Maria Rovisco
Biographic Data
| ID | 577312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Rovisco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Rovisco |
| SIGNATURE | ROVISCO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2408-714X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Writing as a combat sport: Autosociobiography and social mobility – A reply to Friedman, Savage, and Spoerhase
In ‘Beyond the “Scholarship Boy” Paradigm: Autosociobiography and Social Mobility’, Friedman, Savage, and Spoerhase compellingly demonstrate the interdisciplinary reach of autosociobiography by examining what this literary genre can offer to sociological understandings of the ‘social mobility malaise’ in times of rising inequality. Drawing on the work and life of Annie Ernaux, I will argue that, despite recognising the possibilities that creative…
Social Movements and Everyday Acts of Resistance: Solidarity in a Changing World
"This book focuses on small-scale mobilization and everyday social movements that take the form of grassroots resistance and solidarity initiatives. Through a series of case studies drawn from the UK, Europe, India and Latin America, it examines the dynamics and role of micro-acts of resistance, with attention to a range of themes including organizational issues, the construction of collective identity, strategies, tactics and participation, and …
Educating for participatory active citizenship: An example from the ecological activist field
Based on a short-term ethnography with a grassroots group of young environmental activists in the city of Porto, Portugal, this paper describes and problematizes their use of participatory methodologies to engage individual, community and organizational actors in tackling the problems of global climate change. By initiating what they call a “friendship network” that seeks to achieve democratic and participatory forms of activism, the group brings…
Visual Politics in the Global South
Who Are We? Square Politics and the Collective Self-Understanding of the Indignados in Spain and Greece-Reflections and Legacies
As occupations of squares in Spain spread across Europe, the Spanish Indignados gave rise to a transnational movement of ordinary citizens united in their anger against the banks, corruption, the electoral system, the global financial system, and the press. In this article, we reflect upon the legacies of the Spanish and Greek Indignados and show how their collective self-understanding—that is, a sense of a “us”—is formed and articulated very dif…
Artistic Conviviality
Conviviality as a politics of endurance: The refugee emergency and the consolations of artistic intervention
Against the impasse of despair in the public response to the refugee emergency, artistic interventions emerge to offer fleeting significant opportunities for restorative and reparative action. This article takes up conviviality as a conceptual tool to understand artistic interventions to the forced migration and asylum issues that variably aim for healing, empathy, and reflexivity. Drawing on comparative research consisting of interviews of artis…
Introduction: Performance and Citizenship
[First paragraph] This special issue is concerned with the possibilities that the performative turn opens up for the study of spaces, practices and processes of citizenship and the problematization of political culture as a space of appearances and performances. The special issue brings together different approaches to performance in the social sciences and the humanities to examine the intersection between citizenship and performance. The contri…
Staging citizenship: Artistic performance as a site of contestation of citizenship
While there is already a solid body of work on the lived dimensions of citizenship, little is known about whether artistic performance in popular culture and the arts can constitute a site for staging and contesting citizenship. In this article, I argue that the literatures on voice and citizenship need to pay more attention to what performance studies approaches can offer to the study and understanding of practices of citizenship, and suggest th…
Picturing protest: Visuality, visibility and the public sphere
Aims and Scope: This special issue is concerned with how and why certain visual images picturing protest events \nand social movements are rendered visible or invisible in the public sphere. ‘Picturing Protest’ \nresponds to the growing interest in a new protest culture and new ways of ‘doing politics’, \nranging from Arab revolts to the Occupy Movement, the Indignados and anti-austerity protests \nin Europe. Since 2011 these new activisms have g…
The indignados social movement and the image of the occupied square: The making of a global icon
This article is concerned with how the indignados social movement (also known as M15) used distinctive symbolic and visual communication strategies to articulate their collective self-representation as a movement of global citizens. Through social semiotic analysis and critical discourse analysis of textual and visual materials available in the blogs of the encampments of Lisbon, Barcelona and Madrid, the author illuminates how the indignados use…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism
Contents: Introduction, Maria Rovisco and Magdalena Nowicka Part I Cultural Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitan sociology: outline of a paradigm shift, Ulrich Beck Cosmopolitanism and consumption, Jennie Germann Molz Cosmopolitan openness, Zlatko Skrbis and Ian Woodward Mega-events and cosmopolitanism: observations on Expos and European culture in modernity, Maurice Roche The cosmopolitan city, Christina Horvarth Paradoxes of postcolonial vernacular co…
Cosmopolitanism in Practice
Contents: Foreword, Ulrich Beck Introduction: making sense of cosmopolitanism, Magdalena Nowicka and Maria Rovisco Part I Mobilities: The middle class cosmopolitan journey: the life trajectories and transnational affiliations of skilled EU migrants in Manchester, Paul Kennedy Ethnic groups unbound: a case study of the social organization of cosmopolitanism, Mark-Anthony Falzon Looking at the practice of UN professionals: strategies for managing d…
A new ‘Europe from below’? Cosmopolitan citizenship, digital media and the indignados social movement
Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere
Towards a Cosmopolitan Cinema: Understanding the Connection Between Borders, Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Fiction Film
This paper argues that the cosmopolitan cinema has been largely un-theorised, and should be understood as a mode of production and a cross-cultural practice. It starts by probing the connection between mobility, borders and cosmopolitanism across a range of approaches in the social sciences. Using a cultural sociology lens, it then goes on to explore how images and experiences of borders and mobility matter for the constitution of cosmopolitan ci…
One Europe or several Europes? The cultural logic of narratives of Europe — views from France and Britain
Bringing together humanities and social science perspectives, this article applies narrative genres and symbolic classifications as analytical tools to examine competing cultural understandings of Europe, in France and Britain, through 2003 and 2005. Drawing on data from newspaper coverage of a set of key events of European debate, the author discusses how narratives and symbolic configurations of Europe are constructed differently in France and …
Reframing Europe and the Global: Conceptualizing the Border in Cultural Encounters
In this paper I explore the inadequacy of the representation of the border, which is underpinned by Manichean distinctions of friend and foe, superior and inferior, inside and outside, to analyze the cultural encounter between Europeans and their others. I argue that a great deal of scholarship interest in this cultural encounter is trapped into a border imaginary that loses sight of those cultural phenomena, such as hybridity, transnational iden…
Reframing Europe and the Global: Conceptualizing the Border in Cultural Encounters
In this paper I explore the inadequacy of the representation of the border, which is underpinned by Manichean distinctions of friend and foe, superior and inferior, inside and outside, to analyze the cultural encounter between Europeans and their others. I argue that a great deal of scholarship interest in this cultural encounter is trapped into a border imaginary that loses sight of those cultural phenomena, such as hybridity, transnational iden…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism
Contents: Introduction, Maria Rovisco and Magdalena Nowicka Part I Cultural Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitan sociology: outline of a paradigm shift, Ulrich Beck Cosmopolitanism and consumption, Jennie Germann Molz Cosmopolitan openness, Zlatko Skrbis and Ian Woodward Mega-events and cosmopolitanism: observations on Expos and European culture in modernity, Maurice Roche The cosmopolitan city, Christina Horvarth Paradoxes of postcolonial vernacular co…
Picturing protest: Visuality, visibility and the public sphere
Aims and Scope: This special issue is concerned with how and why certain visual images picturing protest events \nand social movements are rendered visible or invisible in the public sphere. ‘Picturing Protest’ \nresponds to the growing interest in a new protest culture and new ways of ‘doing politics’, \nranging from Arab revolts to the Occupy Movement, the Indignados and anti-austerity protests \nin Europe. Since 2011 these new activisms have g…
A new ‘Europe from below’? Cosmopolitan citizenship, digital media and the indignados social movement
Introduction: Performance and Citizenship
[First paragraph] This special issue is concerned with the possibilities that the performative turn opens up for the study of spaces, practices and processes of citizenship and the problematization of political culture as a space of appearances and performances. The special issue brings together different approaches to performance in the social sciences and the humanities to examine the intersection between citizenship and performance. The contri…
