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Apresentação

Contextos de Pesquisa

Cuba | Espanha

Interesses de Pesquisa

Turismo | Migração | Economia | Intimidade

Afiliação

ISCTE

Nota biográfica

Valerio Simoni graduated in Anthropology at the University of Neuchâtel and holds a PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University. Grounded in ethnographic research in Cuba and Spain, his work has focused on the economic, social and cultural flows generated by international tourism and migration. His current project "Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the 'Good Life' in Times of Crisis" (ERC STG 2018-2023), contributes to three scholarly areas of enquiry: 1) the study of morality, ethics and what counts as "good life", 2) the study of the field of economic practice, its definition, value regimes, and 'crises', and 3) the study of migratory aspirations, projects, and trajectories.

Todos os Projetos

Dados actualizados a 19-03-2025, a partir da plataforma CIÊNCIAVITAE.

2018/02-2023/07

Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis

759649

Principal investigator

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement

Instituições financiadoras: European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development IDEAS The European Research Council

2017-2021

Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Mobilities and Imaginaries of Freedom

169715

Research Fellow

Instituições financiadoras: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung

2016-2019

Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction: Financial Transformations in Post2008 Europe

PTDC/IVC-ANT/4520/2014

Research Fellow

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Sociologia Económica e das Organizações

Instituições financiadoras: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2015-2016

Towards an anthropological approach to tourism in the Cusco region, Peru: Institutional cooperation and partnership

SM-LA 17-AF1589/71305

Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement

Instituições financiadoras: Eidgenössisches Staatssekretariat für Bildung Forschung und Innovation

2014/07-2017/06

The Transformation of Intimate and Economic Lives in Cuban Tourism and Migration

147946

Principal investigator

Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement

Instituições financiadoras: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung

2012-2013

Addressing the Multiple Aspects of Sustainability: Policy Programmes and Livelihood Projects [AMAS]

CSO2011-26843

Invited Scientist Fellow

Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Geografia i Història

Instituições financiadoras: España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

2011-2012

Transnational Loves: Constitution and Development of Mixed Couples in Spain

REf. CSO2009-10187

Research Fellow

Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Campus Catalunya

Instituições financiadoras: España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

2011/01/01-2013/12/31

Projecto Estratégico - UI 3122 - 2011-2012

PEst-OE/AFR/UI3122/2011

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

Instituições financiadoras: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2010/07/01-2014/06/30

Controversial Commodities: The Transformations of Relationships in the Realm of Tourism in Cuba

SFRH/BPD/66483/2009

Post-doc

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

Instituições financiadoras: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Todas as Publicações

Dados actualizados a 19-03-2025 , a partir da plataforma CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Capítulo de livro

Migrant, Tourist, Cuban: Identification and Belonging in Return Visits to Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. Routledge. 2022. Publicada

Entrada de enciclopédia

Encountering Tourism

Simoni, Valerio, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.170 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Remittances and morality: family obligations, development, and the ethical demands of migration

Simoni, Valerio; Voirol, Jérémie, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2516 - 2536. 11. 47. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2020.1779678 . 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1779678 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Appartenances et identifications à l’épreuve. Migrants en visite de retour à Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Ethnographiques.org. 2019. https://www.ethnographiques.org/2019/Simoni . 10.25667/ethnographiques/2019-37/003 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Tourism, Migration, and Back in Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, American Anthropologist. 755 - 760. 3. 121. 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.13307 . 10.1111/aman.13307 . Publicada

Capítulo de livro

{The Borderzone} Living in and Reaching beyond the Touristic Borderzone: A View from Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond. naomi leite; Quetzil Castañeda; Kathleen Adams. Lexington Books. Lanham. 2019. Publicada

Artigo em revista

Approaching Difference, Inequality, and Intimacy in Tourism: A View from Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Journal of Anthropological Research. 503 - 525. 4. 74. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699942 . 10.1086/699942 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Informal Guiding: Enacting Immediacy, Informality and Authenticity in Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Ethnologia Europaea . 14 - 27. 2. 48. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/ee.1956 . 10.16995/ee.1956 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Ethnographier les affects: captures, résistances, attachements

Plancke, Carine; Simoni, Valerio, TSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association. 4 - 13. 23. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2018.18.7284 . 10.36950/tsantsa.2018.18.7284 . Publicada

