ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute

Post-Doc, CRIA-IUL

Anthropology Associate Researcher

Thesis Title: Portugueses Gypsies, markets and horses: two ways of "doing business". Social networks and economic itineraries of Gypsy families in the Greater Lisbon and the Algarve.

About

Micol Brazzabeni, since 2008, is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, Portugal (fellowship by Foundation of Sciences and Technology - FCT).

Actually her research is about ways in which Portuguese Gypsy families make a living through economic activities on the margin or outside of direct state intervention, and processes of commodification: especially in street selling activities in Lisbon and horse trading in the South of Portugal.

Her first research was about the relationships between spaces and emotions, social and institutional suffering and housing processes within some families of Portugueses Gypsies. 

She obtained her PhD at the University of Florence. She was visiting student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, integrating the Research Project "Sociocultural subjects in indigenous education: an interdisciplinar research (coords. Prof. Ana Maria Rabelo Gomes, Prof. Carlos Henrique de Souza Gerken and Prof. Myriam Martins Álvares.

She has conducted her PhD research in Brazil, with an indigenous group in State of Minas Gerais in 2004-2005. Investigation was about the process of creation and development of the indigenous school and the training course for indigenous teachers (see book, talks and papers).
 
She is a member of the FCT Project PTDC/CS-ANT/101179/2008 "Immigrants and the social care sectors: technologies of citizenship in Portugal" (coord. Chiara Pussetti)