Maria Fernandes-Jesus
Biographic Data
| ID | 370706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Fernandes-Jesus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernandes-Jesus |
| SIGNATURE | FERNANDES-JESUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York St John University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8868-1968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Intersectionality in youth climate activism as educational practice: Political, pragmatic, and pedagogical dimensions
Youth climate movements have increasingly adopted an intersectional approach to activism, highlighting how diverse social categories (inter alia, race, gender, social class, sexuality) intersect with power structures and systems of oppression. This article explores the educational value of practices of intersectionality as they unfold in activists’ everyday lives, both within the climate movement and in its relationship with other movements. Draw…
Toward a Critical Psychology of Climate Justice: Encouraging Radical Political Imagination to Shape Our Collective Futures
In this article, we discuss what radical political imagination is, why it matters, and how it can contribute to developing a critical psychology of climate justice. Drawing on critical, inter and transdisciplinary approaches, we conceptualize radical political imagination as a collective and political process enabling societal actors to reflect on and (re)envision the world beyond present-day oppressive forces and the dominant social, political, …
Relationships Between Activist Groups and Political Parties Shaping the Portuguese Climate Movement: Dynamics of Resistance and Collaboration
Aiming to better understand the relationship between youth activism and institutional politics, this article analyzes young climate activists’ interactions with political parties and how they shape the dynamics of the School Strike for Climate. Through a multi-sited ethnography in Portugal’s two major cities, we examined the participation experiences of young climate strikers from both chapters of the movement, revealing the contingent and comple…
Engaging young people with alternative climate futures: Cultivating political imagination through participatory methodologies
Young people face challenges in envisioning alternative climate futures due to intersecting inequalities, power imbalances, and the adult-dominated climate discourse. They are often depicted as either powerless victims or heroic activists, yet their political agency is constrained by age-related bias and limited opportunities for engagement within conventional political systems. In this context, exploring the inherent political nature of climate …
Imagined Climate Futures and Collective Action: An Analysis of Affect in Dystopias and Utopias by Young Climate Activists
In recent climate mobilisations, young people have emerged as key leaders, organisers, and influencers of social change. This article examines how utopias and dystopias, embedded in affective‐discursive practices, are articulated by young climate activists to support their engagement in collective action. We analysed discourse from four focus group discussions and two pair interviews with young climate activists (total participants n = 26, ages 1…
Young people's conceptions of political agency in relation to climate change
This article explores how young people conceptualise political agency in the context of climate change. Drawing on a Reflexive Thematic Analysis of 22 focus groups with 154 young people living in Portugal, aged 13 to 35, we identified four conceptions of political agency: transformational collective agency, proto-political collective action, individualised action and disempowered action. Our findings indicate that young people who identify as cli…
Political Imaginaries in the Climate Movement: Youth-Led Groups Constructing Plural Views of the Future
Since 2018, there has been a notable increase in recognition of the global youth climate movement. Young activists have come into the spotlight through extensive street demonstrations, school occupations, and engagement in other collective actions with the purpose of promoting alternative visions of the future. Multiple scholars have delved into activists' profiles, their media representations, and other topics. Nevertheless, there is still a lac…
Prioritising communities: Barriers to climate activism and political imagination among minoritised youth groups
Minoritised youth voices are often underrepresented in climate action research. Despite the increasing interest in youth climate activism, there is still an overall lack of attention to the perspectives of young people struggling with discrimination, poverty, and other social injustices. In this article, we focus on a diverse group of minoritised youth in Portugal to explore their experiences of climate activism, perceived agency, and political i…
A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the Covid‐19 syndemic
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and i…
A tensão entre Currículo e Inovação Pedagógica
A partir da experiência, desde 2003, da coexistência de duas linhas de pesquisa, uma em Currículo e outra em Inovação Pedagógica, de um Centro de Investigação em Educação, conducentes a dois Doutoramentos com especialidades distintas, o artigo pretende compreender as tensões entre ambas, numa perspectiva de relação de poder, desde a afirmação do Currículo no despontar da modernidade, até ao declínio do Currículo tecnológico, por via das teorias c…
The influence of individual and cultural factors on perceptions of alcohol control strategies among university students in Europe
