About
Research Context
Morocco | Portugal | Mauritania
Research Interests
Gender | Islam | Community-making | | Citizenship | Kinship
Institutional Subunit
NOVA FCSH
Biographical Note
Raquel Carvalheira is an anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology of Gender and Kinship (2015, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon) and a Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Algarve in Southern Portugal. As Principal Researcher of the Portuguese case study in the European project Liminal Waterways Countercultures (HERA-Chanse, 2025-2027), she began to develop a study on water, gender, and forms of citizenship in maritime contexts. Her main interests are gender and family dynamics in the MENA region, Muslim communities in Portugal, and citizenship. In 2019, Raquel Carvalheira directed the collective documentary Um Ramadão em Lisboa. In Portuguese, she published the book Marrocos no Feminino, Conjugalidade e Família (Feminine Morocco: Conjugality and Family, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2020). She co-authored the book O Estado por Dentro: Uma Etnografia da Administração Pública em Portugal (The State from within: An ethnography of the Public Administration in Portugal, FFMS, 2017), which results from her fieldwork in the Portuguese Environmental Public Agency. Between 2023 and 2024, she was the Principal Investigator of the Study on the Integration of Muslims in Sintra, financed by the Sintra City Council, leading to the book Cidadanias Periféricas: Muçulmanos em Sintra (Peripherical Citizenships: Muslims in Sintra, Etnografica Books, in press). In English, she published "Communities of Care and Muslims in Portugal" (Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2024), "Facets of Charity. Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community- making in Portugal" (HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2024) and "Changing family strategies in contemporary Morocco" (Ethnologia Europaea, 2016).
Bonds
Integrated (2023-09-01)
