Research Group
1: Inequalities, Citizenship and Gender
Research Areas
Inequalities and Social Exclusion.
Gender studies.
Sustainability, Environment and Territory.
Bio note
Associate professor with tenure in the Department of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho and researcher at CICS.Nova. He was a visiting researcher at CNPq and visiting professor at Capes at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, having also taught as a guest lecturer at several universities in Spain and Brazil. Capitalism, development, gender and sexuality are some of his main research interests. More recently, he has been working on urban issues and poverty in Portugal and the recomposition and transition of hegemony in the global capitalist system. His scientific output is distributed across several books, book chapters and articles in national and international journals. He is currently the director of the Department of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho.
