Lígia FerroUniversity of Porto | UP · Sociology
Lígia Ferro
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European PhD, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, visiting scholar at several universities in Europe, USA and Brazil, is professor of Sociology at the University of Porto (UP), and member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Sociology. Currently, President of the European Sociological Association and Vice-President of the Portuguese Sociological Association. She is interested in social inequalities. Book series editor for Springer and author of publications in 6 languages.
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September 2015 - present
February 2012 - present
June 2008 - present
Education
September 2006 - November 2011
September 1999 - September 2001
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The book Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life is a publication promoted by the European Sociological Association Research Network 37 – Urban Sociology. As members of the coordination and board of this research network, our aim is to establish bridges throughout Europe and beyond, by contributing to the dissemination of relevant research in...
This volume gathers, analyses, discusses and evaluates results of current research on arts and cultural education in Europe, focusing on the challenges of cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is an increasingly characteristic feature of contemporary societies. Groups with different ethnic, social or cultural backgrounds coexist, interact and merg...
It is relevant to discuss the current situation of sociology in Portugal, considering the recent trends worldwide, and the ability of sociology to dialogue with society at local, national, and international levels. This text is organized into three sections: firstly, an overview of sociology in Portugal is presented; secondly, the development of th...
Este artigo centra-se nos principais contributos do projeto europeu Uncharted sobre os valores emergentes na administração cultural europeia, apoiando-se numa vasta análise documental, em grupos focais e entrevistas a uma plêiade de atores. Analisando quatro estudos de caso ibéricos, procura-se identificar a diversidade de valores que moldam as dec...
This paper was written under the research project CRiCity: “Children and their Right to the City: Tackling urban inequity through the participatory design of child-friendly cities” developed in Lisbon and Porto and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through national funds (PTDC/SOC-SOC/30415/2017). We focus on two...
Este artigo reflete sobre o processo de organização do dossiê denominado “AtoresUrbanos: estéticas, trajetórias e projetos de vida na cidade” publicado em dezembro de2022 pela revista Iluminuras, vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em AntropologiaSocial da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PPGAS/UFRGS). Desde omomento da concepção do do...
Este livro é uma obra de comunicação e diplomacia científica. A partir de um projeto de investigação sobre crianças e as cidades, pretende deixar pistas para cientistas sociais e políticos na insatisfação da procura de melhores políticas públicas com apoio de cientistas sociais.
Starting from a research carried out in the city of Porto, Portugal, on the uses of public parks by children with different social backgrounds, this chapter discusses the practices and views of children when they visit parks in times of pandemic. Playing outdoors potentially contributes to the well-being of children. However, children’s independent...
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Based on research carried out in the city of Porto, Portugal, this chapter presents two case studies in which we analyze the practices of children from different social backgrounds in two urban parks, before and during the pandemic. It is important to highlight that the region of Porto was, at an earlier stage, the epicenter of the pan...
Introdução Sabemos que existe uma discussão em torno do estatuto de vulnerabilidade das crianças, questionando a diversidade de condições e situações socioeconómicas no âmago deste grande grupo que designamos por "crianças". A verdade é que o discurso em torno do seu estatuto vulnerável tem contribuído mais para as afastar do exercício pleno dos se...
Já tendo traçado conexões entre o Brasil e Portugal em suas investigações multilocalizadas, Lígia Ferro vem revelando importantes percursos para as discussões da Etnografia Urbana em língua portuguesa. Docente auxiliar do Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (UP), onde se licenciou em Sociologia, é também pesqu...
Os Direitos das Crianças constituem o mote do número temático de 2020 da Sociologia:
Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, celebrando assim os sessenta anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos da Criança, assinada no dia 20 de novembro de 1959 e adotada pela Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas, sob a forma de uma Convenção Univer...
O texto parte de investigação prévia sobre a institucionalização da arte urbana e sua acomodação no campo da cultura e das artes, para pensar as atuais condições de trabalho dos seus protagonistas em contexto de pandemia, focalizando em particular o período do confinamento e do verão que se lhe seguiu. Conclui-se que os artistas do campo da arte ur...
