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Ph.D. in social anthropology from Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg (2011), researcher at ICS-ULisboa, and invited assistant professor at the University of Lisbon. I am an interdisciplinary anthropologist exploring areas where the distinctions between nature, technoscience, knowledge, power, and ethics are suspended. I have extensive fieldwork experience in Europe and southern Africa, addressing conceptual and applied questions. My teaching and supervision have been spread across various countries, and I have published widely in anthropology and human geography journals. I lead the research "Captive Ocean" initiated in 2023. Before my academic professional life, I worked in arts, social marketing, and international development.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Afonso Baptista
Date of birth
1974/09/24
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Baptista, João Afonso

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B11B-68ED-7442
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2445-0340
Scopus Author Id
35955689300

Email addresses

  • joao.baptista@ics.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
  • joao.afonso.baptista@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Telephone
  • (+351) 217804700 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto de Ciências Sociais Av. Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt, 9, 1600-189, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2)
Italian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2007/09/01 - 2011/10/17
Concluded
 Anthropology (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Social Anthropology
Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg Institut fur Ethnologie und Philosophie, Germany
"The Commodification of Morality in Tourism" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Magna cum laude
2002 - 2004
Concluded
 Anthropology of Landscape (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2001/10/26
Concluded
 Gestão de Projectos de Ajuda Humanitária (Pós-Graduação)
CIC - Associação para a Cooperação, Intercâmbio e Cultura, Portugal
1998
Concluded
 Marketing (Licenciatura)
Universidade Europeia, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016/07/01 - 2023 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2011 - 2016 Postdoc (Research) Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
2007 - 2011 Researcher (Research) Society and Culture in Motion, Germany
Society and Culture in Motion, Germany
2007 - 2011 Researcher (Research) Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg Institut fur Ethnologie und Philosophie, Germany
Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg Institut fur Ethnologie und Philosophie, Germany
2000 - 2002 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
1999 - 1999 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Investigação Social e Económica, Portugal
Instituto de Investigação Social e Económica, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2012 - 2013 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
2005 - 2006 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade Independente - Angola, Angola
Universidade Independente - Angola, Angola
2005 - 2006 Lecturer (University Teacher) Instituto de Ciências Religiosas de Angola, Angola
Instituto de Ciências Religiosas de Angola, Angola

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Vice-coordinator of the Research Group DIVERSITIES Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020 - 2023 Post-doctorates' representative in the ICS Scientific Council Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2020 - 2022 Co-coordinator of the Seminar Series of the Research Group DIVERSITIES Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2012 - 2016 Scientific Coordinator of the "Deforestation and Development" project Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018 - 2020 Associated member of the project 3ROceans Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Regionalt kunnskapssenter for barn og unge - psykisk helse og barnevern, Norway
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Regionalt kunnskapssenter for barn og unge - psykisk helse og barnevern, Norway
2014 - 2014 Visiting Researcher Instituto Superior de Ciências de Educação da Huíla, Angola
Instituto Superior de Ciências de Educação da Huíla, Angola
2012 - 2013 Research Coordinator Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, Angola
Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, Angola
2006 - 2007 Coordinator of applied research and public outreach in medical anthropology Positive Muslims, South Africa
Positive Muslims, South Africa
2004 - 2006 Marketing Manager and Event Coordinator Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal
Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal
2003 - 2006 Acquisition Book Editor Autonomia 27 - Investigação e Consultoria de Temas Socio-Antropológicos, Unipessoal Lda, Portugal
Autonomia 27 - Investigação e Consultoria de Temas Socio-Antropológicos, Unipessoal Lda, Portugal
2004 - 2004 Music Editor Música Alternativa, Portugal
Música Alternativa, Portugal
2001 - 2004 Project Manager of Development Projects CIC - Associação para a Cooperação, Intercâmbio e Cultura, Portugal
CIC - Associação para a Cooperação, Intercâmbio e Cultura, Portugal
1999 - 2000 Project Manager of Development Projects Ajuda Humanitária, Portugal
Ajuda Humanitária, Portugal
1998 - 1998 Cultural Marketing Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal
Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal
1998 - 1998 Cultural Marketing EXPO'98 - The Ocean: A Heritage for the Future , Portugal
EXPO'98 - The Ocean: A Heritage for the Future , Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/09/01 - Current "Portugal is Sea": Anthropological and Ethnographic Engagements with "the Natural"
SFRH/BPD/115088/2016
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016 - 2020 The high seas and the deep oceans: Resources, representations and regulatory governance (3ROceans)
259419
Invited Scientist Fellow
Concluded
2016/07/01 - 2017/08/31 Enacting freshness in the UK and Portuguese agri-food sectors
ES/N009649/1
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Economic and Social Research Council
Concluded
2007 - 2011 The Contribution of Ethnic Tourism to Community Empowerment
The Contribution of Ethnic Tourism to Community Empowerment
PhD Student Fellow
Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg Institut fur Ethnologie und Philosophie, Germany

