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Academic Degree

Master's

Category

Associated researchers

About

Research Context

Portugal

Research Interests

Gender configurations | Prison regimes | Ethnographic revisitation | Comparative study

Institutional Subunit

UMinho

Biographical Note

Anthropologist with a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Coimbra and a collaborating researcher at CRIA. Specializing in gender studies, sexualities, prevention and intervention models on gender violence; collaborative ethnography and action research; justice and incarceration; identities, ethnicity, and racism; cultural mediation. She has collaborated and participated in civil society organizations and national and international projects in the field of human rights for women, LBTQIA* people, children, people deprived of liberty, and those in situations of social exclusion. Her career intersects research, civic participation, and artistic practices, with experience in co-leading and co-coordinating groups and projects through creative research and community action methodologies, enabling the creation of spaces for reflection and dialogue and the collective construction of social transformative projects.

All projects

Data updated on 26-01-2025, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

2024/11-2030/09/30

The INTERACT Project. Intersectional Approach to Combating Homelessness for Women

N0/00

Researcher

2024/11-2030/09/30

The INTERACT Project. Intersectional Approach to Combating Homelessness for Women

N0

Researcher

2024/07-2024

CORPOEMCADEIA

N0

Researcher

Companhia Olga Roriz (Dance Company Olga Roriz)

Financiers: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

2022/09/01-

eSefarad: modalities and practices of digital patrimonialization of the Sephardic cultural legacy in Mediterranean contexts

UID/ANT/04038/2020

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2021/03/01-2022/12/31

Children and Youth Intervention Centre - Trampolim E8G

0/0

Researcher

2021/09-2023/10

3C's Transformation Agents (Knowledge, Awareness, Empowerment)

00

Researcher

CASPAE

2021/09-2023/10

In Other Words: Web Observatory Review, for Discrimination Alerts and Stereotypes Deconstruction

00

Researcher

CASPAE

2019/01/01-2019/12/31

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

UID/ANT/04038/2019

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2017/03/01-2017/08/31

Bystanders: Developing bystander responses to sexual harassment among young people"

JUST/2015/RDAP/AG/SEXV

Research Fellow

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação; Universidade de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género

2017/10/01-2024/05/13

Configurações de género nas prisões femininas: permanências, continuidades e variações

SFRH/BD/132518/2017

Universidade de Coimbra; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

2015-2016

Desafiar a Violêcia Sexual na Universidade I (Challenging Sexual Violence in the University I)

N

Other

União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (Union of Women, Alternative and Response)

2015/05/01-2016/09/30

Cultural Encounters in Interventions against Violence

12-HERA-JRP-CE-FP-058

Researcher

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação; Universidade de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género

Financiers: Humanities in the European Research Area

2013-2014

Memórias e Feminismos III Desocultar quotidianos de mulheres (Memory and Feminisms New Gazes, Other voices III Uncovering the everyday lives of women)

N/0

Other

União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta (Union of Women, Alternative and Response)

Financiers: Comissão para a Cidadania e Igualdade de Género

All Publications

Data updated on 26-01-2025 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Book chapter

As crianças e o sistema prisional português (Children and the Portuguese prison system)

Silva, Vera, TOOLBOX Intervenção com crianças/jovens com progenitores/as ou representantes legais em detenção e/ou reclusão: Manual de boas práticas para profissionais das áreas da justiça, segurança, educação e social (Intervention with children/young people with parents or legal representatives in detention and/or imprisonment: Manual of good practice for legal, security, education and social professionals). CASPAE - Centro de Apoio Social de Pais e Amigos da Escola (Center for Social Support for Parents and Friends of the School). Coimbra, Portugal. 2024. Published

Book chapter

Os direitos das crianças e jovens com progenitores/as ou representantes legais em detenção e/ou em reclusão - enquadramento (The rights of children and young people with parents or legal representatives in detention and/or in prison - background)

Silva, Vera, TOOLBOX Intervenção com crianças/jovens com progenitores/as ou representantes legais em detenção e/ou reclusão: Manual de boas práticas para profissionais das áreas da justiça, segurança, educação e social (Intervention with children/young people with parents or legal representatives in detention and/or imprisonment: Manual of good practice for legal, security, education and social professionals. CASPAE - Centro de Apoio Social de Pais e Amigos da Escola (Center for Social Support for Parents and Friends of the School). Coimbra, Portugal. 2024. Published

Book

2nd IEF International Colloquium ROADS TO CARE: Book of Abstracts

Cera, Agostino; Falcato, Ana; Dores, António; Viña, Beatriz Rayón; Ferro, Bernardo; Casalini, Brunella; Botrugno, Carlo; et al, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos. Coimbra, Portugal. 2022. Published

Newspaper article

Realidade escondida nas prisões, violências silenciadas (The hidden reality in prisons, silenced violence)

Silva, Vera, Le Monde Diplomatique - edição portuguesa (portuguese edition). 01-2022.

