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Mikel Aramburu Otazu is an Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona, he is part of the research group Antropologia de les Crisis i les Transformacions Contemporànies (CRITS), he is also affiliated to the Càtedra Barcelona d’Estudis d’Habitatge. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the fields of political and urban anthropology, migrations, and ethnographic epistemology. He investigates the ideologies on redistribution in the urban peripheries of Great Barcelona and the historical anthropology of Spanish migration to Catalonia.

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PhD Fellow in cultural heritage management at the University of Barcelona (FI Research Grant Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya, AGAUR). He holds an Bs in Social Anthropology (UAB), MA in Cultural Heritage Management and Museum Studies (UB), postgrad courses in ICH Management (CRESPIAL-UNC) and in Community-Based Cultural Policies (FLACSO-IberCultura Viva). He is currently completing a doctoral thesis of intangible cultural heritage and festivals’ museums in Catalonia. His research interests are in the areas of musealization and heritagization of traditional festivals in Catalonia, safeguarding practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), ICH Museums, social museology, and cultural policies.

Oriol Beltran Costa is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, coordinator of the research group Anthropology of Crises and Contemporary Transformations (CRITS), and a member of the Network of Environmental Anthropology. He has taught courses in economic anthropology, ethnographic techniques, environmental anthropology, and natural heritage management. His research trajectory has focused on the study of technical processes, forms of communal management, processes of heritage-making, and nature conservation policies. His fieldwork has primarily taken place in the High Pyrenees, with occasional collaborations on research projects in Peru (Cusco, Madre de Dios) and currently in Argentina (Santa Fe).

Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar, PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona, is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida and Distinguished Professor of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador. A specialist in development theories, peasant economies, and ethnic movements in Latin America, he has done historical and ethnographic research in Spain, Mexico, and Ecuador. He is the author of books such as: Tierra, Estado y Capitalismo (2000); Cooperación al desarrollo y demandas étnicas en los Andes ecuatorianos (2001); Capital social y etnodesarrollo en los Andes (2005); Toacazo. En los Andes equinocciales tras la Reforma Agraria (2012); and Indianidad evanescente en los Andes de Ecuador (2022). He has been editor, co-editor and collaborator, likewise, of the compilations: La agricultura familiar en España (1994); Los límites del desarrollo (1999); Estado, etnicidad y movimientos sociales en América Latina (2003); Ciudadanía y exclusión: Ecuador y España frente al espejo (2007); Saturno devora a sus hijos. Miradas críticas sobre el desarrollo y sus promesas (2010); and Poderes y personas. Pasado y presente de la administración de poblaciones en América Latina (2017).

Social anthropologist from the University of Chile, master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Barcelona and PhD in Culture and Heritage Management from the same University. She is currently an associate lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. Her lines of research are related to the study of indigenous representation in museums, ethnological museums and heritagization processes. In recent years he has researched the effects of Covid-19 on museums and intangible heritage.

PhD Fellow in Society and Culture at the University of Barcelona (Research Grant of the Generalitat de Catalunya), Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage Management and Museology (Universitat de Barcelona) and Curator-Restorer of Cultural Assets from Universidad SEK in Santiago de Chile. Her current doctoral research focuses on the relationship between intangible cultural heritage and migratory contexts, a framework through which she observes and studies specific cultural practices of Colombian migrants in Barcelona. ​​This work inquires about the possible links between these practices and certain logics underlying the heritage processes.

Graduated in Political Science and Social and Cultural Anthropology. She has participated in an academic mobility program at the University of Belgrano in Argentina. She has studied the Master of Anthropology and Ethnography (University of Barcelona) where he carried out an ethnographic study on the mobilizations for the improvement of primary care centers in Barcelona, carrying out a case study of the conflict of CAP Raval Nord.

Currently, she is pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Barcelona, investigating various social movements for environmental justice

Member of the research group Antropologia de les Crisis i les Transformacions Contemporànies (CRITS) at the Universitat de Barcelona.  Additionally, she is part of the Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicte Urbà (OACU), and the working groups Antropologia de l’Estat i de l’Acció Pública, and Perifèries Urbanes at the Institut Català d’Antropologia (ICA).