Society and Culture in Motion, Germany
Society and Culture in Motion
Concluded
2000 - 2002 Estratégias de integração dos imigrantes chineses em Portugal
Iniciação à investigação
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 Fundação Oriente

Society and Culture in Motion
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - Current Captive Ocean
15/2023/CEEC
Researcher
Ongoing
2012 - 2016 Deforestation and Development: The Changing Value of Natural Forest for Rural Livelihoods
SASSCAL (Phase 1)
Post-doc
Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
 Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung Dienststelle Berlin
Concluded
2011 - 2013 The Future Okavango: Cultural Knowledge, Valuation, and Regulation of Ecosystem Services
The Future Okavango: SP06
Post-doc
Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
 Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung Dienststelle Berlin
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Baptista, João Afonso. The Good Holiday: Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique. New York, United States: Berghahn Books. 2017.
    Published
  2. Baptista, João Afonso. The commodification of morality in tourism. Halle (Saale), Germany: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt. 2011.
    Published
  3. Baptista, João Afonso. Os Chineses: Percursos Migratórios e Estratégias de Implementação em Portugal. Portugal: Autonomia 27. 2006.
    Published
  4. Baptista, João Afonso; José Pereira; Patrícia Costa. Manual do Activista. Portugal: Autonomia 27. 2006.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Truninger, Monica; Baptista, João Afonso; Evans, David M.; Jackson, Peter; Nunes, Nádia Carvalho. "What is a Fresh Fish? Knowledge and Lived Experience in the UK and Portugal". In Sustaining the Seas: Oceanic space and the politics of care, edited by Elspeth Probyn; Kate Johnston; Nancy Lee, 87-98. London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
    Published
  2. Baptista, João Afonso. "Turismo, Desenvolvimento e os Governadores Governados". In Reflexões sobre Ambiente, Território e Sociedade: Três Anos do Blogue ATS, edited by J. Ferrão; A. Delicado; A. Horta; C. Gomes; D. Travassos; J. Rowland; M. Santos; S. Tulumello, 445-448. Lisbon, Portugal: Observa - Observatório de Ambiente, Território e Sociedade, 2019.
    Published
  3. Baptista, João Afonso. "A Floresta: sobre o Conhecimento Eco(i)lógico". edited by J. Ferrão; A. Delicado; A. Horta; C. Gomes; D. Travassos; J. Rowland; M. Santos, 204-208. Lisbon, Portugal: Observa - Observatório de Ambiente, Território e Sociedade, 2019.
    Published
  4. Baptista, João Afonso. ""FEEL IT": moral cosmopolitans and the politics of the sensed in tourism". edited by Jim Butcher, 50-61. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
    Published
  5. Baptista, João Afonso. "A Phenomenology of Interaction: Space and the Body of Progress in Angola". In Experiencing the Everyday, edited by Carsten Friberg; Raine Vasquez, 145-165. Aarhus, Denmark: NSU Press, 2017.
    Published
  6. Baptista, João Afonso. "The Virtuous Tourist: Consumption, Development, and Nongovernmental Governance in a Mozambican Village". In Tourism Ethics: Critical Concepts in Tourism, edited by David A. Fennel. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016.
    Published
  7. Baptista, João Afonso. "Tourism moral imaginaries and the making of community". In Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches, edited by N. Salazar; N. Graburn, 125-144. New York, United States: Berghahn Books, 2014.
    Published
  8. Baptista, João Afonso. "Tourism of poverty: The value of being poor in the non-governmental order". In Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics, 125-143. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2012.
    Published • 10.4324/9780203136751
