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Susana Narotzky is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain. She has been honoured with the National Award for Research in the Humanities “Ramón Menéndez Pidal” by the Spanish Research Ministry in 2020. From 2013-2019 she was PI of a European Research Council Advanced Grant “Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of Livelihood” [GRECO] to study the effects of austerity on Southern European livelihoods. Her work is inspired by theories of critical political economy, moral economies, feminist economics, and value regimes. She has received a number of grants and fellowships and was invited to be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (School of Social Science), Princeton (2019-2020). She is former President of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) and has served as Secretary of the American Anthropological Association. Her most recent publication is Narotzky, S. (ed.) (2020) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press.

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Raquel Alquézar Crusellas holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. She is currently a course instructor at the UOC and associate lecturer at the University of Girona. Her main lines of research are ethical finance and the social and solidarity economy, as well as cooperativism, social assessment systems, transformative economies and the social market. She collaborates with the social commission of the ethical and solidarity financial systems cooperative, Coop57, and with the Social Balance Commission of XES. She participates as a collaborator in the research project Changing paradigms: practices and discourses of the transformative economies in a context of ecosocial urgency led by Jesus Sanz y Sara Sama from the UCM. He has participated in the latest United Nations (UNRISD) international conferences about social and solidarity economy and its relationship with the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda.

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Stamatis Amarianakis  has conducted research in Greece focusing on the social dimensions of the economic life during the recent Greek Economic Crisis. From 2014-2019, he worked for the ERC funded project “Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of Livelihood (GRECO)”.  His main research site is in Chalkida, Greece, a mid-sized post-industrial city where he studied the social, economic and political transformations and the impact they have had on the ways people make a livelihood. He received his PhD from the university of Barcelona entitled “Authoritative Models and Grassroots Responses to Crisis: Reconfigurations of Everyday Life in Chalkida, a Postindustrial Greek City”. His research interests include Political Economy, Economic Solidarity, Informality, Social Reproduction, dis-alienation, reciprocity, neo-substantivism and commodity fetishism.

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Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is an ICREA Research Professor and runs the Project FOODCIRCUITS (ERC 2023-2028) in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. A sociocultural anthropologist and medical doctor, he conducts interdisciplinary research on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the contexts of transnational migration, health care, and agricultural food systems. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award.

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Uzuri Aboitiz is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy of Values and Social Anthropology at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU). She is a PhD in Anthropology from the Universidad de Barcelona (UB). Her doctoral thesis seeks to understand how the crises and Structural Adjustment policies affect the lives and life projects of the working classes in a deindustrialized city in the Basque Country. Through the study of everyday household economies, she focuses on the transformations of social reproduction relations, combining the framework of political economy, moral economy, and feminist economics.

She currently investigates debt relations and financial (dis)obedience, focusing on the tension between ideologies of autonomy and forms of dependency. She has been a visiting researcher at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Guadalajara, México. She has done fieldwork in Peru and the Basque Country. She is a member of the Seminario Internacional de Antropología del Dinero y la Economía of CIESAS and of the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) of the School of Social Sciences of the University of California.

Patricia Homs Ramírez de la Piscina studied Biology and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB). She holds a DEA in Ecology Advanced Studies and a Master in Anthropology and Ethnography by the same university. Her PhD dissertation “The Nature/Culture dualism in Ecology” offers a critical analysis of Ecology’s theoretical approach to the concepts and interactions among nature and culture.

She is Adjunct Professor associate lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology (UB). She has been a member of the research team in the Grassroots Economics ERC project.

Her research area is economic anthropology and her specific interests include agroecology, cooperatives and social and solidarity economy, especially as these relate to agrofood systems.

She is also member of Aresta Cooperative where she participates in its area of Research and Education.

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Martin Lundsteen (PhD, MA in Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona) is currently a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the University of Barcelona. He has previously been a Beatriu de Pinós researcher at the UB. He has participated in several research projects on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism, moral economies and perceptions of justice in the context of economic crisis and peripheral religiosities. He is also a member of other groups such as the Observatory for the Anthropology of Urban Conflict (OACU) and the Stop Islamophobic Phenomena Association (SAFI). His research interests include topics as diverse as political and economic anthropology, informal economy, urban anthropology, mobility, Islamophobia and racism.

