AHCISP

AHCISP (Anthropology and History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities) is a research group founded in 2003 by professor of anthropology, Dr. Verena Stolcke, and recognized by the AGAUR since 2005. It focuses on analysing the nature relationship -culture in its social manifestations, with a historical and ethnographic perspective, and a comparative and interdisciplinary approach.

It is structured in 4 thematic lines:

1) Construction of classificatory categories and processes of identification and exclusion through the intersection of different axes of oppression (race, class, gender), and their political effects on social movements and conflict analysis;

2) Ritual dimensions of human societies;

3) Human mobilities, traditional and contemporary, including tourism and its effects;

4) Cultural dimensions of environmental relations, including the GIRHAC-AHCISP group, a research group created by Dr. Silvia Álvarez and integrated into AHCISP in 2023.

All lines are crossed by a transversal gender and historical perspective, linked to colonial and postcolonial studies. Likewise, Heritage is also studied as a phenomenon present in many of the elements included in the 4 lines (as an identity, ritual, tourist or environmental element).

The group includes specialists in these topics and indigenous communities from America, Africa, Asia and Europe.

AHCISP has carried out different funded research projects that have produced different publications, books and articles in impact journals. It has currently been recognized as a consolidated SGR research group by the AGAUR (2021SGR00193)

Coordination: Montserrat Ventura i Oller

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