Curriculum vitae of the director of the department

Dr. Hugo Valenzuela-García

Professor agregat Doctor per la UAB (2016) i MA University of Manchester (2010) Hugo.valenzuela(at)uab.cat http://gent.uab.cat/hugovalenzuela/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6195-9149

Teaching

Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB)

• Economic Anthropology
• Human Ecology

MA Anthropology

• Anthropology of urban poverty.
• Emerging forms of work and consumption.
• Work, consumption, globalization, and co-development.

Master's in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (MEINS, CREIS). UAB (2021-2024)

• Social networks and entrepreneurship.

Research

• Member of GRAFO (Grup de Recerca en Antropologia Fonamental i Orientada). 2017-SGR-1325. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. UAB.
• Member of CREIS (Center for Research in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
• Director of EGOLAB/GRAFO. Personal Networks and Communities Laboratory.  

Research projects in which they participate (last 5 years):

• PRESILIENT. Post-pandemic resilient communities: is the informal economy a reservoir for the next generation of digitalised and green businesses in the Global South? HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01, GA 101073394. 2023-2027.
• DIMCOM. The Community Dimension of Social Exclusion and Precarity** (Principal Investigator with Miranda J. Lubbers). Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. Proyectos de I+D+i. RETOS. (2020-2024).
• FOESSA. I Live Between Four Walls: Relational Vulnerability and Dignity, II FOESSA Award (Promotion of Social Studies and Applied Sociology). (IP amb Miranda J. Lubbers & J. L. Molina). 2019.
• RECERCAIXA. Survival Strategies of Poor Households: The Role of Formal and Informal Support Networks During Economic Crises. RECERCAIXA, 2015 ACUP 00145. IP amb Miranda Lubbers. 2016-2020.  http://pagines.uab.cat/pobresaixarxes/

Supervision of 8 doctoral theses and 40 master's theses

Relevant Transfer:

• 2022. TV3. Sense Ficció. Loneliness 2.0. The Pandemic in the Digital Era.https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/sense-ficcio/solitud-la-pandemia-en-lera-digital/noticia/3136630/

Research. Recent publications last 5 years

• (2024). “Capítulo 8. El triste abrazo de la soledad: antropología de las amas de casa de familias empobrecidas”, La Soledad 2.0. CSIC (forthcoming) [Chapter 8: The Sad Embrace of Loneliness: Anthropology of Housewives in Impoverished Families]
• (2022). With H., Lubbers, M. J., & Molina, J. L. “Choose, buy, pay – Paradoxes of shame-relieving processes among impoverished Spaniards after 2008’s great recession”. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 12(1): 120-137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-11-2021-0056
• (2021) Capítulo 6. Teletrabajo en tiempos de pandemia: bueno para pensar. En La vida cotidiana en tiempos de la COVID. Una antropología de la pandemia (editado por Alberto del Campo Tejedor). La Catarata: 130-40. https://www.catarata.org/libro/la-vida-cotidiana-en-tiempos-de-la-covid_117878/  
• (2021). With Molina, J.L.; Lubbers, M.J.; Grau, J. “The Relational Vulnerability of People Experiencing Multiple Exclusion Homelessness (MEH) in Spain”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 10275. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910275
• (2021). With H. Lubbers, M. J., I Molina, J. L. "She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone: A Relational Approach to Loneliness”, Social Inclusion, 9(4). DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i4.4585
• (2020). “Fuzzy Frontiers: Telework and Work–Life Balance in COVID-19 Spain. Exertions”. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/1d6be30e.962a9633
• (2020). With Lubbers, M. J., Small, M. L. (2020). “Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 689(1), 7–25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716220923959
• (2020). With Lubbers, M. & Molina, JL. Vivo entre cuatro paredes: vulnerabilidad relacional y dignidad, II Premio FOESSA. Fundación FOESSA. ISBN: 9788484406976
• (2019). With Lubbers, M. J., & Rice, J. G. “Charities under austerity. Ethnographies of poverty and marginality in Western non-profit and charity associations”, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 8(1). https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JOE-04-2019-076/full/html

Two encyclopedic entries:

• (2018) “Barter”, The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Edited by Hilary Callan, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• (2016). With Molina, J. L. “Economic Anthropology”, UNESCO. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, (5): 20, 42 pp.

Experience in university management:

• (2022-2024). Deputy Coordinator of the Master's in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (MEINS). Inter-faculty Master's. UAB.
• (2016-2020). Academic Secretary of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
• (2012-2014). Coordinator of Studies for the Master's in Social and Cultural Anthropology.
• (2014-2015). Interuniversity Coordinator of the Official Master's in Social and Cultural Anthropology