António Carvalho
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3634734 |
|---|---|
| NOME | António Carvalho |
| PRENOMES | António |
| SOBRENOME | Carvalho |
| ASSINATURA | CARVALHO A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Coimbra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6149-8883 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Tecnologías del sujeto, política y ontología. El caso de las prácticas meditativas
El objetivo de este artículo es promover una reflexión sobre las articulaciones entre las tecnologías del sujeto, la política y la ontología, a partir del caso de las prácticas meditativas. En la literatura crítica sobre la meditación, hay una tendencia a asociar tales prácticas con el neoliberalismo. El artículo pretende problematizar esa asociación mediante el desarrollo de un enfoque ontológico sensible a las dimensiones materiales, performati…
People of the sun
This paper explores a public controversy surrounding a large solar power plant planned for the village of Cercal, in Alentejo, southern Portugal, mobilizing energy justice literature to shed light on the contradictions and injustices (re)produced by hegemonic energy transitions. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews, fieldwork and document analysis, this controversy is unpacked through three main tenets of energy justice: distributional, pr…
Nas margens do 25 de Abril
O processo revolucionário encetado pelo 25 de Abril de 1974 surgiu no contexto de uma sociedade esgotada por 48 anos de ditadura e por 13 anos de guerras coloniais. Com a Revolução, esse cansaço foi suplantado por uma explosão social, que se notou no imediato com o aplauso aos militares vitoriosos e, mais tarde, com a grande festa de unificação popular do 1.o de Maio. Emergiram no espaço público não só os chamados “velhos” movimentos sociais, ass…
Climate crisis, neoliberal environmentalism and the self
This article delves into “inner transition”, a set of subjective changes mobilized by the Transition Network (TN) that emphasize the role of the self to tackle the climate crisis. Its scholarly contribution is twofold: on the one hand, it engages with current literature on neoliberal environmentalism, empirically analyzing how “inner transition” is entwined with the emergence of a specific environmentality through a set of practices, habits, life…
As variedades da experiência antropocénica
Este artigo oferece um mapeamento provisório de alguns dos impactos afetivos do Antropoceno, uma época geológica proposta para ilustrar a indissociabilidade entre agência humana e fenómenos planetários. O artigo decorre de dois projetos de investigação: um doutoramento que levou a cabo uma análise ontológica de práticas meditativas Vipassana e Zen em França, Portugal e Reino Unido e um projeto acerca das ontologias do Antropoceno em Portugal, inc…
The dark side of the energy transition
Focusing on a case study in Northern Portugal, this research mobilizes an energy justice lens to unpack multiple forms of violence reproduced by lithium mining projects, advanced as urgent and necessary for the energy transition. Framed under ‘green transition’ discourses, a ‘corporate energy transition’ follows a mineral-intensive pathway which increases demand for critical raw materials and expands extractivism to new commodities and marginal t…
Schools and New Learning Spaces in Milan. An Educational Experience
The article reflects on recent models for pedagogy and their impact on educational space, from an architectural design point of view. It starts by framing the present-day situation of the existing schools in Milan, built under legal requirements from the 1970s, resulting today in a great number of obsolete educational facilities.Recent programs and educational policies, both at national and local levels, are presented to frame the new programme “…
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’
Geoengineering consists of a set of techniques whose aim is to avoid the disastrous consequences of global warming, such as solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal. Due to its controversial nature, over the past decade various exercises of public participation with geoengineering have been put in place, particularly in the Global North. This article draws on empirical data stemming from six online focus groups on public engagement w…
Listening-with the subaltern
The Anthropocene brings to the fore the need to foster ontologies that reject the modern "one-world world" (Law 2015) model, characterized by extractivism, dualism and human exceptionalism, requiring the enactment of pluriverses (de la Cadena & Blaser 2018) that recognize the heterogeneous clamor of human and non-human agency. As an attempt to listen-with those oppressed and silenced by the modern extractivist paradigm, in this paper, we propose …
Linhas de fuga do Antropoceno
Este artigo experimental parte da atual controversa do Antropoceno para pensar alternativas à racionalidade moderna ocidental, sublinhando a necessidade do desenvolvimento de ontologias não-modernas para fazer face à atual crise climática e ambiental. Recorre-se a uma série de exemplos heterogéneos – desde práticas contemplativas, estados alterados de consciência a modelos planetários – para refletir acerca da ligação entre humanos, sistemas terr…
Covid-19