Alcohol control strategies vary between countries and reflect differences in drinking cultures. This study explored how perceived effectiveness of alcohol control strategies varies according to individual characteristics and country of residence. A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 1910 university students in Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland. It assessed the perceived effectiveness of 11 alcohol control str…
Not wanting to see it is hypocrisy, it's denying what is obvious”: Far‐right discriminatory discourses mobilised as common sense
The far‐right recently entered the Portuguese parliament with the election of André Ventura, leader of the political party Chega. Since 2019, Chega has grown exponentially and has become the third political force. This study aimed to explore how Ventura represents different members of Portuguese society. We examine what meanings are reproduced to configure social representations about different category groups, adopting Critical Discourse Analysi…
Tracking the nature and trajectory of social support in Facebook mutual aid groups during the Covid-19 pandemic
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of mutual aid groups were established on social media and operated as platforms through which people could offer or request social support. Considering the importance of Facebook mutual aid groups during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom but also the lack of empirical research regarding the trajectories and types of social support rendered available through the groups,…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Children's Play in the Tourist City: A Case Study of a Lisbon Urban Park
In this paper we present a case study on the informal practices of families with small children, before and after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Vasco da Gama Garden, an urban park located in the Belém neighborhood in Lisbon, Portugal, which is highly touristic, commercial and increasingly gentrified. Based on an ethnographic approach that included field observation, formal interviews and informal conversations with park frequenters, …
Educação e ativismo climático: Práticas e imaginações democráticas juvenis para um mundo comum
Young people around the world have become mobilized by the urgency to tackle the climate crisis. Increasingly gaining momentum, youth activist movements have been calling everyone’s attention to governmental inaction regarding the climate crisis and to the shortcomings of institutional political agreements (European Youth Forum, 2019). While for some parts of the general public (mostly in the Global-North, which has been less affected by) the con…
The increasing relevance of European rural young people in policy agendas: Contributions from community psychology
Our paper aims to provide a short guide on how community psychologists can contribute to the improvement of rural young people's prospects. After briefly introducing the demographic trends of these young people in continental Europe for the past decade, we list the current challenges faced by rural European young generations, as well as the opportunities emerging for them from the twin transition that can inspire the community psychology field. W…
Neets civic and political participation in outermost islands: The mediating roles of sense of community and agency
Our aim is to test the associations between collectivism, social support, sense of community, as well as agency with civic and political participation levels of NEETs living in The Azores, a group of islands forming a small and outermost archipelago. We surveyed 332 participants ( M = 26.78; 69.30% women). We found that all factors, except for social support, were associated with higher participation levels among NEETs. We also found that stronge…
Opposition to immigration: How people who identify with far‐right discourses legitimize the social exclusion of immigrants
This study sought to develop our understanding of how people legitimize opposition to immigration. Thirty‐eight interviews were conducted with people who self‐identified with far‐right anti‐immigration discourses, in Italy ( N = 23) and Portugal ( N = 15). Using reflexive thematic analysis, we developed four related themes. In the first theme, ‘They ' re guests’: Legitimizing exclusion by differentiating (non‐) immigrants , we discuss how despite…
Using Evidence in Policies Addressing Rural Neets: Common Patterns and Differences in Various EU Countries
Using the policy narrative framework, this article examines the pathways through which the development of policies (related to rural/small towns young NEETs in various EU countries) are based on evidence. To do this, we consider the Youth Guarantee (YG), an EU program (2014-2020) developed in several member countries with the aim of socioprofessional inclusion of NEETs (young people aged 15-24 that are not in employment, education, or training). …
How participation in Covid‐19 mutual aid groups affects subjective well‐being and how political identity moderates these effects
Mutual aid groups have flourished during the Covid‐19 pandemic. However, a major challenge is sustaining such groups, which tend to decline following the initial upsurge immediately after emergencies. The present study investigates one possible motivation for continued participation: the well‐being benefits associated with psychological membership of groups, as suggested by the “social cure” approach. Interviews were conducted with 11 volunteers …
Soft Skills and Psychological Well-being: A Study on Italian Rural and Urban Neets
