Jaume Franquesa
PhD
Research Topics
Energy and environment; politics and morality; right-wing populism and emancipatory alternatives in rural Europe; the commodification of space and nature; cultural heritage and memory; Southern Europe, Spain and Catalonia.
Contact Information
Education
- PhD, University of Barcelona
- BA, University of Barcelona
Courses Offered
Undergraduate Courses
- APY 106 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- APY 199 | UB Seminar: Why Have Wealth?
- APY 319 | Environmental Anthropology
- APY 401 | Theory in Anthropology
- APY 474 | Cities and Cultures
Graduate Courses
- APY 618 | Cultural Heritage
- APY 619 | Political Ecology: Nature, Capital, and Climate Change
- APY 655 | Graduate Survey of Social Anthropology
Selected Publications
Books
- 2018. Power struggles: Dignity, value, and the renewable energy frontier in Spain. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press [264 pages].
- 2013. Urbanismo neoliberal, negocio immobiliario y vida vida vecinal. El caso de Palma. Barcelona: Icaria [in Spanish, 239 pages].
- 2010. Sa Calatrava mon amour. Ethnografia d'un barri atrapat en la geografia del capital. Palma (Spain): Documenta Balear [in Catalan, 358 pages].
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (selection)
- 2020. Populism, neoliberalism and agrarian movements in Europe: Understanding rural support for right-wing politics and looking for progressive solutions. (co-authored with Natalia Mamonova). Sociologia Ruralis https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12291
- 2020. Haciendo y deshaciendo baldíos: Desarrollo energético y luchas de valor en la Cataluña Sur. Revista Andaluza de Antropología 18: 77-97. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/RAA.2019.18.05
- 2019. The vanishing exception. Republican and reactionary specters of populism in rural Spain. The journal of peasant studies 46(3): 537-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1578751
- 2019. Resources: Nature, value and time. A research agenda for economic anthropology. Edited by James Carrier. Pp. 74-89. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/a-research-agenda-for-economic-anthropology).
- 2018. D'erms, pagesos i molins. Arxiu d'ethnografia de Catalunya 18: 159-192. https://doi.org/10.17345/aec18.159-192
- 2016. Dignity and indignation: Bridging morality and political economy in contemporary Spain. Dialectical anthropology 40(2): 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9415-8
- 2013. On keeping and selling: The political economy of heritage making in contemporary Spain (plus ‘Comments’ and ‘Reply’). Current anthropology 54(3): 346-369. https://doi.org/10.1086/670620
- 2011. ‘We’ve lost our bearings’: tourism, place, and the limits of the mobility turn. Antipode 43(4): 1012-1033. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00789.x
- 2007. Vaciar y llenar, o la lógica espacial de la neoliberalización. REIS: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 118: 123-149. https://doi.org/10.2307/40184799