O Projeto “Retratos das Ilhas – o Bonfim para Além das Fachadas”, promovido
pela Rede Inducar em parceria com a PELE, Espaço de Contacto Social
e Cultural e com o fotojornalista Paulo Pimenta, consistiu num trabalho
de intervenção social e artística que recorreu ao teatro e à fotografia
para promover a recolha e reflexão sobre a memória das ilhas d...
Nenhum discurso político contemporâneo prescinde de referências à classe média. Ora em tom encomiástico, apologético e até messiânico, elogiando as suas virtudes de empenho, talento e mérito; ora realçando o seu papel de articulador da estrutura social, espécie de modelo para a mobilidade social e pivot das mudanças societais; ora como estabilizado...
This book was inadvertently published with incorrect institutional affiliation for Prof. Teunis IJdens in the copyright page and in Chapter 2. This has now been corrected to:
Teaching and learning practices around arts in various formal and informal contexts are increasingly at the centre of ethnographic research. In parallel, artists and arts researchers are engaging with ethnography as a part of their research toolkit. Ethnography helps reveal the potentialities of the arts and interconnects several disciplinary pract...
This chapter addresses the role played by arts education in the promotion of citizenship and human development, in the framework of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Taking the Portuguese education system as a case study, we describe how arts education has been conceived in the national school curricula from the 1960s unti...
The article considers the key dimensions of the life trajectories of the immigrant artists living in the Lisbon metropolitan area focusing on those related to the socialization process both in formal institutions and in a broader setting of informal learning. The authors conducted a sociological analysis of 20 biographical interviews with a heterog...
The text focuses the possible implications of articulating the ethnographic methodology and the research methodology applied in the psychanalytical approach for the comprehension of urban territories where individuals presenting abusive uses of alcohol and other drugs are present. For this theoretical-practical construction, the experiences of the...
Rio de Janeiro e Lisboa são as “cidades em mudança” que estão na base dos
capítulos que aqui se apresentam. Escrita por um grupo de cientistas
sociais, de diferentes gerações, que no Brasil e em Portugal, dedicam-se
ao seu estudo aprofundado, nos oferecendo uma multiplicidade de temas e
perspectivas, por meio de um conjunto de ensaios analíticos e...
Los cuatro artículos recogidos en la sección Ágora de este número responden a la llamada realizada en torno a la compilación de (parafraseando el CfP original) investigaciones que ponen la mirada en cómo los jóvenes experimentan y actúan sobre los espacios urbanos en los que viven, recreándolos y construyendo las ciudades contemporáneas. Además, en...
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O texto apresenta o dossiê “Etnografias urbanas: explorando as cidades contemporâneas”, focalizando em particular as potencialidades e constrangimentos do fazer etnográfico em contextos urbanos diferentes – Porto (Portugal), Barcelona (Espanha) e Yachay (Equador) –, operacionalizado a partir de formações disciplinares diversas (antropologia, soc...
This special issue brings together detailed ethnographic studies of social practice in a variety of social contexts in which the arts and/or aesthetic concerns are central. It captures a momentum in educational ethnographic research in which an increasing number of researchers have turned their attention to expressive practices and artistic spaces...
The generation borders are usually seen as factors of social differentiation in what concerns practices and constructions of certain musical genres and related lifestyles. Starting from an ethnographic research in the Cova da Moura neighborhood and other places of the musical circuit performed by Cape-Verdean immigrants working at Amadora, we concl...
Five years after the proclamation of the 2010 Seoul Agenda, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the goals for sustainable development as the foundation of the work of the United Nations forthe next 15 years. In line with the UN strategy for arts education in the context of sustainable development, the ENO network - Associated with UNESCO -...
Comparative ethnography of two urban practices, graffiti and parkour. Fieldwork was developed in Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris, New York and Rio de Janeiro.
Starting from an ethnographic research on the Brazilian popular music world in some of Bairro Alto’s
places (Lisbon) this article discuss how the paths pinched by the Brazilian immigrant artists in search
of artistic fulfillment and of public recognition are constructed side by side with an intensive sociability
between peers, where work and leisur...
Socio-professional profiles of immigrant artists in Portugal The presence of immigrants in the cultural and artistic labor markets has captured the attention of social scientists. However, to this day, an analysis focused strictly on the socio-professional profiles of artists coming from countries outside of the European Union to Portugal is still...
