CURRICULUM VITAE
Pedro Gabriel Silva
June, 2010
CONTACT
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Dep. Economia, Sociologia e Gestão
Av. Almeida Lucena 1
5000-660 VILA REAL
PORTUGAL
Telephone: +351 259 302200
Fax: +351 259 302249
email: [email protected]
EDUCATION

PhD Candidate in the University of Santiago de Compostela – Contemporary
Studies (Spain) – since September 2005.

DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) Contemporary History by the University of
Santiago de Compostela with the presentation of the thesis “Memories of
Dredged Soil – Mining, Popular Resistance and Ecology in a Beira Baixa
Hamlet – 1912-1977” (2005); score Sobresaliente.

Licenciatura (4 year degree) in Social Anthropology by the Instituto Superior de
Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa - ISCTE - Lisbon); score Good (14 points
out of 20)
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
 Visiting Researcher in the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Dept. of
Contemporary History and America (2008)
 Junior Visiting Scholar/Invited Student Researcher in the University of
California - Berkeley (2006-2007).
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 Assistente Convidado (Invited Assistant Lecturer) in the Universidade de Trásos-Montes e Alto Douro (since 2002).
 Professor Colaborador (colaborating lecturer) in the Universidade de Trás-osMontes e Alto Douro (1999-2002).
 Public High School Geography teacher (1996-1999).
 Cultural Anthropology teacher - Vértice Professional School (1996).
RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGIC ACTIVITIES

Lecturer of the Anthropology Applied to Development, Social Work and
Nursing degrees at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (since
1999). Courses taught:

Qualitative and Analytic Methods in Social Sciences (since
2005);

History of Europe (2007-2008);

Psycho-sociology of Family (2006-2008);

Family Structures and Dynamics (since 2006);

Ethnographic Field Work I (2006-2008);

Contemporary Problems of Criminology and Penal Law (since
2006);

Iberian Peninsula Ethnology (2006-2007);

History and Ethnologies of the American Continent (20062008);

Anthropology of Ages (2006-2007);

Project II (2004-2005);

Theories of Gender and Citizenship (1999-2006);

Anthropology of Education (1999-2007);

Youth Cultures (2000-2007);
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

Ethnographic Field Work II (2003-2004);

Woman and Family in Contemporary Society (2004-2007);

Sociological Theories (1999-2004);

Multiculturalism and Conflict (1999-2000);

European History and Culture (1999-2000, 2003-2004);

Social Policy (since 2009);

History of Social Work (since 2008)
Visiting lecturer in the Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen, Dep. Of
Social Work, under the scope of the Erasmus-Socrates Program (2010).

Visiting lecturer in the University of Oradea, Romania, Dep. Of Social Work,
under the scope of the Erasmus-Socrates Program (2009).

Visiting lecturer in the University of Chieti-Pescara “G. D’Annunzio”,
Department of Economy and Geography, under the scope of the ErasmusSocrates Program (2007).

Visiting lecturer in the University of Lodz, Department of Ethnology (Poland)
under the scope of the Erasmus-Socrates Program (2006).

Visiting lecturer in the University of Lyon II – Lumière, Faculty of Geography,
History, Art History and Tourism (France) under the scope of the ErasmusSocrates academic exchange program (2004).

Researcher in the international Project “Social Work Education in Europe”,
coordinated by Prof. Günther Sander – Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
(Germany) (2003-2004).

Researcher in the international Project “Filandouro – Associativismo na Raia
Transmontana-Zamorana” (about popular recreational associations in the
Portuguese-Spanish border), coordinated by Prof. Xerardo Pereiro (University
of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro) and Prof. José Manuel del Barrio (University
of Salamanca) (2002-2003).

Ethographic research with emphasis to the use of biographic methodologies in
the Odemira County (Portugal) concerning rural wage-earner resistance and
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latifond in the 20th century Alentejo, under the guidance of Prof. Brian Juan
O’Neill (1995).