  9. Baptista, João Afonso. "The Tourists of Developmentourism – Representations “From Below"". In Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: Tourism, Local Communities and Development, edited by J. Saarine; C. Rogerson; H. Manwa, 80-97. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2012.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Baptista, João Afonso. Versões: Mundos (d)escritos em Português. Portugal: CIC - Portugal. 2003.
    Published • Editor
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Baptista, João. "Governmentality". In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Hilary Callan. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1372.
    Published • doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1372
Journal article
  1. Baptista, João Afonso; Truninger, Monica. "Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 28 2 (2022): 556-576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13709.
    10.1111/1467-9655.13709
  2. BAPTISTA, JOÃO AFONSO. "Bodyland". American Ethnologist 49 1 (2022): 35-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/amet.13053.
    10.1111/amet.13053
  3. Evans, David M.; Jackson, Peter; Truninger, Monica; Baptista, João A.. "The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 54 3 (2021): 461-476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211059834.
    10.1177/0308518x211059834
  4. Jackson, Peter; Evans, David; Truninger, Mónica; Baptista, João; Nunes, Nádia Carvalho. "Tasting as a social practice: a methodological experiment in making taste public". Social & Cultural Geography 23 5 (2020): 739-756. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1809013.
    10.1080/14649365.2020.1809013
  5. Jackson, Peter; Evans, David M.; Truninger, Mónica; Meah, Angela; Baptista, João. "The multiple ontologies of freshness in the UK and Portuguese agri-food sectors". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 44 1 (2019): 79-93. https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12260.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12260
  6. Baptista, João Afonso. "Fieldwork in Silence: A Photo-Story of Honey in Southeast Angola". Irish Journal of Anthropology 22 1 (2019): 28-37. http://anthropologyireland.org/ija-2019-baptista/.
    Published
  7. Baptista, João Afonso. "Eco(il)logical Knowledge: on Different Ways of Relating with the Known". Environmental Humanities 10 2 (2018): 397-420. https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/10/2/397/136687/Eco-il-logical-KnowledgeOn-Different-Ways-of.
    Published • 10.1215/22011919-7156805
  8. Baptista, João. "The Road of Progress: Individualization and Interaction Agency in Southeast Angola". Ethnos - Journal of Anthropology 83 3 (2018): 521-543. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2016.1150312.
    Published • doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2016.1150312
  9. Baptista, João Afonso. "‘FEEL IT’: moral cosmopolitans and the politics of the sensed in tourism". Tourism Recreation Research 42 2 (2017): 176-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2017.1296917.
    Published • 10.1080/02508281.2017.1296917
  10. Baptista, João Afonso. "The Forest". IX (2017): https://animaliavegetaliamineralia.org/2017/12/19/3397/.
    Open access • Published
  11. Baptista, João Afonso. "Individualization and the ethopolitics of conflict in rural Angola". African Identities 14 2 (2016): 161-176. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958060721&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/14725843.2015.1117384
  12. Baptista, João Afonso. "The ideology of sustainability and the globalization of a future". Time & Society 23 3 (2014): 358-379. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84911976368&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1177/0961463X11431651