A pandemia da COVID-19 constituiu um momento de rutura nas sociedades contemporneas, gerando um "novo normal" em que, como nos lembra Srgio Godinho, "Ningum sabe se sabe / Nem que acaso ou que destino nos cabe". 1 A rpida propagao de um novo vrus respiratrio tornou-se o foco de ateno de governos e da comunicao social a nvel global. No incio de 2020, a cidade chinesa de Wuhan assumiu contornos distpicos, com mais de 11 milhes de habitantes confron…
Ontologias do Antropoceno
O Antropoceno é uma época geológica proposta para ilustrar o impacto humano no sistema terrestre, exemplificado pelas alterações climáticas. Recorrendo a literatura no âmbito dos estudos de ciência e tecnologia, este artigo reflete sobre a heterogeneidade ontológica do Antropoceno, analisando como diferentes respostas sociais, políticas e tecnológicas são mobilizadas para fazer face aos desafios das alterações climáticas. O artigo analisa três es…
Narratives of Socioecological Transition
This article explores narratives and characteristics of sociological transitions displayed by members of the Transition Network (TN) in Portugal. It is informed by scholarly work on grassroots innovations, sociological transition narratives, and environmental engagement in Portugal. It furthers this research in three ways: (1) it analyzes an original case study—the Portuguese TN; (2) it identifies and defines the various socioecological narrative…
Rethinking the politics of meditation
This article develops an ontological approach to study meditation in practice. Recognizing that social studies of meditation are dominated by critical and humanist standpoints, it suggests that the politics of meditation should not be indexed to hegemonic social forces - capitalism, neoliberalism, medicalization - but to what it can do to bodies, selves and environments through particular performances and engagements with non-humans. In order to …
“Get us partnerships!” - a qualitative study of Angolan and Mozambican health academics’ experiences with North/South partnerships
BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 focuses on North/South partnerships for sustainable development. Literature on research partnerships and capacity -building often neglects how these processes are carried out in practice, their social impacts and participants' subjective experiences. Recognizing the increasingly global dimensions of Higher Education Institutions, the University Development and Innovation - Africa project (UDI-A) w…
Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola
This paper analyzes capacity building in practice, addressing the expectations, imaginaries and experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola. The empirical data stems from the Erasmus+ funded project “University Development and Innovation – Africa (UDI-A)”, a consortium established between European and African institutions to promote the mobility and empowerment of African academics, the establishment of North/South research partn…
Assembling Upstream Engagement
Carnation Atoms? A History of Nuclear Energy in Portugal
A emergência do sujeito participativo
Nas últimas décadas, os dispositivos de participação pública têm registado um crescimento exponencial. Estes procedimentos podem assumir uma diversidade de configurações, gerando um número de questões teóricas e práticas. A partir da análise de dois estudos de caso - grupos de discussão sobre nanotecnologias em Coimbra, Portugal, e Conselhos de Saúde em Belo Horizonte, Brasil - este artigo oferece uma reflexão sobre as questões políticas e metodo…
Imaginaries of nuclear energy in the Portuguese parliament
This article explores the evolution of the nuclear energy debate and its associated controversies in the Portuguese parliament. The analysis focuses on the dictatorial regime of the New State (from the beginning of the nuclear program in 1951 until the 1974 revolution) and on the democratic period (post-1974). Portugal, as an exporting country of uranium minerals, significantly invested in the development of a national capacity in nuclear researc…
Ecologies of the self in practice – meditation, affect and ecosophy
Drawing upon current concerns within non-representational and post-humanist theory, this paper explores the potential of meditation to trigger non-modern forms of affect. Supported by qualitative methodology which included participant observation at mindfulness and Vipassana retreats and semi-structured interviews with meditators, the paper analyses a number of subjective transformations characterized by struggle, embodiment, porosity and fragmen…
Subjectivity, ecology and meditation – Performing interconnectedness
Technology, Methodology and Intervention
Self, Performativity and Vipassana Meditation
The present proliferation of alternative and non-western practices challenges the way how modern selves are enacted, the distinction between ancient and contemporary, and obliges us to rethink the ways our bodies and minds are produced. By mingling the care of the self and self knowledge, some technologies of the self offer interesting paths to redefine and change our selves, questioning the hegemony of Science and Technology as the only way to o…
Ciência, tecnologia e participação
As sociedades contemporâneas e o seu imaginário são permeáveis às questões de Ciência e Tecnologia. Através do desenvolvimento de tecnologias emergentes como as nanociências e as nanotecnologias, assistimos à proliferação de cenários que vão desde utopias de prazer até distopias de controlo e manipulação. Apesar de actualmente estas nanotecnologias já estarem presentes em alguns produtos de consumo, a dimensão exploratória continua a ser a domina…
