Luciane Lucas dos Santos

I am a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, taking part in the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe), which I co-coordinate from 2018 to March 2021. I integrate the academic staff of the PhD Programme in Democracy in the 21st Century in Portugal (CES/UC) and co-coordinate two Study Groups - one related to issues such as economic democracy and the other focused on religion, gender and politics. From 2016 to 2018, I was Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (Brazil), being part of its Doctoral Programme's staff. I hold a PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2004) and a Master's Degree from the same institution (1999), having had an academic career as an assistant professor (tenured position) at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ/Brazil). I have moved to Sociology 15 years ago, being focused on consumption studies and economic sociology. The most recent years have been also dedicated to a sociological approach regarding three intertwined issues - gender, economy and politics. My main research and lecturing interests are feminist economics, feminist aesthetics, postcolonial feminisms, postcolonial studies on consumption and Economics, poverty and social inequalities from an intersectional perspective, European identities and the Otherness.