Paula EscribanoUniversity of Barcelona | UB · Social Anthropology
Paula Escribano
Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Paula Escribano currently works as Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology at University of Barcelona. Paula does research in livelihood strategies, peasant economy social and environmental movements and self-sufficiency in Europe and India. She is current involve in the project "Valuable food, essential workers, vulnerable people, and social responses to crisis: the food provisioning chain during the COVID-19 pandemic [FOOD-Pan PID2020-114317]" IP: Susana Narotzky
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El concepto de «campesinado» ha sido históricamente objeto de debate, desde posiciones que cuestionan su misma existencia hasta el reconocimiento del papel que desempeña ac-tualmente en la sociedad. Este artículo presenta el caso de los llamados «neocampesinos» en Cataluña, un tipo concreto de nuevo campesinado ligado al movimiento político y medio...
This article focuses on power relations between the rural public authorities and the neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia (Spain). On the one hand, the public authorities promote a productivism‐oriented, professional model of farming informed by the Common Agricultural Policy. This policy results in the gradual disappearance of small‐scale agriculture...
The article analyses everyday forms of resistance of the neo-peasants in Catalonia against the dominant legal and economic system. For the purpose of the analysis, neo-peasants are defined as social movement whose actors share the same values reflected in the neo-peasant identity and try to put into practice a peasant lifestyle and a peasant econom...
n the Mediterranean context, the family is the mainstay on which the members composing it are sustained. However, in situations such as the economic crisis that occurred between 2008-2014, the support capacity can become overwhelmed. In this article, researchers from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology evaluate the role of charities...
El 13 de marzo de 2020 España decretó el estado de alarma debido a la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19. En este escenario el sector agroalimentario tuvo que responder a una gran demanda en términos de producción y abastecimiento. Entre los diferentes modelos productivos dentro del sector están las pequeñas iniciativas agroecológicas que pretend...
Research on how the poor “make ends meet” typically shows that they are able to do so by relying on dense support networks of family and close friends. Recent research suggests, however, that these networks play a limited role. This article examines the role of informal networks in how sixty-one households in Barcelona, Spain, cope with poverty. We...
In the context of environmental degradation, it is essential to study alternative, more sustainable models of living and production. Ecological Intentional Communities (EICs) present themselves as good examples or “laboratories” of sustainable development, with a small ecological footprint. However, little is known about their heterogeneity and the...
El fenómeno del emprendimiento social surgido en Cataluña a partir de la crisis del 2008 se presenta como una alternativa ocupacional promovida por actores financieros y administraciones públicas para responder a dos problemas agravados por la crisis financiera: la necesidad de crear empleo estable y los retos sociales y medioambientales. Este tipo...
Parece ser que en la actualidad en Cataluña no existe acuerdo acerca del significado del término payes/a (pagès/a) o campesino/a. Lo que para unas personas es una figura ligada al trabajo de la tierra, para otras es una imagen que ya solo se encuentra en el pasado. Hay quien opina que payés/a es sinónimo de agricultor/a, y hay quien vive del campo...
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the care provision of charity organizations that assist people in situations of economic vulnerability. After analyzing central theoretical elements of kinning, the authors contend that charity organizations function as symbolic families for people in need.
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In order to contribute to the debate about social entrepreneurship, we take an empirical perspective and describe the phenomenon in Catalonia, Spain, during the financial crises of the early twenty-first century. For this aim, we conducted 43 in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs, launched a web-based survey with 90 responses, and built a d...
Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people's motivations for becoming part of an eco-community in Catalonia, Spain, through interviews with 29 informants. The research is part...
In order to understand the phenomenon of social/environmental entrepreneurship in Catalonia, we launched a web-survey among “social entrepreneurs” (92 responses), conducted 43 in-depth interviews, and built a database with 347 organizations and/or ventures with an explicit social/environmental goal. This information was complemented with secondary...
Sunbelt XXXV. Brighton, UK June 23 – 28 , 2015
Drawing on the ongoing fieldwork carried out in Catalonia (research project ENCLAVE, CSO2012-32635), we suggest the existence of at least three types of the socalled “social entrepreneurs”: the self-occupied individuals displaced by the cuts on public spending in the health, social and cooperation sectors; the traditional Coops and associations, re...
The report provides the general results of the ENCLAVE research, which analises the emergence and traits of the social entrepreneurship in Catalonia.
