Joana Catela estudou Antropologia Social na FCSH-Nova e Estudos Latino Americanos na Universidade de Cambridge. Entre 2010 e 2011 frequentou a pós- graduação em Antropologia da Saúde: Competência Cultural em Âmbito Clínico. Após um ano a trabalhar para a administração local, em 2018 doutorou-se em Antropologia no ISCTE-IUL com a tese “Nas margens e em trânsito: a saúde mental e as boas intenções numa IPSS nos arredores de Lisboa”, realizada com base em trabalho de campo intensivo num bairro de realojamento com imigrantes.
Entre 2018 e 2019, integrou como investigadora de pós-doutoramento no ICS-ULisboa, a equipa do projeto “exPERts – Organizando o conhecimento do planeamento: política de habitação e o papel dos peritos no PER”. Desenvolveu uma etnografia multissituada em Cascais e na Alta de Lisboa com antigos moradores dos bairros autoconstruídos e com os técnicos envolvidos no seu realojamento.
Entre julho de 2020 e fevereiro de 2021 integrou o projeto “SPLACH – Spatial Planning for Change”, que visa produzir conhecimento informado sobre o sistema alimentar da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, para o qual desenvolveu remotamente uma etnografia sobre cabazes alimentares.
Juntou-se recentemente como investigadora de pós-doutoramento no ICS-ULisboa para colaborar com o projeto “CLAN: Amizades entre animais e crianças – desafiando as fronteiras entre humanos e não-humanos nas sociedades contemporâneas”.
Os seus principais interesses de pesquisa centram-se em questões relacionadas com antropologia médica e urbana, imigração, saúde mental, habitação, vulnerabilidade e human-animal studies, temas sobre os quais tem publicado e participado em conferências científicas, tanto a nível nacional como internacional.
Email: mjcatela@gmail.com
ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2347-6613
Publicações em destaque:
Catela, J. (2021) Reflection: “It opened our eyes”: ethnographic encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lisbon, Portugal, Food and Foodways, DOI:10.1080/07409710.2021.1984558
Marat-Mendes T, Isidoro I, Catela J, Pereira M, Borges J, Lopes S, Henriques C (2021) “Drivers of change: how the food system of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area is being shaped by activities, initiatives and citizens needs towards a sustainable transition”. Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios: http://dx.doi.org/10.15847/cct.20490
Catela, J (2019) ““Lending a hand”: the well-intentioned work of a non-profit organisation on the outskirts of neoliberal Lisbon”. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhrh-03-2019-0021
Catela, J (2019) ““I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions”. Societies 9 (4). http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc9040084
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Joana Catela studied Social Anthropology at FCSH-Nova and Latin American Studies at Cambridge University. Between 2010 and 2011 she attended the post-graduate course “Health anthropology: cultural competence in clinical setting”. After a year working for the local administration, in 2018 he received a doctorate in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL with the thesis “On the margins and in transit: mental health and good intentions in an IPSS on the outskirts of Lisbon”, based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork in a social housing neighborhood.
Between 2018 and 2019, she joined ICS-ULisboa as a postdoctoral researcher working for project “exPERts – Organizing planning knowledge: housing policy and the role of experts in PER”. She developed a multisited ethnographic investigation both in Cascais and Alta de Lisboa with former residents of the former neighborhoods and with the experts involved in their relocation.
Between July 2020 and February 2021, Joana Catela worked for “SPLACH – Spatial Planning for Change”, based at ISCTE -IUL, a research project focused on investigating the Lisbon Metropolitan Area food system, for which she developed a remote ethnography about food basket producers.
She has recently joined ICS-ULisboa to work as a post-doc researcher for project “CLAN – Children-Animals Friendships: challenging boundaries between humans and non-humans in contemporary societies”.
Her main research interests focus on issues related to medical and urban anthropology, immigration, mental health, housing, vulnerability and human-animal studies, topics on which she has published and participated in scientific conferences, both nationally and internationally.