Sílvia Baptista Leiria Viegas

sbviegas@ualg.pt

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

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

Sílvia Leiria Viegas completed her PhD in Architecture at the University of Lisbon (2015) with the thesis Luanda, (un)Predictable City? Government and Urban and Housing Transformation: Paradigms of Intervention and Resistances in the New Millennium; was an FCT grant holder (SFRH/BPD/118022/2016) during the development of the postdoctoral research INSEhRE 21. Socio-spatial and housing inclusion of refugees in contemporary Europe: Lessons from the African Diaspora in Portugal (2017-2022), at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES/UC); is a researcher at the Research Centre for Arts and Communication, University of the Algarve (CIAC/UAlg), with support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2021.03008.CEECIND/FCT), to develop the project Refugee Research for (Post)Covid-19. National mesures 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 (2016), produced by UNESCO for the New Urban Agenda, in the context of the United Nations Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals; the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (2017), produced by UN-Habitat and the United Cities and Local Governments with the Bartlett/DPU/UCL; the Africa Habitat: From the Sustainability of Habitat to the Quality of Inhabit in the Urban Margins of Luanda and Maputo (2018/2022), sponsored by FCT/Aga Khan; and in the project How to Stay at Home? Immediate Interventions to Combat Covid-19 in Precarious Neighbourhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (2020), funded by FCT. Has been a member of the Inter-Thematic Group on Migration (ITM/CES/UC) since 2017, and of the National Network of Housing Studies (Rede H) since 2020. Has been a member of the Refugee Forum Portugal since 2019.

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] Viegas, S. (2024, no prelo). 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://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1

[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.