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PhD and BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. She also have a master’s degree in anthropology and ethnography from the same university. Currently she is part of the research groups GER (Grup d’Estudis sobre Reciprocitat) and GET (Grupo de Estudos Territoriais) of the University of Barcelona and University of Coruña respectively. Her lines of research focus on economic anthropology. Specifically, she uses an approach from political economy that emphasizes the notion of moral economy and concepts such as just price and a decent life (vida digna). These tools allow to research globally and in a historical perspective food production, but also specifically the rural context in Galicia, where family food producers face problems that end up affecting their livelihood strategies to the point of making them disappear.

Patrícia Alves de Matos is an economic anthropologist trained in Lisbon and London. She is a senior researcher at CRIA/ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and an invited lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at FCSH/New University of Lisbon. Her project is titled “Everyday Worlds of Welfare: A Comparative Study of Human Needs, Livelihood Sustainability and Social Policy in Southern Europe”. This project proposes a comparative bottom-up approach to human welfare calculus and welfare sustainability, focusing on the theoretical relevance of the concept of ‘everyday worlds of welfare’ (EWW). I She provisionally define EWW as the historically and locally embedded set of practices, normative livelihood ethics and folk valuation arguments informing how households and individuals define and pursue the fulfilment of tangible and intangible needs (i.e., resources and claims) necessary to secure intergenerational livelihood sustainability. In a context of rising inequalities and the need to enhance the resilience of European welfare states, the EWW concept will outline a more holistic framework of welfare analysis, potentially acting as a valuable compass on the relation between people’s embedded knowledges and social policy interventions. It will foster novel ways to devise greater equity in distributing well-being resources and their sustainability across generations. It will contribute to formulating more inclusive well-being indicators, thus responding to the recent call by leading academics and political agents to shift towards a Wellbeing Economy strategy in a post-COVID world. Her research interests include neoliberalism, precarity and labour; gender, body politics and social reproduction; austerity welfare, needs and moralities of distribution. Manchester University Press published her monograph “Disciplined Agency: Neoliberal Precarity, Generational Dispossession and Call Centre Labour in Portugal” in July 2020.

Names in academic citations: Matos, Patricia; Alves de Matos, Patrícia

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Historian, anthropologist and Dr. in Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology. Teacher at the Department of Education (Generalitat de Catalunya) and member of the OADPI (Observatory for the Rights and Autonomy of Indigenous Peoples of Colombia).

His research experience began in 2003 at the Department of Art History and Social History of the University of Lleida (UDL), to study the agricultural labor market in the agro-industry of Lleida. This preliminary work inaugurates a research journey of several phases, which includes training as a FPU predoctoral fellow (2010-2014) in the GER research group and the research stay at the Department of Social Sciences and Economics of the Universidad del Valle, in Cali (Colombia). The research culminates in the doctoral thesis Entre la oportunidad y el deseo. Contratación en origen, codesarrollo y grupos domésticos transnacionales en el mundo rural. El caso Catalunya-Colombia (2016, University of Barcelona). In this, capital-labour relations in the Catalan countryside and its ethnically segmented labor market are studied through processes of introduction of different waves of workers of migrant origin. It also analyzes the implementation of a state system of labor recruitment and control of migratory flows (hiring at origin) and the uses and meanings of remittances from hired people, connecting two areas at a transnational level: the agricultural industry of Lleida and the rural areas of Colombia.

