CRIA

Raquel Maria Mendes Pereira

Academic Degree

Doctorate

Group

Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography

About

Research Context

India (Goa)

Research Interests

Environmental Anthropology; Political Ecology; Protected Areas; Heritage; Tourism; Small-scale fisheries

Institutional Subunit

NOVA FCSH

Biographical Note

Raquel Maria Mendes Pereira holds a PhD in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology (ISCTE-IUL, NOVA FCSH, CRIA), and was an FCT Fellow between 2015 and 2019. She also has a degree in Anthropology (ISCTE-IUL) and a Master of Sciences (MSc) in Anthropology: Globalization, Migration and Multiculturalism (ISCTE-IUL).

Status

Integrated (2022-10-27)

All projects

Data updated on 03-08-2025, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

2021/02-2021/11

Biosphere Reserves: sustainable territories, resilient communities

PT-ENVIRONMENT-0032

Research Fellow

HTC - History of Territories and Communities (NOVA FCSH) and CEF - Center for Functional Ecology, Science for People and the Planet (University of Coimbra)

Financiers: EEA Grants

2015-2019

An ethnography on the margins: environmental conservation, artisanal fisheries and tourism in Goa, India (title translated by the author)

SFRH / BD / 113913/ 2015

PhD Student Fellow

Financiers: Foundation for Science and Technology

2014-2015

LOCAL PASS - A local approach toward the reduction of psychoactive substance use

Project JUST/2012/DPIP/AG/3600

Other

Financiers: Drug Prevention and Information Programme-DPIP

2014-2015

NPS in Europe - New Psychoactive Substances among People Who Use Drugs Heavily

JUST/2013/DPIP 4000004774

Other

Financiers: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

2014-2015

CHECK!N Lisbon - Risk reduction project

LVT/LX/076/01

Other

Financiers: SICAD - General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies

All Publications

Data updated on 03-08-2025 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Journal article

Identidade(s) e negociação: a dança de veste e despe, despe e veste!

Mendes Pereira, Raquel, Etnográfica. Secção: Notas de Campo. 2023. https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0002.0xhb-wr26 . https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0002.0xhb-wr26 . Published

Book chapter

"We Are Fishermen and Businessmen"

Mendes Pereira, Raquel, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Rajendra Baikady, S.M. Sajid, Varoshini Nadesan, Jaroslaw Przeperski, M. Rezaul Islam, Jianguo Gao. Springer International Publishing. 2022. Published

Thesis / Dissertation

Uma etnografia nas margens: conservação ambiental, pesca artesanal e turismo em Goa, Índia

phd. 06-07-2022. https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/25902 .

Journal article

Violência sexual e consumo de substâncias psicoativas: podem os contextos festivos ser educativos?

Pires, Cristiana do Vale; Pereira, Raquel; Valente, Helena; Moura, Helena, ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres. 37. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2018.37.10 . 10.22355/exaequo.2018.37.10 . Published

Thesis / Dissertation

Música e narrativas da multiculturalidade numa orquestra de "todos"

Mendes Pereira, Raquel , master. ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa . 2012. https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/4981?mode=full .

Other research outputs

Data updated on 21-01-2024, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

Other output

Seed macro photography service for field guide, "Plants used by both chimpanzees and humans in Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau. Field Guide"

n/a2020

Artistic exhibition

"Colective Photography" exhibition. Paços de Arcos Cultural Center

2007

Artistic exhibition

Finalists and scholarship holders Ar.Co/Part II art exhibition. Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta; Pavilhão Preto

2005

Artistic exhibition

Ar.Co Photography degree exhibitions (2001-2004). Ar.Co Lisbon (Castelo de São Jorge) and Ar.co Almada

2003

Visual artwork

Multimedia project for the exhibition "Tavira: Sea Heritages", Palácio da Galeria/ Museu Municipal de Tavira. Associação Criaactividade.