Eduard Ballesté-Isern
Biographic Data
| ID | 160577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eduard Ballesté-Isern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eduard |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballesté-Isern |
| SIGNATURE | BALLESTÉ-ISERN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6757-9959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political disaffection or institutional adultcentrism? Youth perceptions of adult hegemony in institutional politics and policies
Data de publicació electrònica: 09-09-2024
Exploring mediation through creativity: Ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona
At the crossroads between artistic creation, academia and marginalised youth, we can find a space for cultural mediation through collaborative creative practices. In this article we present the ethnographic results of a fieldwork conducted in Barcelona during theatre workshops with young unaccompanied immigrants from North Africa. The workshop was an experience of personal, intra-group and intercultural mediation through creativity, during which …
Beyond the “Trans Fact”? Trans Representation in the Teen Series Euphoria: Complexity, Recognition, and Comfort
Recent anti‐LGBTQ+ discourse has increased the threat of violence against people who do not follow the cisheteronormative mandates. To face these dialectics, the media can offer alternative discourses, in particular by providing realistic and non‐stereotyped LGBTQ+ representations. Media portrayals can be seen as both positive and negative. On one hand, they may offer stereotypical and narrow representations, but on the other, they can include re…
Natural Mediation in Youth Street Groups as a Form of Resistance in the Peripheries: An Ethnographic Comparison between Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)
This paper analyses the recent evolution of transnational youth street groups in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain) in the last two decades, with special focus in the Latin Kings and Queens group and based on the definitions and uses of the terms borders, peripheries and mediation. Our data presents part of the preliminary ethnographic results of the research carried on from 2019 until mid-2021 and focuses on the comparison of the current…
Creating Insecurity Through Youth Street Groups and Applying Security for Control and Governance. A Case Study of Barcelona Latin Kings
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of the arrests and the subsequent trial and sentencing of a group of Latin Kings and Queens from Barcelona between 2015 and 2020. We analyze the actions carried out by the police, judicial institutions and media to reestablish the “hard handed” discourse in relation to these youth street groups in a time of crisis and precariousness. The concept of a “space of youth street groups” is used to construct …
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain
This article investigates how structural violence is reflected in the daily life of the peripheries of a medium-sized city in the interior of Spain. For this, three categories of analysis are used: inquisitive violence, coercive violence and horizontal violence. Forms of resistance are also highlighted. This makes it possible to trace the various ways that state institutions act and behave to exercise power over people. These actions have direct …
Relating Activist Capital and Power Relations within Social Movements: Ethnography of Current Social Movements in Lleida (Spain)
Based on an ethnographic study of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH; Platform of People Affected by Mortgages) social movement in Lleida (Spain), this article analyzes the role of activist capital within the movement. Detecting the forms that capital takes among the agents makes it possible to delimit the internal power positions occupied by the participants. Depending on who occupies these positions of power, different internal an…
Bandas dentro, bandas fuera. (Des)securitización versus punitivismo de las organizaciones juveniles de calle en España, Ecuador y El Salvador
Las llamadas “bandas” o “pandillas” aparecen como objeto protagonista de políticas públicas inclu- sivas o segregadoras en distintas ciudades del contexto iberoamericano: experiencias de mediación e integración social versus construcción de alarma mediática y punitivismo policial y penal. El presente artículo se propone analizar la situación de este fenómeno, por medio de la exploración de los posibles efectos de la constitución de asociaciones e…
Normalizing Activism and Marginalizing Radical Youth in Spain’s Post-15M Social Movements
In this article I compare the different forms of participation of young anti-capitalists in two post-15M Spanish social movements in Lleida: White Tide and Platform of those Affected by Mortgages. The objective of the article is to analyze how biopolitical normalization processes work within social movements themselves. The article explains the normalization processes that adult activists exercise against young anti-capitalists, and the ways in w…
Desde la periferia: La noción de espacio social en la movilización sociopolítica de la juventud
(analytical)This article highlights the existence of a transversal element in the relationship of youth with the public sphere, which contributes to a better understanding of the nature of their political expressions: the internalization of a certain imposed peripheral position within the social space. The idea of social space, and in particular the idea of periphery, contributes to give coherence to some phenomena and trends on the sociopolitica…
Las nuevas políticas: Repartos de poder, activismo y liderazgos en la PAH. Estudio de caso sobre el activismo juvenil en Lleida
En el presente trabajo se analiza el activismo juvenil en el espacio de la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) de Lleida entre los años 2014 y 2017. Por un lado, se busca comprender cómo modifica al propio movimiento el incremento de la participación juvenil, observando cómo las dinámicas de movilización que surgen del 15M son impugnadas en la PAH a través de los jóvenes estudiados, que promulgan un incremento de las acciones y un aumen…
The (Trans) gang: Notes and Queries on Youth Street Group Research