Soft skills retain a certain importance in fully understanding the NEET phenomenon: however, only few researchers have focused on them specifically. The aim of this work is two-fold: a) to detect the differences in terms of soft skills and psychological well-being between urban and rural NEETs; and b) to evaluate which of the soft skills analysed may be predictors of psychological well-being. A sample of young 6998 18−34 years old representative …
Multiple Players, Different Tactics, a Shared Goal: Building Bridges and Political Agency While Fighting Against Oil and Gas Drilling
Several individuals, groups and organizations have been fighting against oil and natural gas drilling in Portuguese territory. The mobilizations intensified in 2015 in Algarve, and since then 13 concession agreements for oil and gas exploitation, extraction and production have been cancelled. Two concessions for gas drilling remain in Leiria, and this is where the movement is presently more active. Inspired by literature on the role of players an…
Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement
In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted a quantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting the actual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrat…
Para além dos obstáculos: Experiências De Consultas Públicas E a Possibilidade De Ética E Relevância Na Participação
O procedimento de consulta pública tem sido, cada vez mais, utilizado em projetos com impacto ambiental, supostamente como uma forma de assegurar que as preocupações e sugestões das pessoas e das comunidades interessadas e afetadas pelos projetos são tidas em conta. No entanto, esta forma de participação pública tem vindo a ser bastante criticada, por ser uma prática meramente simbólica e sem consequências concretas. Neste artigo, apresentamos um…
Psychological correlates of perceived ethnic discrimination in Europe: A meta-analysis
Objective: Many studies point to the negative impact of discrimination on the psychological and social functioning of ethnic minority persons. The realization of these studies across multiple European countries enables a systematization of this knowledge, which is our goal in the present work. Method: This study presents a systematic review and a meta-analysis of the correlates of perceived ethnic discrimination among ethnic minority persons livi…
Psychological correlates of perceived ethnic discrimination in Europe: A meta-analysis
Objective: Many studies point to the negative impact of discrimination on the psychological and social functioning of ethnic minority persons. The realization of these studies across multiple European countries enables a systematization of this knowledge, which is our goal in the present work. Method: This study presents a systematic review and a meta-analysis of the correlates of perceived ethnic discrimination among ethnic minority persons livi…
Changing Identities to Change the World: Identity Motives in Lifestyle Politics and Its Link to Collective Action
In this article, we assume an interdisciplinary approach to the study of why and how people transpose political considerations to their lifestyles. Our aims are threefold: to understand the meanings and perceptions of people engaged in lifestyle politics and collective action; to examine the motives guiding individual change; and to explore the linkage processes between lifestyle politics and collective action. Identity process theory is consider…
Opposition to immigration: How people who identify with far‐right discourses legitimize the social exclusion of immigrants
This study sought to develop our understanding of how people legitimize opposition to immigration. Thirty‐eight interviews were conducted with people who self‐identified with far‐right anti‐immigration discourses, in Italy ( N = 23) and Portugal ( N = 15). Using reflexive thematic analysis, we developed four related themes. In the first theme, ‘They ' re guests’: Legitimizing exclusion by differentiating (non‐) immigrants , we discuss how despite…
The many faces of hermes: The quality of participation experiences and political attitudes of migrant and non-migrant youth
This paper intends to explore whether and how the quality of participation experiences is associated with political efficacy and the disposition of migrant and non-migrant young people to becoming involved. The sample includes 1010 young people of Portuguese, Angolan and Brazilian origin, aged between 15 and 29 years old. The results reveal that the quality of participation experiences is related to political efficacy and dispositions to becoming…
Imagined Climate Futures and Collective Action: An Analysis of Affect in Dystopias and Utopias by Young Climate Activists
In recent climate mobilisations, young people have emerged as key leaders, organisers, and influencers of social change. This article examines how utopias and dystopias, embedded in affective‐discursive practices, are articulated by young climate activists to support their engagement in collective action. We analysed discourse from four focus group discussions and two pair interviews with young climate activists (total participants n = 26, ages 1…
A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the Covid‐19 syndemic
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and i…
Neets civic and political participation in outermost islands: The mediating roles of sense of community and agency
Our aim is to test the associations between collectivism, social support, sense of community, as well as agency with civic and political participation levels of NEETs living in The Azores, a group of islands forming a small and outermost archipelago. We surveyed 332 participants ( M = 26.78; 69.30% women). We found that all factors, except for social support, were associated with higher participation levels among NEETs. We also found that stronge…