Edição de número de revista

Ethnographier les affects: captures, résistances, attachements

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology. 23. 2018. https://journal-sa.ch/issue/view/1095 . Publicada

Capítulo de livro

True Love and Cunning Love: Negotiating Intimacy, Deception and Belonging in Touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Intimate Mobilities. Christian Groes; Nadine Fernandez. Berghahn Books. 2018. Publicada

Artigo em revista

Sex, seduction, and care for the other in touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Téoros. 1 - 17. 2. 37. 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18163 . Publicada

Entrada de enciclopédia

Hosts and Guests

Simoni, Valerio, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage. 2017. https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-international-encyclopedia-of-travel-and-tourism/i6110.xml . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Business, Hospitality, and Change in Cuba’s Private Tourism Sector: A View from 'Casas Particulares' in Viñales

Simoni, Valerio, Tourism Planning & Development. 293 - 312. 3. 15. 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2017.1399436 . 10.1080/21568316.2017.1399436 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

"Capitalism Is Just around the Corner": A View on Tourism and Economic Development from Rural Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Anthropology News. e193 - e199. 4. 58. 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/an.574 . 10.1111/an.574 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Economization, moralization, and the changing moral economies of ‘capitalism’ and ‘communism’ among Cuban migrants in Spain

Simoni, Valerio, Anthropological Theory. 454 - 475. 4. 16. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499616684053 . 10.1177/1463499616684053 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Ethnography, Mutuality, and the Utopia of Love and Friendship in Touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. 143 - 167. 3. 8. 2016. https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/jasoonline-2016 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Rethinking Euro-anthropology: part three. Early career scholars forum

Francisco Martínez; Mariya Ivancheva; Valerio Simoni; Martin Demant Frederiksen; Livia Jiménez; Laura Hirvi; Kacper Poblocki; et al, Social Anthropology. 353 - 379. 3. 24. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1469-8676.12327 . 10.1111/1469-8676.12327 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Intimacy and Belonging in Cuban Tourism and Migration

Simoni, Valerio, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 26 - 41. 2. 33. 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ca.2015.330204 . 10.3167/ca.2015.330204 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Breadwinners, sex machines and romantic lovers: entangling masculinities, moralities, and pragmatic concerns in touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Etnografica. 389 - 411. 2. 19. 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.4039 . 10.4000/etnografica.4039 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Masculinities in times of uncertainty and change: introduction

Piscitelli, Adriana; Simoni, Valerio, Etnografica. 293 - 299. 2. 19. 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.4010 . 10.4000/etnografica.4010 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Breadwinners, sex machines and romantic lovers: Entangling masculinities, moralities, and pragmatic concerns in touristic Cuba | Provedores de sustento, máquinas sexuais e amantes românticos: Masculinidades, moralidades e preocupações pragmáticas interligadas na Cuba turística

Simoni, Valerio, Etnografica. 389 - 411. 2. 19. 2015. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84933527428&partnerID=MN8TOARS . Publicada

Edição de número de revista

Masculinities in times of uncertainty and change

Etnografica. 2. 19. 01-06-2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.3981 . 10.4000/etnografica.3981 . Publicada

Capítulo de livro

Shaping Money and Relationships in Touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development. Routledge. 2015. Publicada

Artigo em revista

Masculinities in times of uncertainty and change: Introduction | Masculinidades em tempos de incerteza e mudanças

Piscitelli, A.; Simoni, Valerio, Etnografica. 293 - 299. 2. 19. 2015. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84933505575&partnerID=MN8TOARS . Publicada

Artigo em revista

From tourist to person: the value of intimacy in touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 280 - 292. 3. 12. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14766825.2014.934054 . 10.1080/14766825.2014.934054 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Tourism and transformation: negotiating metaphors, experiencing change

Sofia Sampaio; Valerio Simoni; Cyril Isnart, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 93 - 101. 2. 12. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14766825.2014.924674 . 10.1080/14766825.2014.924674 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Coping with ambiguous relationships: sex, tourism, and transformation in Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 166 - 183. 2. 12. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14766825.2014.915093 . 10.1080/14766825.2014.915093 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

The morality of friendship in touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Suomen Antropologi. 19 - 36. 1. 39. 2014. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905509607&partnerID=MN8TOARS . 10.30676/jfas.124706 . Publicada

