Ignacia Perrugorría
University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Researcher at the Centre for Studies on Collective Identity (Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), and PhD candidate in Models and Areas of Research in Social Sciences at the same centre. Her thesis analyses the interaction between identity battles, social movement networks and urban and political opportunity structures in the construction of what she calls “participatory culture” and “ephemeral cities”.
She has been a Fulbright scholar, a fellow of the American Institute of International Education (IIE), and holds a predoctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO). She has also been named Basque Ambassador for the Bizkaia Talent Programme of the Basque Government. Furthermore, she received her MA in Sociology from Rutgers University (USA) and her BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), both summa cum laude.
She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Latin America as well as in the United States and Spain, and has participated in several research projects with Argentine, American and European funding.
She is currently a member of the Consolidated Research Group “Social change, precariousness and identity in contemporary society” of the Basque University System (Type A; IT706-13), and of the Advisory Committee of the Doctoral School of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (EDFES). In 2022, she did a research stay at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (France). In addition, she is currently a researcher in the project “Building Sustainable Society. Mobilisation, Participation and Management of Socio-ecological Practices” (MINECO, PID2021-126611NB-I00).
Her most recent publications include: From Indignation to Occupation: A New Wave of Global Mobilization (monographic issue of Current Sociology, edited with T. Benski, L. Langman and B. Tejerina, 2013), and the volumes Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain: The 15M Movement (2017, Routledge, The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest and Culture), Global Movements, National Grievances. Mobilizing for ‘Real Democracy’and Social Justice (2012), and From Social to Political. New forms of Mobilization and Democratization (2012), all co-edited with B. Tejerina.
Her research interests lie at the intersection between cultural, urban and political fields, with a particular focus on cultural commons, cultural activism and cultural citizenship.
