Research Group
1: Inequalities, Citizenship and Gender
Research Areas
Justice and Human Rights.
Society, Culture, Heritage and Identity.
Democracy, Governance and Public Policy.
Innovation and Digital Transition.
Bio note
Coordination of the projects Artcitizenship - Young people and the arts of citizenship: activism, participatory culture and creative practices (2019-2022), TransUrbArts - Emergent Urban Arts is Lisbon and São Paulo (2016-2020) both with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology. Over the years he has carried out research in various research centres on the themes of urban youth cultures, urban art, digital media, visual anthropology and visual culture, with several book chapters and articles in national and international journals on these topics. He is the author of ‘Arte(s) Urbana(s)’ (with S. Câmara, 2020) ‘Introdução à cultura Visual. Theoretical and methodological approaches’ (2013), ’Why do we paint the city? An ethnographic approach to urban graffiti’ (2010). He is co-organiser of the books: ‘(Re)Enchanting the map: ghosts, imaginaries, prefigurations’ (2024), ‘The art of building citizenship: youth, creative practices and activism’. (2022); ‘Exploring Ibero-American Youth Cultures in the 21st Century. Creativity, Resistance and Transgression in the City’ (2021); “Political Graffiti in Critical Times: The Aesthetics of Street Politics” (2021), Transglobal Sounds. Music, Younth and Migration, (2016), ‘Popular & Visual Culture: Design, Circulation and Consumption’ (2014) and ‘A City of Images’ (2011).
