Research Fellow
Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society
idalina.baptista[at]insis.ox.ac.uk
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Publications
2012. Practices of Exception in Urban Governance: Reconfiguring Power Inside the State. Urban Studies, forthcoming.
2011. How Portugal became an 'unplanned country': a critique of scholarship on Portuguese urban development and planning. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (Early View).
2006. Citizen participation, stakeholder involvement, and the planning process in Portugal. L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 366:32-36.
2005. Muddling Through Complex Contexts: Making Sense Out Of A Myth. Antropológicas, 9:97-119 (with Lia Vasconcelos).
1999. Doomed to Success: The Guadiana River Valley Natural Park. Sociedade e Território, 29:47-52.
Vasconcelos, Lia and Idalina Baptista (eds.). 2002. Environmental Activism in Society. Lisbon, Portugal: Luso-American Foundation.
The book Environmental Activism in Society presents the experiences and challenges faced by the environmental movement in Portugal in the USA. Issues addressed relate to NGO organization, funding, membership, priority and strategy-setting, and action.This book resulted from a workshop held at the Luso-American Foundation, Portugal, on January 25-26, 1999, joining members of Portuguese and US environmental NGOs.
Oliveira, Rosário and Idalina Baptista. 2001. Guadiana Vivo: Uma Abordagem Participada ao Planeamento e Gestão do Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana. Mértola, Portugal: ADPM - Associação de Defesa do Património de Mértola.
The book Guadiana Vivo presents and discusses the results of a participatory process developed between 1997-1999 in the municipality of Mértola, Portugal, for the developement of the Master Plan of the Guadiana River Valley Natural Park. The book intends to present the views of the local community regarding the Natural Park and is targeted to expand the ideas of those involved in nature conservancy management and planning (especially institutions and professionals) on how to integrate local development and nature conservancy values.
Chapters in books
2008. O Programa POLIS e o "País Desordenado": percepções sobre governância e planeamento urbano em Portugal. In: Cidade & Cidadania: Governança urbana e participaçção cidadã em perspectiva comparada, Cabral, Manuel Villaverde, Tiago Saraiva and Filipe Carreira da Silva (eds). Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.
2002. The Role of Environmental Activism in Society. In: Environmental Activism in Society, Vasconcelos, Lia and Idalina Baptista (eds). Lisboa, Portugal: Luso-American Foundation (with Lia T. Vasconcelos).
Scientific communications (selected)
2011. Urban flexibility, informality and governance: South-South comparisons between Mexico and Tanzania. Paper read at the 52nd Annual ACSP Conference, 13-16 October, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
2011. Enclosures, uneven development and the governance of hurricanes and tourist in Cancún (Yucatan, Mexico). Paper read at the 52nd Annual ACSP Conference, 13-16 October, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (with Matilde Córdoba and Fernando Domínguez).
2011. Urban Flexibility: Urban Informality as Governance. Paper read at the conference "Flexibility, Informality and Urban Governance: Experiences from African and Latin American Cities," 29 March 2011, University of Oxford, UK.
2010. Questioning Regimes of Exception in Urban Governance. Paper read at the "First Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance," 20-21 May, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2010. Let’s talk about cities, shall we? "Storytelling Science Seminar," Linacre College, 28 April 2010, Oxford, UK.
2010. The beauty and the beast: beautiful cities, ugly buildings and social conflicts over ‘urbanization mistakes’ – a tale about Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Paper read at the "Portuguese Studies Program Lecture Series," University of California Berkeley, 18 March 2010, Berkeley, CA, USA.
2010. Regimes of Exception in Urban Governance: The Strategic Willingness to Ignore Conflict. Paper read at the 40th Urban Affairs Association Conference "Sustaining Cities in a Time of Globalization: Social, Economic and Political Realities," Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
2008. O Programa POLIS e o "País Desordenado": percepções sobre governância e planeamento urbano em Portugal. Book presentation "Cidade & cidadania: Governança urbana e participação cidadã," December 12, 2008, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, Portugal.
2008. Withdrawal or Reinvention? The changing role of state agents in Portuguese urban governance in face of increasing demands for public accountability. Paper presented at the 4th Joint ACSP-AESOP Congress "Bridging the Divide: Celebrating the City," July 6-11, 2008, Chicago, IL, USA.
2006. Formality vs. Informality: Diffusion of an Urban Governance Policy across Portuguese Cities. 47th ACSP Conference “Boarders and Cores: What is Planning in the Global Era?”, November 9-12, 2006, Forth Worth, TX, USA.
2005. Is There a Theory of Collaborative Planning We Can Talk About? AESOP Conference “The Dream of a Greater Europe,” July 13-17, 2005, Vienna, Austria.
2005. Participação Pública por Geração Espontânea. Público, March 28, 2005.
2004. Política de Ordenamento do Território a 4D. Público, May 10, 2004.
2001. Desenvolvimento
Sustentável. Expresso,
November 3, 2001 (supplement on Environmental Engineering).