  13. Baptista, João Afonso. "“Everything”: Towards an Ecology of Land Utilization". Biodiversity & Ecology 5 (2013): 393-405. http://www.biodiversity-plants.de/biodivers_ecol/article_meta.php?DOI=10.7809/b-e.00291&art_volume=5&lang=en.
    Published
  14. Baptista, João Afonso; Stephanie Domptail; Laura Marlene Große; Benjamin Kowalski. "Cusseque/Cacuchi - The People". Biodiversity & Ecology 5 (2013): 73-80. http://www.biodiversity-plants.de/biodivers_ecol/article_meta.php?DOI=10.7809/b-e.00250&art_volume=5&lang=en.
    Published
  15. Baptista, João Afonso. "The Virtuous Tourist: Consumption, Development, and Nongovernmental Governance in a Mozambican Village". American Anthropologist 114 4 (2012): 639-651. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01515.x.
    10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01515.x
  16. Baptista, João Afonso. "The tourists of developmentourism - representations 'from below'". Current Issues in Tourism 14 7 (2011): 651-667. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052072291&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/13683500.2010.540314
  17. Baptista, João Afonso. "Disturbing 'development': The water supply conflict in Canhane, Mozambique". Journal of Southern African Studies 36 1 (2010): 169-188. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77951544446&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/03057071003607410
Newspaper article
  1. Baptista, João Afonso. "Um novo sacerdócio: Portugal e a ciência do oceano", Público, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/11/15/ciencia/noticia/novo-sacerdocio-portugal-ciencia-oceano-1938814.
Online resource
  1. Baptista, João Afonso. A Era das Omnipresenças. 2022. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2022/06/15/a-era-das-omnipresencas/#more-7180.
  2. Oceano Meu: Ciência, Direito, e o Triunfo do Faz-de-conta. 2021. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2021/10/13/oceano-meu-ciencia-direito-e-o-triunfo-do-faz-de-conta/.
  3. Baptista, João Afonso. Governação Ambiental: O que é que os não-humanos fariam?. 2020. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2020/04/01/governacao-ambiental-o-que-e-que-os-nao-humanos-fariam/.
  4. Baptista, João Afonso. A Estrada que Fura: Progresso e Contradição nas Novas Infraestruturas em Angola. 2019. https://ambienteterritoriosociedade-ics.org/2019/04/24/a-estrada-que-fura-progresso-e-contradicao-nas-novas-infraestruturas-em-angola.
Report
  1. Baptista, João Afonso. 2013. The Future Okavango. Socio-Economic Baseline Survey, Angola. Summary Statistics.
  2. 2003. Os Espaços de Sucesso: Opções Capitais dos Chineses em Portugal e o Caso de Algés.
Website
  1. Baptista, João Afonso. Portugal is Sea. 2020. www.portugal-is-sea.org.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Abissal (audiovisual exibition at FIC.A - International Science Festival). 2021.
  2. Photo Exibition: Cholera in Guinea Bissau (Colombo Shopping - Lisbon). 2005.
  3. Photo Exibition: Medical aid in rural Africa (Hospital de Santa Maria - Lisbon). 2005.
  4. Photo exhibition: Medical aid in Lusophone Africa (Baixa/Chiado subway station).. 2005.
  5. Photo exhibition: Sri Lanka tsunami 2004 (Algarve Shopping). 2005.
  6. Photo exhibition: Sri Lanka tsunami 2004 (Fórum Montijo). 2005.
Audio recording
  1. Baptista, João Afonso; EMI – Valentim de Carvalho (Producer). 2004. "Para Além da Música (Edited music album)". Música Alternativa.
  2. The Temple; Skyfall Records (Producer). 2004. "Diesel Dog Sound (Music album)".
  3. The Temple. 1999. "999 (Music album)".
  4. The Temple; Skyfall Records (Producer). 1997. "The Angel, the Demon & the Machine (Muscic album)".
Short fiction
  1. Neto, Pedro Figueiredo; Baptista, João Afonso. 2021. "Abissal (audiovisual essay)".
  2. 2019. "Photo-story of honey (Angola)". In Irish Journal of Anthropology, 28-37.
Theatre play
  1. 2005. Street Theatre for Cultural and Social Awareness: Domestic violence against women (downtown Lisbon).

