Paulo Peixoto



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Education

1999 - 2003 Ph. D. Student at the Faculty of Economics, Coimbra University, Portugal.

1994 - 1997 M. A. Degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra (Master's degree thesis: "Images and Uses of Urban Heritage within the Context of Globalisation" carried out under the direction of Professor Carlos Fortuna).

1989 - 1994 B. A. Degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics at Coimbra University. (Thesis: "The Awakening of the Dazzle - an Analysis of the recent Transformations within the Commercial Mesh of Coimbra" carried out under the auspices of the Seminar of Sociology for the Development and of the Social Transformation under orientation of the Professor Carlos Fortuna).

1991-1992 Catholic University of Leuven (Erasmus Program).

1987-1988 Alves Martins High School, Viseu, Portugal (12th grade completed).

1981-1987 Mangualde High School.

Publications

2004 - “Identity as Metonymical Resource of Heritage Processes”. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 70, 183-204. [in portuguese]

2004 - “Historical City Centers and Cultural Intermediation. A Study about Production, Intermediation and Cultural Representations of Heritage Promotion in Portuguese Cities ” in Nadir Boumaza, Patrimonialisation, rapport au patrimoine et question urbaine. Rabat: Centre Jacques Berque, 93-99. [in french]

2003 - "Historical City Centers and Cultural Urban Sustentability". Sociologia, 13, 211-226. [Portuguese]

2003 "World Heritage and the Intensification of Heritage Processes. Oficina do Centro de Estudos Sociais, 185. (French)

2002 "Imaginary Representation of the City. Rationalization Processes and the Esthetisation of the Urban Heritage of Coimbra" (In co-authorship with Aníbal Frias). Oficina do Centro de Estudos Sociais, 183. (Portuguese)

2002 "The Race to the Status of World Heritage and the Urban Market of Leisure and Tourism". Veredas - Revista Científica de Turismo, 1, 23-45. Available from http://www.iesp.edu.br/labtur/veredas_01_p_023-045.pdf. (Portuguese)

2002 "The Reenchantement of the City: Manners and Effects of Esthetisation of the Urban Heritage of Coimbra" (In co-authorship with Aníbal Frias). Actas do Encontro Temático Intercongressos [Cidade e Culturas: novas políticas, novas urbanidades]. Portuguese Association of Sociology. (Portuguese)

2002 "The Recreation and Reproduction of Representations in the Process of Transformation of the Urban Landscapes of Selected Portuguese Cities" (In co-authorship with Carlos Fortuna) in Carlos Fortuna and Augusto Santos Silva (orgs.). O Projecto e a circunstância. Culturas urbanas em Portugal. Porto, Afrontamento, 17-63. (Portuguese)

2002 "Rural Places and the Discovery of Heritage". Oficina do Centro de Estudos Sociais, 175. (Portuguese)

2002 "The New and the Old Cities Images: insights in transformation of the identity of five Portuguese cities" (In co-authorship with Carlos Fortuna). Actas do IV Congresso Português de Sociologia. Oeiras: Celta (on CDROM). (Portuguese)

2001 "Urban Esthetics and Scale Games: Graphic Representations and Images of the Heritage within the University World of Coimbra" (In co-authorship with Aníbal Frias). Oficina do Centro de Estudos Sociais, 162. (French)

2001 "Cities and their Heritage Processes: the Race to the Status of World Heritage and the Symbolic Identity of Cities" in Magda Pinheiro, Luís V. Baptista and Maria João Vaz. Cidade e metrópole - centralidades e marginalidades. Oeiras: Celta, 171-179. (Portuguese)

2000 "World Heritage as a Foundation of Human Community and as a Resource of Urban Cultural Industries". Oficina do Centro de Estudos Sociais, 155. (Portuguese)

2000 "Strategic Administration of the Images of Cities: Analysis of Promotional Messages and Strategies of Urban Marketing". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 56, 99-122. (Portuguese)

2000 "The Situational Logic of Consumption: a Study of the Transformations of Codes and Consumer Practices". Actas do III Congresso Português de Sociologia. Oeiras: Celta (on CDROM). (Portuguese)