Europe as a Beacon of Democracy? Citizenship Policies Relating to Youth and Migrants in Portugal
This article aims to compare discourses about national and European policies on active citizenship and democratic participation, with a particular focus on youth and migrants. For this purpose we analysed official documents of public institutions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in order to assess how the process of Europeanization has influenced national policies with regard to increasing political participation and citizens' civic aware…
Not wanting to see it is hypocrisy, it's denying what is obvious”: Far‐right discriminatory discourses mobilised as common sense
The far‐right recently entered the Portuguese parliament with the election of André Ventura, leader of the political party Chega. Since 2019, Chega has grown exponentially and has become the third political force. This study aimed to explore how Ventura represents different members of Portuguese society. We examine what meanings are reproduced to configure social representations about different category groups, adopting Critical Discourse Analysi…
Prioritising communities: Barriers to climate activism and political imagination among minoritised youth groups
Minoritised youth voices are often underrepresented in climate action research. Despite the increasing interest in youth climate activism, there is still an overall lack of attention to the perspectives of young people struggling with discrimination, poverty, and other social injustices. In this article, we focus on a diverse group of minoritised youth in Portugal to explore their experiences of climate activism, perceived agency, and political i…
The increasing relevance of European rural young people in policy agendas: Contributions from community psychology
Our paper aims to provide a short guide on how community psychologists can contribute to the improvement of rural young people's prospects. After briefly introducing the demographic trends of these young people in continental Europe for the past decade, we list the current challenges faced by rural European young generations, as well as the opportunities emerging for them from the twin transition that can inspire the community psychology field. W…
Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement
In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted a quantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting the actual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrat…
Participação cívica e política: Jovens imigrantes brasileiros/as em Portugal
Neste artigo analisamos visões, experiências e níveis de participação cívica e política de jovens imigrantes brasileiros/as em Portugal. Num primeiro momento, apresenta-se as visões dos/as jovens (5 grupos de discussão, N=29) sobre a participação, direitos políticos e principais fontes de influência. De seguida, com base nos resultados dos questionários (N=357) examina-se formas e níveis de participação cívica e política. Para além disso, analisa…
Education and Citizenship: Redemption or Disempowerment? A Study of Portuguese-Speaking Migrant (and Non-Migrant) Youth in Portugal
The institution of the European Union has had important implications on educational policies throughout Europe, with a growing emphasis on ‘Citizenship Education’ since the mid-1990s. This can be interpreted as a response to phenomena such as the rise of ethnocentrism and xenophobia and of political disaffection of both older and younger citizens. Departing from Weiler's notion of educational reform as compensatory legitimation, this article anal…
Education and Citizenship: Redemption or Disempowerment? A Study of Portuguese-Speaking Migrant (and Non-Migrant) Youth in Portugal
The institution of the European Union has had important implications on educational policies throughout Europe, with a growing emphasis on ‘Citizenship Education’ since the mid-1990s. This can be interpreted as a response to phenomena such as the rise of ethnocentrism and xenophobia and of political disaffection of both older and younger citizens. Departing from Weiler's notion of educational reform as compensatory legitimation, this article anal…
The many faces of hermes: The quality of participation experiences and political attitudes of migrant and non-migrant youth
This paper intends to explore whether and how the quality of participation experiences is associated with political efficacy and the disposition of migrant and non-migrant young people to becoming involved. The sample includes 1010 young people of Portuguese, Angolan and Brazilian origin, aged between 15 and 29 years old. The results reveal that the quality of participation experiences is related to political efficacy and dispositions to becoming…
Europe as a Beacon of Democracy? Citizenship Policies Relating to Youth and Migrants in Portugal
This article aims to compare discourses about national and European policies on active citizenship and democratic participation, with a particular focus on youth and migrants. For this purpose we analysed official documents of public institutions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in order to assess how the process of Europeanization has influenced national policies with regard to increasing political participation and citizens' civic aware…
Participação cívica e política: Jovens imigrantes brasileiros/as em Portugal
