About
Research Interests
Economic Anthropology | Anthropology of the state and neoliberalism | Gender and commodification
Institutional Subunit
ISCTE
Biographical Note
Patrícia Matos studied at FCSH and at Goldsmiths, University of London. Patrícia's doctoral thesis is entitled 'Precarious Labour in Portuguese Call Centres: An Anthropological Study' and she was supervised by Steve Nugent. The thesis explores the themes of alienation and exploitation within the Portuguese call centre sector by focusing on the nature of value-creation in the organisation of labour, the effects this regime has on workers' consciousness and agency, and how these effects are expressed in terms of class, gender and age. These questions are examined within the broader political and economic context. Her post-doctoral research project (supervised by João Leal) examines the themes of neo-liberalism, unemployment and the changing shape of the welfare state since the 1970s in Portugal and the UK.