People of the sun
This paper explores a public controversy surrounding a large solar power plant planned for the village of Cercal, in Alentejo, southern Portugal, mobilizing energy justice literature to shed light on the contradictions and injustices (re)produced by hegemonic energy transitions. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews, fieldwork and document analysis, this controversy is unpacked through three main tenets of energy justice: distributional, pr…
The dark side of the energy transition
Focusing on a case study in Northern Portugal, this research mobilizes an energy justice lens to unpack multiple forms of violence reproduced by lithium mining projects, advanced as urgent and necessary for the energy transition. Framed under ‘green transition’ discourses, a ‘corporate energy transition’ follows a mineral-intensive pathway which increases demand for critical raw materials and expands extractivism to new commodities and marginal t…
Listening-with the subaltern
The Anthropocene brings to the fore the need to foster ontologies that reject the modern "one-world world" (Law 2015) model, characterized by extractivism, dualism and human exceptionalism, requiring the enactment of pluriverses (de la Cadena & Blaser 2018) that recognize the heterogeneous clamor of human and non-human agency. As an attempt to listen-with those oppressed and silenced by the modern extractivist paradigm, in this paper, we propose …
Subjectivity, ecology and meditation – Performing interconnectedness
Ecologies of the self in practice – meditation, affect and ecosophy
Drawing upon current concerns within non-representational and post-humanist theory, this paper explores the potential of meditation to trigger non-modern forms of affect. Supported by qualitative methodology which included participant observation at mindfulness and Vipassana retreats and semi-structured interviews with meditators, the paper analyses a number of subjective transformations characterized by struggle, embodiment, porosity and fragmen…
Technology, Methodology and Intervention
Rethinking the politics of meditation
This article develops an ontological approach to study meditation in practice. Recognizing that social studies of meditation are dominated by critical and humanist standpoints, it suggests that the politics of meditation should not be indexed to hegemonic social forces - capitalism, neoliberalism, medicalization - but to what it can do to bodies, selves and environments through particular performances and engagements with non-humans. In order to …
Climate crisis, neoliberal environmentalism and the self
This article delves into “inner transition”, a set of subjective changes mobilized by the Transition Network (TN) that emphasize the role of the self to tackle the climate crisis. Its scholarly contribution is twofold: on the one hand, it engages with current literature on neoliberal environmentalism, empirically analyzing how “inner transition” is entwined with the emergence of a specific environmentality through a set of practices, habits, life…
Assembling Upstream Engagement
A emergência do sujeito participativo
Nas últimas décadas, os dispositivos de participação pública têm registado um crescimento exponencial. Estes procedimentos podem assumir uma diversidade de configurações, gerando um número de questões teóricas e práticas. A partir da análise de dois estudos de caso - grupos de discussão sobre nanotecnologias em Coimbra, Portugal, e Conselhos de Saúde em Belo Horizonte, Brasil - este artigo oferece uma reflexão sobre as questões políticas e metodo…
Carnation Atoms? A History of Nuclear Energy in Portugal
Linhas de fuga do Antropoceno
Este artigo experimental parte da atual controversa do Antropoceno para pensar alternativas à racionalidade moderna ocidental, sublinhando a necessidade do desenvolvimento de ontologias não-modernas para fazer face à atual crise climática e ambiental. Recorre-se a uma série de exemplos heterogéneos – desde práticas contemplativas, estados alterados de consciência a modelos planetários – para refletir acerca da ligação entre humanos, sistemas terr…
Covid-19
A pandemia da COVID-19 constituiu um momento de rutura nas sociedades contemporneas, gerando um "novo normal" em que, como nos lembra Srgio Godinho, "Ningum sabe se sabe / Nem que acaso ou que destino nos cabe". 1 A rpida propagao de um novo vrus respiratrio tornou-se o foco de ateno de governos e da comunicao social a nvel global. No incio de 2020, a cidade chinesa de Wuhan assumiu contornos distpicos, com mais de 11 milhes de habitantes confron…
Cerâmica romana de paredes finas no Museu Municipal de Elvas
Os autores estudam um pequeno corpus de materiais constitudo pela totalidade de recipientes de cermica de paredes finas -7 peasdepositados no Museu Municipal de Eivas e provenientes de trs stios arqueolgicos deste concelho: necrpole da Herdade do
Ciência, tecnologia e participação
As sociedades contemporâneas e o seu imaginário são permeáveis às questões de Ciência e Tecnologia. Através do desenvolvimento de tecnologias emergentes como as nanociências e as nanotecnologias, assistimos à proliferação de cenários que vão desde utopias de prazer até distopias de controlo e manipulação. Apesar de actualmente estas nanotecnologias já estarem presentes em alguns produtos de consumo, a dimensão exploratória continua a ser a domina…
