Ana Rita Alves


Biography

Ana Rita Alves is an anthropologist and a PhD student on Human Rights in (CES-UC), where she is concluding the thesis project "Periphery as a Symptom in Contemporary Portugal". She was one of the 2020-2021 Black Studies Dissertation Scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara. Over the past decade, Ana Rita has been producing critical academic knowledge on institutional racism, urban segregation, housing and public policies, working with several grassroots movements of peripheral self-produced and rehousing neighborhoods. She is the author of the book "When nobody could stay: racism, housing and territory" (Tigre de Papel, 2021). She has been involved in several research projects, including "RAP - 'Race' and Africa in Portugal: a study on history textbooks"(FCT, 2010-2011), "Atlantic Crossings: materiality, contemporary movements and policies of belonging" (FCT, 2014-2015), "ExPERts - Making Sense of Planning Expertise: Housing Policy and the Role of Experts in the Special Rehousing Program (PER)" (FCT, 2017-2019),"COMBAT - Combating racism in Portugal: an analysis of public policies and anti-discrimination law" (FCT, 2016-2020), "AFRO-PORT-Afro-descendance in Portugal: Sociability, Representations and Sociopolitical and Cultural Dynamics. A Study in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area" (FCT, 2019-2021) member of the advisory board of "(DE)OTHERING - Deconstructing Risk and Otherness: hegemonic scripts and counter-narratives on migrants/refugees and 'internal Others' in Portuguese and European mediascapes" (FCT, 2020-2021). She is one of the founding members of "CHÃO - Atelier of Urban Anthropology", which develops collaborative work with the association and the inhabitants of the self-produced Neighborhood of Jamaika, in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. In the past decade, she has been engaged in activism, producing critical academic knowledge on institutional racism and urban segregation and working with several grassroots movements of peripheral self-produced and rehousing neighborhoods, where the impact of systemic violence towards Black and ROMA populations, namely evictions and police brutality, is tremendous.


Latest Publications

Book Chapter

Alves, Ana Rita (2022), Portuguese urban studies: between race and the absence of racism, in N. K. Ha and G. Picker (org.), European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism. UK: Manchester University Press

Book Chapter

Rodriguez Maeso, Silvia; Alves, Ana Rita; Fernandes, Sara (2021), A implementação da legislação de combate à discriminação racial em Portugal: uma abordagem sociolegal, in Silvia Rodríguez Maeso (org.), O Estado do Racismo em Portugal. Racismo Antinegro e Anticiganismo no Direito e nas Políticas Públicas. Lisboa: Tinta da China, 59-90

Book Chapter

Alves, Ana Rita; Rodríguez Maeso, Silvia (2021), Raça/espaço pela mão da política local: anticiganismo, habitação e segregação territorial, in Silvia Rodríguez Maeso (org.), O Estado do Racismo em Portugal. Racismo Antinegro e Anticiganismo no Direito e nas Políticas Públicas. Lisboa: Tinta da China, 157-180