Neste artigo analisamos visões, experiências e níveis de participação cívica e política de jovens imigrantes brasileiros/as em Portugal. Num primeiro momento, apresenta-se as visões dos/as jovens (5 grupos de discussão, N=29) sobre a participação, direitos políticos e principais fontes de influência. De seguida, com base nos resultados dos questionários (N=357) examina-se formas e níveis de participação cívica e política. Para além disso, analisa…
Psychological correlates of perceived ethnic discrimination in Europe: A meta-analysis
Objective: Many studies point to the negative impact of discrimination on the psychological and social functioning of ethnic minority persons. The realization of these studies across multiple European countries enables a systematization of this knowledge, which is our goal in the present work. Method: This study presents a systematic review and a meta-analysis of the correlates of perceived ethnic discrimination among ethnic minority persons livi…
Changing Identities to Change the World: Identity Motives in Lifestyle Politics and Its Link to Collective Action
In this article, we assume an interdisciplinary approach to the study of why and how people transpose political considerations to their lifestyles. Our aims are threefold: to understand the meanings and perceptions of people engaged in lifestyle politics and collective action; to examine the motives guiding individual change; and to explore the linkage processes between lifestyle politics and collective action. Identity process theory is consider…
Para além dos obstáculos: Experiências De Consultas Públicas E a Possibilidade De Ética E Relevância Na Participação
O procedimento de consulta pública tem sido, cada vez mais, utilizado em projetos com impacto ambiental, supostamente como uma forma de assegurar que as preocupações e sugestões das pessoas e das comunidades interessadas e afetadas pelos projetos são tidas em conta. No entanto, esta forma de participação pública tem vindo a ser bastante criticada, por ser uma prática meramente simbólica e sem consequências concretas. Neste artigo, apresentamos um…
Multiple Players, Different Tactics, a Shared Goal: Building Bridges and Political Agency While Fighting Against Oil and Gas Drilling
Several individuals, groups and organizations have been fighting against oil and natural gas drilling in Portuguese territory. The mobilizations intensified in 2015 in Algarve, and since then 13 concession agreements for oil and gas exploitation, extraction and production have been cancelled. Two concessions for gas drilling remain in Leiria, and this is where the movement is presently more active. Inspired by literature on the role of players an…
Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement
In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted a quantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting the actual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrat…
How participation in Covid‐19 mutual aid groups affects subjective well‐being and how political identity moderates these effects
Mutual aid groups have flourished during the Covid‐19 pandemic. However, a major challenge is sustaining such groups, which tend to decline following the initial upsurge immediately after emergencies. The present study investigates one possible motivation for continued participation: the well‐being benefits associated with psychological membership of groups, as suggested by the “social cure” approach. Interviews were conducted with 11 volunteers …
Soft Skills and Psychological Well-being: A Study on Italian Rural and Urban Neets
Soft skills retain a certain importance in fully understanding the NEET phenomenon: however, only few researchers have focused on them specifically. The aim of this work is two-fold: a) to detect the differences in terms of soft skills and psychological well-being between urban and rural NEETs; and b) to evaluate which of the soft skills analysed may be predictors of psychological well-being. A sample of young 6998 18−34 years old representative …
Tracking the nature and trajectory of social support in Facebook mutual aid groups during the Covid-19 pandemic
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of mutual aid groups were established on social media and operated as platforms through which people could offer or request social support. Considering the importance of Facebook mutual aid groups during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom but also the lack of empirical research regarding the trajectories and types of social support rendered available through the groups,…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Children's Play in the Tourist City: A Case Study of a Lisbon Urban Park
In this paper we present a case study on the informal practices of families with small children, before and after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, in Vasco da Gama Garden, an urban park located in the Belém neighborhood in Lisbon, Portugal, which is highly touristic, commercial and increasingly gentrified. Based on an ethnographic approach that included field observation, formal interviews and informal conversations with park frequenters, …
Educação e ativismo climático: Práticas e imaginações democráticas juvenis para um mundo comum
Young people around the world have become mobilized by the urgency to tackle the climate crisis. Increasingly gaining momentum, youth activist movements have been calling everyone’s attention to governmental inaction regarding the climate crisis and to the shortcomings of institutional political agreements (European Youth Forum, 2019). While for some parts of the general public (mostly in the Global-North, which has been less affected by) the con…
The increasing relevance of European rural young people in policy agendas: Contributions from community psychology
