Ongoing projects
Educational trajectories and future projects of young people of migrant origin in Hospitalet de Llobregat. A qualitative approach
IP: Sílvia Bofill-Poch and Irene Sabaté
Research team: Raúl Márquez, Diana Mata-Codesal, and Patricia Bertolin
Funding entity: Observatori de la Infància of Hospitalet de Llobregat and the City Council of Hospitalet de Llobregat. Bosch i Gimpera Foundation
Funding: €5,000.00
Duration: 2022-2024
Training trajectories and future projects of young people of migrant origin in the neighborhoods of La Florida and Les Planes de l’Hospitalet de Llobregat. A qualitative approach to the application of the Environmental Education Plan 0-20
IP: Sílvia Bofill-Poch and Irene Sabaté
Research team: Raúl Márquez, Diana Mata-Codesal, and Patricia Bertolin
Funding entity: Observatori de la Infància of Hospitalet de Llobregat & City Council of Hospitalet de Llobregat. Bosch i Gimpera Foundation
Funding: €4,500.00
Duration: 2022-2024
Tensions between the right to housing and private property in lease relationships. A socio-legal approach (TEVIPROP)
Reference: PID2022-138661NB-I00
IP: Irene Sabaté (University of Barcelona) and Marco Aparicio (University of Girona)
Period: 2023-2026
Funding: €72,250
Description:
The project Tensions between the right to housing and private property in rental relationships. A socio-legal approach (TEVIPROP) will involve the collaboration of an interdisciplinary team, bridging the fields of Social Anthropology (IP Irene Sabaté, University of Barcelona) and Law (IP Marco Aparicio, University of Girona), with contributions also from other disciplines of social sciences.
The main objective is to understand the actors, discourses, and practices involved in the tension between private property and the right to housing in the rental market, in order to identify the obstacles currently hindering the achievement of the right to housing, within the framework of fulfilling the social function of property. To achieve this goal, the study will focus on two phenomena: discrimination against certain groups in accessing rental housing and unauthorized occupations of vacant housing. These issues will be addressed through a qualitative methodology that combines:
- Ethnography: through interviews, focus groups, and case analysis of conflicts within rental relationships in urban areas of Catalonia.
- Legal analysis: of legislation, doctrine, and jurisprudence from a comparative perspective, to generate relevant knowledge for the design of public policies and the reformulation of the regulatory framework, as well as inspire forms of self-defense of rights.
Ultimately, the aim is to generate an impact on society, contributing to the guarantee of the right to housing and the social function of property, as well as a scientific impact, making contributions to current theoretical debates on the scope of property owners’ powers, the naturalization of property culture, the legitimacy or illegitimacy of different practices surrounding housing provision and the extraction of rents from it, the responsibilities of various public administrations in regulating the rental market in conjunction with guaranteeing rights, or the intersection of different inequality factors in the exercise of the right to adequate housing.
Eating matters: Environmental risks and food uncertainties in older people
Reference: PID2019-104253RB-C22
IP: Cristina Larrea Killinger
Research team: Jordi Gascón (UB), Maite Ojeda (UV), Miguel Company (UAL), Andrés Fontalba (UM), Juan Pedro Arrébola (UGR), Araceli Muñoz (UB), Claudia Magaña (UB), Claudia Juzwiak (UFSP), Claudia Soar (UFSC), Patricia Ferreira (CES, Coimbra), Ruth Echeverría (Hosp.12 de Octubre-imas 12), Oriol Larrea (UB), Borja Nuñez (UM)
Funding entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Funding: €49,975.00
Duration: June 2020 – June 2024
Description:
This subproject from the University of Barcelona explores how food pathways condition or determine the diet of elderly people in relation to their health and environmental sustainability. The study considers factors such as gender, social class, family structure, and place of residence (rural/urban). It also analyzes access to healthy and affordable food, perceived food risk, and the influence of agro-industrial practices. Finally, it investigates social initiatives to promote healthier and more sustainable diets.
Intangible heritage and museums facing the challenges of cultural sustainability. Policies, strategies and methodologies in the post-covid era (PIMUS+)
Reference: PID2021-123063NB-I00
IP: Xavier Roigé and Iñaki Arrieta
Funding entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation
Funding: Not specified
Duration: 2022-2025
Description:
This project analyzes the policies, strategies, and methodologies of museums to address the challenges of cultural sustainability in the post-COVID-19 era.
Reactivate the popular and solidarity economy driven by women producers, with a focus on gender and human rights, in the Cotacachi canton, Ecuador
Reference: Agreement 20910 – ACC145/21/000061. Collaboration agreement between the University of Barcelona and the Xarxa de Consum Solidari aimed at studying Food Sovereignty strategies in Cotacachi, an indigenous canton in the north of Ecuador.
IP: Jordi Gascón
Research team: Camila del Mármol, Isabel Giunta
Funding entity: Xarxa de Consum Solidari – Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation
Funding: €63,000.00
Duration: 2022-2025
Description:
Collaboration between the University of Barcelona and the Xarxa de Consum Solidari to study food sovereignty strategies in Cotacachi, an indigenous canton in Ecuador. The focus is on the role of women in economic and political processes, and the impact of recent political changes on these initiatives.
Rural resistances: socio-ecological crisis, territorial development and alternative futures in the Pyrenees RERURP
Reference: PID2021-125132NA-I00
IP: Camila del Mármol and Federica Ravera
Research team: Ferran Estrada, Oriol Beltran, Ismael Vaccaro, Jaume Feliu, Sara Mingorria, Maria Borràs
Funding entity: Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities
Funding: €88,330.00
Duration: 2022-2025
Description:
This project investigates depopulation processes and territorial changes in rural high-mountain areas of Spain, particularly in the Catalan Pyrenees. With an interdisciplinary research-action approach, it analyzes “rural resistances” and their transformative potential in defining public policies and sustainable future scenarios.