Luciane Lucas dos Santos
Biography
Luciane Lucas dos Santos is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, taking part in the Thematic Line "Democracy, Justice and Human Rights". She co-coordinated the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law at CES from 2018 to March 2021. She is the PI of the project "BioTraCes - Biodiversity and Transformative Change for Plural and Nature-Positive Societies"(HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-09/Grant 101081923) in Portugal, headed by the Wageningen University (The Netherlands). She is also the researcher who represents CES at the partnership in the FCT Project EuroREGEN (Transnational networks for regenerative development in Europe - PTDC/SOC-SOC/2061/2020), headed by ISCTE-IUL. She integrates the academic staff of the PhD Programme "Democracy in the 21st Century" (CES/FEUC) and co-coordinates two Study Groups - one related to Solidarity Economy issues (ECOSOL-CES) and the other focused on religion, gender and politics (POLICREDOS). From 2016 to 2018, she was Guest Professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (Brazil), being part of the academic staff of its Doctoral Programme. 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), having had a long academic career as assistant professor and researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ/Brazil). She has moved to Sociology for 15 years, focusing on consumption studies and economic sociology. The most recent years have been also dedicated to a sociological approach regarding three intertwined issues - gender, economy and politics. Her main research and lecturing interests are feminist economics, feminist aesthetics, postcolonial feminisms, postcolonial studies on consumption and Economics, poverty and social inequalities from an interseccional perspective, European identities and the Otherness.
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2023-09-27 Canal CES
A plataformização do trabalho: entre a precarização e a autonomia
Projetos
TRANS-Lighthouses
More than green - Lighthouses of transformative nature-based solutions for inclusive communities
EuroREGEN
BIOTraCes
Biodiversity and Transformative Change for Plural and Nature-Positive Societies
Latest Publications
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Banerjee, Swati; Lucas dos Santos, Luciane; Hulgård, Lars (2021), "Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation", Journal of Rural Studies
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Lucas dos Santos, Luciane; Cavalcanti, Vanessa; Tavares, Marcia Santana (2021), "Economias Feministas em Tempo Presente - Entrevista com Luciane Lucas dos Santos", Revista Feminismos, 9, 1, 317-330
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Lucas dos Santos, Luciane (2019), Broadening the economic imagery through European complementary currencies: citizen-driven economic initiatives and community autonomy as key concepts, in Sandra Lima Coelho e Gonçalo Marcelo (org.), Ética, Economia e Sociedade: questões cruzadas. Porto: Universidade Católica Editora, 343-364
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