Júlia Garraio


Biography

Júlia Garraio is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, where she integrates the research Research Group on Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. She is vice president of the CES Ethics Committee. She is a fellow (CEEC) of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) with the project Dis/entangling Rape: Sexual Violence in Portuguese literature and cinema in the 21st century (2023-2028). She is Co-PI of the FCT project UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape (2023-2025). She is co-founder of the international research group SVAC-Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. She is review editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. She integrated the Historical Research Group of the Independent Commission for the Study of Child Sexual Abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church (2022-23). She participated in several projects in the areas of Memory Studies, Gender Studies, Media, Literature and Cultural Studies. She was engaged as a researcher by the projects DeCodeM - (De)Coding Masculinities: Towards an enhanced understanding of media's role in shaping perceptions of masculinities in Portugal and DeOthering - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes.


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Garraio, Júlia; Carvalho, Rita Almeida de; Pinto, Sérgio Ribeiro; Mendes, Francisco Azevedo; Almeida, Ana Nunes de (2026), Sexueller Missbrauch von Kindern in der portugiesischen katholischen Kirche. Was die kirchlichen Archive über das Zusammenspiel von Staat und Kirche enthüllen, in Nicole Priesching und Frank Kleinehagenbrock (org.), Die Frage nach dem katholischen Spezifikum. Brill | Schöningh, 239-268

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Article in Scientific journal

Roque, Sílvia; Santos, Rita; Garraio, Júlia (2026), "Women's mobilization and antifeminist discursive framings in Portugal's far right", Frontiers in Political Science, 8

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Article in Scientific journal

Santos, Sofia José; Garraio, Júlia; Carvalho, Bárbara Janiques de (2026), "Caring masculinities and the politics of feminist representation in the Portuguese media", Frontiers, 10

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