From 2016 to the present, his professional career combines research and dissemination with university and non-university teaching in secondary and high school education. He has taught at the UOC and the University of Lleida between 2015 and 2021, and has participated in research projects in the public sphere and international cooperation. For example, the project Se’n parlave i n’hi havie. La bruixeria al Pirineu i a les terres de Ponent (2015-2017) financed by the Ramon Muntané Institute and carried out by the Network of Museums Lands of Lleida and Aran (XMTLLA). In this he studied the belief in witchcraft and its relationship with processes of stigmatization of rural women, in contexts of inequality. Secondly, the work of research, disclosure and reporting of Human Rights violations as a member of the OADPI (Observatory for the Rights and Autonomy of Indigenous Peoples of Colombia) from 2015 to the present is highlighted. As a researcher and awareness-raising technician, she has done research on the consequences of extractivism and armed conflict on women and indigenous territories in Colombia, in projects funded by the Catalan and Spanish cooperation agencies (ACCD and AECID).

Since 2021, she has been a full-time career teacher at the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya, specializing in Geography and History. At the same time, it combines research actions, intervention, dissemination and advocacy in institutions. She is an active member of OADPI and the international campaign for the memory of women accused of witchcraft (http://memoriadelasbrujas.net/).

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Diana Sarkis Fernández is associate lecturer of Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Syria and Spain as part of her doctoral (University of Barcelona, Spain) and postdoctoral research (ERC Grassroots Economics Project). Her work focuses on labour-capital relations, models of state and grassroots structures of feeling, frameworks of analysis and forms of agency in agrarian contexts. She contributes to the work of the International Research Collective on agriculture, environment and labour in the Arab World (Thimar, https://www.athimar.org/en). Her recent publications include “‘Amnarja’ la wara (We are going backwards): Economic Reform and the Politics of Labour in Agrarian Syria”, Journal of Peasant Studies (2020); (with S. Amarianakis) “Austerity from below: Class, temporality and scale in grassroots analysis of crisis” in S. Narotzky (ed.) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe (Pluto Press, 2020); “’Muerta a trabajar’: Consideraciones feministas sobre la crisis (de la reproducción social) en Vélez-Málaga (Spain), Revista Andaluza de Antropología (2018).

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Theodora Vetta is a Distinguished Researcher at University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD on Social Anthropology from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and has studied and worked at/with numerous other universities (Aristotle University, Central European University, Lunds University, University of Belgrade, University of Barcelona, Panteion University of Athens, University of Southern Denmark).

She participated in several international projects (ex. Marie Curie program “SocAnth-Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe” and ERC Advanced grant “Grassroots Economics”), and is currently part of two I+D+I projects:  FOOD-Pan – Alimentos valiosos, trabajadores esenciales: sistemas de aprovisionamiento alimentario en la pandemia de covid-19 (2021-2024) and TEVIPROP – Tensions between housing right and private ownership in rental relations (2023-2026).

After completing a Juan de la Cierva –Incorporation contract (Spanish Agency of Investigation), she develops her own research line on energy transition and decarbonization, being Principal Investigator of two projects: Energy Transition as Ecological Regime of Distribution (Greek Ministry of Education 2020-2) and Frontlines of Transitions: Decarbonization and Green marginalities in Europe (Independent Research Fund of Denmark 2023-6, Co-PI).

Since 2015, Theodora serves as a co-Editor at Q1Focaal–European Journal of Anthropology and is a founding member of PrecAnthro Union within European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

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Natalia Buier is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona. Her current project focuses on water conflicts in Southwestern Andalusia. Her previous research includes a historical ethnography of the development of Spanish high-speed rail, completed as a member of the Financialisation research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has been studying the relationship between infrastructural development, economic crises and capitalist environment-making. She graduated from the Sociology and Social Anthropology Department of the Central European University in 2016 with a dissertation addressing the relationship between historical memory and the liberalization of the Spanish railways. Recent publications include “The Second Coming of Rail: the Spanish High-Speed Rail-Finance Complex” (Antipode, 2020; available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12672) and “High-Speed Contradictions: Spanish Railways between Economic Criticism and Political Defense” (in Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, eds. F. Muniesa and K. Birch, MIT Press, 2020; available at: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4848/AssetizationTurning-Things-into-Assets-in)

Doris Buu-Sao is a lecturer in political science at the University of Lille (France), working on environmental and energy issues from a political ethnography perspective. She is currently on secondment at the Social Anthropology Department of the Universitat de Barcelona for a two-years research project. Funded by a Marie Curie grant, it focuses on mining revival in Andalusia in the context of the energy transition. She is analyzing the production of a “sustainable mining” model by public policy and the territorial embedding of the mining industry, drawing from the case of the copper mine of Riotinto. Previously, she has carried out her PhD research on oil extraction in the Peruvian Amazon, as experienced from indigenous villages neighboring a deposit exploited since the 1970s. She also investigated the links between the energy community movement and the struggle against fuel poverty in United Kingdom, France and Catalonia.

