Antonio Maria Pusceddu

ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal)

Popular ecologies in southern Europe: a bottom-up approach to socio-environmental change

2024–2025: Spring

Antonio Maria Pusceddu is a senior researcher at the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), University Institute of Lisbon. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Siena. Before moving to Portugal, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cagliari and at the University of Barcelona. He has conducted extensive field research in Greece, Albania, Italy, and most recently in Portugal, investigating issues of power and inequality through the lenses of borders, ethnicity, crisis and social reproduction. His current comparative project explores the relationships between environment and society in industrial regions of Italy and Portugal. Combining a social reproduction framework with a political ecology approach, the research interrogates the relevance of “popular ecologies” to develop a bottom-up perspective to socio-environmental change.