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FRANCISCO CRUCES VILLALOBOS -  DIR. DPTO. ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL Y CULTURAL

FRANCISCO CRUCES VILLALOBOS

DIR. DPTO. ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL Y CULTURAL

CATEDRÁTICO DE UNIVERSIDAD

ANTROPOLOGÍA SOCIAL Y CULTURAL

FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA

fcruces@fsof.uned.es

(+34) 91398-8965

Academic Information

PhD in Philosophy (Antropology), UNED, 8-3-95
Graduate in Psychology, UCM, 6-11-86

Academic positions held

Full professor at the Dept. Antropología Social y Cultural, UNED (2004 to the present).
Full professor at the Dept. Psicología Social y Antropología, Universidad de Salamanca (1997-2004).

Research activity

Main researcher of the Cultura Urbana Study Group (Dept. Antropología Social y Cultural).

Research lines: Ethnographies of the intimate sphere and everyday spaces; urban anthropology; symbolic anthropology; ethnomusicology.

2022. "Refiguring Intimacy: Multi-Sited and Cross-Disciplinary Ethnographies of Boundary-Work in the Intimate Space" (in progress).

2019-20. “The Poetics of Daily Life: A Visual, Trans-urban and Collaborative Ethnography” (PRX19/00099, MECD).

2016. “Ways of Reading. Diversity and Transformations of Reading in the XXIth Century”. (Fundación Telefónica/UNED).

2013-16. “Madrid Cosmópolis. Emerging Practices and Metropolitan Processes” (CSO2012-33949, MEC).

2010-12. “Emerging Cultural Practices in the New Madrid” (CSO2009-10780, MICINN).

2010-11. “Youngsters, Urban Cultures and Digital Networks. Emerging Practices in the Arts, the Publishing and the Music Industries" (Fundación Telefónica /UAM-I/ UNED).

2011. “New Economy Sectors 20+20. Humanities' Companies” (Fundación EOI).

Research

RESEARCH GROUPS

  • Urban Culture The Urban Culture study group gathers around fifteen scholars working on emerging cultural practices in the metropolitan milieu. +info

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • 2022. "Refiguring Intimacy". This projecta ethnographically addresses the centrality of the intimate sphere in contemporary life. +info
  • 2020. “The Poetics of Daily Life: A Visual, Trans-urban and Collaborative Ethnography” A visiting stay at the Dept. Anthropology UC Berkeley allowed the writing of the monograph Metropolitan Intimacies. An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, based on former collaborative research between 2010 and 2018. +info
  • 2016. “Ways of Reading. Diversity and Transformations of Reading in the XXIth Century”. A multidisciplinary approach to readers, the plurality of ways of reading and the ongoing mutations of the practice of reading. +info
  • 2016. “Madrid Cosmópolis. Emerging Practices and Metropolitan Processes” A collective ethnography on emerging practices and metropolitan processes in Madrid city. +info

N.º of recognized sections of research activity

4

Number of credits recognized by transfer activity

1