Bio notes

Adriana Bravin is a visiting researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Society (CECS) of the University of Minho in Braga (2015/2016), where she conducts her doctoral training funded by Capes / Brazil. She is a journalist, teacher and a PhD candidate in Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Search identity narratives and environmental movements, analyzing the narrative dimension of the fight against mining in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Professor of the degree in journalism at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais, Brazil), coordinated the outreach project "Environmental E-Journalism: education and citizenship through radio",  which produced the programme Sintonia Ambiental broadcasted  by Radio Ufop Educativa  (2010 and 2011). Member of the Study Group Tramas Comunicacionais: narrativa e experiência  (PPGCOM-UFMG) and the Mariana Viva Movement of Mariana (MG, Brazil)

Ana Raquel Matos is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and member of the research group on Science, Economics and Society (NECES) since 2007. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology - doctoral program on "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation" from the School of Economics/CES, University of Coimbra (2012). Her current research interests focus on the relation between "public participation and democracy", "social movements and collective action", "citizen participation in health", and "science and Knowledge(s)". She is particularly interested in the analysis of protest events as participatory mechanisms, and in the assessment of protest impacts on the (re)formulation of public policies. .

Fabián Cevallos Vivar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Programme "Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship" since 2013, with a master's degree in Higher Education by University of  Barcelona and degree in Philosophy, Sociology and Economics at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador. His research interests are in construction, along with the social and indigenous movements, issues related to alternatives to development, neo-extraction, Sumak-Kawsay, rights of nature,  Plurinational Intercultural State, the rights indigenous peoples and nationalities, territoriality -identity, commons, care and commonalities ethics.

Lúcia Fernandes  is a post-doctoral researcher in a joint project between the SOCIUS (University of Lisbon) and CES. The project addresses environment, health and citizens mobilization in Transition experiences in Portugal and other sustainability experiences. Other research topics relate to environmental conflicts in Portugal and she was co-coordinator of EJ atlas Portugal. Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Master of Social Sciences, Environmental Policies specialty from the University of Aveiro, and a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has conducted research and published in interdisciplinary journals.

Rajiv Maher is visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Chile. Rajiv researches and teaches the dynamics and processes in the resistances of indigenous peoples against extractive projects and dams in Chile. Also, his interests focus on how communities build their own alternatives for their development. He teaches courses on Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility. He has ten years of experience as a consultant in CSR area (including the World Bank, Danish Institute for Human Rights, UN projects), working in Chile, Brazil, USA, Colombia, Peru, England, Denmark. In 2014, Rajiv obtained his  Ph.D. at Cranfield University, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, School of Management, UK, with the thesis "What influences the communities' positions on mining projects - eight cases in Brazil and Chile" 

Verónica María Yuquilema Yupangui's nationality is Puruwa Kichwa of Ecuador. With a degree in law at the University of the Americas in Quito, Ecuador, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Programme  "Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship" and her project is about plurinationality and originating justices in Ecuador. Worked in the Fundación Regional de Asesoría en Derechos Humanos with indigenous communities on the claiming originating justices and has followed some struggles against mining and hydroelectric plants in Ecuador.