Ethnographic research in Lisbon County concerning neighbourhood sociability
and soccer organized supporting, under the guidance of Prof. Graça Índias
Cordeiro (1994-1995).
NON TEACHING ACADEMIC DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES

Member of the Social Work Degree Coordination Commission of the
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (2003-2005).

Assistant Lecturer’s representative to the Pedagogical Council of the University
of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (2003-2005).

Member of the Electoral Commission of the Permanent Pedagogical
Commission of the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (2003-2005).

University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - Miranda do Douro campus
coordinator of the European student and teacher exchange program “ErasmusSocrates” (2003-2009.
COMPLEMMENTARY FORMATION

Frequency of the following courses, part of the Contemporary Studies Doctoral
Programme – University of Santiago de Compostela: Oral Sources (notable),
Contemporary Islamic Movements (sobresaliente); Past and Present of the
Latin-american Problematic (sobresaliente).

Frequency of the following courses, part of the Anthropology of Iberoamerica
Doctoral Programme – University of Salamanca: Anthropology of Clientelism
(classification: sobresaliente), Juristas and Cronistas of the Indias
(classification: notable), Iberoamerican Visual Anthropology (classification:
notable), Field Comparative Methods in the Anthropological Study of
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Kinship, Family and Social Organizations (classification: sobresaliente),
Survey
Techniques
Applied
to
Gender
Research
(classification:
sobresaliente) (2000-2001).

Frequency of the Semiology and Linguistics course taught by Prof. Umberto
Eco in the University of Bologna – Italy (Universitá degli Studi di Bologna),
under the scope of the European student exchange programme (ERASMUS 1993).
PAPERS AND LECTURES PRESENTED

“The structural factors behind Portugal’s late development of community social
work – an historical insight” – lecture presented at Metropolitan University
College – Copenhagen, Community Social Work course, Social Work degree,
March 2010.

“When
Institutional
intervention
meets
the
community
–
a case of
intergenerational intervention through family and community” – lecture
presented at Metropolitan University College – Copenhagen, Community
Social Work course, Social Work degree, March 2010.

“Agua, explotación minera y conflictos ambientales en la Península Ibérica.
Lecciones a partir de la Historia Agraria y Ambiental” - conference imparted
jointly with Ana Cabana, Daniel Lanero y David Soto within the Seminar of
Compared Agrarian History, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, en la sede
Chorotega, Guanacaste, November, 20 2009

"El paisaje hecho arma: la idealización del paisaje en los conflictos
ambientales" - conference presented at the Seminar of Compared Agrarian
History, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica, November
16 2009

"Conclusões do Encontro de Pessoas em Situação de Pobreza" - presented in
the aftermath of the 1st Regional Meeting of Persons in Poverty, organized by
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the Vila Real chapter of the European Anti-Poverty Network, Vila Real, May 22
2009

"Landscape-made weapons – the usage of landscape idealization in
environmental conflicts" - communication presented in I World Congress of
Environmental History, Copenhagen, 4-8 August 2009

"Anthropology, memory and age: an agenda for intergenerational social
intervention”, conference presented in the Fórum - A Era do EnvelhecimentoUma Dissertação Multidisciplinar, APITIL-Lamego, January 2009.