1999 "Cultural Consumption in Five Cities: Aveiro, Braga, Coimbra, Guimarães and Oporto" (In co-authorship with Helena Santos, Paula Abreu, Augusto Santos Silva, Felícia Luvumba, Carlos Fortuna and Claudino Ferreira). Oficina do Centro de Estudos Sociais, 146. (Portuguese)

1999 "The Use of Uniforms and the Symbolic Construction of Identities". Sinais Vitais, 23, 16-18. (Portuguese)

1997 "Images and Uses of Urban Heritage within the Context of Globalisation. Dissertation for Master's Degree in Sociology. Faculty of Economics, Coimbra University. (Portuguese)

1997 "The Symbolic Economy of Heritage: Évora - a case study. Oficina do Centro de Estudos Sociais, 100. (French)

1997 "The Symbolic-functional Reconversion of Historical Centers: the Case of Évora" (In co-authorship with Carlos Fortuna). Actas do IV Encontro Nacional de Municípios com Centro Histórico, Regionalização e identidades locais: preservação e reabilitação dos centros históricos - 21-23 November1996. (Portuguese)

1995 "The Seduction of Consumption. New Urban Commercial Spaces". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 43, 147-170. (Portuguese)

Reports

2002 "The Sociology of Heritage". Con/m/textos, 2. Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia.

2000 Xavier Greffe, La gestion du patrimoine culturel. Paris, Anthropos (1999). Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 56.

1998 François Ascher, Metapolis: Acerca do futuro das cidades. Oeiras, Celta (1998). Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 51.

1997 Carlos Fortuna (Org.), Cidade, Cultura e Globalização. Oeiras, Celta (1997). Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 49.

1997 John Brotchie, Mike Batty, Ed Blakely, Peter Hall and Peter Newton (Eds), Cities in Competition: productive and sustainable cities for the 21st century. Melbourne, Longman Austrália (1995). Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 48.

1995 Jean Remy and Liliane Voyé, The City: heading for a new definition? Porto, Edições Afrontamento (1994). Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 43, pp. 209-211.

Scientific activities

2003-2004 Research Member for the Project: "The urban and social renovation of Coimbra downtown" financed by Câmara Municipal de Coimbra and executed by Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Coimbra.

Since 2002 Member of the Editorial Board of Veredas - Revista Científica de Turismo.

2002 Selected Member for the Jacques Berque Centre to Participate, in the Quality of Ph. D. Student, in the Session of Doctoral Studies Patrimonialisation, rapport au patrimoine et question urbaine. Rabat, January 21-26.

2000-2002 Research Member for the Project: Public Space and Urban Culture: a Study of the Influence of Global Cultural Circuits on Selected Portuguese Cities, financed by FCT and executed by the Centro de Estudos Sociais and for Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto.

2000 Member of the Organizing Commission for the IV Portuguese Congress of Sociology. The Portuguese Society: Recent Past, Close Futures (Coimbra, 17-19 April, 2000).

1999 Member of the Organizing Commission for the Commemorative Colloquy celebrating 20 Years of the Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. Reinvention of the Critical Theory (Coimbra, 16-17 April, 1999).

1996-1999 Research Member on the Project: Portuguese Society Before the Challenges of Globalisation: Economic, Social and Cultural Modernization, financed by PRAXIS XXI and executed by the Centro de Estudos Sociais [Integrated into the Line of Research: Urban Cultures, Heritage and Images of the City].

1996-1999 Participant on the Network: Cities, Heritage and Identity in Times of Globalisation, included in the Program of Scientific and Technical Cooperation, Portugal-Brazil, Financed by JNICT and by CAPES, to the Shelter of the Partnership Between the Centro de Estudos Sociais and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

1995-1999 Research Member on the Project: Urban Cultures and Images of the Cities; Resources, Practices and Cultural Events in Selected Portuguese Cities, Financed by JNICT (PCSH/SOC/1110/95) and carried out by the Centro de Estudos Sociais.

From 1997 Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais.

From 1997 Permanent Researcher for the Centro de Estudos Sociais.

 
 
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