Self, Performativity and Vipassana Meditation
The present proliferation of alternative and non-western practices challenges the way how modern selves are enacted, the distinction between ancient and contemporary, and obliges us to rethink the ways our bodies and minds are produced. By mingling the care of the self and self knowledge, some technologies of the self offer interesting paths to redefine and change our selves, questioning the hegemony of Science and Technology as the only way to o…
Technology, Methodology and Intervention
Subjectivity, ecology and meditation – Performing interconnectedness
Imaginaries of nuclear energy in the Portuguese parliament
This article explores the evolution of the nuclear energy debate and its associated controversies in the Portuguese parliament. The analysis focuses on the dictatorial regime of the New State (from the beginning of the nuclear program in 1951 until the 1974 revolution) and on the democratic period (post-1974). Portugal, as an exporting country of uranium minerals, significantly invested in the development of a national capacity in nuclear researc…
Ecologies of the self in practice – meditation, affect and ecosophy
Drawing upon current concerns within non-representational and post-humanist theory, this paper explores the potential of meditation to trigger non-modern forms of affect. Supported by qualitative methodology which included participant observation at mindfulness and Vipassana retreats and semi-structured interviews with meditators, the paper analyses a number of subjective transformations characterized by struggle, embodiment, porosity and fragmen…
Assembling Upstream Engagement
Carnation Atoms? A History of Nuclear Energy in Portugal
A emergência do sujeito participativo
Nas últimas décadas, os dispositivos de participação pública têm registado um crescimento exponencial. Estes procedimentos podem assumir uma diversidade de configurações, gerando um número de questões teóricas e práticas. A partir da análise de dois estudos de caso - grupos de discussão sobre nanotecnologias em Coimbra, Portugal, e Conselhos de Saúde em Belo Horizonte, Brasil - este artigo oferece uma reflexão sobre as questões políticas e metodo…
Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola
This paper analyzes capacity building in practice, addressing the expectations, imaginaries and experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola. The empirical data stems from the Erasmus+ funded project “University Development and Innovation – Africa (UDI-A)”, a consortium established between European and African institutions to promote the mobility and empowerment of African academics, the establishment of North/South research partn…
“Get us partnerships!” - a qualitative study of Angolan and Mozambican health academics’ experiences with North/South partnerships
BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 focuses on North/South partnerships for sustainable development. Literature on research partnerships and capacity -building often neglects how these processes are carried out in practice, their social impacts and participants' subjective experiences. Recognizing the increasingly global dimensions of Higher Education Institutions, the University Development and Innovation - Africa project (UDI-A) w…
Ontologias do Antropoceno
O Antropoceno é uma época geológica proposta para ilustrar o impacto humano no sistema terrestre, exemplificado pelas alterações climáticas. Recorrendo a literatura no âmbito dos estudos de ciência e tecnologia, este artigo reflete sobre a heterogeneidade ontológica do Antropoceno, analisando como diferentes respostas sociais, políticas e tecnológicas são mobilizadas para fazer face aos desafios das alterações climáticas. O artigo analisa três es…
Narratives of Socioecological Transition
This article explores narratives and characteristics of sociological transitions displayed by members of the Transition Network (TN) in Portugal. It is informed by scholarly work on grassroots innovations, sociological transition narratives, and environmental engagement in Portugal. It furthers this research in three ways: (1) it analyzes an original case study—the Portuguese TN; (2) it identifies and defines the various socioecological narrative…
Rethinking the politics of meditation
This article develops an ontological approach to study meditation in practice. Recognizing that social studies of meditation are dominated by critical and humanist standpoints, it suggests that the politics of meditation should not be indexed to hegemonic social forces - capitalism, neoliberalism, medicalization - but to what it can do to bodies, selves and environments through particular performances and engagements with non-humans. In order to …
Schools and New Learning Spaces in Milan. An Educational Experience
The article reflects on recent models for pedagogy and their impact on educational space, from an architectural design point of view. It starts by framing the present-day situation of the existing schools in Milan, built under legal requirements from the 1970s, resulting today in a great number of obsolete educational facilities.Recent programs and educational policies, both at national and local levels, are presented to frame the new programme “…
‘It’s just a Band-Aid!’
