P Alves De Matos
Biographic Data
| ID | 48443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Alves De Matos |
| GIVEN NAMES | P Alves |
| FAMILY NAME | De Matos |
| SIGNATURE | DE MATOS P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8230-1955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political struggles over the logic of human needs quantification: Negotiating capitalist welfare futures
This article draws on historical and ethnographic research conducted in Portugal to examine how the logic of human needs quantification serves as a central point of political struggle among various social actors, each driven by conflicting political motivations, moral commitments, and valuation debates during periods of crisis. It argues that this logic should be understood as a site of struggle where different actors delineate the material, mora…
Life-Making on the Line: Capitalist Value, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Call Centre Labour in Portugal
This article explores how value is generated in the Portuguese call centre sector by examining its reliance on the commodification of socially and historically rooted reproductive capacities. Previous research on call centres has often focused on the disembedding, disembodiment, depersonalisation, and desubjectification of human linguistic agency, frequently neglecting the familial, educational, and moral infrastructures that make labour power bo…
Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal
Austerity policies in Portugal unleashed a violent crisis of well-being and social reproduction which intensified the 'triple burden' placed upon women, making them the primary 'shock absorbers' of the crisis. This article addresses the critical role of working-class women's various forms of paid and unpaid care work in responding to the material and immaterial needs of impoverished individuals and working-class households. It is shown that women…
On the common sense of social reproduction: Social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe
The Potentiality to Move: Mobility and Future in Digital Nomads’ Practices
The digital nomad lifestyle, which combines remote work and travel, has grown in the last decade among tech and creative industry professionals. “Freedom,” “inspiration,” and “work–life balance” are frequently mentioned by respondents when describing what led them to be location-independent workers. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Barcelona. From participant observation and in-depth interviews, we study participants’ s…
Bodies of and against austerity: Gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal
This article explores the relationships between the body, gendered dispossession and agency under conditions of austerity in Portugal. Drawing from ethnographic research undertaken in 2015 and 2016 in a Portuguese post-industrial town, this article focuses on the examination of how concrete physical experiences and social anxieties framed working-class women’s experiences and explanations of the austerity-led crisis of social reproduction and the…
Locating precarization: The state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal
Time and media: Introductory Note
What is the time of media today? Is there a time of and for the media
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Gender, Work and Migration: Agency in Gendered Labour Settings
While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic …
Call center labor and the injured precariat: Shame, stigma, and downward social mobility in contemporary Portugal
O reconhecimento, entre a justiça e a identidade
Pretende-se, neste artigo, discutir o recente debate entre Honneth e Fraser, cujo ponto central é determinar o alcance e os limites da perspectiva do reconhecimento para a análise das modernas sociedades do Ocidente. Esses autores discutem os principais pontos envolvidos na teoria do reconhecimento, suas fontes, as tematizações filosófica e política, a construção de uma teoria social e os pressupostos para se pensar uma teoria da justiça. Ambos, …
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
O reconhecimento, entre a justiça e a identidade
Pretende-se, neste artigo, discutir o recente debate entre Honneth e Fraser, cujo ponto central é determinar o alcance e os limites da perspectiva do reconhecimento para a análise das modernas sociedades do Ocidente. Esses autores discutem os principais pontos envolvidos na teoria do reconhecimento, suas fontes, as tematizações filosófica e política, a construção de uma teoria social e os pressupostos para se pensar uma teoria da justiça. Ambos, …
On the common sense of social reproduction: Social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe
Life-Making on the Line: Capitalist Value, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Call Centre Labour in Portugal
This article explores how value is generated in the Portuguese call centre sector by examining its reliance on the commodification of socially and historically rooted reproductive capacities. Previous research on call centres has often focused on the disembedding, disembodiment, depersonalisation, and desubjectification of human linguistic agency, frequently neglecting the familial, educational, and moral infrastructures that make labour power bo…
Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal
Austerity policies in Portugal unleashed a violent crisis of well-being and social reproduction which intensified the 'triple burden' placed upon women, making them the primary 'shock absorbers' of the crisis. This article addresses the critical role of working-class women's various forms of paid and unpaid care work in responding to the material and immaterial needs of impoverished individuals and working-class households. It is shown that women…
O reconhecimento, entre a justiça e a identidade
Pretende-se, neste artigo, discutir o recente debate entre Honneth e Fraser, cujo ponto central é determinar o alcance e os limites da perspectiva do reconhecimento para a análise das modernas sociedades do Ocidente. Esses autores discutem os principais pontos envolvidos na teoria do reconhecimento, suas fontes, as tematizações filosófica e política, a construção de uma teoria social e os pressupostos para se pensar uma teoria da justiça. Ambos, …
Call center labor and the injured precariat: Shame, stigma, and downward social mobility in contemporary Portugal
Gender, Work and Migration: Agency in Gendered Labour Settings
While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic …
Locating precarization: The state, livelihoods and the politics of precarity in contemporary Portugal
Time and media: Introductory Note
What is the time of media today? Is there a time of and for the media
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
The Potentiality to Move: Mobility and Future in Digital Nomads’ Practices
The digital nomad lifestyle, which combines remote work and travel, has grown in the last decade among tech and creative industry professionals. “Freedom,” “inspiration,” and “work–life balance” are frequently mentioned by respondents when describing what led them to be location-independent workers. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Barcelona. From participant observation and in-depth interviews, we study participants’ s…
Bodies of and against austerity: Gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal
This article explores the relationships between the body, gendered dispossession and agency under conditions of austerity in Portugal. Drawing from ethnographic research undertaken in 2015 and 2016 in a Portuguese post-industrial town, this article focuses on the examination of how concrete physical experiences and social anxieties framed working-class women’s experiences and explanations of the austerity-led crisis of social reproduction and the…
On the common sense of social reproduction: Social assistance and ideologies of care in austerity Europe
Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal
Austerity policies in Portugal unleashed a violent crisis of well-being and social reproduction which intensified the 'triple burden' placed upon women, making them the primary 'shock absorbers' of the crisis. This article addresses the critical role of working-class women's various forms of paid and unpaid care work in responding to the material and immaterial needs of impoverished individuals and working-class households. It is shown that women…
Political struggles over the logic of human needs quantification: Negotiating capitalist welfare futures
This article draws on historical and ethnographic research conducted in Portugal to examine how the logic of human needs quantification serves as a central point of political struggle among various social actors, each driven by conflicting political motivations, moral commitments, and valuation debates during periods of crisis. It argues that this logic should be understood as a site of struggle where different actors delineate the material, mora…
Life-Making on the Line: Capitalist Value, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Call Centre Labour in Portugal
This article explores how value is generated in the Portuguese call centre sector by examining its reliance on the commodification of socially and historically rooted reproductive capacities. Previous research on call centres has often focused on the disembedding, disembodiment, depersonalisation, and desubjectification of human linguistic agency, frequently neglecting the familial, educational, and moral infrastructures that make labour power bo…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Austerity (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)