In this article, we explore the importance of Portuguese independent record stores by
highlighting their role as catalysts of scenes and sociabilities, specifically in the major cities …

How is meaning produced in and around the art gallery? Sociological answers to this
question are limited by a narrow focus on inter-gallery group interaction and cognitive …

Este artigo aborda as práticas e valores de um conjunto de músicos em autoedição, dentro
do universo peculiar da música popular de matriz rural em Portugal, no contexto das duas …

The present chapter is a conceptual reconnaissance designed to discuss some non-
reductive vocabularies of social theory of space and their usefulness for social theory of …

When Saint Augustine was asked 'what is time'he replied:'If no one asks me I know what it is,
but if I wish to explain it, I don't know.'The concept of space appears at first to be easier to …

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, artists could not perform live at music venues, and
online performance on social media platforms has become an ordinary event. This transition …

It is surely hubristic to publish a book about the twenty-first century when only a quarter of it
has passed. But the first decades of the 2000s have seemed to so rapidly change the …

In this chapter we address the emergence of batida in the local context of Lisbon's
peripheral Afro-Portuguese neighborhoods. We focus on the joint role of two independent …

This thesis is a qualitative case study of the socio-material production of an art exhibition
and its publics. It is based on a yearlong ethnographic and filmic study of In the Peaceful …

The present paper offers a cultural sociological perspective on 'polycontexturality'. By
situating this concept within contemporary theories of culture and society, I analyze it as a …