Verónica Gisbert Gracia

Verónica Gisbert Gracia
  • University of Valencia

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Introduction
Verónica Gisbert Gracia currently works at the Departamento de Sociología y Antropología Social, University of Valencia. Verónica does research in Women and Politics Research, Human Rights and Conflict Processes. Their most recent publication is 'On the road: Feminista Alliances across Europe'.
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University of Valencia

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Publications (20)
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The festive ritual has been interpreted as a way of generating sociability and social cohesion not only in traditional societies but also in modern ones. However, from the perspective of Randall Collins’s ritual of interaction, the festive ritual is used by certain status groups to define identity, reinforce stratification and establish political d...
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Gender inequality in traditional festivals as Valèncian Fallas has generated increasing social and academic attention. Phenomena such as segregated roles or norms and the patriarchal control of institutions have revealed that there is a persistence in maintenance that clashes with the evolution of society towards greater equality. This is the case...
Book
This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain. It deals critically with a variety of sociological questions related to cultural production in the city, including geographical segregati...
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Las desigualdades de género en las fiestas tradicionales han generado una creciente atención social y académica. Fenómenos como el acoso, abuso o agresiones sexuales, los roles segregados o las codificaciones patriarcales que facilitan instituciones festivas muy masculinizadas, tanto en las composiciones como en las dinámicas internas, han revelado...
Presentation
5 de novembre de 2020, Granollers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZv7DIDTXs Jornades sobre cultura popular i gènere adreçades al personal tècnic de l’administració pública per reflexionar sobre les implicacions de gènere en els esdeveniments de cultura popular d’arrel tradicional, des d’una perspectiva antropològica i social, a través de casos...
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The traditional festivities have been usually analysed in social sciences as a mode of generating sociability and social cohesion, not only in traditional societies but also in modern ones. However, from Randall Collins's perspective, the festive ritual is used by certain groups to define identity, strengthen stratification, and establish political...
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In several cases the ‘Calatrava effect’, a deformation of the model of the ‘creative city’, has failed and the resulting effects have been perverse. In 2015, amid the collapse of this urban, cultural and socially segregating and elitist model, new local governments emerged that proposed a radical U-turn in terms of cultural and urban policy. Howeve...
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¿Pueden ser analizadas las fallas de Valencia con el concepto de campo artístico de Pierre Bourdieu? Esta cuestión ha sido abordada otras veces, pero ha obtenido una respuesta axiomática, considerando sólo su vertiente artística. Sin embargo, entendemos que, a diferencia de los campos artísticos modernos, en las Fallas y otras fiestas tradicionales...
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Inequality and gender violence in the cultural sphere have become the focus of media attention in recent years. Moreover, the centrality of traditional festivities as areas which produce and reproduce male power and sexism have objectified women’s bodies. In Spain, cases such as the Sanfermines festival in Pamplona–Iruña or the Alardes in Irun–Hond...
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Strategic projects based on culture and sports have been one of the vectors of regional development since the 1990s. Accordingly, local and regional governments have drawn up entrepreneurial strategies to project their image internationally and foster investment and tourism. These developments have been described in Spain as ‘The Calatrava Model’ f...
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ABSTRACT The festive culture has become, at the end of the 21st century, an increasingly central element in social life, the territorial identity and in some cases the economy and politics of the cities. Halfway to traditional reproduction , patrimonialization and innovation, the festive culture has been analysed in its symbolic, economic or touris...
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Muchos son los años que llevamos las mujeres del mundo luchando por la obtención de derechos y el reconocimiento de la plena ciudadanía en diferentes ámbitos sociales de nuestros países, ciudades o pueblos. Las fiestas populares también han sido uno de nuestros campos de batalla, donde en ocasiones la pugna ha sido dura y la victoria nada sencilla....
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Reseña Filosofía del cuidar: una propuesta coeducativa para la paz. Irene Comins Mingol. Barcelona: Icaria, 2009.
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It has been twelve years since Nuria Martínez entered the Moors and Christians Festival in Alcoi as a female fester . From this moment on, Alcoian society lives in a social conflict which divides the population in two different positions: the first position, which is shared by most Alcoians, defends the festival orthodoxy and traditionality, while...

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