H Valenzuela-Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 52087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Valenzuela-Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Valenzuela-Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | VALENZUELA-GARCIA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6195-9149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Employment in precarious times
The social sciences and humanities have devoted considerable attention to the growing precariousness of labour relations, as well as to its wider implications for the culture of everyday life. Precarity is increasingly understood not only as a condition of employment but also as a broader social experience that shapes people's identities, aspirations, interpersonal relations, and sense of security. The common concern that brought together the con…
A new precarious grammar
Drawing on ethnographic narratives, case studies, and large-scale survey data, this article analyses the moral, affective, and relational dimensions of precarity in post-crisis Catalonia (Spain). It argues that precarity is not merely an economic condition but also a grammar that reshapes how people work, relate to one another, and make sense of themselves. Grounded in a recent report on exclusion and poverty in Catalonia (Spain), this study exam…
Mi trabajo es mi vida. La incrustación de los mundos de la vida y del trabajo en empresas españolas
En base a 20 etnografías realizadas en empresas españolas, este texto analiza formas emergentes de imbricación entre los mundos del trabajo y la vida. Si a partir de la Revolución Industrial se da una tendencia a la autonomía del proceso de trabajo con respecto a los entornos vitales de los trabajadores, actualmente se observa una tendencia inversa en ciertas empresas. Esta rearticulación se produce en varios sentidos: a) en el desvanecimiento de…
Social Entrepreneurship in Times of Precarity and the Neoliberal State
As in many other developed countries, social entrepreneurship in Catalonia (Spain) is booming. It represents an alternative, revolutionary way of doing business that intends to make economic and social aims compatible – thus, profit is not the only goal. As such, it is a desirable and advantageous option for (neoliberal) states, since it targets and solves both social and environmental problems and contributes to job creation and tax revenues, wh…
Choose, buy, pay – Paradoxes of shame-relieving processes among impoverished Spaniards after 2008’s great recession
Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to highlight the contradictions of the newly adopted consumption-based models of inclusion led by charities. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on 39 cases out of a sample of 78 gathered through two long-term research projects, the paper employs a mixed-methods approach that mainly draws on a multi-sited ethnographic approach and intervi…
Hacia una prehistoria de la desigualdad
OBRA RESSENYADA: Davis GRAEBER ; David WENGROW, El amanecer de todo. Una nueva historia de la humanidad. Madrid: Editorial Planeta, 2022
Teletrabajo Y Amplificación De La Desigualdad en La Sociedad Post-Pandemia Española
Although teleworking existed before the pandemic, its emergence and large-scale implementation suggest a paradigm shift in the world of work. While the reception of teleworking has been optimistic in general, its sudden introduction reveals a series of underlying structural inequalities, between manual workers and cognitive workers, between European Union member countries, geographic territories, business sectors, job qualification, age, ethnicit…
The Relational Vulnerability of People Experiencing Multiple Exclusion Homelessness (MEH) in Spain
This paper draws on research analyzing the emotional and relational impacts of poverty and exclusion on charities' clients in Spain since the 2008-2009 economic crisis, including people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH). The study adopts a mixed-methods approach in which twenty in-depth cases were collected in different geographical locations, including twelve cases experiencing MEH. Unlike other disadvantaged groups, those affec…
She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number of variables and risk factors involved in the experience of loneliness, along with positive correlations with premature mortality and morbidity. However, most of these analyses overlook the social …
Relationships Stretched Thin
Research on how the poor "make ends meet" typically shows that they are able to do so by relying on dense support networks of family and close friends. Recent research suggests, however, that these networks play a limited role. This article examines the role of informal networks in how sixty-one households in Barcelona, Spain, cope with poverty. We use a mixed-methods design that combines structured network delineation with semistructured intervi…
Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field
poverty; social exclusion; social networks; social support; relational mechanisms; coping strategies; network poverty
The embeddedness of social capital in personal networks
Name generators (NGs) and position generators (PGs) have been used to measure resources embedded in personal relationships, namely social support and social capital, respectively. Comparisons of these measures adopted NGs that only elicit a small number of alters (max. 5). In this paper we explore whether the measurement of social capital with NGs eliciting larger personal networks (say 15 to 20 alters) gives more comparable results to the PG in …