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Paula Escribano is a postdoctoral researcher (Juan de la Cierva) at the Grup d’estudis sobre reciprocitat (GER) at the University of Barcelona. Her research addresses livelihood strategies and regulations in rural contexts. Paula focuses on the influence of neoliberalism and environmental values ​​on short production and distribution chains. She primarily uses ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews for data collection. She is member of the project “Valuable food, essential workers, vulnerable people, and social responses to crisis: Food provisioning systems during the COVID-19 pandemic (FOOD-Pan)” IP: Susana Narotzky (UB), (2021-2023) PID2020 -114317GB-I00. She also collaborates with the project «Design, application and consequences of rural public policies in Catalonia, Spain. A transdisciplinary perspective«. IP: Agata Hummel (University of Warsaw) (2022-2023) POB IV dla rodziców.

Paula received her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from  UAB with the thesis «Back-to-the-land» in Catalonia: an anthropological perspective. She has offered courses in Research and Qualitative Data Analysis in Poland, Mexico, Spain and India. She has taught economic anthropology, gender anthropology, and critical theory among other areas.

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My career is on finance and international business. I have taught at public and private universities in Colombia for more than 12 years. I decided to study Social Studies to innovate the different forms to inquire into financial issues, traditionally dominated by the Economic Sciences. My academic training in Sociology provided me with a theoretical and methodological approach (especially with qualitative techniques) around the topics of indebtedness, money, consumption, family and households. In my PhD research at Society and Culture, through quantitative and qualitative methodologies, I seek to understand the social fabric that influences behavior of low-income groups regarding indebtedness in the formal and informal financial markets, including the different social agents that are part of the credit system.

Graduated in Anthropology from the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). MA in Social Anthropology from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS-DF), México.  Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and a PhD in Society and Culture at the University de Barcelona (UB). She has been awarded a doctoral scholarship by CONICET working on the Lab on Culture and Society (LECyS) led by Prof. Mariana Chaves. She is co-director of an extension project on community communication with rural youth. Her research focuses on work experiences of young people living in rural borderlands of Misiones, Argentina. She carries out research collaborately with peasant social movements.

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I am a researcher specialized in economic and political anthropology and have carried out ethnographic research in Spain and Ireland. My PhD dissertation (Workers Against Institutions, 2011) dealt with the social and cultural construction of precarious work relations in the Irish mushroom industry and the attempts by the trade union movement and organizations of the Third Sector to eradicate underpayment and mistreatment of migrant workers in this industry. Research was supported by an Early Career Postgraduate Scholarship from the Irish Research Council (2004-2007). In 2014, I started a post-doctoral research project on the survival strategies of the unemployed and the underemployed in Spain and Ireland, funded by an ELEVATE Irish Research Council-Marie Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship 2014-2018.

My post-doctoral work has involved collaboration with the project ‘Grassroots Concepts of Social Justice after the Economic Crisis’ (CONJUST), at the University of Barcelona (UB). To that end, I have been an invited researcher in the Department of Anthropology (University of Barcelona) between 2016 and 2019.

At present my topic of research is the Moral Economy of Social Assistance in Spain.

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Jaume Franquesa is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo – State University of New York. His research focuses on the ethnographic and theoretical exploration of the relationship between resource commodification and the making of local livelihoods, paying special attention to the role of state, class and cultural politics in shaping organized and everyday forms of political resistance. Among other topics, he has published on the politics of renewable energy, the rise of authoritarian populism in rural Europe, and urban struggles against gentrification. His latest book is Power struggles: Dignity, value, and the renewable energy frontier in Spain (Indiana University Press, 2018), published in Spanish as Molinos y gigantes. La lucha por la dignidad, la soberanía energética y la transición ecológica (Errata naturae, 2023).

