Dr. Ismael Vaccaro: Understanding the contemporary Pyrenees: old crisis, new imaginaries, and multiple gentrifications


DATE
Thursday March 13, 2025
TIME
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Location
ANSO 134
6303 North West Marine Drive

When & Where:
Thursday, March 13, 2025| 12:30pm-2:00pm
Anthropology & Sociology Building (ANSO) Room 134
6303 NW Marine Drive
Light refreshments to follow in Lino Lounge. Please RSVP in advance.

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Understanding the contemporary Pyrenees: old crisis, new imaginaries, and multiple gentrifications

Speaker: Dr. Ismael Vaccaro
McGill University | IMF – CSIC

Abstract:

This talk intends to present a general contemporary history of the Pyrenees, marked by a demographic and economic collapse, an environmental recovery and a State territorial takeover via conservationist policies. The goal is to set the stage introduce the very recent demographic changes and the cultural and socioeconomic transformations they are ushering.

The Pyrenees present an ideal context to discuss current key socioeconomic processes such as the interactions between the relationships between the urban and the rural, between the “traditional” and the modern, the modern-day resignification of the commons, or the heterogeneity of gentrification.

About Dr. Ismael Vaccaro

Professor Vaccaro’s research interests include environmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, the tensions between the rural and the urban, development and globalization, political and economic anthropology, conservation policies, climate change, post-industrial spaces, anthropology of mining, and urban-rural interactions. He has conducted research in the Pyrenees in Spain, Mexico, Solomon Islands, and the lakes of Uganda. He has taught at the McGill University and the University of Washington, and he is currently a researcher at the Institución Milá y Fontanals, part of the Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona