Susana Narotzky Molleda
Catedràtica d'Universitat
Correu
narotzky@ub.edu
Telèfon
934 037 757
Despatx
2022
Crisis de reproducción social: Valoraciones de la vida y valorizaciones del capital (Master 2021-present)
Antropología del consumo (2020-21)
Línies temàtiques
Antropología económica: Reproducción social, obtención de recursos, crisis, desigualdad, diferenciación social, sostenibilidad social y medioambiental, formas de valoración económica y social
Antropología del trabajo: Trabajo agrícola e industrial, formal e informal, trabajo asalariado y no remunerado, trabajo doméstico y de cuidado, formas de organización y de explotación
Movilización política: Memoria histórica, movilización política, conflicto, hegemonía, clases y grupos sociales
Marcos teóricos: Economía política crítica, economía feminista, economía moral, categorías relacionales, dimensiones de escalas y temporalidades
Grup de recerca
Grup d’Estudis sobre Reciprocitat (GER). Directora 1998-2014, codirectora 2019-2022, directora 2022-present.
Comitès assessors de projectes
Swiss National Science Foudation (2021-2025) “Europe's Un/Deserving: Moralizations of Inequality in Comparative Perspective” [MoI], PI Jelena Tosic, University of St Gallen, Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Project number 192170
ERC Starting Grant (2020-2025) “Between Sea and City: Ethnographic explorations of infrastructure, work, and place around leading urban container ports” [PORTS], PI Elisabeth Schober, University of Oslo, Member of Advisory Board
FCT, Fundação para a ciencia e tecnologia (2019-2021) “Governação, transformações políticas e negociação de quotidianos: Portugal / Negotiating Livelihoods under transformative politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2008-18”. PI Antónia Pedroso de Lima, ISCTE-IUL. Member of Scientific Board, project number PTDC/SOC-ANT/32676/2017
ERC Starting Grant (2019-2021) “Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis”, [BETLIV], PI Valerio Simoni, The Graduate Institute, Geneva. Member of Advisory Board, Project number 759649.
National Science Foundation Award (2018-2020), “Rethinking Social Change: The Squares Movement in Barcelona and Paris”, PI Ida Susser, City University of New York. Senior Consultant Advisory Board, Project number 620127915
ERC Advanced Grant (2016-2021) “Crosslocations in the Mediterranean: rethinking the socio-cultural dynamics of relative positioning. [CROSSLOCATIONS]”, PI Sarah Green, University of Helsinki. Member of Advisory Board, Project number 694482
Academy of Finland (2016-2020) “Transit, Trade and Travel in Europe’s southeastern peripheries: how the Mediterranean’s relative position is shifting” [TTT]. PI Sarah Green, University of Helsinki. Member of Advisory Board, Project number 297432.
Academy of Finland (2016-2020) “Cold Rush: Dynamics of language and identity in expanding Arctic economics”. PI Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä. Member of Advisory Board, Project number 296564.
Research Council of Norway (2018-2020) “Life Cycle of Container Ships”, PI Elisabeth Schober, University of Oslo, Member of Advisory Board, Project number 275204
Projectes finançats
2024-2028 Pan-European Food Systems Science Network (FoSSNET), HORIZON EUROPE CL6, PI-coord Stine Rosenlund Hansen, (PI-UB Ana Moragues Faus), S. Narotzky team member
2023-2025 PI Narotzky, Susana, Grup d’Estudis de Reciprocitat, Grup de Recerca Consolidat SGR-Cat 2021, SGR00005, Generalitat de Catalunya (sense finançament)
Fellowship Program ICREA-Acadèmia 2021, Generalitat de Catalunya. 2022-2026
2021-2024, IP Narotzky, “Alimentos valiosos, trabajadores esenciales, personas vulnerables y respuestas sociales ante la crisis: sistemas de aprovisionamiento alimentario en la pandemia de covid-19” [Valuable food, essential workers, vulnerable people, and social responses to crisis: Food provisioning systems during the COVID-19 pandemic] (FOOD-Pan), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, PID2020-114317GB-I00
2020- Marie Curie Grant, MSCA-IF-2019, H2020, "From mining policy to grassroot politics. Industrial citizenship in times of crisis", Coordinadora: S. Narotzky, Investigadora Post-doctoral: Doris Buu-Sao
2020- Marie Curie Grant, MSCA-IF-2019, H2020, "Origins of Scarcity: Labour and the Metabolism of Groundwater in the Doñana Socioecological System", Coordinadora: S. Narotzky, Investigadora Post-doctoral: Natalia Buier
2019-2020 "Valuations of life: struggling for a future in Southern Europe", Social Science School, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Fellowship Program ICREA-Acadèmia 2016. Generalitat de Catalunya. 2017-2021
Grassroots Economics: Meaning, Project and practice in the pursuit of livelihood [GRECO]. PI Narotzky, European Research Council Advanced Grant (IDEAS-ERC FP7; PN: 323743). 2013-2018. Investigadora Principal.
