Scientific Events

Organisation of scientific events

Member of the Organizing Committee of Comuns: III Encontro de Ecologia Política, Lisboa e Coimbra, 11 to 12 April by 2024 (com Calvário, Rita Vários, Vários).

Presentations in scientific events

Calvário, Rita; Andreucci, Diego; Garcia, Gustavo (2024), "Green Capitalism and its discontents: the political ecology of socioenvironmental struggles in a changing climate", paper presented at 7º Encontro Anual de Economia Política, Lisboa, 26 to 27 January.

Calvário, Rita; Andreucci, Diego (2024), "Unpacking sovereignties from below. Food and energy struggles in Southern Europe", paper presented at 7º Encontro Anual de Economia Política , Lisboa, 26 to 27 January.

Calvário, Rita (2023), "Produção agrícola e sistemas alimentares", paper presented at A Terra e o 25 de Abril , Évora, 14 to 14 October.

Calvário, Rita (2023), "Igualdade de género na política da Vía Campesina", paper presented at MAIs. Mulheres Agricultoras em Territórios do Interior. Para Sempre., Sabugal, 21 to 21 April.

Calvário, Rita (2023), "Soberania alimentar e justiça de género: perspetivas feministas e desafios metodológicos", paper presented at in/justiças: II encontro de ecologia política, Lisboa, 17 to 18 March.

Calvário, Rita (2023), "La soberanía alimentaria como traducción política: fortalecer las luchas globales y cultivar las alianzas entre personas campesinas y pescadoras en Brasil", paper presented at IX Congreso Internacional de Agroecología, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, Spain), 19 to 21 January.

Calvário, Rita (2022), "The agrarian question and the making of peasant subalternity: insights from Portugal", paper presented at Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference 2022/2023, Online (Asynchronous workshop), 16 to 20 October.

Calvário, Rita (2022), "Subalternidad campesina y resistencias. Una mirada al caso portugués ", paper presented at III Congreso de la Red Española de Historia Ambiental-RUED(H)A, Granada, 11 to 13 May.

Calvário, Rita (2022), "The Political Ecology of Austerity: the environmental dimensions of the post-2008 economic crisis", paper presented at Environmental Humanities 2021-2022 Lecture Series: Environment/Sustainability, Science, Technology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece), 09 to 09 May.

Calvário, Rita (2022), "Austerity as environmental politics: a political ecology approach", paper presented at From Political Ecology to Environmental Sociology and Environmental Humanities Lecture Series in Sustainability, Climate Crisis, Environmental Inequalities and Socioenvironmental Movements, University of Crete School of Social Sciences Department of Sociology (Crete, Greece) (online), 07 to 07 April.

Calvário, Rita (2022), "Political Ecologies of Austerity Book Launch", paper presented at Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference - DOPE 2022 , Online, 25 to 25 March.

Calvário, Rita (2021), "Peasants as essential food producers - Insights from Romania and Portugal - Policy brief background paper", paper presented at Symposium Just Food Transitions: Addressing the Peasant Question in Europe, Online, 04 to 04 December.

Calvário, Rita (2020), "Dimensões de injustiça em relação à agricultura familiar: resultados do projeto JUSTFOOD", paper presented at Workshop "Que estratégias para a justiça alimentar em Portugal?", Online, 14 to 14 October.

Calvário, Rita (2019), "Agricultura e Transformações do Rural: um olhar a partir da Soberania Alimentar", paper presented at VIII Congresso de Estudos Rurais, 05 to 07 December.

Calvário, Rita (2019), "Peasant and food sovereignty movements: gendered practices of resistance", paper presented at Gender and Power in the Global Governance of Food and Agriculture Workshop, The Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute (Geneva, Switzerland) (online), 31 to 31 October.

Calvário, Rita (2019), "Solidarity from below, emancipatory rural politics and food sovereignty struggles in the European countryside", paper presented at GLOCON's workshop "Structural transformation of the countryside", Berlin, Germany, 24 to 25 October.

Desmarais, Annette; Calvário, Rita (2019), "An emancipatory rural politics: Insights from food sovereignty struggles in the Basque Country", paper presented at Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Conference and Meeting The University of Winnipeg , Winnipeg, Canada, 27 to 27 May.

Calvário, Rita (2019), "Justiça Alimentar e Soberania Alimentar: convergência e divergência", paper presented at Ofina CES - Pensar a comida, pensar o mundo, CES, 19 to 19 May.

Calvário, Rita; Desmarais, Annette (2019), "The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: a critical overview of the literature", paper presented at RGS, London.

Calvário, Rita; Desmarais, Annette; Azkarraga, Joseba (2019), "The emancipatory politics of food sovereignty: Insights from the Basque Country", paper presented at People, Politics, Participation: Government of fragile rural areas in Italy and Europe Conference, Rovigo, Italy.

Calvário, Rita; Desmarais, Annette; , Joseba (2018), "Solidarities from below in the making of an emancipatory rural politics: Insights from food sovereignty struggles in the Basque Country", paper presented at Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World Conference, Amsterdam, Institute for Social Studies (ISS).

Calvário, Rita (2017), "Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory", paper presented at Critical Agrarian Studies Colloquium n.º 7 "The future of food and challenges for agriculture in the 21st century", Basque Country.

Calvário, Rita (2016), "Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory", paper presented at AAG, San Franscisco, US.

Calvário, Rita; Velegrakis, Giorgos; Kaika, Maria (2016), "The political ecology of austerity: a Gramscian analysis of socio-ecological conflicts in Greece under crisis", paper presented at ENTITLE International Conference, Stockholm, Sweden .

Calvário, Rita (2015), "Food sovereignty in the Basque Country: a focus on land", paper presented at Radical Geography seminars , Athens, Greece, 15 May.

Calvário, Rita; Velegrakis, Giorgos (2015), "From Greek crisis to alternatives: the question of socio-ecological movements' transition strategies", paper presented at 7th Historical Materialism Conference, London.

Calvário, Rita; Velegrakis, Giorgos (2015), "Alternative economies and transformative politics in times of crisis: the case of solidarity food economies in Greece", paper presented at 7th International Conference of Critical Geography, Ramallah, Palestine.

Calvário, Rita (2014), "Agency is not enough: challenges to back-to-the-land movements and agri-food downscaling", paper presented at 4th Degrowth International Conference,, Leipzig, Germany, 02 to 06 September.

Calvário, Rita (2014), "Back-to-the-land, alternative food networks and food politics in the crisis", paper presented at Human Geography seminars , Lund, Sweden, 06 March.

Calvário, Rita (2014), "Back-to-the-land, alternative food networks and food politics in the crisis", paper presented at Ecological Economics seminars , Barcelona, ICTA-UAB, 26 February.

Calvário, Rita (2014), "Economia solidária en sistemas agro-alimentarios: hacer en común para el bien común", paper presented at 1st Latin-American Congress on Environmental Conflicts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Calvário, Rita (2014), "Solidarity food economies in times of crisis: the case of the "no-middlemen" food distributions in Greece", paper presented at 1st Latin American Congress on Political Ecology, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Calvário, Rita (2013), "Return-to-the-land in times of crisis: theoretical insights", paper presented at XXV European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Florence, Italy, 29 July 01 August.