Other

Other output
  1. Cover page for the journal American Ethnologist. 2022. Baptista, João Afonso. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425/2022/49/1.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/25 Abissal
Porto Design Biennale (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2023/11/12 Abissal. Discussion at Entre Olhares Film Festival
(Barreiro, Portugal)
2023/04/28 Abissal. Discussion at Social Sciences and Audiovisual Series
ICS-ULisboa (Lisbon)
2022/09/07 O Oceano Omnipresente
University of Évora (Évora)
2022/05/19 A Construção do Oceano Açores e o Ano Internacional da Pesca Artesanal e Aquicultura com lançamento “Um mar cheio de vida: Visões dos Açores”
House of the Azores in Lisbon (Lisbon)
2022/04/08 Abissal. Discussion at Riga Pasaules Film Festival Riga Pasaules Film Festival
(Riga, Latvia)
2022/02/25 Oceanization of Everyday Life Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers
(United States)
2021/06/22 Sediments as Foretellers
University of Helsinki (Finland)
2020/09/25 "Go out with a researcher": Tourism for Science in Times of Ocean Degradation Living with Tourism: Paradoxes, Empowerment and Future Directions
ISEG (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/06/24 New priests in town: on how the ocean is conquering the land in the Azores
16th EASA Biennial Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/12/02 Poetocracy: Science, Sovereignty and the Embodiment of Ocean Depths
the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research, University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)
2019/09/19 A Novel Genre of Poetry: Science, Naturalness and the Territorialization of the Ocean Ocean transformations: Representations, resources and regulations
(Frøya, Norway)
2018/12/07 Há Zombies no Mercado: Mar, frescura, e a ausência de diferença [There are Zombies in the Market: Sea, freshness, and the absence of difference] Seminário Identidades, Culturas, Vulnerabilidades
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/09/15 What’s in a word? “Natural” in the modern redefinition of the sea. Becoming treasures of the sea: Epistemological constructions and marine resource regulation
University of the Azores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2018/03/18 Scientific Sea: Anthropological Engagements with the "Natural" and "Unnatural" Uncanny Futures: Speculative Ecologies of Waste
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg – Institute for Advanced Study (Bremen, Germany)
2017/11/29 Consentimento informado: uma perspetiva antropológica Responsible Research and Innovation
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon)
2015/08/26 Deforestation and Development Technical Meeting of the German SASSCAL Consortium
BGR Geozentrum Hannover (Hannover, Germany)
2015/06/09 Eco(il)logical Knowledge: Sensorial Reasoning and the Role of Representations in Angola European conference on African studies
Sorbonne University (Paris, France)
2015/03/17 Tourism and the Transnationality of “Nature”: the KAZA eco-park
Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2014/06/25 Transnational Ecology in Southeast Angola
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS (London, United Kingdom)
2014/05/29 Four Perspectives on Forests in Angola: (Non-)Representational Knowledge 13th International Conference of Africanists – Society and Politics in Africa: Traditional, Transitional and New
Institute for African Studies (Moscow, Russia)
2014/02/25 Ecosystem Values and the Impacts of Commodity Consumption TFO scientific symposium
(Namibia)
2013/11/20 Interaction Agency: Infrastructure and People in Rural Angola American Anthropological Association Anual Meeting
(Chicago, United States)
2013/11/14 The Rise of the “Individual” – Challenges and Contradictions in the Local Management of Protected Areas
Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2013/10/10 Deforestation and Development: The changing value of natural forest for rural livelihoods Forestry
Southern African Science Service Centre (Livingstone, Zambia)
2013/03/22 The Aesthetics of Progress in Rural Angola Heterologies of the Everyday: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2013/01/17 Progress' Time: The Individualization of the Future in Southeast Angola Power, Time and Agency: Exploring the role of Critical Temporalities
University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2011/04/19 The Commodification of Morality in Tourism: "Community Development" and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique Colloquium of Ethnology
University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
2011/02/10 The Sharing of Imaginaries of Problems in Community-based Tourism Tourism Imaginaries
University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, United States)
2010/12/10 Conceptual Poverty (Eradication) in Community-based Tourism Destination Slum
University of the West of England (Bristol, United Kingdom)
2010/07/03 Beyond Community-Based Tourism. Development and the Project of Community in Canhane, Mozambique Sustainability, Nature Conservation and Community Development: Perspectives from the Anthropology of Tourism
Graduate School Society and Culture in Motion (Halle (Saale), Germany)
2010/05/29 Tourism of Morality and the Morality of Tourism: the Case of Canhane in Mozambique
Graduate School Society and Culture in Motion (Halle (Saale), Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021 - Current Biocultural food diversity and resilience: the case of Brazilian Amazon under transition
Co-supervisor
 Sustainability Sciences (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021 - Current Educação para a Sustentabilidade na prática Escolar: Incorporação de Conteúdos de Educação Para Sustentabilidade no Currículo Local em Moçambique
Co-supervisor
 Sustainability Sciences (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Coordination and supervision of Julie Soleil Archambault's research visit at ICS-ULisboa
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Ph.D. fieldwork supervision (Zambia)
Co-supervisor
Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
2013 - 2013 Ph.D. fieldwork supervision (in Bié and Cuando Cubango, Angola)
Co-supervisor
Instituto Superior de Ciências de Educação da Huíla, Angola
2012 - 2012 BA and MA Fieldwork supervision (in Bié, Angola)
Supervisor
Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, Angola

