Sílvia Baptista Leiria Viegas

sbviegas@ualg.pt

https://www.cienciavitae.pt/8A19-EE99-A30F

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3265-3108

Sílvia Leiria Viegas earned her PhD in Architecture from the University of Lisbon (2015) with the thesis Luanda, the (Un)Predictable City? Governance and Urban and Housing Transformation: Intervention Paradigms and Resistances in the New Millennium; she was an FCT postdoctoral fellow (SFRH/BPD/118022/2016) to develop the research INSEhRE 21. Socio-Spatial and Housing Inclusion of Refugees in Today’s Europe: Lessons from the African Diaspora in Portugal (2017-2022) at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES/UC); she is a researcher at the Center for Research in Arts and Communication, University of Algarve (CIAC/UAlg), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2021.03008.CEECIND/FCT), to develop the project Refugee Research for (Post)Covid-19. National Measures and Local Actions in the Algarve: a Digital Tour for Access to Adequate Housing and Living Conditions.

Sílvia Leiria Viegas participated in the Global Report on Culture and Sustainable Urban Development: Regional Survey for Portuguese Speaking Countries, produced by UNESCO for the New Urban Agenda, within the context of the UN’s Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (2016); in the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (2017), produced by UN-Habitat and United Cities and Local Governments with Bartlett/DPU/UCL; in the Africa Habitat project: From the Sustainability of Habitat to the Quality of Inhabit in the Urban Margins of Luanda and Maputo (2018/2022), funded by FCT/Aga Khan; and in the project How to Stay at Home? Immediate Interventions to Combat Covid-19 in Slums of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (2020), funded by FCT. She was also part of COST Action CA19129 – Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice (DecolDEV) from 2020 to 2024. She is currently a member of two other COST Actions, respectively, CA22135 – Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG, 2023-2027) and CA22149 – Research Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Transhistorical Deliberative Democracy (CHANGECODE, 2023-2027).

She participated in the educational project More than Houses (FAUP, 2023/2024), to celebrate 50 years of democracy, with a guiding text on migrations for architecture and art students. She was deputy coordinator of the Monitoring Committee of the Participatory Budget of UAlg (2024). She has been a member of the Inter-thematic Migration Group (ITM/CES/UC) since 2017 and of the National Housing Studies Network (Rede H) since 2020. She has collaborated with the Refugee Forum Portugal since 2019. She teaches Research Methodology and Artistic Production in the PhD program in Digital Media Art (DMAD/UAlg-UAb, 2023-). She is the driving force behind the Intersectional and Urban Studies Group, based at UAlg, in collaboration with other Portuguese and Spanish academics (from UAb, FAUP, ISCTE, CES, Loyola University, and University of Granada) (2023-).

Research Interests

Current interests intersect the right to the city and access to housing for the most vulnerable, with migration and media arts, from the lens of the production of the space/space produced.

Latest Publications

[2024] Fragoso, A., & Viegas, S. (2024). OP UAlg: participação democrática nas IES. Lugar de experimentação numa visão de futuro. UALGZINE, 17, 52.

[2024] Viegas, S. (2024). Reformism vs resistance for the right to the city. Re(new)ed views and dynamics in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. In R. Baikady; S. Sajid; J. Przeperski; V. Nadesan; R. Islam; & G. Jiangu (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of global social change. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_264-1

[2023] Viegas, S. (2023). Cultural heritage(s) and the right to the city. A view from Lisbon and Luanda. In N. M. Lopes, W. Rossa, & M. B. Jerónimo (Orgs), Other landscapes of cultural heritage(s): History and politics. University of Coimbra Press.

[2023] Kweh, A. K., & Viegas, S. L. (2023). Refugiados e espaços de inclusão: Entrevista com Alexander Kpatue Kweh. Laje, 2(2), 98–123. https://doi.org/10.9771/lj.v2i0.58329

[2023] Gianolla, C.; Giuliani, G.; Indelicato, M.; Sousa Ribeiro, J.; Ruiz-Estramil, I.; & Viegas, S. (2023). ITM – Inter-Thematic group on Migrations. CES em CENA, 62(2).

