Biografia

Graduated in History, variant Archaeology (2000), post-graduated in Documental Sciences (2007), defended a master’s (2008) and a PhD in Contemporary History (2013).

Among the issues raised in her research, the role of civil society in the construction of contemporary society stands out. Currently, she examines the evolution of the repertoire of institutionalized collective action looking at the long lasting institutions during contemporary period, in the form of mutual-aid and cooperative societies. Attempting to its internal functioning and institutional details, she wants to recognize and understand their efficiency dealing with the modern ‘social dilemmas’. With this aim, she makes use of new methods tested by the Institutions for Collective Action Research Team in the University of Utrecht, namely comparison between case studies with institutional success.

Integrating global studies, she’s also interested in the dissemination of this institutional designs across the areas of historical Portuguese influence and the transfers and entanglements revealed in the transnational ICA historical evolution.

She has works in the field of documental sciences, particularly in the identification and safeguard of the institutions for collective action historical archives. In these projects she uses a specific methodology, adjusting ISAD (G) to NGO’s archives, and the free software ICA-Atom to assure archival description and on-line disposal. She has been also partnering with public schools, bringing them closer to academy and science, within the IHC’s History Lab and LisbonLab.

Áreas de Investigação

• História Social
• História institucional
• Ciência cidadã

Publicações destacadas

• Freire, Dulce & Joana Dias Pereira, “Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century,” in A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850 – Movements and Businesses, editado por Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger e Greg Patmore, 296–325. Leiden: Brill, 2017. [link]
• Pereira, Joana Dias, Maria Alice Samara & Paula Godinho (Coords.). Espaços, redes e sociabilidades. Cultura e política no associativismo contemporâneo [Documento Electrónico]. Lisboa: Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2016. [PDF]
• Pereira, Joana Dias. “O Ciclo de agitação social global de 1917-1920,” Ler História 66 (2014): 44-55. [PDF]
• Pereira, Joana Vidal de Azevedo Dias. “Espaços industriais e comunidades operárias: o caso de estudo português e a tradição historiográfica europeia,” Revista Brasileira de História 32 (2012): 27-44. [PDF]

Projectos principais

• Membro do projecto “L3 – Lisboa Laboratório Comum de Aprendizagem” — Coordenado por Maria Fernanda Rollo e Maria Inês Queiroz e financiado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 2015-2018 [link]
• Investigadora no projecto “A Nova República do Pós-Guerra (1919-1926). O caso português em perspectiva comparada na Europa do Sul” — Coordenado por Fernando Rosas e financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. 2009-2012 [PTDC/HIS-HIS/102287/2008]
• Coordenadora do projecto “Organization of World Federation of Democratic Youth Historic Files‘” — Financiado pela UNESCO – Participation Programme. 2004-2006 [link]