Manuel Delgado Ruiz

Manuel Delgado (Barcelona, 1956) is Graduated in History of Arts and Doctor in Anthropology for the University of Barcelona. Third Cycle Studies at the Section de Sciences Religieuses de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université La Sorbonne, Paris. Since 1984, professor of Religious Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology in the University of Barcelona. Director of GRECS (Grup de Recercaen Exclusió i Control Socials, Group of Research in Exclusion and Social Controls) at the Universitat de Barcelona and the Grup de Treball en Etnografia dels Espais Públics (Work Group Ethnography of Public Spaces) at the Institut Català d’Antropologia.

He is editor of the publishing collections «Biblioteca del Ciudadano» (Library of the Citizen) at Editorial Bellaterra and «Breus clàssics de l'antropologia» (Short Classics of Anthropology), at Icaria publishing house. He is a member of the editorial staff of several magazines of anthropology and urban design. He is member of the board of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology and he is a speaker at the Commission of Studies on Immigration at the Catalonia Parliament.

He has been lector or has conducted seminars at the University of Santa Sofia de Tokyo, Universita degli Studi de l'Aquila; Universitá degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”; Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Bogotá and Medellín; Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín; Universidad del Valle, Cali; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Guadalajara and San Cristóbal de las Casas; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, de México DF; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Université Catholique de Lovain; Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (La Paz); University of Harvard (Cambridge, Mass.); ISCTE (Lisboa), Universidad Central de Venezuela and Universidad Simón Bolívar, at Caracas; Universidad Católica Popular de Risaralda, Pereira; Queen Mary University of London; Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, and ENAH, México DF.

He works especially on ritual violence, in the field of religious anthropology; dynamics of social exclusion, specially associated to immigration, and social life in urban public spaces. On these subjects he is the author of several articles in national and international publications, and of the anthologies Antropologia social (1994), Ciutat i immigració (1997), Inmigración y cultura (2003) and Carrer, festa i revolta (2004). He is co-editor, with Carlota Gallén, of Normalidad y límite, and he is author of the books De la muerte de un dios (1986), La ira sagrada (1991), Las palabras de otro hombre (1992), Diversitat i integració (1998), Ciudad líquida, ciudad interrumpida (1999), El animal público (Premio Anagrama de Ensayo, 1999), Luces iconoclastas (Barcelona, 2001), Disoluciones urba[nas (2002), Elogi del vianant (2005), Sociedades movedizas (2007),^[1] La ciudad mentirosa (2007),^[2] and El espacio público como ideología (2011).^[3]

References

1. ^ Delgado Ruiz, Manuel. Sociedades movedizas: pasos hacia una antropología de las calles. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 2007. ISBN 9788433962515 WorldCat
2. ^ Delgado Ruiz, Manuel. La ciudad mentirosa: fraude y miseria del "modelo Barcelona". Madrid: Catarata, 2007. isbn 9788483193204 [1]
3. ^ Benjamin R Fraser Manuel Delgado's Urban Anthropology: From Multidimensional Space to Interdisciplinary Spatial Theory" Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 11, no. 1 (2008): 57-75 [2]