Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

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Populist radical right rhetoric increases discrimination towards minorities: Welfare ethnocentrism and anti‐Roma attitudes

Publication . Magalhães, Pedro C.; Costa-Lopes, Rui

‘Welfare chauvinism’ (or ‘welfare ethnocentrism,’ when directed against native-born ethnic minorities) is a declination of nativism within the social policy domain and a common element of populist radical right discourse. Previous studies have shown that this rhetoric can influence how people perceive the deservingness and entitlement of certain groups to welfare rights. In this study, we propose it has additional effects by evoking a purported lack of reciprocity in what concerns benefits from, and contributions to, the welfare system, such rhetoric can also justify and legitimize discrimination against out-groups in other domains that are unrelated to welfare. We use a pre-registered experiment embedded in a survey of a nationally representative sample of the Portuguese population to examine whether individuals who are exposed to the issue of illegitimate ‘takers’ of the welfare system become more likely to express discriminatory intentions regarding an out-group's freedom of movement and establishment. We find that in the Portuguese context, where the populist radical right frequently portrays the Roma minority as welfare abusers, highlighting the issue of reciprocity can trigger a sizeable increase in discriminatory intentions against the Romani even in domains unrelated to welfare rights.

2024Journal article

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Financiarización de la vivienda como acumulación territorial en la semiperiferia: un marco comparativo

Publication . Tulumello, Simone

Este artículo contribuye a conceptualizar la acumulación territorial centrándose en una dimensión específica, pero paradigmática: la financiarización de la vivienda en contextos semiperiféricos. Para ello esbozo los contornos principales de un marco comparativo y multiescalar sobre las distintas trayectorias regionales de la financiarización de la vivienda en Europa del Sur y América Latina, al tiempo que permanezco centrado en los caracteres específicos de la financiarización subordinada. Abordo una serie de dimensiones clave: las relaciones entre las formas de tenencia y las trayectorias de financiarización a largo plazo; la variada dinámica en la que ocurre la subordinación monetaria; el papel central, pero plural, del Estado; el rol recurrente de las instituciones internacionales; y los límites de las teorías centradas exclusivamente en las operaciones ‘formales’ de financiarización. En conclusión, abro la puerta a una reevaluación de las relaciones centro-periferia en la investigación sobre la financiarización de la vivienda.

2025Journal article

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Film cultures of conquest and domesticity: The family films of Silvino Santos and Agesilau de Araújo (1927-1929)

Publication . Sampaio, Sofia

The article analyses Silvino Santos’s Filmogramas, a collection of hitherto neglected domestic films the Portuguese-Brazilian filmmaker (1886-1970) made in the late 1920s while accompanying his employer’s family, the Araújos, in Portugal. Combining archival research, interviews, and film analysis, I reconnect the Amazonian and European experiences of (colonial) conquest and domesticity that Santos’s life trajectory and film production depict and embody. The aim is to move beyond regional and hagiographic historiographies and build a more critical and anthropologically informed entangled history of a figure and an epochal milieu that continue to permeate and shape contemporary understandings of the past.

2025Journal article

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Portugal Social em Mudança - 50 anos do 25 de Abril

Publication . Delicado, Ana; Ferrão, João

2024Book

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Portugal e os 50 anos da democracia vistos pela ciência política

Publication . Hanenberg, Lúcio

2024Book part

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