“El Paisaje Agrario Tradicional y la Naturaleza como Recursos Retóricos
Populares en el Conflicto Contra la Minería – Notas de un Contexto del Interior
Centro Portugués en los Años 1970” – paper presented in the Environmental
Conflicts Seminar held in the University Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla) – 15-16
September 2007
 “Dry Rocky Beaches in the Portuguese Inland – Dredge Mining and the
Perception of Landscape Transformation” – conference presented in the
Universitá G. D’Annunzio – Chieti-Pescara (Italy) during a class session of the
PhD program in Geography and History of Territory (May 2007).
 “Minas Sin Mineros, Campesinos Sin Tierra. Mineria y Memoria de la
Destrucción de los Recursos Agrários Como Inductores de la Resistencia
Campesina”, communication presented in the Congress The Anthropological
Look Between the Local and the Multicultural, Merida (Spain) – 30-31 March
2007.
 “Ecology, Consciousness, and Popular Resistance: Mining Industry and the
Destruction of Natural Resources 1912-1977” – Paper ESTER (European
graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical Research)
Advanced Seminar - The Social History of Mining: 19th and 20th century – in
the Ruhr-Universität – Bochum, 19-23 July 2006.
 “Exploração Mineira, Memória e Resistência: o Papel das Retóricas Ecológicas
Populares na Oposição e Negociação entre Pequenos Proprietários Rurais e
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uma Empresa Mineira na Beira Baixa (1974-1977)” – Paper presented at the III
Latin-American Environmental History Congress/III Spanish Simposium of
Environmental History, Sevilla (April 2006).
 “Industrial vs. Rudimentary Mining – the Constraints and opportunities of
Peasant Capitalist Entrepreneurship in Rural Portugal” – Class Presentation
given in the Mediterranean Societies (Anthro 180) course under Prof. Stanley
Brandes guidance in the University of California – Berkeley (February 2006)
 “’The dredge is coming to our backyards!’ – Mining, Memory and resistance in a
Portuguese Peasant Hamlet” – Lecture presented at the Annual Lecture
Program of the Portuguese Studies Program (Institute of European Studies) of
the University of California at Berkeley (February 2006).

“ ‘We have to look after it ourselves’ – The Cultural and Entertaining
Associationism as an Endogenous Stimulator of Local Development” (“ ‘A
gente é que tem que olhar por isto’ – O Associativismo Cultural e Recreativo
como
Estimulador
Endógeno
do
Desenvolvimento
Local”)
in the
II
International Congress of Social-Cultural Research and Development Paredes de Coura (2004).

“Filandouro Project” Research Report presentation at the TrasmontanZamoran Border Zone Associativism Journeys – Zamora (Spain) (2002).

“Historical Re-elaboration as a Strategic Resource in Indentity Construction:
Historiography and Borders” (“A Re-elaboaração da História como Recurso
Estratégico na Construção das Identidades: Historiografia e Fronteiras”) in the
V International Congress of Iberoamerican Anthropology: Borders – University
of Salamanca, Salamanca (Spain) (2000).
PUBLICATIONS

[forthcoming]
Silva,
Pedro
Gabriel,
“Exploração
Mineira,
Memória
e
Resistência: As Retóricas Ecológicas Populares no Conflito Entre Pequenos
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Proprietários Rurais e Indústria Mineira no Centro de Portugal”, in Ambiente &
Sociedade, Campinas/São Paulo: NEPAM/UNICAMP [accepted paper by peer
review journal]

Silva, Pedro Gabriel, 2010, “Minas Sin Mineros, Campesinos Sin Tierra.
Mineria y Memoria de la Destrucción de los Recursos Agrários Como
Inductores de la Resistencia Campesina”, in Arévalo, Javier Marcos, Becerra,
S. Rodríguez & Baena, E. Luque (eds.), Nos-Otros: Miradas Antropológicas
Sobre la Diversidad, vol. I, Merida: Asamblea de Extremadura, pp. 289-302.

Silva, Pedro Gabriel, 2007, “Devastazione Ambientale e Conflitto Sociale: Il
Ruolo del Ricordo e dell’Ideazzione del Paesaggio. Un Caso di Studio
Portoghese”, in Zarrilli, Luca (cur.), Lifescapes: Culture, Paesaggi Identitá,
Milano: Franco Angeli Ed..

Silva, Pedro Gabriel & Pereiro, Xerardo, 2004, “ ‘A gente é que tem que olhar
por isto’ – O Associativismo Cultural e Recreativo como Estimulador Endógeno
do Desenvolvimento Local”, Cruz, Fernando (org.), Actas do II Congresso
Internacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural, Póvoa de
Varzim, Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural.

Silva, Pedro Gabriel & Mendonça, Vera & Carvalho, Cláudia, 2004, “Education
and Training for Social Professions in Portugal”, in Hamburger, Franz,
Hirschler, Sandra, Sander, Günther & Wöbcke, Manfred, Ausbildung Für
Soziale Berufe in Europa, Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Sozialarbeit und
Sozialpädagogik.

