9458

Email addresses

  • raquelpereira@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
  • raquelmmp@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

  • https://fcsh-pt.academia.edu/RaquelMendesPereira (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Konkani (generic) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09/01 - 2022/07/06
Concluded
PhD FCT Programme in Anthropology: Policies and Images of Culture and Museology (ISCTE-IUL; NOVA FCSH; CRIA) (Doutoramento)
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon , Portugal

NOVA FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal
"An ethnography on the margins: environmental conservation, artisanal fisheries and tourism in Goa, India (title translated by the author)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Approved, Very Good, by unanimity (maximum grade given by ISCTE-IUL)
2010/09/01 - 2012/11/30
Concluded
MSc in Anthropology: Globalization, Migration and Multiculturalism (Mestrado)
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon , Portugal
"Music and narratives of multiculturality in an orchestra of "all" (18 values, by unanimity) (title translated by the author)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
2007/09/01 - 2010/06/30
Concluded
Anthropology (Licenciatura)
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon , Portugal
16
2007 - 2007
Concluded
Pedagogical Training Course for Trainers (Outros)
NHK, Training and new technologies center, Portugal
2005 - 2006
Concluded
Multimedia Course (Outros)
CENJOR - Professional Training Center for Journalists, Portugal
2001 - 2005
Concluded
Full Program in Photography (Photography 1 and 2, two-year course) + Advanced Course in Photography and Individual Project (two-year program). (Outros)
Ar.Co - Centre of Art and Visual Communication , Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2013 - Current Researcher (Research) CRIA - Center for Research Network in Anthropology | Since 2023 CRIA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST FULL MEMBER through Portuguese institution contract (ESCS-IPL) | Research Group: Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/11 Researcher (Research) NOVA FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal
Research Fellow - HTC - History of Territories and Communities (NOVA FCSH) and CEF - Center for Functional Ecology, Science for People and the Planet (University of Coimbra), Portugal
2015/10 - 2019/10 Researcher (Research) Foundation for Science and Technology , Portugal
FCT PhD Fellow - Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/10 - 2024/10 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) School of Communication and Media Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2003 - Current Photographer, Designer and Visual Arts Trainer (with CAP/Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude) Freelancer (Gold Consulting; CRIA; CENEA; Do-iT Workshops, Professional Training Schools; between other clients and/or collaborations on a voluntary basis), Portugal
2014 - 2015 Outreach Worker. Researcher. APDES – Piaget Agency for Development (NGDO), Portugal
2013 - 2014 Project V2V Amnesty International Portugal, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015 - 2019 An ethnography on the margins: environmental conservation, artisanal fisheries and tourism in Goa, India (title translated by the author)
SFRH / BD / 113913/ 2015
PhD Student Fellow
Foundation for Science and Technology
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/02 - 2021/11 Biosphere Reserves: sustainable territories, resilient communities
Research Fellow
HTC - History of Territories and Communities (NOVA FCSH) and CEF - Center for Functional Ecology, Science for People and the Planet (University of Coimbra), Portugal
EEA Grants
Concluded
2014 - 2015 CHECK!N Lisbon - Risk reduction project
LVT/LX/076/01
Outreach worker/Researcher
SICAD - General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies
Concluded
2014 - 2015 NPS in Europe - New Psychoactive Substances among People Who Use Drugs Heavily
JUST/2013/DPIP 4000004774
Researcher
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Concluded
2014 - 2015 LOCAL PASS - A local approach toward the reduction of psychoactive substance use
Project JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3600
Researcher
Drug Prevention and Information Programme-DPIP
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Mendes Pereira, Raquel. ""We Are Fishermen and Businessmen"". In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change, edited by Rajendra Baikady, S.M. Sajid, Varoshini Nadesan, Jaroslaw Przeperski, M. Rezaul Islam, Jianguo Gao, 1-20. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    Published • https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_184-1
Journal article
  1. Mendes Pereira, Raquel. "Identidade(s) e negociação: a dança de veste e despe, despe e veste!". Etnográfica. Secção: Notas de Campo. Revisão por editores. (2023): https://etnografica.cria.org.pt/pt/agora/152 (open access in PT, UK, ES and FR).
    Published
  2. Pires, Cristiana do Vale; Pereira, Raquel; Valente, Helena; Moura, Helena. "Violência sexual e consumo de substâncias psicoativas: podem os contextos festivos ser educativos?". ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres 37 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2018.37.10.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Uma etnografia nas margens: conservação ambiental, pesca artesanal e turismo em Goa, Índia". PhD, 2022. https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/25902.
  2. Mendes Pereira, Raquel. "Música e narrativas da multiculturalidade numa orquestra de "todos"". Master, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2012. https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/4981?mode=full.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. "Colective Photography" exhibition. Paços de Arcos Cultural Center. 2007.
  2. Finalists and scholarship holders Ar.Co/Part II art exhibition. Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta; Pavilhão Preto. 2005.
  3. Ar.Co Photography degree exhibitions (2001-2004). Ar.Co Lisbon (Castelo de São Jorge) and Ar.co Almada. 2003.
Visual artwork
  1. Samuel Roda Fernandes; Mendes Pereira, Raquel; Francisco Mota; Patrícia Freire. Associação Criaactividade, production of a multimedia project for the exhibition "Tavira: Sea Heritages", Palácio da Galeria/ Museu Municipal de Tavira.