Thematic lines: Political anthropology, social movements and collective action. Urban anthropology, processes of gentrification, revaluation and urban transformation.

PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona and professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. My research revolves around the transformations and tensions occurring in the rural world from the late 19th century to the present. Initially, this was due to processes of urbanization, industrialization, and the establishment of a market economy, which led to depopulation and the abandonment of traditional forms of production, as well as the reconversion of farms to highly capitalized industrial agriculture and livestock. Then, from the last decades of the 20th century, due to the progressive tertiarization of rural spaces within the framework of globalization processes, with an economy oriented towards tourism and agriculture and livestock becoming increasingly residual.

From this perspective, I have worked on: the domestic group, family and kinship, agriculture and livestock, processes of social reproduction, the heritage-making of nature and culture, intangible heritage, nature conservation, and traditional architecture and landscape. I have developed my work in Catalonia: Pla d’Urgell, Val d’Aran, Alta Ribagorça, and Montseny.

PhD student at the Social Anthropology Department of the UB, master’s in Anthropology and Ethnography from the same university, and graduate in Humanities from the UPF. His research interests are developed around social movements and their organizational strategies, and he has worked particularly on movements for the right to housing and the memory of the LGBTIQA+ movements. He has also worked as a journalist and done research on information production processes. He is president of the Universitat Progressista d’Estiu de Catalunya (UPEC), a member of the board of the DESCA Observatory, of the board of trustees of the Fundació Periodisme Plural, of the journalistic council of Directa and a member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS) of the UPF.

PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona with a thesis on the patrimonialization process of the summer solstice Fire Festivals in the Pyrenees, inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2015. Her academic journey has revolved around Philology (Bachelor’s Degree in Romance Philology – extraordinary award at the end of the career – and Master’s in Medieval Cultures, both at the UB) and Social Anthropology (Degree in Anthropology at the UAB and Doctorate in Anthropology at the UB, carried out through FI AGAUR and FPU grants), two areas of study that she combines in the framework of her research. 

Her research interests focus on the patrimonialization processes of what is currently known as “intangible cultural heritage”, especially on both sides of the Pyrenees. Her lines of research are the concepts derived from the study of patrimonialization; the conceptual evolution of folklore, popular culture, and ICH; UNESCO’s heritage policies (especially ICH nomination processes); and the local impacts of the ICH candidatures, specifically, in the Pyrenees. Currently, she is delving into a new line of study on the tourism uses of heritage in the Pyrenees, specifically, on the recreation of the medieval past. 

Cristina Larrea Killinger is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. She is currently a member of the research group “Anthropology of Contemporary Crises and Transformations” of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and coordinates the Toxic Body research line (www.ub.edu/toxicbody ). She currently co-coordinates an R&D project focused on food (in)security in Spain. She collaborates in other public health research groups at national level, such as CIBER-ESP, and at international level, preferably in the field of collective health in Brazil. His ethnographic experience focuses on environmental health problems such as basic sanitation, environmental pollutants, and food insecurity in urban and rural areas, preferably in the State of Bahia, Brazil. She has published several scientific articles, books and collaborated with researchers in the areas of collective health, epidemiology, nursing, medicine, and engineering.

Specialist in Familiy and Community Nursing (2023), PhD Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Art and Heritage, Universitat de Barcelona (2017); BSc Anthropology (2009); Diploma Nursing (2002). She currently works as a Registered Nurse in a Primary Care Centre of the Catalan Health Institute and is a member of the Anthropology of Contemporary Crises and Transformations (CRITS). She started her research investigating the parenting practices of Bangladeshi famlies living in Barcelona and continued working on the notion of care by analysing the life stories of nurse teachers from Bangladesh. Over the past years, she has combined her nursing practice with nursing education, working as a part-time teacher at the University of Barcelona (2014-2019) and organising short seminars on migration and health at the Provincial Hospital Clínic and the Universitat de Barcelona.  