Silva, Pedro Gabriel & Pereiro, Xerardo, 2000, “Historiografia y Fronteiras: a
Re-elaboração da História como Recurso Estratégico na Construção das
Identidades”, in Actas del V Congreso Internacional de Antropología
Iberoamericana – Fronteras, Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca.
PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
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
Participation in the Pre-Conference Workshop Integration of Historic Research
in Interdisciplinary Environmental and Resource Management - University of
Roskilde (Denmark), 2-3 August 2009

Co-organizer of the lecture series “Anthropology and Social Intervention: An
(im)Possible Relationship?”, CTRAD/UTAD, Miranda do Douro and Vila Real
(FCT sponsored) (2008).

Co-organizer of the lecture series “The ‘End’ of Anthropology”, UTAD, Miranda
do Douro (FCT sponsored) (2007).

Co-organizer of the lecture series “Family, Sexuality and Filiation: An
Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Social Intervention”, UTAD, Miranda do
Douro (FCT sponsored) (2006).

Participation as moderator in the “Leituras Antropológicas de Trás-os-Montes
– Miranda do Douro” Congress (Anthropological Views of Trás-os-Montes
Region Congress in Miranda do Douro - Portugal) (FCT sponsored) (2003).

Participation in the “V Congress of Applied Anthropology of the Spanish State”
(Granada, Spain – 2003).

Participation as moderator in the I Jornadas de Antropologia Aplicada
de
Miranda do Douro – Antropologia e Intervenção (I Miranda do Douro Journeys
of Applied Anthropology – Anthropology and Intervention - Portugal) (2001).

Participation
in
the
“Seminário
de
Antropologia,
Comunicação
e
Desenvolvimento” (Anthropology, Comunication and Development Seminary)
organized by the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (2000).

Participation as moderator in the “VII Congresso Internacional de Estudantes
de Antropologia” in Miranda do Douro (VII International Anthropology Student’s
Congress – Miranda do Douro) (1999).

Participation in the “Práticas e Terrenos da Antropologia Congress - Lisboa”
(Practics and Fields of Portuguese Anthropology Congress – Lisbon),
organized by the Portuguese Anthropological Association (1999).
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Participation in the “Jornadas Galaico-Portuguesas de Ciência e Tecnologia Miranda do Douro” (Galician-Portuguese Science and Technology Journeys –
Miranda do Douro (1999).
GRANTS

Erasmus/Socrates grant for academic faculty mobility to the Metropolitan
University College, Copenhagen (March 2010).

Erasmus/Socrates grant for academic faculty mobility to the Universidad de
Santiago de Compostela (January 2008).

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia/Fundo de Apoio à Comunidade
Científica grant to attend the Environmental Conflicts Seminar in Historical
Perspective in Sevilla (Spain) (2007).

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia/Fundo de Apoio à Comunidade
Científica grant for displacement to the University of Califórnia at Berkeley
(USA) (2006).

Erasmus/Sócrates grant for academic faculty mobility to the University “G.
D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara (Italy) (2007).

Erasmus/Socrates grant for academic faculty mobility to the University of
Lodz (Poland) (2006).

Erasmus/Socrates grant for research in the University of Lyon II - Faculty of
Geography, History, Art History and Tourism (France) (2004).

Erasmus Program Grant for a 3 month period to study in the University
Degli Studi di Bologna (1993).
PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC MEMBERSHIP

Colaborating Reseacher CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em
Antropologia) – ISCTE/FCSH-UNL/FCT-UC/UM.
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
Research Assistant (Assistente de Investigação) of CETRAD (Centro de
Estudos Transdisciplinares para o Desenvolvimento) – Universidade de Trásos-Montes e Alto Douro.

Membership of the ISCTE - Social Anthropology Studies Centre (Centro de
Estudos de Antropologia Social do I.S.C.T.E.) – Lisbon.

Membership of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology.

Membership of the Portuguese American Post-Graduate Society.
LANGUAGES

Portuguese.

English.

Spanish.

French.

Italian.
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