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Augusto Santos Silva
Augusto Santos Silva has a Ph.D. in sociology. He is a full professor in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and a researcher at the Instituto de Sociologia at the University of Porto. Since November 2015 he has been Portuguese Foreign Minister. His most recent publications include: As Palavras do Punk: Uma Viagem fora dos Trilhos pelo Portugal Contemporâneo, with Paula Guerra (Lisbon: Alêtheia, 2015); ‘Políticas culturais locais: Contributos para um modelo de análise’, with Elisa Pérez Babo and Paula Guerra (2015), Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas (78, pp. 105–24); and ‘Music and more than music: The approach to difference and identity in Portuguese punk’, with Paula Guerra (2015), European Journal of Cultural Studies (18:2, pp. 207–23).