Seminar

Women’s things are not small things: the struggles of indigenous women of the Amazon

Jennifer Simpson dos Santos

José Manuel Mendes

Maurício Hashizume

Teresa Cunha

March 8, 2016, 17h00

Room 2, CES-Coimbra

Bio notes

Teresa Cunha, CES researcher, Co-coordinator of the ALICE project, professor at the Polytechnical Institue of Coimbra. Research interest include: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms and Other Economies in the Indian Ocean and Brazil.

José Manuel Mendes, CES researcher, Co-coordinator of the ALICE project, professor at the University of Coimbra. Research interest include: Democracy, inequalities, social mobility, social movements and collective action, risk and social vulnerability.

Maurício Hashizume, CES junior researcher and ALICE project researcher, Ph.D. candidate in the Programme "Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship". Research interest include: political subjects; indigenous movements, colonialities/decolonialities; postcolonial/decolonial studies, interculturality; political sociology, autonomies and social transformation.

Jennifer Simpson dos Santos Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra  her research interests include arts as political tools, artisanal struggles and indigenous women.