Building Synergy: Generations, Care and Crisis [Generations], PI Narotzky, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam i Fundació Bosch Gimpera. 2013-2016. Investigadora Principal.
Abordar los múltiples aspectos de la sostenibilidad: Políticas publicas y proyectos de vida [AMAS], PI Narotzky, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CSO2011-26843). 2012-2015. Investigadora Principal.
Fellowship Program ICREA-Acadèmia 2010. Generalitat de Catalunya. 2011-2015.
Economías Morales e Innovación Social en Entornos de Crisis [EMISEC], PI Narotzky, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CSO2009-08059-E/SOCI). 2010-2012. Investigadora Principal.
Models and their Effects on Development paths: an Ethnographic and comparative Approach to knowledge transmission and livelihood strategies [MEDEA]. FP7- CT-2009-225670. 2009-2012. Coordinadora Científica & PI Narotzky UB (PI: Victoria Goddard, Goldsmiths-University of London).
Premis i distincions recents
- 2022-2027 Award and Five Year Fellowship ICREA-Academia, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Generalitat de Catalunya
- 2020 Premio Nacional de Investigación en Humanidades “Ramón Menéndez Pidal”
- 2019-2020 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
- 2016-2021 Award and Five Year Fellowship ICREA-Academia, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Generalitat de Catalunya
- 2013-2018 European Research Council Advanced Grant
- 2010-2015 Award and Five Year Fellowship ICREA-Academia, Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Generalitat de Catalunya
Kasmir, S. & Narotzky, S. (2025) "Simultaneous disruptions: forms of livelihood, fragmentation of classes, anda social labor in the twenty-first century" Dialectical Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-025-09763-1
Narotzky, S.; Buier, N. y Vetta, T. (eds) (under contract) Agricultural extractivism in the Mediterranean region: a socioecological view. Palgrave/ MacMillan
Buier, N. & Narotzky, S. (2024) « Destruction productive ou prédation permanente ? L’eau, le travail et l’accumulation dans la production de fraises à Huelva (Andalousie, Espagne) » L’Homme. Revue française d’anthropologie, Numéro 251-252: 35-62.
Narotzky, S. and Martínez Álvarez, B. (2024) “Moral dilemmas in food provisioning” Global Dialogue 14(1): 18-19
Narotzky, S.; Homs, P. and Martínez, B. (forthcoming). Agricultura y reproducción social: las explotaciones agrarias familiares entre la viabilidad económica y la reproducción de la vida. In Andrés Pedreño y Carlos de Castro (eds.) Explorando la agricultura globalizada. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, CIS
Narotzky, S. (forthcoming) “Small creditors, large debtors and unequal structures of power. The preferred shares case during the Spanish financial crisis” in Guérin et al. (eds) Handbook on Debt, Routledge
Narotzky, S. (2025). “Knowledge Production Through Learning Struggles: Making Sense of Reality, Giving Voice, Building Theory”. In Hande Birkalan-Gedik, Fabiana Dimpflmeier (eds.) The Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge: Changing Perspectives in and Beyond Europe. New York and Oxford: Berghahn
Narotzky, S. (2025). “Class: Classes of Class”. In Jelena Tošić, Sabine Strasser & Annika Lems (eds.) Re-turns, Entanglements and Generations: Anthropology in Europe. New York and Oxford: Berghahn
Narotzky, S. (2022) “Provisioning and the household”. In James Carrier (ed.) A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Third Edition. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.56-70
Narotzky, S. (2023) “Marxism in the horizon: an essay on Maurice Godelier”, Dialectical Anthropology 47: 377–390 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-023-09709-5
Narotzky, S. and Martínez Álvarez, B. (2023) “Moral dilemmas in food provisioning: the claim for “just prices” and for “fair wages”, International Sociology 38(6): 664-683
Neiburg, F; Guérin, I.; Narotzky, S. (2023) “Cost of living: Expert concepts and everyday efforts in unstable landscapes” International Sociology 38(6): 601-609
Narotzky, S. (2022) “Comment on Alicia Reigada: A Link in Global Agrifood Chains Recruitment Policies, Work, and Sexuality in the Strawberry Fields of Andalusia (Spain)”, Current Anthropology Vol.63(5): 533-34
Xiang, B.; Narotzky, S. and Lan, P-C. (2022) “Shift in Drivers of Migration: From Economic Accumulation to Social Reproduction and Lifestyle Consumption”, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics 8(2): 211-216 https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v8i2.1061
Narotzky, S. (2022 forthcoming) “To have a life: Labor reproduction, value and negative value.” In Sharryn Kasmir and Lesley Gill (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor. London: Routledge, pp.3-16
Narotzky, S. (2022) “Caring for the old and letting them die: a political economy of human worth.” In Tošić, Jelena and Andreas Streinzer. Submitted. Ethnographies of Deservingness. Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp.31-67
Pusceddu, A.M.; Loperfido, G. and Narotzky, S. (2021) “Introduction. The Everyday States of Austerity: Politics and Livelihoods in Europe”, Antropologia Vol.8(3): 7-26 https://doi.org/10.14672/ada202118257-23 (acceso abierto)
Narotzky, S. (2021) “The Janus face of austerity politics: autonomy and dependence in contemporary Spain.” Focaal. Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 90: 22–35. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2021.900103 (acceso abierto)
Narotzky, S. (2021) “The politics of evidence in an uncertain world: experience, knowledge, social facts and factual truth”, Disparidades. Revista de Antropología 76(1):1-13. https://doi.org/10.3989/dra.2021.002 (acceso abierto)
Narotzky, S. (2021) “Agricultural day Labor in Spain: The logics of (pandemic) capitalism.” In Fassin, D., Fourcade, M. (eds.), Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus. Chicago: HAU/ The University of Chicago Press, pp.247-273, https://haubooks.org/pandemic-exposures/ (acceso abierto)
Narotzky, S. (2021) “A History of Precariousness in Spain” Focaal Blog, 29 January 2021. http://www.focaalblog.com/2021/01/29/susana-narotzky:-a-history-of-precariousness-in-spain/
Narotzky, S. (ed.) (2020) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press
Narotzky, S. (2020) “Introduction: Grassroots Economics in Europe”. In Narotzky, S. (ed.) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press
Narotzky, S.; Pusceddu, A. (2020) “Social reproduction in times of crisis: inter-generational tensions in southern Europe”. In Narotzky, S. (ed.) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press
Narotzky, S.; Matos, P.; Pusceddu, A.M. (2020) “Valuation struggles: Rethinking the economy in times of crisis” interview by Corinne Schwaller, Gerhild Perl, Janina Kehr for Tsantsa. Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association Vol.25: 182–193.
NAROTZKY, S. (ed.) (2020) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press
NAROTZKY, S. (2020) “Introduction: Grassroots Economics in Europe”. In Narotzky, S. (ed.) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press
NAROTZKY, S.; Pusceddu, A. (2020) “Social reproduction in times of crisis: inter-generational tensions in southern Europe”. In Narotzky, S. (ed.) Grassroots Economies: Living with Austerity in Southern Europe, London: Pluto Press
NAROTZKY, S. (2019) “Evidence Struggles: Legality, Legitimacy, and Social Mobilizations in the Catalan Political Conflict”, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Vol. 26(1): 31-60
NAROTZKY, S. (2019) “Austerity lives in Southern Europe: Experience, knowledge, evidence and social facts”, in Jillian Cavanaugh & Karen Ho (eds.) Vital Topics Forum: What happened to social facts? American Anthropologist, Vol. 121(1):187-193
NAROTZKY, S. (2019) “Populism’s claims: The struggle between privilege and equality” in Bruce Kapferer & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (eds.) Democracy's paradox: Populism and its Contemporary Crisis, Oxford: Berghahn, pp.97-121
Homs, P. & Narotzky, S. (2019) “Within and beyond the market system. A case of organic food cooperatives in Catalonia”. In Krista Harper & Valeria Siniscalchi (eds) Food Values in Europe: Economies, Ideologies, and Power in Practice. London: Bloomsbury, pp.132-146
BESNIER, N. & NAROTZKY, S. (2019) “Epilogue. Indeterminacy : Between Worth and Worthlessness" in Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez (eds.) Waste, Value, and the Imagination. Oxford: Berghahn, pp.181-193
NAROTZKY, S. (2017) “Librando la batalla por la ideología: contra la hegemonía de la forma” in Palenzuela, P. (ed) Antropología y compromiso, Barcelona: Icaria. [Spanish translation of “On Waging the Ideological War: Against the Hegemony of Form” Anthropological Theory, Vol. 16(2-3): 263-284]
NAROTZKY, S. (2018) “Rethinking the concept of labour”, dins HARVEY, P.; KROHN-HANSEN, Ch. (ed.) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute [Special Issue on Labour].
NAROTZKY, S.; GODDARD, V. (ed.) (2017) Work and Livelihoods. History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis. Nova York: Routledge, Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize 2017.
NAROTZKY, S. (2017) “Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods”, dins NAROTZKY, S.; GODDARD, V. (ed.) Work and Livelihoods. History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis, p. 205-215. Nova York: Routledge.
NAROTZKY, S. (2016) “Anthropologies and Anthropology in Tension: A Preface” American Anthropologist, Vol. 118 (4): 843-845.
NAROTZKY, S. (2016) “Spain is the Problem, Europe the Solution: Economic Models, Labor Organization and the Hope for a Better Future”, dins GLEDHILL, J. (ed.) World Anthropologies in Practice, p. 19-39. Londres: Bloomsbury.
NAROTZKY, S. (2015) “The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours: Reciprocity, Social Capital, and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism”, dins KJAERULFF, J. (ed.) Flexible Capitalism. Exchange and Ambiguity at Work, p. 268-310. Oxford: Berghahn.
NAROTZKY, S. (2015) “The organic intellectual and the production of class in Spain”, dins CARRIER, J.G.; KALB, D. (ed.) Anthropologies of Class. Power, Practice and Inequality, p. 125-164. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
NAROTZKY, S.; GODDARD, V. (2015) “Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism: Models, markets and crisis in the global system”, dins GODDARD, V.; NAROTZKY, S. (ed.) Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism: Global Models, Local Lives?, p. 1-16. Londres: Routledge.
GODDARD, V.; NAROTZKY, S. (ed.) (2015) Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism: Global Models, Local Lives? Londres: Routledge.
NAROTZKY, S. (2014) “Weaving Knowledge Histories around Political Engagement: A Story of Anthropological Understanding”. American Anthropologist, 116 (3): 1-5.
NAROTZKY, S. (2014) “Structures without soul and immediate struggles: rethinking militant particularism in contemporary Spain”, dins KASMIR, S.; CARBONELLA, G. (ed.) Blood and Fire: Toward a New Anthropology of Labour, p. 167-202. Nova York: Berghahn.
NAROTZKY, S.; MANZANO, E. (2014) “The hisba, the muhtasib and the struggle over political power and a moral economy: An enquiry into institutions”, dins HUDSON, J.; RODRÍGUEZ, A. (ed.) Diverging Paths? The Shape of Power and Institutions in medieval islam and Christendom, p. 30-54. Leiden: Brill.
NAROTZKY, S. (ed.) (2013) Economías cotidianas, economías sociales, economías sostenibles. Barcelona: Icaria.
NAROTZKY, S. (2013) “What kind of commons are the urban commons?”. Focaal. Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 66: 122-24.
NAROTZKY, S. (2013) “The anthropology of economic processes in a Europe in Crisis”. Perspectives on Europe.
NAROTZKY, S. (2013) “Moral outrage and political mobilization: reactions to austerity measures and the economic crisis”. Suomen Antropologi, 38 (4): 43-47.
NAROTZKY, S. (2013) “Economías cotidianas, economías sociales, economías sostenibles”, dins NAROTZKY, S. (ed.) Economías cotidianas, economías sociales, economías sostenibles, p. 7-27. Barcelona: Icaria.
NAROTZKY, S. (2012) “Provisioning” (revised chapter), dins CARRIER, J. (ed.) A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (2nd edition, revised), p. 77-94. Edward Elgar.
NAROTZKY, S. (2012) “Alternatives to expanded accumulation and the anthropological imagination: turning necessity into a challenge to capitalism?”, dins LEACH, B.; GARDINER, P.; LEM, W. (ed.) Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology, p. 239-252. Londres: Routledge.
NAROTZKY, S. (2010) “Reciprocidad y capital social: modelos teóricos, políticas de desarrollo, economías alternativas. Una perspectiva antropológica”, dins BRETÓN, V. (ed.) Saturno devora a sus hijos. Miradas críticas sobre el desarrollo y sus promesas, p. 127-174. Barcelona: Icaria.
NAROTZKY, S. (2010) “Gender, history and political activism in Spain”, dins LEM, W.; GARDINER, P. (ed.) Class, Contention and a World in Motion, p. 125-137. Oxford: Berghahn.
NAROTZKY, S. (2009) “Trabajo a domicilio y trabajo doméstico en la globalización neoliberal. Del feminismo igualitarista a la ética del cuidado: situando la responsabilidad”, dins TÉLLEZ, A.; MARTÍNEZ GUIRAO, J.E. (ed.) Economía informal y perspectiva de género en contextos de trabajo, p. 197-218. Barcelona: Icaria.