Geoengineering consists of a set of techniques whose aim is to avoid the disastrous consequences of global warming, such as solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal. Due to its controversial nature, over the past decade various exercises of public participation with geoengineering have been put in place, particularly in the Global North. This article draws on empirical data stemming from six online focus groups on public engagement w…
Listening-with the subaltern
The Anthropocene brings to the fore the need to foster ontologies that reject the modern "one-world world" (Law 2015) model, characterized by extractivism, dualism and human exceptionalism, requiring the enactment of pluriverses (de la Cadena & Blaser 2018) that recognize the heterogeneous clamor of human and non-human agency. As an attempt to listen-with those oppressed and silenced by the modern extractivist paradigm, in this paper, we propose …
Linhas de fuga do Antropoceno
Este artigo experimental parte da atual controversa do Antropoceno para pensar alternativas à racionalidade moderna ocidental, sublinhando a necessidade do desenvolvimento de ontologias não-modernas para fazer face à atual crise climática e ambiental. Recorre-se a uma série de exemplos heterogéneos – desde práticas contemplativas, estados alterados de consciência a modelos planetários – para refletir acerca da ligação entre humanos, sistemas terr…
Covid-19
A pandemia da COVID-19 constituiu um momento de rutura nas sociedades contemporneas, gerando um "novo normal" em que, como nos lembra Srgio Godinho, "Ningum sabe se sabe / Nem que acaso ou que destino nos cabe". 1 A rpida propagao de um novo vrus respiratrio tornou-se o foco de ateno de governos e da comunicao social a nvel global. No incio de 2020, a cidade chinesa de Wuhan assumiu contornos distpicos, com mais de 11 milhes de habitantes confron…
The dark side of the energy transition
Focusing on a case study in Northern Portugal, this research mobilizes an energy justice lens to unpack multiple forms of violence reproduced by lithium mining projects, advanced as urgent and necessary for the energy transition. Framed under ‘green transition’ discourses, a ‘corporate energy transition’ follows a mineral-intensive pathway which increases demand for critical raw materials and expands extractivism to new commodities and marginal t…
People of the sun
This paper explores a public controversy surrounding a large solar power plant planned for the village of Cercal, in Alentejo, southern Portugal, mobilizing energy justice literature to shed light on the contradictions and injustices (re)produced by hegemonic energy transitions. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews, fieldwork and document analysis, this controversy is unpacked through three main tenets of energy justice: distributional, pr…
Nas margens do 25 de Abril
O processo revolucionário encetado pelo 25 de Abril de 1974 surgiu no contexto de uma sociedade esgotada por 48 anos de ditadura e por 13 anos de guerras coloniais. Com a Revolução, esse cansaço foi suplantado por uma explosão social, que se notou no imediato com o aplauso aos militares vitoriosos e, mais tarde, com a grande festa de unificação popular do 1.o de Maio. Emergiram no espaço público não só os chamados “velhos” movimentos sociais, ass…
Climate crisis, neoliberal environmentalism and the self
This article delves into “inner transition”, a set of subjective changes mobilized by the Transition Network (TN) that emphasize the role of the self to tackle the climate crisis. Its scholarly contribution is twofold: on the one hand, it engages with current literature on neoliberal environmentalism, empirically analyzing how “inner transition” is entwined with the emergence of a specific environmentality through a set of practices, habits, life…
As variedades da experiência antropocénica
Este artigo oferece um mapeamento provisório de alguns dos impactos afetivos do Antropoceno, uma época geológica proposta para ilustrar a indissociabilidade entre agência humana e fenómenos planetários. O artigo decorre de dois projetos de investigação: um doutoramento que levou a cabo uma análise ontológica de práticas meditativas Vipassana e Zen em França, Portugal e Reino Unido e um projeto acerca das ontologias do Antropoceno em Portugal, inc…
Political science (20 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 obras)