Our paper aims to provide a short guide on how community psychologists can contribute to the improvement of rural young people's prospects. After briefly introducing the demographic trends of these young people in continental Europe for the past decade, we list the current challenges faced by rural European young generations, as well as the opportunities emerging for them from the twin transition that can inspire the community psychology field. W…
Neets civic and political participation in outermost islands: The mediating roles of sense of community and agency
Our aim is to test the associations between collectivism, social support, sense of community, as well as agency with civic and political participation levels of NEETs living in The Azores, a group of islands forming a small and outermost archipelago. We surveyed 332 participants ( M = 26.78; 69.30% women). We found that all factors, except for social support, were associated with higher participation levels among NEETs. We also found that stronge…
Opposition to immigration: How people who identify with far‐right discourses legitimize the social exclusion of immigrants
This study sought to develop our understanding of how people legitimize opposition to immigration. Thirty‐eight interviews were conducted with people who self‐identified with far‐right anti‐immigration discourses, in Italy ( N = 23) and Portugal ( N = 15). Using reflexive thematic analysis, we developed four related themes. In the first theme, ‘They ' re guests’: Legitimizing exclusion by differentiating (non‐) immigrants , we discuss how despite…
Using Evidence in Policies Addressing Rural Neets: Common Patterns and Differences in Various EU Countries
Using the policy narrative framework, this article examines the pathways through which the development of policies (related to rural/small towns young NEETs in various EU countries) are based on evidence. To do this, we consider the Youth Guarantee (YG), an EU program (2014-2020) developed in several member countries with the aim of socioprofessional inclusion of NEETs (young people aged 15-24 that are not in employment, education, or training). …
The influence of individual and cultural factors on perceptions of alcohol control strategies among university students in Europe
Alcohol control strategies vary between countries and reflect differences in drinking cultures. This study explored how perceived effectiveness of alcohol control strategies varies according to individual characteristics and country of residence. A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 1910 university students in Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland. It assessed the perceived effectiveness of 11 alcohol control str…
Not wanting to see it is hypocrisy, it's denying what is obvious”: Far‐right discriminatory discourses mobilised as common sense
The far‐right recently entered the Portuguese parliament with the election of André Ventura, leader of the political party Chega. Since 2019, Chega has grown exponentially and has become the third political force. This study aimed to explore how Ventura represents different members of Portuguese society. We examine what meanings are reproduced to configure social representations about different category groups, adopting Critical Discourse Analysi…
Prioritising communities: Barriers to climate activism and political imagination among minoritised youth groups
Minoritised youth voices are often underrepresented in climate action research. Despite the increasing interest in youth climate activism, there is still an overall lack of attention to the perspectives of young people struggling with discrimination, poverty, and other social injustices. In this article, we focus on a diverse group of minoritised youth in Portugal to explore their experiences of climate activism, perceived agency, and political i…
A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the Covid‐19 syndemic
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and i…
A tensão entre Currículo e Inovação Pedagógica
A partir da experiência, desde 2003, da coexistência de duas linhas de pesquisa, uma em Currículo e outra em Inovação Pedagógica, de um Centro de Investigação em Educação, conducentes a dois Doutoramentos com especialidades distintas, o artigo pretende compreender as tensões entre ambas, numa perspectiva de relação de poder, desde a afirmação do Currículo no despontar da modernidade, até ao declínio do Currículo tecnológico, por via das teorias c…
Intersectionality in youth climate activism as educational practice: Political, pragmatic, and pedagogical dimensions
Youth climate movements have increasingly adopted an intersectional approach to activism, highlighting how diverse social categories (inter alia, race, gender, social class, sexuality) intersect with power structures and systems of oppression. This article explores the educational value of practices of intersectionality as they unfold in activists’ everyday lives, both within the climate movement and in its relationship with other movements. Draw…
Toward a Critical Psychology of Climate Justice: Encouraging Radical Political Imagination to Shape Our Collective Futures
In this article, we discuss what radical political imagination is, why it matters, and how it can contribute to developing a critical psychology of climate justice. Drawing on critical, inter and transdisciplinary approaches, we conceptualize radical political imagination as a collective and political process enabling societal actors to reflect on and (re)envision the world beyond present-day oppressive forces and the dominant social, political, …
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (8 works)