Céline Felício Veríssimo

@unila.edu.br

Associate Professor, Architecture and Urbanism Department, CITAD-ILATIT
Federal University of Latin American Integration

Céline Felício Veríssimo


                           Download Compact PDF  
https://researchid.co/celineverissimo

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Céline Veríssimo is an architect, researcher and lecturer concerned with the political dimension of cities’ challenges, environmental impacts and socio-racial inequalities, specifically the urban context of Mozambique and, more recently, of Latin America.
3

Scopus Publications

351

Scholar Citations

6

Scholar h-index

6

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: Navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons
    Elia Apostolopoulou, Dimitrios Bormpoudakis, Alexandros Chatzipavlidis, Juan José Cortés Vázquez, Ioana Florea, et al.
    Journal of Political Ecology, 2022
    In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We define radical grassroots social innovations as a set of practices initiated by formal or informal community-led initiatives or/and social movements which aim to generate novel, democratic, socially, spatially and environmentally just solutions to address social needs that are otherwise ignored or marginalised. To address our research questions, we draw on the work of Cindi Katz to explore how grassroots innovations relate to practices of resilience, reworking and resistance. We identify possibilities and limitations as well as patterns of spatial practices and pathways of re-scaling and radical praxis, uncovering broadly-shared resemblances across different places. Through this analysis we aim to make a twofold contribution to political ecology and human geography scholarship on grassroots radical activism, social innovation and the spatialities of resistance. First, to reveal the connections between social-environmental struggles, emerging grassroots innovations and broader structural factors that cause, enable or limit them. Second, to explore how grassroots radical innovations stemming from place-based community struggles can relate to resistance practices that would not only successfully oppose inequality and the withering of the commons in the short-term, but would also open long-term pathways to alternative modes of social organization, and a new commons, based on social needs and social rights that are currently unaddressed.
  • The resilient agrocity metabolism: Evidence from the neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique
    Céline F. Veríssimo
    Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South, 2017
    Following Mozambique’s conversion to globalization, the post-colonial ‘cement city’ is now the core of neo-liberalism, as a node of the global economy, where foreign donors and international market economy control national political economy, exacerbating the premise of the negation of self-sufficiency that continues to evolve resiliently at its margins. The adoption of a neo-liberal model of development during the 1990s completely bypasses the realities of Mozambican society. This paper argues that the strategy of self-production of space regarding the household/Outdoor Domestic Space, which existed previously as a resistance strategy, has become a successful strategy for survival, as the building block of the decentralized Agrocity, in the face of a global economy which totally neglects both the people and the land.
  • Mozambique's rescaled dualistic urbanisation: Dealing with historical legacies of imperialism and resistance
    Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries, 2016

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Pode a folha falar?: em memória à Mãe Marina de Ogum
    C Veríssimo, M Santos
    Revista Epistemologias do Sul 6 (2) , 2022
    2022
  • paisagens e paisagismos do Sul, sobre o Sul, a partir do Sul e para o Sul
    R da Cunha Nogueira, C Veríssimo
    Revista Epistemologias do Sul 6 (2) , 2022
    2022
  • Paisagismo dos orixás: esboço para uma definição não completa
    C Veríssimo, M Santos
    Revista Epistemologias do Sul 6 (2) , 2022
    2022
  • Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons
    E Apostolopoulou, D Bormpoudakis, A Chatzipavlidis, J Cortés Vázquez, ...
    Journal of Political Ecology 29 (1), 144-188 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 89
  • Arquitecturas Afrolatinas
    CF Veríssimo, A da Silva Moassab
    Revista V! RUS 1 (23) , 2021
    2021
  • Paisajismos del sur en las barriadas de Lima, Perú
    CF Veríssimo, GR da Cunha, MAP Aymara
    Revista V! RUS 1 (23) , 2021
    2021
  • Permacultura, Ecologia Política e Rede de Vilas Rurais: percursos e experimentos em planejamento territorial
    FC Pires, C Veríssimo, RCO Soares
    PROJECTARE 11 (1) , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Universidad y Escuela Campesina: Educación Popular y Pedagogía Descolonial en el Mocase Vía Campesina, Argentina
    ML Macedo
    María Lila Macedo , 2020
    2020
  • Percepción del nivel de insostenibilidad en el Lago de Tota, Boyacá Colombia
    LA Puentes Puentes
    2020
    Citations: 3
  • The right to nature: Social movements, environmental justice and neoliberal natures
    E Apostolopoulou, JA Cortes-Vazquez
    Routledge , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 90
  • Landscape and outdoor domestic space towards food sovereignty and environmental regeneration: Approaches from Mozambique and Latin America
    C Veríssimo
    The Right to Nature, 115-124 , 2018
    2018
  • O Papel da/na Arquitetura: protótipo de abrigo em papelão para população em situação de rua
    FT Kawaji
    2017
  • The Resilient Agrocity Metabolism: Evidence from the Neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique
    CF Veríssimo
    Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South, 117-135 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Arquitectura Afro-Latina un análisis histórico y crítico del patrimonio arquitectónico en América Latina y el Caribe
    GA Flores Martinez, CF Veríssimo
    2017
  • Los cambios urbanisticos de Lima entre los años 1900-1960 por la influencia de la industrialización y las políticas urbanas
    MP Aguirre Aguirre
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Arquitectura Amerindia: Selk'man una civilización al fin del mundo y su forma de habitar
    NE Garay
    2017
  • Por una Justicia Ambiental y Racial: El caso de la ciudad de Villa Hayes, Paraguay, como Zona de Sacrificio
    LS Tellez Ramos
    Unila , 2017
    2017
  • La casa indígena de los Uru Chipayas: conocimiento ancentral, organización socio-espacial y arquitectura andina
    VH Quispe Poma
    2017
  • Environmental justice and urban resilience in the global south
    A Allen, L Griffin, C Johnson
    Palgrave Macmillan , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 76
  • Hábitos de morar y de construir en el contexto Latino-Americano: relatoria del grupo de trabajo
    CF Veríssimo, M Chugar
    2017

