Mariana Riquito
Biography
Mariana Riquito is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam and a Junior Researcher at CES, where she collaborates with the HORIZON Project GREENPATHS. She is also co-coordinator of ECOSOC - Ecology & Society Lab. Mariana successfully completed the Joint Program in International Relations and Political Sciences. She holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Master's Degree in Sociology & Political Sciences from Sciences Po Bordeaux. She is currently researching and writing about the contested realm of the energy transition, exploring debates on extractivism, ecofeminism, ontological pluralism, and socioecological alternatives, with a focus on Covas do Barroso.
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Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Riquito, Mariana (2025), "A água não se vende, se ama e se defende": a conexão pessoas-água-território e a resistência à mineração de lítio em Covas do Barroso, in Gazzinelli, Juliana; Mota, Sarita; Sarmet, Gabriela (orgs.) (org.), Mineração, Água e Território: Conflitos Sociais, Injustiças Ambientais. Belo Horizonte: Editora Fino Traço
Article in Scientific journal
Riquito, Mariana (2025), ""Barroso is Not to Be Sold, it is to Be Loved and Defended:" Affective Mobilizations for Land and Life in the Context of Green Extractivism", Capitalism Nature Socialism
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Riquito, Mariana; Matos, Ana Raquel; Carvalho, António; Ferreira, Vera (2024), Discursos políticos sobre alterações climáticas em Portugal: análise dos debates parlamentares entre a VI e a XIII Legislaturas (1991-2019), in Ana Raquel Matos; Maria Strecht Almeida; Pedro Xavier Mendonça (org.), Tecnociência e Sociedade: Sociologia do conhecimento, ciência e tecnologia em Portugal. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 301-329