Emprendimiento Social. Autoempleo y extracción del valor en la era post-crisis
El fenómeno del emprendimiento social surgido en Cataluña a partir de la crisis del 2008 se presenta como una alternativa ocupacional promovida por actores financieros y administraciones públicas para responder a dos problemas agravados por la crisis financiera: la necesidad de crear empleo estable y los retos sociales y medioambientales. Este tipo de emprendimiento, liderado por una clase creativa auto-empleada, se enfrenta a las tensiones surgi…
Charities under austerity
In an era of growing inequality, poverty and marginality are among the gravest challenges in the political agendas of many so-called "developed" countries. However, neoliberal policies and welfare state retrenchment imply that poverty alleviation, formerly one of the main duties of welfare states, increasingly relies on non-profit and charity organizations. In contrast to the attention that such organizations in the global south have attracted am…
Charities as symbolic families
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the care provision of charity organizations that assist people in situations of economic vulnerability. After analyzing central theoretical elements of kinning, the authors contend that charity organizations function as symbolic families for people in need.Design/methodology/approachEthnographic fieldwork was performed in two sites of a large catholic charity organization in the outskirts of Barcelon…
Barter
Barter is usually defined as the dyadic exchange of goods and services of similar kind without the intervention of money. Initially regarded as a simple bilateral transaction (equivalent to commodity exchange), it did not attract particular anthropological attention. However, a model of pure barter exists only in theory. The available ethnographic data show a wide array of barter modalities and functions conveying, beyond its pragmatic goal, soci…
Individualization, inequality, and labor
When networks speak volumes
The Cowl Does Make The Monk”
In order to contribute to the debate about social entrepreneurship, we take an empirical perspective and describe the phenomenon in Catalonia, Spain, during the financial crises of the early twenty-first century. For this aim, we conducted 43 in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs, launched a web-based survey with 90 responses, and built a database with 347 organizations and/or ventures settled in Catalonia with an explicit social/environm…
Revisiting the 'ethnic enclave economy
The term ‘ethnic enclave economy’, defined as a special case of ethnic economy, was formulated more than 25 years ago and since then has been subject to a great debate. Spatially concentrated businesses have for a long time been viewed as particularly anomalous and their economic significance for the society has been overlooked. Yet, recent processes of economic globalisation have generated growing demands for small and flexible businesses in urb…
Cooperation and competition in social anthropology
The emergence of cooperation in human societies has received ample academic attention from different disciplines, and is usually considered as an adaptive response to competition over scarce resources. In this article, the authors review the specific contribution that social anthropology has made to this field of research. They propose that social anthropology has contributed to this field through the description of systems that have regulated bo…
On Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Networks in a Multilayered Reality
Over the last decade, the tourist destination of Lloret de Mar (Gerona, Spain) has experienced an increasing concentration of souvenir stores owned by a population of Indian origin. Although Lloret de Mar is already a multicultural spot, Indians represent a small minority in Spain. In order to explain such a remarkable concentration and economic specialization in a low profit sector, we suggest the emergence of an ethnic enclave based on a triple…
Las redes sociales de la economía social
A partir del trabajo de campo en curso llevado a cabo en Cataluña (proyecto de investigación ENCLAVE - CSO2012-32635), se sugiere la existencia de al menos tres tipos de los llamados "empresarios sociales": los profesionales desplazados por los recortes en el gasto público en los sectores de la salud, los servicios sociales y la cooperación; las cooperativas y las asociaciones tradicionales, re-etiquetados como "empresarios sociales" o "empresas …
Una etnografía de comunidad ante los dilemas económicos
Valenzuela García, Hugo (2009), Etnografía de un kampung Malayo: pesca, subdesarrollo y multiculturalismo / An thnography of the Impact of Politics and Globalization on the Malaysian Fishing Economy. London and New York: The Edwin and Mellen Press. Prólogo de Joaquín Beltrán Antolín.“En definitiva, el objetivo de este trabajo es descifrar las causas del aducido ‘problema’ del atraso económico malayo. El medio para llevarlo a cabo es un estudio de…
El contexto de la salud malaya
El autor presenta algunos de los fundamentos de la cultura malaya en relación con la salud y la enfermedad en el ámbito rural. La cosmología malaya se basa en un corpus sincrético integrado por creencias animistas e Islam. El contenido cognitivo y simbólico de este corpus heterogéneo resulta particularmente ejemplar para revelar tanto aspectos generales de la cultura malaya (cosmología, estructura social, relaciones de género, hechicería) como as…
When networks speak volumes
Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field
