Zara Pinto-Coelho

Zara Pinto-Coelho is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences of the University of Minho. She got her PhD in Communication Sciences, Semiotics field, from the University of Minho, in 2003. She is a member of the Directive Commission of the Communication and Society Studies Centre as director of the research group “Cultural Studies”. She teaches in the areas of Discourse Studies, Image, and Sociology of Communication. Her current research interests intersect issues associated with gender inequalities and political participation through discourse and image.

Short essays in Passeio:

• Taking care of what is ours. Unexpected encounters
• The symmetries and asymmetries in Ponta Delgada
• Pause your eyes at the clothesline and make it a “place” (Tuan style)
• Driven by the social life of a table
• Past in the present, present in the past: “in search of lost time”
• Tussen Kunst & Quarantaine: creativity during a global pandemic
• From my bedroom window: portrait of a lost view
• The social life of protest posters