The indignados social movement and the image of the occupied square: The making of a global icon
This article is concerned with how the indignados social movement (also known as M15) used distinctive symbolic and visual communication strategies to articulate their collective self-representation as a movement of global citizens. Through social semiotic analysis and critical discourse analysis of textual and visual materials available in the blogs of the encampments of Lisbon, Barcelona and Madrid, the author illuminates how the indignados use…
Visual Politics in the Global South
Conviviality as a politics of endurance: The refugee emergency and the consolations of artistic intervention
Against the impasse of despair in the public response to the refugee emergency, artistic interventions emerge to offer fleeting significant opportunities for restorative and reparative action. This article takes up conviviality as a conceptual tool to understand artistic interventions to the forced migration and asylum issues that variably aim for healing, empathy, and reflexivity. Drawing on comparative research consisting of interviews of artis…
Staging citizenship: Artistic performance as a site of contestation of citizenship
While there is already a solid body of work on the lived dimensions of citizenship, little is known about whether artistic performance in popular culture and the arts can constitute a site for staging and contesting citizenship. In this article, I argue that the literatures on voice and citizenship need to pay more attention to what performance studies approaches can offer to the study and understanding of practices of citizenship, and suggest th…
Towards a Cosmopolitan Cinema: Understanding the Connection Between Borders, Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Fiction Film
This paper argues that the cosmopolitan cinema has been largely un-theorised, and should be understood as a mode of production and a cross-cultural practice. It starts by probing the connection between mobility, borders and cosmopolitanism across a range of approaches in the social sciences. Using a cultural sociology lens, it then goes on to explore how images and experiences of borders and mobility matter for the constitution of cosmopolitan ci…
One Europe or several Europes? The cultural logic of narratives of Europe — views from France and Britain
Bringing together humanities and social science perspectives, this article applies narrative genres and symbolic classifications as analytical tools to examine competing cultural understandings of Europe, in France and Britain, through 2003 and 2005. Drawing on data from newspaper coverage of a set of key events of European debate, the author discusses how narratives and symbolic configurations of Europe are constructed differently in France and …
Reframing Europe and the Global: Conceptualizing the Border in Cultural Encounters
In this paper I explore the inadequacy of the representation of the border, which is underpinned by Manichean distinctions of friend and foe, superior and inferior, inside and outside, to analyze the cultural encounter between Europeans and their others. I argue that a great deal of scholarship interest in this cultural encounter is trapped into a border imaginary that loses sight of those cultural phenomena, such as hybridity, transnational iden…
Towards a Cosmopolitan Cinema: Understanding the Connection Between Borders, Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Fiction Film
This paper argues that the cosmopolitan cinema has been largely un-theorised, and should be understood as a mode of production and a cross-cultural practice. It starts by probing the connection between mobility, borders and cosmopolitanism across a range of approaches in the social sciences. Using a cultural sociology lens, it then goes on to explore how images and experiences of borders and mobility matter for the constitution of cosmopolitan ci…
Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere
The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism
Contents: Introduction, Maria Rovisco and Magdalena Nowicka Part I Cultural Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolitan sociology: outline of a paradigm shift, Ulrich Beck Cosmopolitanism and consumption, Jennie Germann Molz Cosmopolitan openness, Zlatko Skrbis and Ian Woodward Mega-events and cosmopolitanism: observations on Expos and European culture in modernity, Maurice Roche The cosmopolitan city, Christina Horvarth Paradoxes of postcolonial vernacular co…
Cosmopolitanism in Practice
Contents: Foreword, Ulrich Beck Introduction: making sense of cosmopolitanism, Magdalena Nowicka and Maria Rovisco Part I Mobilities: The middle class cosmopolitan journey: the life trajectories and transnational affiliations of skilled EU migrants in Manchester, Paul Kennedy Ethnic groups unbound: a case study of the social organization of cosmopolitanism, Mark-Anthony Falzon Looking at the practice of UN professionals: strategies for managing d…
