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. Her main interest subjects are gender and family dynamics, Muslim communities in Portugal, and citizenship.
At the Centre for Research in Anthropology, she co-coordinates the thematic line Azimuth - Studies in Arab and Islamic Contexts. In 2019, she directed the collective documentary Um Ramadão em Lisboa. In Portuguese, he published the book Marrocos no Feminino, Conjugalidade e Família (Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2020). She co-authored O Estado por Dentro: Uma Etnografia da Administração Pública em Portugal (FFMS, 2017). Between 2023 and 2024, she was the Principal Investigator of the Study on the Integration of Muslims in the Municipality of Sintra, financed by the Sintra City Council. 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)