Journal article

As configurações de género nos regimes prisionais e a reprodução da carceralidade (Gender Configurations in Prison Regimes and the Reproduction of Carcerality)

Silva, Vera Inês Costa da, e-cadernos do CES. 37. 2022. https://journals.openedition.org/eces/7232 . 10.4000/eces.7232 . Published

Conference abstract

O panótico de Bentham e os cuidados enredados na prisão (Bentham's panopticon and entangled care in prison)

DORES, António Pedro, 2022.

Book chapter

Obra em três atos sobre luz e resistência (Work in three acts about light and resistance)

Giuliani, Gaia; Esposito, Francesca; Luigi Pitarelli; Emerson, Pessoa; Gustavo Piovezan; Rodrigo Pedro Casteleira, Aura. Luz de Presença (Aura. Presence light). Criaatividade Cósmica - Associação cultural (Cultural association). Sintra, Portugal. 2021. Published

Journal article

The management of Covid-19 in Portuguese prisons

Silva, Vera, RIVISTA «ANTIGONE» Semestrale di critica del sistema penale e penitenziario. 85 - 90. 1. Anno XV. 2020. https://www.antigone.it/rivista-archivio/Rivista_Anno_XV_N1/_Rivista%20Anno%20XV%20N1.pdf . Published

Report

COVID-19: what is happening in European prisons? - April, May and June reports on the pandemic management in Portuguese prisons

Silva, Vera, European Prison Observatory . 2020. http://www.prisonobservatory.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32:covid-19-what-is-happening-in-european-prisons&catid=7&Itemid=101 .

Conference abstract

Ciência/Irresponsabilidade: As Prisões Frente ao Coronavírus (Science/Irresponsibility: Prisons Facing the Coronavirus)

Silva, Vera; DORES, António Pedro, 18-05-2020.

Conference abstract

The Prison of Gender and The Gender of Prison. A Feminist Ethnography on Gender Configurations in Prison Regimes

Silva, Vera, 2020.

Journal article

A prisão da pandemia: a gestão (im)possível da Covid-19 nas prisões (The Prison of the Pandemic: The (Im)possible Management of COVID-19 in Prisons)

Silva, Vera, Diálogos Possíveis. 2020. http://revistas.unisba.edu.br/index.php/dialogospossiveis/article/view/647 . 10.5281/zenodo.4768789 . Published

Journal article

Apontamentos para uma genealogia feminista da prisão em Portugal (XVII-XIX) (Notes for a feminist genealogy of prison in Portugal (XVII-XIX) )

Silva, Vera, Cabo dos Trabalhos. 1 - 15. 17. 2018. https://cabodostrabalhos.ces.uc.pt/n17/documentos/07_vera_silva.pdf . Published

Conference abstract

Postcolonial Feminism and Intersectionality in a Comparative Analysis of Interventions in Violence Against Women

Carol Hagman-White; Magalhães, Maria José; Rita Lopez; Silva, Vera, 25-05-2016.

Conference abstract

O tráfico de seres humanos para fins de exploração sexual: entre os mercados do sexo e a regulação das fronteiras onde está a agência das vítimas? (Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: Between Sex Markets and Border Regulation, Where is the Agency of the Victims?)

Silva, Vera; Magalhães, Maria José; Rita Lopez, 03-06-2016.

Working paper

Comparative Paper of the Intervention Against Domestic Violence in Portugal, Slovenia, Germany and the UK

Carol Hagemann-White; Magalhães, Maria José; Rita Lopez; Silva, Vera, 07-2015. https://www.fpce.up.pt/love_fear_power/pdfs/publicacoes/2016_MJM_CHW_CEINAV_DV_Comparative_paper.pdf .

Thesis / Dissertation

Controlo e punição : as prisões femininas. Estudo exploratório de uma antropologia feminista da prisão no contexto português (Control and punishment: women's prisons. Exploratory research into a feminist anthropology of prison in Portugal)

Silva, Vera Inês Costa da, master. 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/20330 .

Journal article

As Mulheres no Conflito Armado do Ruanda (Women in the Rwandan Armed Conflict)

Silva, Vera, Ex Aequo. 93 - 104. 24. 2011. https://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-55602011000200008&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt . Published