Agata Hummel is an associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. Her main areas of interest are anthropology of development and post-development, economic and political anthropology. She has a broad experience in research in Mexico on various topics: ethnicity, local economy, development projects and social movements. She is currently studying issues related to agriculture and social movements in Europe and Latin America. Her research in Latin America focuses on post-development initiatives in Peru and Bolivia. In Europe, Dr. Hummel works with neo-peasant movement and agricultural policies, mostly in Spain and Poland. She is also developing participatory research methods. Some of her recent publications include: Hummel Agata, Paula Escribano (2021) The neo-peasant movement in Catalonia: an attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance (2021); Escribano, Paula; Agata Hummel; José Luis Molina; Miranda J. Lubbers (2020) “Él es emprendedor y yo no; yo soy autónomo”: La diversidad de estrategias de reproducción de los neo-campesinos en Cataluña.  AIBR Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana 15(1), 129-156; and Demmer, Ulrich; Agata Hummel (2017) Degrowth, anthropology, and activist research: the ontological politics of science. Journal of Political Ecology 24, 610-622.

He has been professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and later at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia / CEAH. He has been visiting professor at various universities among which Columbia University, New York; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Monash University, Melbourne; London School of Economics; and LaTrobe University, Melbourne. He is the author of 18 books, 120 articles and book chapters, and has supervised 40 doctoral theses. His academic interests are Cultural Ecology, Economic Anthropology, Migrations, Poverty, Social Exclusion, Work and the Underground Economy. Among his most important works are El Ejido: discrimination, social exclusion and racism, Catarata, 2004; Poverty, segregation and spatial exclusion: the home of foreign immigrants in Spain, Icaria, 1999 and Women, work and home: the origins of discrimination, Icaria 1995.

Paz Moreno is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and director of the Center for Afro-Hispanic Studies (CEAH), focused on research in Equatorial Guinea and the Rif. She is currently conducting research on communal forests in Galicia. Her lines of research revolve around Economic Anthropology, Human Rights, genocides and racism, as well as studies on Equatorial Guinea. Her publications include: El bosque de las Gracias y sus Pasatiempos (2011, Trotta), En el corazón de la zona gris (2010, 2nd edition, 2012 Trotta), and with Juan Aranzadi (eds) Nuevas investigaciones sobre y desde Guinea Ecuatorial, Monographic Issue, Revista Éndoxa, 2016.

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Antónia Pedroso de Lima graduated in Anthropology at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon (1987), has a MA in Urban Anthropology from Barcelona University (Tarragona, 1991) and a Ph.D. from ISCTE (University of Lisbon 2001). She is Professor at the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE since 1989, former President of CRIA, the National Research Centre in Social Anthropology (Portugal) and member of the scientific Committee of Openedition (CNRS) and LusOpenedition (Lusophone Countries) and was member of the National Committee for the Intangible Heritage (Portuguese Ministry of Culture). Specialist on kinship theory and contemporary family relations Antónia Lima has published numerous papers on Portuguese urban family, focusing both on working class neighbourhoods of Lisbon and on the Portuguese economic elite. Her present research interests are on Contemporary family relations, Gender, Care and Crises.

Valeria Siniscalchi obtained her PhD in 1996 at the University of La Sapienza (Italy). She is Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France) and she directs the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences EHESS-Marseille campus. She has been President of the European Association for Social Anthropologists – EASA (2017-18). Her first research in Southern Italy (1990-2000) focused on the conceptions and practices of the economy and their political dimension. Between 2000 and 2004, she worked in the South East of France on the relationship between economy, power and identity in protected areas. Since 2007 she has been conducting an ethnographic research on the international Slow Food movement. She works on food activism and on the construction of political spaces through the economy: the vegetable basket systems in the South of France and, in Sardinia (Italy), the regulation and circulation of cheese productions and their political and economic stakes. She is co-editor of Food Values in Europe (with Krista Harper), and of Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy (with Carole Counihan).