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The right to nature: Social movements, environmental justice and neoliberal natures
    E Apostolopoulou, JA Cortes-Vazquez
    Routledge , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 90
  • Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons
    E Apostolopoulou, D Bormpoudakis, A Chatzipavlidis, J Cortés Vázquez, ...
    Journal of Political Ecology 29 (1), 144-188 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 89
  • Environmental justice and urban resilience in the global south
    A Allen, L Griffin, C Johnson
    Palgrave Macmillan , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 76
  • Urban planning in Lusophone African countries
    CN Silva
    Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 42
  • Postcolonial urban planning in lusophone African countries: spatial planning systems in Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique
    CN Silva
    Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries, 127-150 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 10
  • A importância do Espaço Doméstico Exterior para um modelo de ecodesenvolvimento de cidades médias. O caso do Dondo, Moçambique
    C Veríssimo
    Revista crítica de ciências sociais, 177-212 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 10
  • The Significance of Outdoor Domestic Space for an Ecodevelopment Model of Medium-Size Cities. A Case Study of Dondo, Mozambique
    C Veríssimo
    RCCS Annual Review. A selection from the Portuguese journal Revista Crítica … , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 6
  • Spatial resilience of outdoor domestic space in Mozambique
    CF Veríssimo
    TeMA-Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment 5 (2), 131-146 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 5
  • Dondo Fieldwork Report
    C Veríssimo
    Unpublished Report, Development Planning Unit, UCL (June) , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 5
  • Conflicts Between Urban Growth and Species Protection: Can Midwife Toads (Alytes obstetricans) Resist the Pressure?
    MJ Castro, JM Oliveira, A Tari
    HERPETOLOGIA PETROPOLITANA, 126 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 4
  • Percepción del nivel de insostenibilidad en el Lago de Tota, Boyacá Colombia
    LA Puentes Puentes
    2020
    Citations: 3
  • Paisagem, paisagismo comestível e espaço exterior doméstico voltados à soberania alimentar: notas iniciais
    C Veríssimo
    Encuentro de Geógrafos de America Latina, 16, 1-14 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 3
  • Rethinking Urban Inclusion: Spaces, Mobilizations, Intervention
    N Duxbury, GC Moniz, G Sgueo
    CesContexto, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Debates , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 3
  • Permacultura, Ecologia Política e Rede de Vilas Rurais: percursos e experimentos em planejamento territorial
    FC Pires, C Veríssimo, RCO Soares
    PROJECTARE 11 (1) , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • The Resilient Agrocity Metabolism: Evidence from the Neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique
    CF Veríssimo
    Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South, 117-135 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Los cambios urbanisticos de Lima entre los años 1900-1960 por la influencia de la industrialización y las políticas urbanas
    MP Aguirre Aguirre
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Repensar a arquitetura para um novo ecodesenvolvimento
    C Veríssimo
    PPGAU/UFRN , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 1
  • Challenging Marginalisation in the Decentralised Neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique
    CF Veríssimo
    Rethinking Urban Inclusion, 222 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 1
  • Pode a folha falar?: em memória à Mãe Marina de Ogum
    C Veríssimo, M Santos
    Revista Epistemologias do Sul 6 (2) , 2022
    2022
  • paisagens e paisagismos do Sul, sobre o Sul, a partir do Sul e para o Sul
    R da Cunha Nogueira, C Veríssimo
    Revista Epistemologias do Sul 6 (2) , 2022
    2022