Completed projects

“The gender dimension of the housing crisis in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (2008-2021),” September 2021 – August 2022

Funding entity: Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Post-PhD Research Grant (Gr. 10084)

Principal investigator: Dr. Irene Sabaté

Funded amount: $13,097 (10,610.01€)

Patrimoni immaterial i polítiques culturals. Reptes socials, polítics i museològics (PINMAT)
Reference: PINMAT 20192021 / PGC2018-096190- B-I00
Principal Investigator: Xavier Roigé
Team members: Ferran Estrada, Camila del Mármol, Juan Agudo, Elodia Hernández, Pilar Leal, Alexandra Georgescu, Yadur González, Ángeles Castaño, Alejandra Canals

This project aims to investigate the impact of the declaration of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) on cultural policies in Spain, through four main objectives: 1) To analyze the cultural policies on ICH in Spain and compare them with other countries; 2) To examine the social, tourist, and political uses derived from these policies, highlighting conflicts related to cultural practices, the generation of alternative heritage, and forms of multiculturalism; 3) To study how the concept of ICH has been introduced in museums and how these heritage conservation institutions have updated their parameters in relation to these new heritage policies; and 4) To analyze the application of new technologies in the study and preservation of ICH and their use as a tool for social dynamization within cultural policies.

Funding agency: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Funding: €84,700
Duration: 2019-2021

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Reference: CS02010-18661

Principal Investigator: Cristina Larrea Killinger
Team Members: Miquel Porta (IMIM), Jaume Mascaró (UB), Eva Zafra (URV), Joan Muela (URV)

The qualitative research on the perception, discourses, and sociocultural practices related to internal contamination by Persistent Toxic Compounds (PTCs) is significant for designing a political economy of environmental health and understanding the culture of toxicity.

The project’s aim is to establish an ethnoepidemiological line of research focused on analyzing the discourses and sociocultural practices surrounding the bodily experience of human contamination in general, and internal contamination by PTCs in particular, in Spain.

Changes in industrial production and transformations in consumption patterns in Spain over the past 60 years have influenced the rising importance of discourses on internal contamination centered around toxic corporality. These changes have generated a set of social and cultural significations that reinforce the conflict between nature, technology, and culture. This conflict, observed and felt as a result of the excess manipulation that science and the economy continue to exert on nature and people in the name of progress, becomes more complex when the body occupies the center of the discourse on contamination. The moral, political, and technical meanings of toxic corporality shape a complex language of the body as a repository of waste.

Drawing on contributions from anthropology, epidemiology, and philosophy, this project aims to delve deeper into the social changes affecting human health and to better understand the reconfiguration of sociocultural discourses and practices regarding contamination and toxicity.

Funding Entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Funding Amount: €62,900.00
Duration: 2011-2013

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Reference: URV. B05.02.02 N-009573

General IP: Dolors Comas d’Argemir (URV) [UB IP: Sílvia Bofill-Poch].
Team Members: Raúl Márquez (UB); Diana Mata-Codesal (UB); Raquel Martínez Buján (UDC); Salvador Cayuela (UCLM); Marcela Jabbaz (UV); Carmen Gregorio (UGR); Matxalen Legarreta (UPV); Ana Lucía Hernández Cordero (UNIZAR); Jesús Sanz (UCM); Juan Ignacio Rico Becerra (UM).

Summary: The health emergency generated by COVID-19 has highlighted the fragility of the social organization of care for elderly and dependent individuals. It has significantly impacted both men and women who provide care, whether in a non-remunerated family context or as workers in the care sector. This research focuses on the impact of the health crisis on the economic and labor conditions of caregivers, including family caregivers, care service workers, and domestic workers. The analysis targets social care (rather than health care), a sector that has been underrepresented epidemiologically and politically during the crisis. As this is a feminized sector, its neglect exacerbates gender inequalities.

Funding Entity: Fondo Supera COVID-19 Santander-CRUE-Universidades Españolas
Funding Amount: €99,542.00
Duration: 1/07/2020 – 30/12/2021

Reference: EDITAL nº. 41/2017/CAPES-PRINT 88887.311759

Principal Investigator: Maria Claudia Coelho (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ)
Team Members:

• Susana Narotzky (UB)
• Sílvia Bofill-Poch (UB)
• Raúl Márquez (UB)
• Claudia Barcellos Rezende (ICS/UERJ)
• Helena Bomeny (ICS/UERJ)
• Waleska Aureliano (ICS/UERJ)
• Antónia Lima (ISCTE-IUL)
• Paulo Raposo (ISCTE-IUL)
• Miguel Vale de Almeida (ISCTE-IUL)
• Ana Spivak L’Hoste (IDES)
• Mariana Sirimarco (UBA)

Summary:
The creation of the Anthropology of Emotions as an independent research area began in Brazil in the 1990s. Since then, the field has expanded significantly through various scientific meetings organized by associations in Brazil, such as the ABA and ANPOCS, and international gatherings, including the Mercosur Anthropology Meeting, the European Association of Social Anthropology, the Portuguese Anthropology Association, and the Argentine Anthropology Association. The themes addressed include the relationships between emotions, body, and health/illness experiences, as well as the micropolitical work of emotions in public life phenomena such as violence, police surveillance, social movements, institutions, and professional trajectories.