poverty; social exclusion; social networks; social support; relational mechanisms; coping strategies; network poverty
The embeddedness of social capital in personal networks
Name generators (NGs) and position generators (PGs) have been used to measure resources embedded in personal relationships, namely social support and social capital, respectively. Comparisons of these measures adopted NGs that only elicit a small number of alters (max. 5). In this paper we explore whether the measurement of social capital with NGs eliciting larger personal networks (say 15 to 20 alters) gives more comparable results to the PG in …
Mi trabajo es mi vida. La incrustación de los mundos de la vida y del trabajo en empresas españolas
En base a 20 etnografías realizadas en empresas españolas, este texto analiza formas emergentes de imbricación entre los mundos del trabajo y la vida. Si a partir de la Revolución Industrial se da una tendencia a la autonomía del proceso de trabajo con respecto a los entornos vitales de los trabajadores, actualmente se observa una tendencia inversa en ciertas empresas. Esta rearticulación se produce en varios sentidos: a) en el desvanecimiento de…
Charities under austerity
In an era of growing inequality, poverty and marginality are among the gravest challenges in the political agendas of many so-called "developed" countries. However, neoliberal policies and welfare state retrenchment imply that poverty alleviation, formerly one of the main duties of welfare states, increasingly relies on non-profit and charity organizations. In contrast to the attention that such organizations in the global south have attracted am…
Relationships Stretched Thin
Research on how the poor "make ends meet" typically shows that they are able to do so by relying on dense support networks of family and close friends. Recent research suggests, however, that these networks play a limited role. This article examines the role of informal networks in how sixty-one households in Barcelona, Spain, cope with poverty. We use a mixed-methods design that combines structured network delineation with semistructured intervi…
The Cowl Does Make The Monk”
In order to contribute to the debate about social entrepreneurship, we take an empirical perspective and describe the phenomenon in Catalonia, Spain, during the financial crises of the early twenty-first century. For this aim, we conducted 43 in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs, launched a web-based survey with 90 responses, and built a database with 347 organizations and/or ventures settled in Catalonia with an explicit social/environm…
Cooperation and competition in social anthropology
The emergence of cooperation in human societies has received ample academic attention from different disciplines, and is usually considered as an adaptive response to competition over scarce resources. In this article, the authors review the specific contribution that social anthropology has made to this field of research. They propose that social anthropology has contributed to this field through the description of systems that have regulated bo…
On Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Networks in a Multilayered Reality
Over the last decade, the tourist destination of Lloret de Mar (Gerona, Spain) has experienced an increasing concentration of souvenir stores owned by a population of Indian origin. Although Lloret de Mar is already a multicultural spot, Indians represent a small minority in Spain. In order to explain such a remarkable concentration and economic specialization in a low profit sector, we suggest the emergence of an ethnic enclave based on a triple…
Charities as symbolic families
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the care provision of charity organizations that assist people in situations of economic vulnerability. After analyzing central theoretical elements of kinning, the authors contend that charity organizations function as symbolic families for people in need.Design/methodology/approachEthnographic fieldwork was performed in two sites of a large catholic charity organization in the outskirts of Barcelon…
Revisiting the 'ethnic enclave economy
The term ‘ethnic enclave economy’, defined as a special case of ethnic economy, was formulated more than 25 years ago and since then has been subject to a great debate. Spatially concentrated businesses have for a long time been viewed as particularly anomalous and their economic significance for the society has been overlooked. Yet, recent processes of economic globalisation have generated growing demands for small and flexible businesses in urb…
She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number of variables and risk factors involved in the experience of loneliness, along with positive correlations with premature mortality and morbidity. However, most of these analyses overlook the social …
Emprendimiento Social. Autoempleo y extracción del valor en la era post-crisis
El fenómeno del emprendimiento social surgido en Cataluña a partir de la crisis del 2008 se presenta como una alternativa ocupacional promovida por actores financieros y administraciones públicas para responder a dos problemas agravados por la crisis financiera: la necesidad de crear empleo estable y los retos sociales y medioambientales. Este tipo de emprendimiento, liderado por una clase creativa auto-empleada, se enfrenta a las tensiones surgi…
El contexto de la salud malaya