[2023] Carvalho, I.; & Viegas, S. (2023, Novembro, 28-30). Digital Narratives & Urban Artivist Networks: A theoretical-methodological approach. ARTECH 2023 – Digital Creation Processes. 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, Faro. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3632776.3632798

[2022] Jorge, S.; & Viegas, S. (2022). “Se o Estado regular o mercado – e isso é fazer política pública –, consegue implementar uma política social redistributiva.’ Entrevista com Yves Cabannes, CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 45, 121-130. https://journals.openedition.org/cidades/6574

[2022] Viegas, S. (2022). Refugiados de África e do Médio Oriente em Portugal: notas sobre o acesso à habitação e direito à cidade. CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 45, 39-54. https://journals.openedition.org/cidades/6506

[2022] Viegas, S.; & Jorge, S. (2022). “Eu pertenço ao grupo de pessoas que acha que deve haver intervenção pública na habitação privada.” Entrevista com Jorge Malheiros. CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 45, 112-120. https://journals.openedition.org/cidades/6572

[2022] Viegas, S.; & Jorge, S. (2022). Editorial: Acesso à habitação e Covid-19. Leituras a partir das Áreas Metropolitanas de Lisboa e Porto. CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 45, iii-v. https://journals.openedition.org/cidades/6421

[2022] Viegas, S.; & Jorge, S. (Eds.). (2022). Acesso à habitação e Covid-19: Leituras a partir das Áreas Metropolitanas de Lisboa e Porto. CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios, 45. https://journals.openedition.org/cidades/6398

[2021] Jorge, S.; & Viegas, S. (2021). Neoliberal urban legacies and current dynamics in Luanda and Maputo. African Geographical Review, 40(3), 324-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1937664

[2021] Jorge, S.; & Viegas, S. (2021). Rede H. Rede Nacional de Estudos sobre Habitação: atuais desafios e oportunidades no acesso a uma habitação condigna, A Habitação como um Direito. Revista da Rede Europeia contra a Pobreza (Rediteia), 52, 147-154.

[2021] Viegas, S.; & Jorge, S. (Eds.). (2021). (De)constructing the right to the city: Luanda and Maputo. African Geographical Review, 40(3), 211-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1962101

[2020] Jorge, S.; & Viegas, S. (2020). Henri Lefebvre. A cidade e sociedade urbana. Finisterra, 55(114), 195-197. https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis20253

[2020] Jorge, S.; Viegas, S.; Lages, J.; Melo, V.; Pavel, F.; & Vaz, M. (2020). Editorial: Políticas urbanas e a produção do espaço na construção do direito à cidade. Finisterra, 55(114), 35-40. https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis20623

[2020] Jorge, S.; Viegas, S.; Lages, J.; Melo, V.; Pavel, F.; & Vaz, M. (2020), Nota de apresentação sobre o Direito à Cidade 1968-2018. Espaços Vividos e Espaços Construídos, 1(9), 42-43. http://biblioteca.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/biblioteca-digital/revistas-academicas-e-cientificas/43-novidades/revistas/344-espacos-vividos-e-espacos-construidos-v1n7-3

[2020] Jorge, S.; Viegas, S.; Lages, J.; Melo, V.; Vaz, M.; & Pavel, F (Eds.). (2020). Políticas urbanas e produção de outros espaços na construção do direito à cidade. Finisterra, 55(114). https://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/issue/view/966

[2020] Jorge, S.; Viegas, S.; Lages, J.; Melo, V.; Vaz, M.; & Pavel, F. (Eds.). (2020). Dossier Temático: Direito à Cidade 1968-2018. Espaços Vividos e Espaços Construídos, 1(9). http://biblioteca.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/biblioteca-digital/revistas-academicas-e-cientificas/43-novidades/revistas/344-espacos-vividos-e-espacos-construidos-v1n7-3

[2020] Viegas, S. (2020). Mulheres em situação de refúgio em Portugal. Co-construindo solidariedades, passo a passo. In J. P. Lages; & S. Jorge (Orgs.), Crise pandémica e crise na Habitação. Mulheres em foco (pp. 80-83). https://comoficaremcasa.pt/guia/

[2019] Amelung, N.; Gianolla, C.; Sousa Ribeiro, J.; Viegas, S.; & Magalhães, B. (2019). Facing the elephant: STS inspired reflections on the political crisis associated with migrants. EASST Review, 38(1). https://easst.net/article/facing-the-elephant-sts-inspired-reflections-on-the-political-crisis-associated-with-migrants/

[2019] Viegas, S. (2019). Acesso à habitação por todos e para todos? Paradigmas e paradoxos da atualidade portuguesa. Fórum Sociológico, 34, 71-80. https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.4864

[2019] Viegas, S. (2019). Spaces of resistance in Luanda: ‘How do [small] gains become prisons’? An analysis from a Lefebvrian perspective. In J. P. Leary-Owhin; & J. P. McCarthy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of Henri Lefebvre: The city and urban society (pp. 124-133). Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

[2019] Viegas, S. (2019). Tayybeh, A blessing for the World Refugee Day. Alice News. https://alicenews.ces.uc.pt/index.php?lang=1&id=25698

[2019] Viegas, S.; & Jorge, S. (2019). The role of the urban grid in Luanda and Maputo’s current transformation: Between the idealised city and the pre-existing self-produced spaces. Architext: The Urban Grid in Planning and Architectural Cultures. From Global South to North and Back Again, 7, 114-121.