CESNOVA

Researcher

PhD Full members

Rui Manuel Leitão da Silva Santos

Contacto: rsantos@fcsh.unl.pt

Curriculum

Education:
PhD in Sociology, FCSH-UNL, 1996
M.A. in Historical Economic Sociology, FCSH-UNL, 1987
Degree in History, FCSH-UNL, 1981

Affiliation:
Associate Professor, FCSH-UNL
Researcher of CESNOVA

Areas of interest:
Economic Sociology
Historical Sociology
Property rights
Rural History

Projects

• COST A35: Scientific Studies Program for the European Rural Societies

• Identity and school in a changing environment

• INSISTE - Indicators of the Portuguese National Educational System, 1986-2006

• Angola and the Atlantic (1570-1750)

• CRICEC – Crises and Change in the European Countryside in the Long Run

• Enrichment and impoverishment processes in rural societies

• ESCXEL: Schools of excellence network

• Graduates´ transition to work trajectories - objective and subjective relations with work

• Social dynamics and historical change in rural societies: analysis of groups and social inequalities

• The History of Alentejo, 12th-20th centuries. Improving the empirical basis of historical knowledge

Publications

• "Risk-sharing and social differentiation of demand in land tenancy markets in Southern Portugal, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries"

• A tale of two tragedies: The case of the commons of Serra de Mértola in the Alentejo (southern Portugal) and its privatization, eighteenth to twentieth centuries

• INSISTE: Indicadores do Sistema Educativo Português, 1986-2006

• La "pecuarización" del Alentejo en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII. De los diagnósticos políticos a los indicadores económicos

• Land market policies and land markets: Portugal in the second half of the eighteenth century

• Migrações e Participação Social

• Property Rights, Social Appropriations and Economic Outcomes: Agrarian Contracts in Southern Portugal in the Late Eighteenth Century

• “Cooperation in innovation activities: The importance of partners”

• “Repensar a mobilização e a activação cívicas: As dinâmicas da participação local dos imigrantes”

18 de Julho 2014