Other

Other output
  1. Seed macro photography service for field guide, "Plants used by both chimpanzees and humans in Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau. Field Guide". 2020. n/a. https://www.cria.org.pt/download-file/1620/eVuTFsjQtpjV5xWyE4DT.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11 "Before there was nothing": pursuing a good life on the coast of south Goa (India) 2023 AAA - American Anthropological Association/CASCA - Canadian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (Toronto, Canada)
2022/09 "Where is your husband?": the role of husbands in the field social dynamics, Panel P035 - "Lonely ethnographers? Mediation and balance of family relationships in the field". 8th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA)
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2020/07 "What I like more in tourism are fish trips. I'm a fisherman, no?!": sealives reconfigurations between Pagi fishermen in Goa, India, Painel 050 - Rising Sea Politics: Governance, Communities, Commons. EASA 2020 Congress: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe
Virtual Lisbon conference ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and ICS-Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06 "Tourism is not good. It is very good!": Environmental conservation, fishing and tourism among a population of artisanal fishermen in South Goa (India)" (transl.), Panel 063 - Anthropology and (our) environmental challenges (transl.) 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA)
NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04 "Listen to the field: when silence leads the way to the most important things in people´s lives", Painel - When reality challenges our expectations: Trajectories and transformations in ethnographic research, conservation and heritage ethnographies. SIEF2019 14th Congress: Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World
University of Santiago (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2018/11 Communication by invitation | "Fishermen, tourism and environmental conservation in Goa (India): what is the place of social change in heritage processes?" (transl.) Round table "Between Nature and Culture". 3rd Meeting of the Research Group on Cultural Practices and Policies (CRIA), European Year of Cultural Heritage
ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/09 Sexismo e assédio sexual em ambientes recreativos noturnos 2nd International Conference on Woman XXI and Gender Universes
Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda (Porto, Portugal)
2018/05 Communication by invitation | "Environmental conservation, fishermen and tourism in Goa" (transl.) , Workshop "Goa: new debates" (transl.), Panel - Goa: social and ritual structures (transl.), Coord. by Professor Rosa Maria Perez, GI Circulation and Production of Places Workshop "Goa: new debates (transl.)
ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/06 Communication by invitation | "Orchestrating essentialisms, mobilities and transnational capitals in an Orchestra [that one wants] of "All"" (transl.) Panel - Nationality, creoleness, interculturalism: metaphoric action in progress, International Conference. Music and Human Mobility. Redefining Community in Intercultural Context. International Conference. Music and Human Mobility. Redefining Community in Intercultural Context.
NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 Seminar "in/justices: II meeting of political ecology" (transl.) (2023 - 2023)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
Center for Research Network in Anthropology (CRIA), Portugal
2015 - 2015 Seminar "New global consumption, new local approaches. New psychoactive substances – from research to action" (transl.) (2015 - 2015)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
CHECK!N Lisbon - Risk reduction project, APDES , Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2022/09 Panel Organization | Co-Convenor with Rita Reis (Ciência ID 8B17-68DE-942B) - Panel P035 - "Lonely ethnographers: Mediation and balance of family relationships in the field".
Congress
8th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), Évora, Portugal.
2021/06 - 2021/06 Panel Organization | Co-Convenor with Rita Reis (Ciência ID 8B17-68DE-942B) - Panel Int05 - "Marriage in the Global South: youth between love, rules, and desires" ; with Inês Lourenço (Ciência ID 5C19-84D6-3B4D) as discussant.
Congress
SIEF 2021 Breaking the rules? Power, participation and transgression, Helsinki, Finland (virtual).
2019/05 - 2019/05 Research presentation and talk with students
Other