Ieva Snikersproge is a SNF research fellow at the University of Neuchâtel. She works on broadly-conceived alternatives to capitalism: the very mundane ways in which they are imagined, put into practice, and lived and challenged. In doing so, she aims to highlight the evolving forms of present-day capitalism and the radical imagery to which it gives rise. More specifically, she has investigated factory takeovers, alternative currencies, commons, cooperatives, and the modern return-to-the-land movement in France. Her fieldwork has led her to raise more analytical questions about the evolving forms of work and post-work imageries in capitalist countries, what kinds of collective action are feasible and fruitful for maintaining alternative projects over the medium and long term, and the enormous diversity of modern back-to-the-landers and how phenomena-turned-symbols – such as the countryside, nature and indigenous people – inspire alternatives capable of mobilizing a large diversity of people. From an anthropological perspective, Ieva has also investigated how ecological alternatives redefine work and reproductive work, and how anthropological knowledge is and could be mobilized for transiting to post-growth economies. At the moment, she is conducting a research project on how ecological alternatives affect the gendered division of labour at the University of Neuchâtel.

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Jordi Gascón is PhD in social anthropology at the University of Barcelona, he’s specialized in rural studies. His areas of research are the impacts of tourism in the rural world and sustainability in the agri-food cycle. Since 1990 he has been conducting research in the Andean Area (Peru and Ecuador), and in the Iberian Peninsula since 2014. His lines of research are the impact of tourism in the rural world, the formation of pluriactive rural economies, agrarian policies in Latin America and the externalities of hegemonic agricultural models. Professor at the University of Barcelona, he has also been a professor at the University of Lleida, and senior researcher at the Institute of Higher National Studies (IAEN) of Ecuador. Previously, for more than twenty years, he worked in development cooperation, in projects aimed at defending the right to food sovereignty. He is a researcher at the Research Group “Anthropology of Contemporary Crises and Transformations (CRITS)” of the University of Barcelona, and a member of the Xarxa de Consum Solidari, an NGO specialized in the defense of food sovereignty.

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Antonio J. Ramírez Melgarejo is Member of the Charles Babbage Research Group in Social Sciences of Work. Degree and PhD in Sociology from the University of Murcia. Trained in sociology in a peripheral territory where the boundaries between formal and informal work are blurred. Consequently, his research interests mainly include the world of work from a broad perspective, which includes migration, rurality, gender and technologisation. 

With an FPI grant and under the supervision of Andrés Pedreño, she worked on her thesis in which she tried to understand the reproduction strategies of the working classes in an eminently agro-industrial territory. He has carried out several research stays outside Spain, mainly with leading researchers from the French school of sociology of work, has participated (and participates) in research projects (R+D+i and others) and has published scientific articles in journals of impact, as well as book chapters, as required by a university career and commitment to the profession. He is currently involved in several projects of different kinds with the common nexus of social relations mediated by work. He believes that all knowledge is the product of collective work and is on the road to further learning.

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Alicia Reigada is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Seville, and member of the GEISA Research Group. Her studies focus on agri-food global chains, social organization of labor, migrations and gender relationships. She has participated in several international networks and projects, and has been as visiting scholar at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), University of California, Davis, Universidad Federal Rural de Río de Janeiro (UFRRJ), and City University of New York (CUNY), among others. Some of her recent publications are: Historia, trabajo y territorio. El conflicto capital-vida en los campos de fresas de Huelva (2023, Universidad de Barcelona); “A link in global agrifood chains: recruitment policies, work, and sexuality in the strawberry fields of Andalusia (Spain)” (2022, Current Anthropology); La producción de la calidad en el sector agroalimentario: un análisis sociológico (C. de Castro, A. Reigada y E. Gadea, eds. 2022, Tirant lo Blanch).

María Giménez Casalduero is Associate Professor in the Department of Administrative Law, University of Murcia. Member of the research team at the New Water Culture Foundation.