This project aims to establish an Ibero-American Network of the Anthropology of Emotions by fostering dialogue among researchers from Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, and Spain. The theoretical foundations of this proposal are structured around four main thematic axes that guide the reflection on the boundaries and possibilities of constructing emotions as an object of social sciences:
a) Emotions, intellectual trajectories, and scientific fields;
b) Body, health, emotion, and gender;
c) Suffering, crisis, and care;
d) Police surveillance, security, and emotions.

Funding Entity: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Ministério de Educação, Brasil
Funding Amount: 86.401,48 BRL
Duration: 2019-2022

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Reference: CSO2015-67368-P

Principal Investigators: Sílvia Bofill-Poch and Mikel Aramburu Otazu. Team Members: Raúl Márquez, Irene Sabaté, Xavier Garcia, Juan Endara, Agustín D’Onia, Raquel Alquézar, Patricia Homs, Martin Lundsteen, Julio Zino, Mariona Rosés, Francisco Arqueros, Núria Morelló, Gemma Antón, Diana Sarkis, Agatha Hummel, Jaume Franquesa, Antonia Pedroso de Lima, Ubaldo Martínez-Veiga.

This project addresses popular conceptions of social justice in the current context of crisis. The crisis and its management through austerity policies generate social discontent, a rupture with moral principles and previous expectations that forces individuals to articulate and rework conceptions of what is just and unjust, creating an analytical opportunity that we aim to take advantage of. The general objective of the project is to elucidate how, when, and why different dimensions of the perception of injustice operate: redistributive, recognition-based, and political representation or participation. Although these dimensions often appear overlapping or mutually intertwined, our central hypothesis proposes that, in the context of crisis, redistributive dimensions take precedence. As a second objective, we suggest that the sense of injustice is accompanied by a crisis of legitimacy of the governance system that has a series of social consequences—in terms of reactions to this crisis—that we intend to address. As a third objective, we propose that the perception of justice as a restitution of moral principles appeals to morally circumscribed bonds socially attributed to specific groups—real or imagined—“moral communities,” the criteria for whose formation and transformation, as well as their consequences in terms of inclusion and exclusion, we intend to analyze.

Funding Entity: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; FEDER, EU

Funding Amount: €48,000.00

Duration: 2016-2019

Reference: 2014 BP_B 00262

PI: Diana Mata Codesal

Competitive postdoctoral research project funded through a Beatriu de Pinós grant consisting of an ethnography of the mechanisms of differentiation among immigrant groups in the Carmel neighborhood, an area located in the geographic and socioeconomic periphery of Barcelona, built by internal migrants, to which more recently people from abroad have joined. The project has focused on individuals who cannot directly resort to the triad us-here-always due to previous internal mobilities, to explore how they construct their autochthony in relation to international immigrants.

Funding entity: AGAUR (Beatriu de Pinós)

Funding: €91,022.40

Duration: 2015-2018

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Reference: DKR-2013-03

PI: Diana Mata-Codesal

Individual research project funded by a postdoctoral grant from the Basque Government. The 3-year project included two years as a visiting researcher at the Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinares of UNAM in Mexico, where I conducted fieldwork on immobilities in the East of Morelos, an area crossed and constituted by multiple trajectories of mobility (internal, international, return, pendular, etc.). The study placed immobilities at the center of the research, thereby complicating current views that focus solely on mobility and overlook the necessary and indissoluble relationships between human mobility and immobility.

Funding entity: Basque Government’s Scientific Policy

Funding: €86,000.00

Duration: 3 years

Reference: QLK1CT200202447

IP: General: Margaret Lumbers; Monique Raats (University of Surrey, UK); UB IP: Jesús Contreras; Sílvia Bofill-Poch

Funding Entity: Programme Fifth Framework Programme / DRCE – Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission

Funding: €3,133,930.00

Duration: 2003-2005

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Referència: DOGC 4791 de 3.01.2007 (JUS/4290/2006)

IP: Xavier Roigé i Joan Bestard

Recerca sobre la cohabitació a Catalunya des d’un punt de vista legal i social

Entitat finançadora: Centre d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació especialitzada

Finançament:

Durada: 2006-2007

Reference: SEC96-0992

IP: Xavier Roigé

Description: Study on the emerging new family forms in the 1990s and the relationships they generated.

Funding Entity: PNID – National R&D Plan

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Duration: 1996-1999