We Global: Ongoing Research on Globalization Themes

Authors

Pedro Abrantes
Universidade Aberta
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9572-9563
Elsa Lechner
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5029-1243
Keywords: Globalization, Social Sciences, Global Studies, Social Problems, Cultures

Synopsis

We Global: Ongoing Research on Globalization Themes collects reflections and results of a set of ongoing research projects, in the field of global studies. Each text represents a distinct approach to key phenomena of our times, all of them entailing deep and intensive interactions between different regions of the planet, according to social sciences’ perspectives. So distinct issues as the fascination and reinterpretation of former civilizations, tourism, cinema, conservative political movements, environmental disasters, labour precariousness or homeless populations, enable us to think about this new world that we are inhabiting and forging each day. Together, as it is systematized in the introduction, this collection supports our efforts to understand core changes taking place today and how global studies may develop creative and critical perspectives to intervene in such a complex and contradictory world.

Author Biographies

Pedro Abrantes, Universidade Aberta

Pedro Abrantes holds a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where he is a researcher and visiting professor, specialized in the fields of sociology of education, social inequalities, and life course. He has taught and carried out research at several higher education institutions in Portugal, as well as at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CIESAS, and Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City. Since 2013, he has been an Associate Professor at Universidade Aberta, Portugal, where he teaches the course of Research Methodologies in Global Studies. He was a staff member of the Minister of Education, between 2016 and 2020, and Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Statistics for Education and Science, from 2020 to 2022.

Elsa Lechner, University of Coimbra

Elsa Lechner is an associate researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, 2003), and she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Berkeley, a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Universities of Brown and Rutgers-Newark (2014-15), having developed biographical research with migrant populations (Portuguese in France, in the USA, and in Brazil, as well as migrants and refugees from different origins in Portugal). She has coordinated national and international research projects on migration, she has been a member of numerous teams of national and international research projects on migration and biographical research, and she is the author of several books and articles on biographical research in the study of migration, reviewer of national and international journals in the field of social sciences and biographical research. She has also been supervisor and co-supervisor of several doctoral and post-doctoral projects at CES-UC and other universities.

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Published
December 28, 2022

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ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-2410-5
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-2410-5

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