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2022/09 Panel session: "Omnipresenças: Respostas Locais aos Fenómenos Globais" (2022/09 - 2022/09)
Conference (Other)
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2022/05 - 2022/05 Research Seminar with Cristina Rocha (2022/05 - 2022/05)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022/02/16 - 2022/02/16 Research Seminar with Rodrigo Bulamah (2022/02/16 - 2022/02/16)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022/01/20 - 2022/01/20 Research Seminar with Susana Durão (2022/01/20 - 2022/01/20)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Research Seminar with Jaqueline Gonçalves Porto (2022 - 2022)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Research Seminar with Gustavo Barbosa (2022 - 2022)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Research seminar with Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz (2022 - 2022)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Research seminar with Cesar E. Giraldo Herrera (2022 - 2022)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Research seminar with Maria Julieta Cordova (2022 - 2022)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/12/15 - 2021/12/15 Research Seminar with Márcia Motta (2021/12/15 - 2021/12/15)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/11/25 - 2021/11/25 Research Seminar with Sofia Sampaio (2021/11/25 - 2021/11/25)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/10/28 - 2021/10/28 Research Seminar with Steve Lyon (2021/10/28 - 2021/10/28)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/10/21 - 2021/10/21 Research Seminar with Julie Archambault (2021/10/21 - 2021/10/21)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/06/24 - 2021/06/24 Research Seminar with Alice Wilson (2021/06/24 - 2021/06/24)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/05/06 - 2021/05/06 Research Seminar with Nina Amelung (2021/05/06 - 2021/05/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/04/21 - 2021/04/21 Research Seminar with Pedro Prista (2021/04/21 - 2021/04/21)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/03/21 - 2021/03/21 Research Seminar with Ramon Sarró (2021/03/21 - 2021/03/21)
Seminar
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/02/18 - 2021/02/18 Research Seminar with Jon Schubert (2021/02/18 - 2021/02/18)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2021/01/01 Research Seminar with Valerio Simoni (2021/01/01 - 2021/01/01)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/06/07 - 2019/06/07 Panel sessions: "Worldviews from the sea" (2019/06/07 - 2019/06/07)
Conference
 Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2016/09/08 - 2016/09/08 Panel sessions: "Forests and Deforestation: Challenges, Consensus, and Controversies in Africa" (2016/09/08 - 2016/09/08)
Conference
 African Studies Association of the UK, United Kingdom
2015 - 2015 Public health awareness (events throughout the year); location: Loures, Nisa and Oeiras (2015 - 2015)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal
2010/07/02 - 2010/07/03 Conference: "Sustainability, Nature Conservation and Community Development: Perspectives from the Anthropology of Tourism" (with Sophie Strauss) (2010/07/02 - 2010/07/02)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Martin Luther Universitat Halle Wittenberg Institut fur Ethnologie und Philosophie, Germany
2005/11/28 - 2005/11/28 Book presentation - Organizações: Introdução à Gestão e Desenvolvimento das Pessoas (2005/11/28 - 2005/11/28)
Seminar
 Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2005/05/04 - 2005/05/04 Book presentation - Imigrantes de Leste: Vivências diferentes num espaço comum (2005/05/04 - 2005/05/04)
Seminar (Other)
2005/03 - 2005/05 Event about maternal and child health (at the women's prison in Tires) (2005/03 - 2005/03)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal
2005/03 - 2005/03 Public event to raise awareness of domestic violence against women (downtown Lisbon) (2005/03 - 2005/03)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal
2005/02 - 2005/02 Football tournament for underprivileged children (Lisbon) (2005/02 - 2005/02)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal
2004/12/14 - 2004/12/18 Workshop "À Volta do Circo" at VIII Fórum Estudante (2004/12/14 - 2004/12/18)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal

Associação Tenda, Portugal
2004/12/14 - 2004/12/17 Workshop "Teatrices" at VIII Fórum Estudante (2004/12/14 - 2004/12/17)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal

Associação Tenda, Portugal
2004/12/14 - 2004/12/16 Workshop "Arte espontãnea" at VIII Fórum Estudante (2004/12/14 - 2004/12/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal

Associação Tenda, Portugal
2004/03/17 - 2004/03/17 Book presentation - "A Sociedade sem Centro" (2004/03/17 - 2004/03/17)
Seminar (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/03/08 - 2024/03/08 Discussant in the painel "Riscos alimentares e contextos ambientais"
Conference
 Comer Importa: Envelhecimento e Desafios Alimentares
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2005/07 - 2005/07 Feira Fórum Social - 2005 (Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon)
Other
 Feira Fórum Social - 2005
Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal
2004/12/14 - 2004/12/18 VIII Fórum Estudante (Praça Sony, Parque das Nações - Lisbon)
Workshop
 VIII Fórum Estudante
Doctors of the World-Portugal, Portugal

