Jaume Franquesa

PhD

Jaume Franquesa.

Jaume Franquesa

PhD

Jaume Franquesa

PhD

Department Chair
Associate Professor

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.

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

  • 2023. . Translated by Elena Pérez Sanmiguel. Madrid: Errata Naturae [in Spanish, 512 pages].
  • 2018. . Bloomington: Indiana University Press [264 pages].
  • 2013. . Barcelona: Icaria [in Spanish, 239 pages].
  • 2010. . Palma: Documenta Balear [in Catalan, 358 pages].

Editor, Journal Special Issues

  • 2022. (co-edited with Natalia Buier). Capitalism Nature Socialism 33(4): 5-114 (6 papers).
  • 2020. (co-edited with Natalia Mamonova). Sociologia Ruralis 60(4): 701-904 (10 papers).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • 2024. The far right and the ‘gifts of nature’ in rural Spain. Current History 123 (851): 113-115 (with Santiago Gorostiza).
  • 2023. Ruin, dirt and rubble: Nature and cultural models in rural Catalonia. Digithum 31: 1-10.
  • 2023. Uneven and Combined Development in Anthropology (with S. Kasmir, L. Gill, W. Lem and G. Smith). Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (early view).
  • 2022. Producing capitalist landscapes: Ethnographies of the green transition and its contradictions (with Natalia Buier). Capitalism Nature Socialism 33(4): 5-17. 
  • 2022. Wind struggles: Grabbing value and cultivating dignity in Southern Catalonia. Capitalism Nature Socialism 33(4): 18-36. 
  • 2022. Unruly workers and laborless landscapes: The role of marginal places and redundant people in energy transitions. The Routledge handbook of the anthropology of labor. Edited by S. Kasmir and L. Gill. Pp. 396-408: London: Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003158448-38
  • 2022. Natural resources: The twice-hidden abode of economic processes. A handbook of economic anthropology. 3rd edition. Edited by J. Carrier. Pp. 72-84: Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108921.00014
  • 2020. ‘Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe: Insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ukraine (with Natalia Mamonova and Sally Brooks). The Journal of Peasant Studies 47(7): 1497-1525.
  • 2020. Populism, neoliberalism and agrarian movements in Europe: Understanding rural support for right-wing politics and looking for progressive solutions. (with Natalia Mamonova). Sociologia Ruralis 60(4): 710-731. 
  • 2020. Haciendo y deshaciendo baldíos: Desarrollo energético y luchas de valor en la Cataluña Sur. Revista Andaluza de Antropología 18: 77-97. 
  • 2019. The vanishing exception: Republican and reactionary specters of populism in rural Spain. The Journal of Peasant Studies 46(3): 537-560. 
  • 2019. Resources: Nature, value and time. A research agenda for economic anthropology. Edited by James Carrier. Pp. 74-89. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar ().
  • 2018. D'erms, pagesos i molins. Arxiu d'etnografia de Catalunya 18: 159-192.    
  • 2016. Dignity and indignation: Bridging morality and political economy in contemporary Spain. Dialectical Anthropology 40(2): 69-86. 
  • 2013. On keeping and selling: The political economy of heritage making in contemporary Spain (plus ‘Comments’ and ‘Reply’). Current Anthropology 54(3): 346-369. 
  • 2011. ‘We’ve lost our bearings’: Tourism, place, and the limits of the mobility turn. Antipode 43(4): 1012-1033. 
  • 2007. Vaciar y llenar, o la lógica espacial de la neoliberalización. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 118: 123-149.