El autor presenta algunos de los fundamentos de la cultura malaya en relación con la salud y la enfermedad en el ámbito rural. La cosmología malaya se basa en un corpus sincrético integrado por creencias animistas e Islam. El contenido cognitivo y simbólico de este corpus heterogéneo resulta particularmente ejemplar para revelar tanto aspectos generales de la cultura malaya (cosmología, estructura social, relaciones de género, hechicería) como as…
Neorromanticismo posmoderno o 'Adiós a la Razón'. Los frutos amargos del relativismo a ultranza
El giro lingüístico o textualista, la hermenéutica, el subjetivismo, la ira contra la razón y la ciencia, la exaltación del relativismo, el irracionalismo, etc. son rasgos distintivos del interpretativismo posmoderno. Aunque el fenómeno posmoderno es inherentemente complejo, una aproximación epistemológica y político-histórica revela, y explica parcialmente, ciertas vinculaciones no aparentes entre su obsesión por el texto, el rechazo de la cienc…
Desarrollo rural en Malaysia
El desarrollo económico de sociedades tradicionales implica retos fundamentales para la antropología contemporánea. Este tema es especialmente significativo en el caso de Malaysia, un país ecléctico que combina diversidad étnica, fuertes contrastes entre lo urbano y lo rural, democracia y autoritarismo, agricultura arrocera y manufactura de alta tecnología, religión nacional islámica y un impresionante ratio de crecimiento económico. Este ensayo …
El contexto de la salud malaya
El autor presenta algunos de los fundamentos de la cultura malaya en relación con la salud y la enfermedad en el ámbito rural. La cosmología malaya se basa en un corpus sincrético integrado por creencias animistas e Islam. El contenido cognitivo y simbólico de este corpus heterogéneo resulta particularmente ejemplar para revelar tanto aspectos generales de la cultura malaya (cosmología, estructura social, relaciones de género, hechicería) como as…
Una etnografía de comunidad ante los dilemas económicos
Valenzuela García, Hugo (2009), Etnografía de un kampung Malayo: pesca, subdesarrollo y multiculturalismo / An thnography of the Impact of Politics and Globalization on the Malaysian Fishing Economy. London and New York: The Edwin and Mellen Press. Prólogo de Joaquín Beltrán Antolín.“En definitiva, el objetivo de este trabajo es descifrar las causas del aducido ‘problema’ del atraso económico malayo. El medio para llevarlo a cabo es un estudio de…
On Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Networks in a Multilayered Reality
Over the last decade, the tourist destination of Lloret de Mar (Gerona, Spain) has experienced an increasing concentration of souvenir stores owned by a population of Indian origin. Although Lloret de Mar is already a multicultural spot, Indians represent a small minority in Spain. In order to explain such a remarkable concentration and economic specialization in a low profit sector, we suggest the emergence of an ethnic enclave based on a triple…
Las redes sociales de la economía social
A partir del trabajo de campo en curso llevado a cabo en Cataluña (proyecto de investigación ENCLAVE - CSO2012-32635), se sugiere la existencia de al menos tres tipos de los llamados "empresarios sociales": los profesionales desplazados por los recortes en el gasto público en los sectores de la salud, los servicios sociales y la cooperación; las cooperativas y las asociaciones tradicionales, re-etiquetados como "empresarios sociales" o "empresas …
The Cowl Does Make The Monk”
In order to contribute to the debate about social entrepreneurship, we take an empirical perspective and describe the phenomenon in Catalonia, Spain, during the financial crises of the early twenty-first century. For this aim, we conducted 43 in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs, launched a web-based survey with 90 responses, and built a database with 347 organizations and/or ventures settled in Catalonia with an explicit social/environm…
Revisiting the 'ethnic enclave economy
The term ‘ethnic enclave economy’, defined as a special case of ethnic economy, was formulated more than 25 years ago and since then has been subject to a great debate. Spatially concentrated businesses have for a long time been viewed as particularly anomalous and their economic significance for the society has been overlooked. Yet, recent processes of economic globalisation have generated growing demands for small and flexible businesses in urb…
Cooperation and competition in social anthropology
The emergence of cooperation in human societies has received ample academic attention from different disciplines, and is usually considered as an adaptive response to competition over scarce resources. In this article, the authors review the specific contribution that social anthropology has made to this field of research. They propose that social anthropology has contributed to this field through the description of systems that have regulated bo…
Barter
Barter is usually defined as the dyadic exchange of goods and services of similar kind without the intervention of money. Initially regarded as a simple bilateral transaction (equivalent to commodity exchange), it did not attract particular anthropological attention. However, a model of pure barter exists only in theory. The available ethnographic data show a wide array of barter modalities and functions conveying, beyond its pragmatic goal, soci…
Individualization, inequality, and labor
When networks speak volumes
The embeddedness of social capital in personal networks
Name generators (NGs) and position generators (PGs) have been used to measure resources embedded in personal relationships, namely social support and social capital, respectively. Comparisons of these measures adopted NGs that only elicit a small number of alters (max. 5). In this paper we explore whether the measurement of social capital with NGs eliciting larger personal networks (say 15 to 20 alters) gives more comparable results to the PG in …