Associação Tenda, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2021 "They have got so much love, they are in love with the children": An exploration of the educational impact of school tours as part of a safari itinerary in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Kathleen Smithers (PhD)
The University of Newcastle, Australia

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018 - Current European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
2018 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA)
2021 - 2022 International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)
2014 - 2017 African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK)
2013 - 2016 American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2012 - 2013 Coordinator of the research partnership between Mandume ya Ndemufayo University (Menongue - Angola) and the University of Hamburg (Germany) Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
2008 - 2008 Scientific consultant in community environmental conservation in Mozambique Helvetas Moçambique, Mozambique

SNV, Netherlands

Regional Management office of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Mozambique

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Quantitative, qualitative, mixed and multiple methods Sustainability Sciences (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022 - Current Food Security and Global Dynamics Sustainability Science (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021 - Current The Ethnographic Approach Ph.D. in Sustainability Sciences Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Research seminar in anthropology Anthropology (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Introduction to Maritime Anthropology Universität Bremen Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Germany
2015 - 2015 Sociology and Anthropology of Tourism Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 - 2014 Anthropology of Tourism SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
2013 - 2013 Material Culture Anthropology (Master) Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
2013 - 2013 Responsible Tourism Leeds Beckett University Carnegie Faculty School of Events Tourism and Hospitality, United Kingdom
2012 - 2012 Anthropology of Tourism Anthropology (Master) Universität Hamburg Institut für Ethnologie, Germany
2006 - 2006 Social and Economic History [História Economica e Social] (Licence) Universidade Independente - Angola, Angola
2006 - 2006 Psychosociology of Organizations [Psicossociologia das Organizações] (Licence) Universidade Independente - Angola, Angola
2006 - 2006 Developmental Psychology [Psicologia do Desenvolvimento] (Licence) Instituto de Ciências Religiosas de Angola, Angola
2005 - 2005 Event Management and Organization Media and Journalism (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - 2023 Análise Social
2022 - 2022 Leisure Studies
2022 - 2022 Current Anthropology
2021 - 2021 Theory, Culture & Society
2020 - 2020 Ethnoscripts
2020 - 2020 Theory, Culture & Society
2019 - 2019 Environmental Humanities
2019 - 2019 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2017 - 2017 African Identities
2017 - 2017 Análise Social
2016 - 2016 Tourism Recreation Research
2016 - 2016 Ethnos - Journal of Anthropology
2015 - 2015 Current Issues in Tourism
2015 - 2015 Sociologus
2015 - 2015 Sustainability
2014 - 2014 Ethnos - Journal of Anthropology

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2014 - 2016 Ph.D Mentorship David Parduhn
2012 - 2013 MA Fieldwork Supervision Otto Adriano

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022 Ph.D. evaluation for Lilianne Abdala’s thesis report Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Book scientific committee for the Royal Anthropological Institute Book Series
Distinctions

Award

2023 ERICS 2023 - Premio Estimulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalizacao em Ciencias Sociais
Caixa Geral de Depositos, Portugal
2021 ERICS 2021 - Premio Estimulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalizacao em Ciencias Sociais
Caixa Geral de Depositos, Portugal
2020 ERICS 2020 - Premio Estimulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalizacao em Ciencias Sociais
Caixa Geral de Depositos, Portugal
2018 ERICS 2018 - Premio Estimulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalizacao em Ciencias Sociais
Caixa Geral de Depositos, Portugal
2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship SFRH/BPD/115088/2016
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2008 Fieldwork Grant for Ph.D. research project "The Contribution of Ethnic Tourism to Community Empowerment"
Society and Culture in Motion, Germany
2007 Doctoral Fellowship 2007/2010
Society and Culture in Motion, Germany
2000 Fellowship for MA research project "Strategies of Integration of Chinese Immigrants in Portugal"
Fundação Oriente, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Abissal - selected for II Congreso Internacional de Arte+Ciencia: Las Aguas
2023 Abissal - selected for Porto Design Biennale
2023 Abissal - selected for Film Festival Entre Olhares
2022 Abissal - selected for the American Association of Geographers, film teaching selection
2022 Abissal - selected for International Underwater Film Festival Belgrade
2022 Abissal - Honourable Mention at Neum Underwater Film Festival
2022 Abissal - selected for Riga Pasaules Film Festival