Antonio Maria Pusceddu is a researcher at CRIA-ISCTE. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Siena. He has been post-doctoral researcher at the Universities of Cagliari and Barcelona, where he joined the ERC ‘Grassroots Economics’ project. He has carried out fieldwork in Greece and Albania on borders, ethnicity and mobility. His latest field research in southern Italy dealt with livelihoods, crisis and social reproduction. He’s currently developing a new comparative research project on popular ecologies in southern Europe.

In 2019 he joined the Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA) in Lisbon, initially as a post-doctoral researcher, until he was granted a CEEC research contract from the Foundation for Science and Technology (2020) to develop the project: Political ecologies of social reproduction: A comparative study of livelihoods, grassroots ecologies and socio-environmental conflicts in Southern Europe. This new research project will integrate ongoing research on resource politics and lithium mining projects in Portugal, started in the framework of the project Negotiating livelihoods under transformative politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2010-20.