Joana Castro Pereira is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP) and researcher at the Institute of Sociology (IS-UP) within the same institution. She is also senior research fellow of the Earth System Governance (ESG) network, and member of the Planet Politics Institute (PPI).

She studies the political challenges of the Anthropocene; the international and Latin American political economy of climate change and biodiversity loss; and the governance of the Amazon. Pereira is the author of over ten articles published in international peer-reviewed journals with impact factor (Review of International Studies, Climate Policy, Global Policy, Global Environmental Politics, Contemporary Politics, among others) and many book chapters. She is co-author of Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon (Routledge, 2022), shortlisted for the “Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2022” of the British International Studies Association (BISA). She is also co-editor, with André Saramago, of the volume Non-Human Nature in World Politics (Springer, 2020), included in “The International Affairs Summer Reading List 2021”. Pereira regularly participates as a speaker and organizer of panels and sections in the events of the main scientific international associations in the fields of Political Science and International Relations. She has also collaborated with the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the EU-LAC Foundation, and has since 2020 contributed to the annual report on global catastrophic risks of the Global Challenges Foundation.

She holds a bachelor in Languages and International Relations (2009) from FLUP and a PhD in International Relations/Globalization and Environment (2014) from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH-NOVA). In 2018, she completed a post-doctoral research at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasília (IRI-UnB). She was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of Lusíada University (2014-2020), Invited Assistant Professor at FCSH-NOVA (2016-2022), and Junior Researcher at IPRI-NOVA (2019-2022) with an individual research project financed by the FCT (CEEC/00065/2017).


Recent publications (selection):

Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (with J. Prantl, A. F. Barros-Platiau, C. Y. A. Inoue, T. L. Ribeiro and E. Viola). 

Animals in International Relations: a research agenda. International Relations 37(3), 2023, 389-397 (with J. Renner).

Peru at the UNFCCC: explaining the country's foreign climate policy. Climate Policy 23(2), 2023, 212-225.

Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene. Review of International Studies 49(2), 2023, 319-338 (with M. F. Gebara).

Towards a transformative governance of the Amazon. Global Policy 13(S3), 2022, 60-75 (with J. Terrenas). 

Brazilian climate policy (1992-2019): an exercise in strategic diplomatic failure. Contemporary Politics 28(1), 2022, 55-78 (with E. Viola). 

Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse? New York: Routledge, 2022 (with E. Viola).

Towards a politics for the Earth: rethinking IR in the Anthropocene. In D. Chandler, F. Müller, D. Rothe (Eds.), International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 

Climate multilateralism within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. Oxford University Press, 2020 (with E. Viola).

Catastrophic climate risk and Brazilian Amazonian politics and policies: a new research agenda. Global Environmental Politics 19(2), 2019, 93-103 (with E. Viola).