"Anthropology in secondary education" (transl.).
Center for Research Network in Anthropology (CRIA), Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/08/01 - 2022/08/22 Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022 - Current American Anthropological Association (AAA)
2020 - Current European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
2019 - Current Red Antropología Ambiental (Spain)
2013 - Current Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/01 - 2024/10/02 Social Analysis (transl.) Invited Adjunct Teacher Public Relations and Business Communication (Undergraduate) (Licenciatura) School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS), Lisbon Polytechnic Institute (IPL), Portugal
2022/10 - 2024/10 Intercultural Communication curriculum unit (transl.) Invited Adjunct Teacher Journalism (Undergraduate) (Licenciatura) School of Communication and Media Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
2022/10 - 2024/10 Intercultural Communication curriculum unit (transl.) Invited Adjunct Teacher Public Relations and Business Communication (Undergraduate) (Licenciatura) School of Communication and Media Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/11 Module "Natural heritage". (transl.) Classificação do Património, Candidaturas e Planos de Salvaguarda. Cursos da NOVA FCSH, criados ao abrigo do Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência. (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) NOVA FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal
2022/12 - 2022/12 Comunication and Image Course. Image, Video and Design. Comunication and Image Course (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Gold Consulting International, Portugal
2022/10 - 2022/10 In-class research presentation and debate with students of Anthropology ("Anthropology and Heritage" curriculum unit, transl.), per invitation of Professor Marta Prista. Anthropology (Undergraduate) (Licenciatura) NOVA FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal
2020/01 - 2020 Module "From the World Heritage Convention to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (transl.)". Co-teaching with Professor Marta Prista. CRIA Intangible Cultural Heritage Course - Technological Specialization Course (transl.) (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Portugal
2017 - 2017 Class taught to anthropology students ("Environmental Anthropology" curriculum unit, transl.), per invitation of Professor Amélia Frazão Moreira. Anthropology (Master) (Mestrado) NOVA FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal
2007 - 2015 Visual Communication. Photography, Video and Design (web, graphic, and publishing). Conceptual Photography. Planning, development and evaluation of formal and informal training activities. (Outros) Freelancer , Portugal
2014 - 2014 Research presentation to anthropology students, per invitation of Professor Miguel Vale de Almeida. Anthropology (Undergraduate) (Licenciatura) ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon , Portugal
2013 - 2013 In-class research presentation and debate with students, per invitation of Professor Nélia Dias and Professor Jorge Freitas Branco. Soft Skills Lab, Multiculturalism (curricular unit) (Outros) ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon , Portugal
2008 - 2008 Module "Web and websites construction" Notions of Secretariat II (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) EIPDA - Intercultural School of Professions and Sports, Portugal
2007 - 2008 Modules "Audiovisual Communication" | "Conception of Tourist Itineraries" | "Monitoring of Projects". Tourism Techniques (Ensino secundário) Gustave Eiffel Professional School. Costa de Caparica POLIS program. Training and Adult Education Courses., Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 2023 AAA Anthropology Photo Contest - AAA Award member
American Anthropological Association, United States
2023 2023 APA - Portuguese Anthropology Association Award - Scientific Text in Anthropology Social/Cultural
APA - Portuguese Anthropology Association , Portugal
2009 Merit Scholarship - Best student of the 1st cycle of the School of Social Sciences (ISCTE-IUL)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education , Portugal
2008 Academic Excellence Award - The best undergraduate grades (ISCTE-IUL)
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon , Portugal

Other distinction

2021 Research Scholarship
NOVA FCSH – NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal
2015 PhD Research Scholarship SFRH/ BD/ 113913/ 2015
Foundation for Science and Technology , Portugal