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Pilar Damião de Medeiros

Research Group:

2: Citizenship, Work and Technology

Research Team:

Political Participation, Activism and Leadership

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E-mail:

pilar.sl.medeiros@uac.pt

Pilar Damião de Medeiros holds a Ph.D. from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany (2007), M.A. from Queen’s University, Canada (2003) and B.A. with honors from Brock University, Canada (2001). In 2001-2002 she was Teaching Assistant at Queen's University, between 2007-2009 was Visiting Assistant Professor at Évora University and, currently, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of the Azores, Portugal. She has published three books, several articles and book chapters. Her published work has been on Cultural Sociology and Critical Theory; Intellectuals, Activism and Public Sphere & Cultural dynamics of Globalization. She is currently writing a book in co-authorship with Lawrence J. Friedman, Harvard University, about the "One World Movement" and organizing with Odile Heynders, Tilburg University, a book on "Female Public Intellectuals". She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences – CICS.UAc/CICS.NOVA.UAc.

Research Interests:

Culture. Critical Theory. Social Movements. Public Intelectuais. Intercultural Dynamics.

Main Projects:

2013- : Coordenadora científica do Observatório da Juventude dos Açores. Governo dos Açores/ Direção Regional da Juventude/ CICS.NOVA.UAc.

Main Publications:

Medeiros, Pilar Damião (2018). European refugee crisis: where do public intellectuals stand?. "European Scientific Journal", 14(5), 410-420. DOI: 10.19044/esj.2018.v14n5p410;
Damião de Medeiros, Pilar; Rocha, Gilberta Pavão Nunes & Lalanda-Gonçalves, Rolando (Orgs.) (2017). Juventude(s): Pensar e Agir. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Edições Húmus. ISBN 978-989-755-314-1.
Damião de Medeiros, P. (2013). O intelectual engagé dos movimentos sociais. "Sociologia: Problemas e Práticas", 73, 79-92;
Damião de Medeiros, P. (2013). Reflexões em torno da querela Peter Sloterdijk e Jurgen Habermas. In Costa, M. N. (Org.), Teoria Crítica Revisitada, (pp. 253-264). Braga: Húmus. ISBN: 978-989-755-020-1;
Damião de Medeiros, P. (2008). "Rollenästhetik und rollensoziologie: zum transfer rollensoziologischer kategorien auf die neuere deutsche literaturwissenschaft". Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN: 978-3-8260-3746-7.

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