{"id":133,"date":"2016-01-19T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hugovalenzuela\/presentacion\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T06:23:06","slug":"presentacion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/hugovalenzuela\/","title":{"rendered":"HUGO VALENZUELA-GARCIA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia is Associate Professor (PhD 2006; MA’s University of Manchester, 2010) at the Departament of Social and Cultural Anthropology, <\/a>Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). <\/span>Currently Director of EGOLAB <\/a>(Laboratoire of Personal Networks and Communities) <\/em>and full member of GRAFO<\/a> (Research Group in Basic and Fundamental  Anthropology) <\/em>and deputy member of CREIS<\/a> (Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n en Emprendimiento e Innovaci\u00f3n Socia<\/em>l). <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>Former Deputy Member of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS<\/a><\/em>, 2007-2010), former board member of Society  for Economic Anthroology (SEA<\/a>, since 2011) and co-funder and convenor of EASA Network of Anthropology of Economy<\/a> (2012-2018). From summer 2019 Associate Editor of JOE <\/a>(Journal of Organizational Ethnography<\/em>, Emerald). <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My main field of interest is Economic Anthropology and my late research is on urban poverty and relational exclusion (Check some of my last publications here!<\/a>). Work, austerity and poverty, enterpreneurship (social, ethnic), peasantry, consumption, fisheries, are actual lines of research and main interests. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My doctoral research was carried out in a small and traditional Malaysian fishermen island of less than 1200 inhabitants (near Lankawi Island, Malaysia). I conducted two years of anthropological fieldwork in a very classical, Malinowskian, style. I had to learn bahasa Melayu from skratch and I was actually adopted by a local Malay family, to whom I always will be deeply grateful. <\/span>That was probably one of the first and scarce ethnographic fieldwork done in South-East Asia in Spain. This ethnographic work was published in Edwin and Mellen Eds<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Since then my intellectual interests have revolved around Economic Anthropology in a broad sense: peasants, new forms of consumption and work, social entrepreneurs, business anthropology, poverty, informal economy, and ecology; and in areas of  international migration: transnationalism, ethnic economies, economic diasporas, etc. . I have done field work in Malaysia, Spain and Mexico. I am currently co-directing a project on the survival strategies of impoverished families in Catalonia, Spain. The economic crisis since 2008 and the emerging socio-economic processes in the EU area are the areas that have caught my attention in recent years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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