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After completing a BA in Sociology at Sorbonne University, Chiara earned her MRes in Environmental Humanities at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences of Paris (EHESS). As of March 2024, she is a PhD student in Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and a member of the ABIDE ERC team and the Human-Animal Hub. She is also a member of the research group Diversidades (ICS), and HUMANIMALIA (UFSCAR). Her research focuses on the relationship with fire and the consequences of wildfires on the multispecies quilombolas communities living in the Brazilian biome of Cerrado, and more precisely in the state of Mato Grosso.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Chiara Beneduce

Citation names

  • Beneduce, Chiara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BA1B-37A9-6CC8
ORCID iD
0009-0009-0031-6826

Email addresses

  • cbeneduce@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2024 - 2028
Ongoing
Antropologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021 - 2023
Concluded
Sciences Sociales (Master)
Major in Études Environnementales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
2018 - 2021
Concluded
Sociologie (Licence)
Sorbonne Université, France
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024 - 2028 Animal ABidings: recoverIng from DisastErs in more-than-human communities
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
European Research Council
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Beneduce, C.. "Flowing Narratives. Sketches from Blasted Waterscapes". In Narrating the Multispecies World Stories in Times of Crises, Loss, and Hope, edited by Michaela Fenske, 211-219. Germany: Transcript, 2025.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/07/17 “Incendiary Insurgences. An ethnography of quilombolas cosmologies in the Brazilian savannah” 9th Congress of the Association of Portuguese Anthropology
APA (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2025/05/30 “An exploratory ethnography of multispecies encounters in the burning Brazilian Savannah” V encounter of the Political Ecology Network “Territorios e Resistencias”
ICS - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/05/28 “Antropologia, Antropoceno e Apocalipse: reflexões sobre a crise ecológica e cultural a partir das experiências quilombola” ICS Open Day
ICS - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/05/22 “How can multispecies encounters challenge mainstream narratives about wildfires? The case of Quilombola more-than-human communities in Mato Grosso” ABIDE Symposium “(In)visible Animals: exploring narratives and counter-narratives of wildfires”
ICS - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/05/07 “Fim do mundo, fim do povo: explorações etnográficas mais que humanas nos quilombos matogrossenses” HUMANIMALIA Research Group
UFSCAR (São Carlos, Brazil)
2024/10/02 "Preparing for fieldwork: reflexions on trust, loss and how to stay with the pain of others" Perspectivas Etnográficas: Colóquio de Estudantes de Doutoramento
ICS - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/08/05 "Flowing Narratives. Sketches from blasted waterscapes" Narrating the Multispecies World. Stories in Time of Crises, Loss, Hope
Julius-Maximilians University (Würzburg, Germany)
2023/07/14 "A leaf a gourd a shell a dam. Experimenting with Multispecies Storytelling and Speculative Anthropology in Entangled Waterscapes" Relationality and more then human storytelling
University of Augsburg (Augsburg, Germany)
2023/06/19 "Les fleuves silencieux dans les Alpes Italiennes: 'Ils nous volent le bruit de la rivière'" Journée d'études du master Etudes Environnementales
Collège de France, salle Claude Levi-Strauss. (Paris, France)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2025/02/28 - Current I organised the session "Safety on fieldwork" at the weekly Seminário de Investigação em Antropologia (SIA) of the DANT PhD program at ICS (2025/02/28)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/10/04 - 2024/10/04 I co-organized the conference "Animals included: Relationality and companionship in more than human worlds" (2024/10/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/10/01 - 2024/10/02 I co-organized the "Ethnographic Perspectives", the first Doctoral Students’ Colloquium of the Research Group Diversidades (2024/10/01 - 2024/10/02)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/09/12 - 2024/09/13 I attended the IV Encontro Internacional da Rede de Antropologia Ambiental at NOVA University in Lisbon
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/05/27 - 2024/05/28 I attended the EDGES Symposium (Entrelaçar conhecimentos indígenas na universidade), entitles "Pensar/agir através de entrelaçamentos"
Symposium
"Pensar/agir através de entrelaçamentos"
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2025/02 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) Socia