Pretende-se refletir sobre as representações que diferentes peças de graffiti localizadas na cidade do Porto, Portugal, têm para os urbanitas alheios à cultura do grafffiti. Tendo sido o graffiti abordado dos mais variados pontos de vista disciplinares e frequentemente focalizando as práticas e as vivências dos seus protagonistas, considera-se que...
http://esarn37.hypotheses.org/ https://www.facebook.com/esarn37 Dear Colleagues, Contemporary cities are traversed by a diversity of movements, making them very special locus for analysing society. The ESA's Research Network 37-Urban Sociology-coordination team is working to stimulate scientific debate within the area of urban sociology. In times o...
This special issue brings together detailed ethnographic studies of social practice and action in a variety of social contexts where the arts and aesthetic concerns are central. We seek studies reporting research that focuses on: performing arts (music, theatre), plastic arts (photography, painting, sculpture), literature (narrative and poetry), ot...
The presence of immigrants in the cultural and artistic labor markets has captured the attention of social scientists. However, to this day, an analysis focused strictly on the socio-professional profiles of artists coming from countries outside of the European Union to Portugal is still lacking in the literature. This article presents a comparativ...
Call for Papers Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life European Sociological Association Research Network 37 - Urban Sociology - Midterm Conference Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland June, 29th- July, 1st, 2016 http://esarn37.hypotheses.org/ https://www.facebook.com/esarn37 Abstract submission: November 5th, 2015 - December 15th, 2015 to...
Resulting from a research on the gender identity constructions of women in club (sub)cultures (associated with electronic dance music) in Portugal, this article aims to contribute to clubbing studies by proposing an analytical framework useful for the studyof different realities, spaces and fractions of clubbing. After discussing literature on the...
Parkour is a relatively new practice in Portugal. It became popular in Lisbon because it has some public places, including Telheiras and the Parque das Nações, that are appreciated by parkour protagonists. Telheiras has a very special architecture that is ideal for parkour jumping, while the Parque das Nações is a renewed part of the city with good...
The harm reduction strategy related with drug use has generated diverse experiences of social intervention with strong social impact regarding safer behaviors by the actors to whom it is addressed. In the academy, there is little discussion on the potential of combining harm reduction strategy with community intervention approach, despite the fact...
Ferro, Lígia (2005) “Ao encontro da Sociologia Visual” in Sociologia, Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, n.º 15, pp. 373-398.
A estratégia da redução de riscos e minimização de danos (RRMD) no consumo de substâncias psicoativas (SPA) tem gerado várias experiências de intervenção social com forte impacto social no que diz respeito a comportamentos de menor risco por parte dos atores a quem se dirige. No meio académico existe pouca reflexão sobre as potencialidades de conju...
Richard Lachmann is a professor in the Department of Sociology of the University at Albany, State University of New York. He completed his B. A. with highest honors at Princeton University and his M. A. and Ph. D. at Harvard University. His research
and writing are focused on Political Sociology and Comparative Historical
Sociology, especially on t...
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Community murals in US inner city neighborhoods offer popular, grassroots representations of local identities and their relation to urban space and community culture. They are powerful tools in building neighborhood solidarity across ethnic groups, generations, and defended gang territories. Designed primarily for local consumption, murals circulat...
Three anthropologists visited community murals in Boston, concentrating on the black and Latino neighborhoods of Roxbury, and Dorchester. With common interest in the ethnographic perspective, they moved toward a joint reflection on local murals. Our encounter with these murals drew on our previous ethnographic experience with festivals and neighbor...
The main objective of this work is to understand the construction of gender identities in the field of youth (sub)cultures linked to the participation in electronic music festivals, in particular, drumnbass, techno and trance, in order to understand the complex intersections between gender and social class and the internal structure of club (sub)...
The main objective of this work is to understand the construction of gender identities in the field of youth (sub)cultures linked to the participation in electronic music festivals, in particular, drum'n'bass, techno and trance, in order to understand the complex intersections between gender and social class and the internal structure of club (sub)...
BOIA, Pedro dos Santos (bolseiro de investigação) Mestrado em Sociologia Instituto de Sociologia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto pedroboia@sapo.pt Palavras-chave: género; música electrónica; (sub)culturas juvenis; club cultures NÚMERO DE SÉRIE: 313 Resumo Partindo do trabalho teórico-empírico realizado no âmbito de uma pesquisa sobr...
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