A new ‘Europe from below’? Cosmopolitan citizenship, digital media and the indignados social movement
Picturing protest: Visuality, visibility and the public sphere
Aims and Scope: This special issue is concerned with how and why certain visual images picturing protest events \nand social movements are rendered visible or invisible in the public sphere. ‘Picturing Protest’ \nresponds to the growing interest in a new protest culture and new ways of ‘doing politics’, \nranging from Arab revolts to the Occupy Movement, the Indignados and anti-austerity protests \nin Europe. Since 2011 these new activisms have g…
The indignados social movement and the image of the occupied square: The making of a global icon
This article is concerned with how the indignados social movement (also known as M15) used distinctive symbolic and visual communication strategies to articulate their collective self-representation as a movement of global citizens. Through social semiotic analysis and critical discourse analysis of textual and visual materials available in the blogs of the encampments of Lisbon, Barcelona and Madrid, the author illuminates how the indignados use…
Conviviality as a politics of endurance: The refugee emergency and the consolations of artistic intervention
Against the impasse of despair in the public response to the refugee emergency, artistic interventions emerge to offer fleeting significant opportunities for restorative and reparative action. This article takes up conviviality as a conceptual tool to understand artistic interventions to the forced migration and asylum issues that variably aim for healing, empathy, and reflexivity. Drawing on comparative research consisting of interviews of artis…
Introduction: Performance and Citizenship
[First paragraph] This special issue is concerned with the possibilities that the performative turn opens up for the study of spaces, practices and processes of citizenship and the problematization of political culture as a space of appearances and performances. The special issue brings together different approaches to performance in the social sciences and the humanities to examine the intersection between citizenship and performance. The contri…
Staging citizenship: Artistic performance as a site of contestation of citizenship
While there is already a solid body of work on the lived dimensions of citizenship, little is known about whether artistic performance in popular culture and the arts can constitute a site for staging and contesting citizenship. In this article, I argue that the literatures on voice and citizenship need to pay more attention to what performance studies approaches can offer to the study and understanding of practices of citizenship, and suggest th…
Artistic Conviviality
Who Are We? Square Politics and the Collective Self-Understanding of the Indignados in Spain and Greece-Reflections and Legacies
As occupations of squares in Spain spread across Europe, the Spanish Indignados gave rise to a transnational movement of ordinary citizens united in their anger against the banks, corruption, the electoral system, the global financial system, and the press. In this article, we reflect upon the legacies of the Spanish and Greek Indignados and show how their collective self-understanding—that is, a sense of a “us”—is formed and articulated very dif…
Social Movements and Everyday Acts of Resistance: Solidarity in a Changing World
"This book focuses on small-scale mobilization and everyday social movements that take the form of grassroots resistance and solidarity initiatives. Through a series of case studies drawn from the UK, Europe, India and Latin America, it examines the dynamics and role of micro-acts of resistance, with attention to a range of themes including organizational issues, the construction of collective identity, strategies, tactics and participation, and …
Educating for participatory active citizenship: An example from the ecological activist field
Based on a short-term ethnography with a grassroots group of young environmental activists in the city of Porto, Portugal, this paper describes and problematizes their use of participatory methodologies to engage individual, community and organizational actors in tackling the problems of global climate change. By initiating what they call a “friendship network” that seeks to achieve democratic and participatory forms of activism, the group brings…
Visual Politics in the Global South
Writing as a combat sport: Autosociobiography and social mobility – A reply to Friedman, Savage, and Spoerhase
In ‘Beyond the “Scholarship Boy” Paradigm: Autosociobiography and Social Mobility’, Friedman, Savage, and Spoerhase compellingly demonstrate the interdisciplinary reach of autosociobiography by examining what this literary genre can offer to sociological understandings of the ‘social mobility malaise’ in times of rising inequality. Drawing on the work and life of Annie Ernaux, I will argue that, despite recognising the possibilities that creative…
Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Cosmopolitanism (5 works) · Citizenship (4 works)