Francisco Ferrandiz
I got my PhD at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, and I am currently Staff Researcher in the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology (ILLA) of the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
My research in the anthropology of the body, violence and social memory (both in Latin America and in Spain) encompasses two main ethnographic objects: the spiritist cult of María Lionza in Venezuela (I wrote my Ph.D. on this widespread form of popular religion) and, since 2003, the politics of memory in contemporary Spain, focusing the analysis on the current process of exhumation of mass graves from the Civil War (1936-1939), which started around 2000.
Before being hired at CSIC, I have taught and conducted research at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), the University of Utrecht, the Autonomous University of Morelos (UAEM), the University of Deusto and the University of Extremadura.
I am presently Main Researcher of the research project The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain: A Decade of Mass Grave Exhumations, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSO2009-09681) and more recently by the Ministry of Economy (CSO2012-32709 and CSO2015-66104-R). You can check our comparative work in our webpage (http://www.politicasdelamemoria.org/). I have also been the CSIC coordinator of the VII FP Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) 'Sustainable Peace Building' (SBUILD). I was a member of the Management Committee of the COST action called In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (ISTME IS1203, http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1203). In the period 2016-2019 I am a member of the Management Board of the H2020 project UNREST (http://www.unrest.eu/), leading a work package on comparative exhumations in Spain, Poland and Bosnia.
In terms of publishing, I am the author of Escenarios del cuerpo: Espiritismo y sociedad en Venezuela (2004), Etnografías contemporáneas (2011), and El pasado bajo tierra: Exhumaciones contemporáneas de la Guerra Civil (2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMeCs5XbqAA). I am also co-editor of The Emotion and the Truth: Studies in Mass Communication and Conflict (2002), Before Emergency: Conflict Prevention and the Media (2003), Violencias y culturas (2003), Jóvenes sin tregua: Culturas y políticas de la violencia (2005), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Research (2007), Fontanosas 1941-2006: Memorias de carne y hueso (2010), and Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhuamtions in the Age of Human Rights (co-ed with A. Robben, 2015).
You can also check 50+ of these publications at the CSIC repository (http://digital.csic.es/simple-search?location=10261%2F7&query=Francisco+Ferr%C3%A1ndiz&rpp=50&sort_by=score&order=desc)
Address: Francisco Ferrándiz, Científico Titular
Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología (ILLA)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
c) Albasanz 26-28, despacho 1F25
28037 Madrid -- SPAIN
My research in the anthropology of the body, violence and social memory (both in Latin America and in Spain) encompasses two main ethnographic objects: the spiritist cult of María Lionza in Venezuela (I wrote my Ph.D. on this widespread form of popular religion) and, since 2003, the politics of memory in contemporary Spain, focusing the analysis on the current process of exhumation of mass graves from the Civil War (1936-1939), which started around 2000.
Before being hired at CSIC, I have taught and conducted research at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), the University of Utrecht, the Autonomous University of Morelos (UAEM), the University of Deusto and the University of Extremadura.
I am presently Main Researcher of the research project The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Spain: A Decade of Mass Grave Exhumations, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSO2009-09681) and more recently by the Ministry of Economy (CSO2012-32709 and CSO2015-66104-R). You can check our comparative work in our webpage (http://www.politicasdelamemoria.org/). I have also been the CSIC coordinator of the VII FP Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) 'Sustainable Peace Building' (SBUILD). I was a member of the Management Committee of the COST action called In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (ISTME IS1203, http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1203). In the period 2016-2019 I am a member of the Management Board of the H2020 project UNREST (http://www.unrest.eu/), leading a work package on comparative exhumations in Spain, Poland and Bosnia.
In terms of publishing, I am the author of Escenarios del cuerpo: Espiritismo y sociedad en Venezuela (2004), Etnografías contemporáneas (2011), and El pasado bajo tierra: Exhumaciones contemporáneas de la Guerra Civil (2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMeCs5XbqAA). I am also co-editor of The Emotion and the Truth: Studies in Mass Communication and Conflict (2002), Before Emergency: Conflict Prevention and the Media (2003), Violencias y culturas (2003), Jóvenes sin tregua: Culturas y políticas de la violencia (2005), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Research (2007), Fontanosas 1941-2006: Memorias de carne y hueso (2010), and Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhuamtions in the Age of Human Rights (co-ed with A. Robben, 2015).
You can also check 50+ of these publications at the CSIC repository (http://digital.csic.es/simple-search?location=10261%2F7&query=Francisco+Ferr%C3%A1ndiz&rpp=50&sort_by=score&order=desc)
Address: Francisco Ferrándiz, Científico Titular
Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología (ILLA)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
c) Albasanz 26-28, despacho 1F25
28037 Madrid -- SPAIN
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Para capturar el dinamismo de este proceso, el libro incorpora desde el análisis del contexto global en el que se producen las excavaciones y las iniciativas políticas, judiciales, mediáticas y asociativas impulsadas por ellas, a los sucesos locales y personales a veces fallidos, imperceptibles o efímeros, pero no menos cruciales.
El pasado bajo tierra, escrito por un antropólogo social, se basa en un trabajo de campo etnográfico multisituado de más de diez años en diversos escenarios de investigación: exhumaciones de fosas comunes, laboratorios forenses, reinhumaciones, actos conmemorativos, asambleas y actividades de diversas asociaciones, archivos, medios de comunicación, procesos judiciales, presentaciones de libros, inauguración de exposiciones, obras de teatro, o conferencias académicas, entre otros.
◦Durante más de 75 años, su labor y su personalidad permanecieron en la intimidad del recuerdo de sus antiguos alumnos y de sus compañeros de profesión, mientras su familia albergaba el deseo de conocer la verdad sobre su paradero.
◦En agosto de 2010, con motivo de la exhumación de una fosa común en el paraje de La Pedraja (Burgos), emerge la memoria del maestro y se inicia una investigación que descubre una historia única, emotiva y poética.
Una historia, casi al límite del olvido, que ha podido ser recuperada gracias a los testimonios de los que lo conocieron u oyeron hablar de él, pero también a partir de los propios textos del maestro y de las redacciones de sus alumnos, que se editaron en la escuela.
Esta obra es fruto de una investigación en profundidad, y ha contado con la participación del periodista Francesc Escribano, en el relato de la biografía del maestro; del fotógrafo Sergi Bernal, en la documentación gráfica y la recogida de testimonios; del antropólogo Francisco Ferrándiz, en la narración de su experiencia a pie de fosa, y de la historiadora Queralt Solé, en la contextualización del momento histórico y en la dirección de la obra.
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