PhD by the University of Sussex with previous BA in Anthropology and Economics. I have been a Basque Government postdoctoral researcher at the Human Rights Institute of the University of Deusto and the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research at UNAM and Beatriu de Pinós researcher at Pompeu Fabra University. I have carried out fieldwork in rural areas of the Ecuadorian Austro and the Oriente of Morelos in Mexico, in the state of New York and the city of Barcelona. My main line of research is the articulations and meanings of im/mobility -including the links between othering/we-nessing processes, as well as between migration and autochthony- and the study of transnational families and gender, particularly in relation to the negotiations that take place around remittances. I am also interested in the embodied and sensorial experiences of migration and interaction. Along with other colleagues, I work on participatory methodologies and alliances beyond Academia. 

Claudio Milano is a social and cultural anthropologist from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. Since 2021 he is the Co-Deputy Chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism for the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and a member of the Editorial Review Board of Annals of Tourism Research (Elsevier). He is also a member of the Observatory for the Anthropology of Urban Conflict (OACU). His main area of research interest is the political economy of tourism. His research focuses on analyzing touristification processes, as well as the responses and resistance generated by social movements. He has published numerous articles in scientific journals and participated in international projects on this topic. 

Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Barcelona (U.B.). She has a PhD in Social Anthropology with the thesis ‘L’ amor sense papers. Parella, fills i parents in cohabitation in Catalonia’. She has a degree in Social Anthropology (U.B.), a Diploma in EGB Teaching (U.B.) and a postgraduate degree in Production of Virtual Didactic Material (U.B.). F.P.U. of the Ministry of Education for the realization of the doctoral thesis. University teaching experience at the University of Barcelona and UNED. Participation in research projects on family and kinship within the framework of the Group of Studies on Kinship and Family, member of the Xarxa Temàtica d’Estudis sobre la Família. Participation in different groups of University Teaching Innovation, currently in the Taedium Group. Research areas: kinship and family, family transformations, couples, marriage, gender, childhood, intangible heritage, museums, digital society.  

Irene Sabaté Muriel is a lecturer in social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona, she is part of the research group Antropologia de les Crisis i les Transformacions Contemporànies (CRITS), she is also a member of the Board of the Observatori DESC and she is affiliated to the Càtedra Barcelona d’Estudis d’Habitatge. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the fields of economic and urban anthropology. She investigates in the following thematic areas: debt and credit relations, anthropological approaches to financiarization, the political economy of housing provision (with a recent focus on its gender dimension), material provisioning and social reproduction. 

Eloi Sendrós Ferrer holds a PhD in social anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona, and coordinator of the research group Estat i l’Acció Pública (AEiAP), in the Institut Català d’Antropologia. His work revolves around the relations between the public policy and the economy, and also the transformations of agrarian communities; two topics he is now studying through the analysis of the commodification processes triggered through State-led tourism development. The PhD he is working on is centered on the ethnographic study of the social, political and economical processes through which the wine region of Penedès (Barcelona) has been converted into a tourist destination.

He was a professor in the Department of Social Anthropology and an Associate Professor of History at the University of Barcelona; he is currently an emeritus professor. Throughout his long academic career, his works in the field of Legal Anthropology stand out, making him an internationally recognized figure in this area.

PhD in Environmental Anthropology from the University of Kent (UK, 2020), currently researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. As main lines of research, I work around the social, historical and environmental domains of forest fires and other extreme events linked to climate change -such as floods, heat and cold waves-, protected natural areas, and the processes of transformation and patrimonialisation of cultural landscapes. I have coordinated and participated in interdisciplinary university and public administration applied research projects on the risk and prevention of forest fires in the urban-forest interface, on community forest management, on the conservation of the cultural landscape and the promotion of circular economy networks in rural areas, among others. The main study areas where I carry out field work are Serra de Tramuntana (Mallorca), Serra de Collserola, Terrassa and Blanes. 

Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Brasília. She holds a Master’s and Doctorate in Social Anthropology from the Ibero-American University, Mexico. Currently, she is pursuing her postdoctoral research in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona (2023-2024), Spain. She has experience in the field of Anthropology, with an emphasis on Social Anthropology, primarily working on the following topics: environmental anthropology, human ecology, environmental education, sociobiodiversity of the cerrado, labor anthropology, and ethnic-racial issues.