Montserrat Clua i Fainé
- Role: AHCISP member
- Email: Montserrat.Clua@uab.cat
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2784-281X
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Research
My research focuses on Political Anthropology of the Catalan culture and society. I have developed ethnographic fieldwork on constructing identities in Catalonia, Catalan heritage, and the use of Catalan literature as ethnographic material. Also, I have worked on the history of Spanish Anthropology.
As an expert in nationalism, my research topics are ethnic and national identities and their intersectionality with gender, phenotype and class. I investigate the discourses of inclusion and exclusion related to immigration, racism and xenophobia, both at the theoretical level and applied to the Catalan ethnographic case.
I have conducted an ethnographical study on the construction of Catalan identity and its relationship with the process of independence developed in Catalonia over the past 15 years. My doctoral thesis on the contribution of anthropology to the study of nationalism was awarded the Extraordinary Thesis Award (UAB, 2008).