Tânia R Santos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tânia R Santos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tânia R |
| FAMILY NAME | Santos |
| SIGNATURE | SANTOS T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4686-7489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
Young climate activists in television news: An analysis of multimodal constructions of voice, political recognition, and co-optation
Young climate activists around the globe have been raising their voices against the inadequate response of world leaders to climate change. Mainstream media have an important role in bringing young people’s concerns to the public, but research has shown that, in some countries, news outlets have failed to adequately represent their political voice. In view of a prevailing depoliticization of climate change, this study focuses on Portugal’s televi…
Reporting on Young Climate Activism: How Journalistic Multimodal Choices on Television Can Delegitimise Disruptive Dissent
Published online: 27 Nov 2024
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…
Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”
A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain values from the plurality existent …
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…
Golden Visas and everyday citizenship: Views of the new Chinese migration in Portugal
The residency-by-investment programmes - or Golden Visas - are an example of a neoliberal legal innovation where residency is granted through investment with only minimal additional residency requirements. This paper explores how the different conditions of foreign residency, that create groups of non-national residents with different rights, are made sense of by Chinese investment residents (n = 11) and Chinese key-informants developing activiti…
Press Ideology as an Epistemological Connector between Framing Theory and Social Representations Theory: An Analysis of Violence and Drug Trafficking in the Mexican Press
Dialogues with the absent Other: Using reported speech and the vocabulary of citizenship for contesting ecological laws and institutions
This article examines how a professional group articulates views of the new laws and institutions that call them to accept new practices and new meaning in the name of the ecological common good. Drawing on a framework integrating the approach of social representations and rhetorical social psychology with legal institutionalism, we analyze in-depth interviews and focus groups ( n = 29) with artisanal fishers. We explore how fishers use reported …
Stigma
Starting from Goffman's classic account on stigma, this entry describes different perspectives on the formation and maintenance of stigma through cognitive, individual, and institutional approaches. It connects theories of stigma to work on stereotypes, prejudice, social dominance, culture, social identities, contact, and social representations, demonstrating the importance of connecting the individual‐level and contextual factors in theorizing a…
Dialogues with the absent Other: Using reported speech and the vocabulary of citizenship for contesting ecological laws and institutions
This article examines how a professional group articulates views of the new laws and institutions that call them to accept new practices and new meaning in the name of the ecological common good. Drawing on a framework integrating the approach of social representations and rhetorical social psychology with legal institutionalism, we analyze in-depth interviews and focus groups ( n = 29) with artisanal fishers. We explore how fishers use reported …
Golden Visas and everyday citizenship: Views of the new Chinese migration in Portugal
The residency-by-investment programmes - or Golden Visas - are an example of a neoliberal legal innovation where residency is granted through investment with only minimal additional residency requirements. This paper explores how the different conditions of foreign residency, that create groups of non-national residents with different rights, are made sense of by Chinese investment residents (n = 11) and Chinese key-informants developing activiti…
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…
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…
Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”
A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain values from the plurality existent …
Stigma
Starting from Goffman's classic account on stigma, this entry describes different perspectives on the formation and maintenance of stigma through cognitive, individual, and institutional approaches. It connects theories of stigma to work on stereotypes, prejudice, social dominance, culture, social identities, contact, and social representations, demonstrating the importance of connecting the individual‐level and contextual factors in theorizing a…
Dialogues with the absent Other: Using reported speech and the vocabulary of citizenship for contesting ecological laws and institutions
This article examines how a professional group articulates views of the new laws and institutions that call them to accept new practices and new meaning in the name of the ecological common good. Drawing on a framework integrating the approach of social representations and rhetorical social psychology with legal institutionalism, we analyze in-depth interviews and focus groups ( n = 29) with artisanal fishers. We explore how fishers use reported …
Press Ideology as an Epistemological Connector between Framing Theory and Social Representations Theory: An Analysis of Violence and Drug Trafficking in the Mexican Press
Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”
A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain values from the plurality existent …
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…
Golden Visas and everyday citizenship: Views of the new Chinese migration in Portugal
The residency-by-investment programmes - or Golden Visas - are an example of a neoliberal legal innovation where residency is granted through investment with only minimal additional residency requirements. This paper explores how the different conditions of foreign residency, that create groups of non-national residents with different rights, are made sense of by Chinese investment residents (n = 11) and Chinese key-informants developing activiti…
Young climate activists in television news: An analysis of multimodal constructions of voice, political recognition, and co-optation
Young climate activists around the globe have been raising their voices against the inadequate response of world leaders to climate change. Mainstream media have an important role in bringing young people’s concerns to the public, but research has shown that, in some countries, news outlets have failed to adequately represent their political voice. In view of a prevailing depoliticization of climate change, this study focuses on Portugal’s televi…
Reporting on Young Climate Activism: How Journalistic Multimodal Choices on Television Can Delegitimise Disruptive Dissent
Published online: 27 Nov 2024
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…
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…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Citizenship (3 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works)