Edição de número de revista

Friendship, morality, and experience

Suomen Antropologi. 1. 39. 2014. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905488052&partnerID=MN8TOARS . Publicada

Edição de número de revista

Tourism and Transformation: Negotiating Metaphors, Experiencing Change

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 2. 12. 2014. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtcc20/12/2?nav=tocList . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Introduction: Friendship, morality, and experience

Simoni, Valerio; Jason Thoop, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 4 - 18. 1. 39. 2014. https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/issue/view/8825 . Publicada

Revisão de livro

Roland, L. Kaifa (2011) Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meaning

Simoni, Valerio, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. 2014. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/journeys/15/1/jy150106.xml . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Intimate Stereotypes: The Vicissitudes of Being Caliente in Touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Civilisations. 181 - 198. 62. 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.3320 . 10.4000/civilisations.3320 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Revisiting Hosts and Guests: Ethnographic Insights on Touristic Encounters from Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Journal of Tourism Challenges and Trends , 39-62. 39 - 62. 2. 6. 2013. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=248980 . Publicada

Capítulo de livro

Touristic Encounters Revisited: Controversies of ‘Social’ and ‘Economic’ Value in Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Tourism in the Global South: Landscapes, Identities and Development. João Sarmento; Eduardo Brito-Henriques. Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Geográficos. Lisbon, Portugal. 2013. Publicada

Capítulo de livro

Tourism Materialities: Enacting Cigars in Touristic Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity. René van der Duim; Carina Ren; Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson. Routledge. London. 2012. Publicada

Capítulo de livro

Dancing tourists: Tourism, party and seduction in Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation . David Picard; Mike Robinson. Routledge. 2012. Publicada

Capítulo de livro

L’interculturalité comme justification: Sexe ‘couleur locale’ dans la Cuba touristique

Simoni, Valerio, Anthropologies de l’interculturalité. Anne Lavanchy; Fred Dervin; Anahy Gajardo. L'Harmattan. Paris, France. 2011. Publicada

Revisão de livro

Saskia Cousin and Bertrand Réau (2009) Sociologie du tourisme

Simoni, Valerio, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 2010. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14766821003661299 . Publicada

Capítulo de livro

Tra ‘amicizia’ e ‘interesse’: La negoziazione di relazioni nell’ambito di incontri informali tra turisti e Cubani

Simoni, Valerio, Scenari Turistici. Chiara Cipollari. CISU, Centro d’Informazione e Stampa Universitaria. Rome, Italy. 2009. Publicada

Artigo em revista

Scaling cigars in the Cuban tourism economy

Simoni, Valerio, Etnografica. 417 - 438. 2. 13. 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.1331 . 10.4000/etnografica.1331 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

From ethnographers to tourists and back again

Simoni, Valerio; McCabe, Scott, Civilisations. 173 - 189. 57. 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.1276 . 10.4000/civilisations.1276 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Shifting Power: The (De)Stabilization of Asymmetries in the Realm of Tourism in Cuba

Simoni, Valerio, Tsansta: Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association. 89 - 97. 13. 2008. https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=tsa-002:2008:13::219#94 . Publicada

Capítulo de livro

‘Riding’ Diversity: Cubans’/Jineteros’ Uses of ‘Nationality-Talks’ in the Realm of their Informal Encounters with Tourists

Simoni, Valerio, Tourism Development: Growth, Myths and Inequalities. Peter Burns; Marina Novelli. CAB International. Wallingford, Cambridge MA, United Kingdom. 2008. Publicada

Artigo em revista

‘Hello my friend! Have a Look Inside, Special Price!’ Interazioni verbali tra commercianti e turisti in Ladakh (India)

Simoni, Valerio, Babylonia . 58 - 61. 5. 2. 2005. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAMQw7AJahcKEwiYsa3ulNz-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbabylonia.ch%2Ffileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fdocuments%2F2005-2%2Fsimoni.pdf&psig=AOvVaw3eDIDNJrboaxgjrpFrnRaR&ust=1683306743728746 . Publicada

Artigo em revista

Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as Transnational Practice

Simoni, Valerio, International Journal of Tourism Research. 375 - 376. 5. 6. 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jtr.497 . 10.1002/jtr.497 . Publicada

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