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Luciane Lucas dos Santos is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, integrating and co-coordinating the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe) as well as the Study Group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL-CES). She is part of the academic staff of the Doctoral Programme "Democracy in the 21st Century" as invited lecturer and of the research team of the Observatory of Religion in the Public Space (POLICREDOS). She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2004) and a Master's Degree from the same institution (1999). She worked as senior lecturer and researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ/Brazil), having consolidated a long academic career there. She has moved to Sociology for 15 years, being dedicated to the consumption studies and studies on the economy, particularly Feminist Economics. Her main research and lecturing interests are: Feminist Economics, Feminist Aesthetics, postcolonial feminisms, postcolonial and decolonial studies on consumption and Economics, poverty and social inequalities from an interseccional perspective, Global South within Europe.

Lorena Sancho Querol holds a bachelor´s degree in Fine Arts by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1995), a Master and a PhD in Social Museology by the Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon. Her PhD thesis was entitled "Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sociomuseology: a study on inventories" and focused on the theory and good practice of participatory inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. She was awarded grants by the "ERASMUS-MUNDUS program" (1995-96) at the bachelor´s degree; of the "EEA Grants & Norwegian Financial Mechanism" (PT0019/EEA-grants, 2007-09) and the "Science and Technology Foundation" (FCT) of the Portuguese Ministry for Science and Education (FCT-SFRH/BD/63787/2009, 2010-11) during her PhD. She was also awarded by the COST Action IS1007 "Training School "Culture(s) in Sustainable Futures" (2015) and Guest Professor at the PVE/CAPES Program (Brazil 2015-16). Lorena is currently a researcher on the area of Social Museology at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, where she is integrated at the RG "Cities, Cultures and Architectures".In this context she has been developing her post-doctoral project "Society in the Museum: a study on cultural participation in local European museums" (SoMus), with the support of the above mentioned FCT (SFRH/BPD/95214/2013) between 2014 and 2018. In the same context she integrates the coordination team of the P-2020 project "Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas" (CREATOUR) since 2016, and the CES team at the H-2020 project "European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities" (ECHOES) which she coordinates together with Paulo Peixoto since 2018. Lorena´s research and teaching activities are directed to new models of participatory management in local museums, on the recognition of invisibilized collective memories, and on social legitimation of local heritage through collaborative tools such as participatory inventories, cultural mapping or the creation of new museological formulas.