Emprendimiento Social. Autoempleo y extracción del valor en la era post-crisis
El fenómeno del emprendimiento social surgido en Cataluña a partir de la crisis del 2008 se presenta como una alternativa ocupacional promovida por actores financieros y administraciones públicas para responder a dos problemas agravados por la crisis financiera: la necesidad de crear empleo estable y los retos sociales y medioambientales. Este tipo de emprendimiento, liderado por una clase creativa auto-empleada, se enfrenta a las tensiones surgi…
Charities under austerity
In an era of growing inequality, poverty and marginality are among the gravest challenges in the political agendas of many so-called "developed" countries. However, neoliberal policies and welfare state retrenchment imply that poverty alleviation, formerly one of the main duties of welfare states, increasingly relies on non-profit and charity organizations. In contrast to the attention that such organizations in the global south have attracted am…
Charities as symbolic families
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the care provision of charity organizations that assist people in situations of economic vulnerability. After analyzing central theoretical elements of kinning, the authors contend that charity organizations function as symbolic families for people in need.Design/methodology/approachEthnographic fieldwork was performed in two sites of a large catholic charity organization in the outskirts of Barcelon…
Relationships Stretched Thin
Research on how the poor "make ends meet" typically shows that they are able to do so by relying on dense support networks of family and close friends. Recent research suggests, however, that these networks play a limited role. This article examines the role of informal networks in how sixty-one households in Barcelona, Spain, cope with poverty. We use a mixed-methods design that combines structured network delineation with semistructured intervi…
Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field
poverty; social exclusion; social networks; social support; relational mechanisms; coping strategies; network poverty
Teletrabajo Y Amplificación De La Desigualdad en La Sociedad Post-Pandemia Española
Although teleworking existed before the pandemic, its emergence and large-scale implementation suggest a paradigm shift in the world of work. While the reception of teleworking has been optimistic in general, its sudden introduction reveals a series of underlying structural inequalities, between manual workers and cognitive workers, between European Union member countries, geographic territories, business sectors, job qualification, age, ethnicit…
The Relational Vulnerability of People Experiencing Multiple Exclusion Homelessness (MEH) in Spain
This paper draws on research analyzing the emotional and relational impacts of poverty and exclusion on charities' clients in Spain since the 2008-2009 economic crisis, including people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH). The study adopts a mixed-methods approach in which twenty in-depth cases were collected in different geographical locations, including twelve cases experiencing MEH. Unlike other disadvantaged groups, those affec…
She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number of variables and risk factors involved in the experience of loneliness, along with positive correlations with premature mortality and morbidity. However, most of these analyses overlook the social …
Social Entrepreneurship in Times of Precarity and the Neoliberal State
As in many other developed countries, social entrepreneurship in Catalonia (Spain) is booming. It represents an alternative, revolutionary way of doing business that intends to make economic and social aims compatible – thus, profit is not the only goal. As such, it is a desirable and advantageous option for (neoliberal) states, since it targets and solves both social and environmental problems and contributes to job creation and tax revenues, wh…
Choose, buy, pay – Paradoxes of shame-relieving processes among impoverished Spaniards after 2008’s great recession
Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to highlight the contradictions of the newly adopted consumption-based models of inclusion led by charities. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on 39 cases out of a sample of 78 gathered through two long-term research projects, the paper employs a mixed-methods approach that mainly draws on a multi-sited ethnographic approach and intervi…
Hacia una prehistoria de la desigualdad
OBRA RESSENYADA: Davis GRAEBER ; David WENGROW, El amanecer de todo. Una nueva historia de la humanidad. Madrid: Editorial Planeta, 2022
Mi trabajo es mi vida. La incrustación de los mundos de la vida y del trabajo en empresas españolas
En base a 20 etnografías realizadas en empresas españolas, este texto analiza formas emergentes de imbricación entre los mundos del trabajo y la vida. Si a partir de la Revolución Industrial se da una tendencia a la autonomía del proceso de trabajo con respecto a los entornos vitales de los trabajadores, actualmente se observa una tendencia inversa en ciertas empresas. Esta rearticulación se produce en varios sentidos: a) en el desvanecimiento de…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (7 works) · Poverty (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Geography (6 works)