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Joao Carlos Martins

Joao Carlos Martins holds a PhD. in Sociology at the New University of Lisbon (2015) around Tourism Urbanization in southern Portugal. Is graduated in Sociology at the New University of Lisbon (2004) and holds a Master in Urban Anthropology at the University of Lisbon (2009) with empirical work on Housing on two socially and economically degraded neighbourhoods located in the outskirts of the city of Lisbon. Since 2007 is developing working activities on European and National intervention funded Projects in Lisbon and the Algarve, in the areas of Nightlife, Cultural Heritage, Social Exclusion and Tourism. Actual scientific interests are around urban transformation, particularly on multidimensional areas where leisure, culture and tourism are introduced as processes of public and private economic regeneration, on urban areas particularly exposed to the contemporary economic and financial crisis.


Research topics:

Cities and Suburban areas; Urban Commodification, Gentrification; Cultural Heritage; Tourism, Leisure; Nightlife


ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4832-7171