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project in the form of answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.We start by defining the conceptual triangle configured by the title: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters give the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central study subjects: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the border sp…
La (Trans) banda: Notas Y Cuestiones Para La Investigación Con Grupos Juveniles De Calle
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title frames: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters point out the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central subjects of study: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the bor…
El Sur político del Norte global: Repensando la participación política juvenil en España
Este trabajo indaga en las distintas formas de participación juvenil que emergieron a través de los movimientos del 2011, específicamente a través del caso del 15M español. Basa la investigación en un trabajo etnográfico local, y busca comprender el espacio que ocupan los jóvenes politizados en los movimientos sociales pos-15M, así como las reacciones que generan su participación en el campo político y en el espacio social. Presta especial atenci…
Espacios migrantes y nuevos movimientos sociales: El caso de Marea Granate
El movimiento de los indignados en España coincidió con el auge de la emigración juvenil española debido a la crisis. En este artículo se analizará el caso de Londres, donde la comunidad española creó un movimiento que les permitiera unirse a la lucha iniciada en España: el 15-M Londres, el cual se convirtió en Marea Granate Londres para poder dar cabida a más gente emigrada a la capital británica. A partir del análisis del movimiento pretendemos…
Beyond the “Trans Fact”? Trans Representation in the Teen Series Euphoria: Complexity, Recognition, and Comfort
Recent anti‐LGBTQ+ discourse has increased the threat of violence against people who do not follow the cisheteronormative mandates. To face these dialectics, the media can offer alternative discourses, in particular by providing realistic and non‐stereotyped LGBTQ+ representations. Media portrayals can be seen as both positive and negative. On one hand, they may offer stereotypical and narrow representations, but on the other, they can include re…
The (Trans) gang: Notes and Queries on Youth Street Group Research
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project in the form of answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.We start by defining the conceptual triangle configured by the title: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters give the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central study subjects: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the border sp…
La (Trans) banda: Notas Y Cuestiones Para La Investigación Con Grupos Juveniles De Calle
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title frames: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters point out the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central subjects of study: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the bor…
Political disaffection or institutional adultcentrism? Youth perceptions of adult hegemony in institutional politics and policies
Data de publicació electrònica: 09-09-2024
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain
This article investigates how structural violence is reflected in the daily life of the peripheries of a medium-sized city in the interior of Spain. For this, three categories of analysis are used: inquisitive violence, coercive violence and horizontal violence. Forms of resistance are also highlighted. This makes it possible to trace the various ways that state institutions act and behave to exercise power over people. These actions have direct …
Espacios migrantes y nuevos movimientos sociales: El caso de Marea Granate
El movimiento de los indignados en España coincidió con el auge de la emigración juvenil española debido a la crisis. En este artículo se analizará el caso de Londres, donde la comunidad española creó un movimiento que les permitiera unirse a la lucha iniciada en España: el 15-M Londres, el cual se convirtió en Marea Granate Londres para poder dar cabida a más gente emigrada a la capital británica. A partir del análisis del movimiento pretendemos…
Espacios migrantes y nuevos movimientos sociales: El caso de Marea Granate
El movimiento de los indignados en España coincidió con el auge de la emigración juvenil española debido a la crisis. En este artículo se analizará el caso de Londres, donde la comunidad española creó un movimiento que les permitiera unirse a la lucha iniciada en España: el 15-M Londres, el cual se convirtió en Marea Granate Londres para poder dar cabida a más gente emigrada a la capital británica. A partir del análisis del movimiento pretendemos…
The (Trans) gang: Notes and Queries on Youth Street Group Research
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project in the form of answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.We start by defining the conceptual triangle configured by the title: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters give the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central study subjects: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the border sp…
La (Trans) banda: Notas Y Cuestiones Para La Investigación Con Grupos Juveniles De Calle
This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for.It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title frames: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What).The central chapters point out the historical context: Neoliberal States (When); the central subjects of study: Gangs (Who); the proactive approach: Mediation (Why); the bor…
El Sur político del Norte global: Repensando la participación política juvenil en España
Este trabajo indaga en las distintas formas de participación juvenil que emergieron a través de los movimientos del 2011, específicamente a través del caso del 15M español. Basa la investigación en un trabajo etnográfico local, y busca comprender el espacio que ocupan los jóvenes politizados en los movimientos sociales pos-15M, así como las reacciones que generan su participación en el campo político y en el espacio social. Presta especial atenci…
Bandas dentro, bandas fuera. (Des)securitización versus punitivismo de las organizaciones juveniles de calle en España, Ecuador y El Salvador
Las llamadas “bandas” o “pandillas” aparecen como objeto protagonista de políticas públicas inclu- sivas o segregadoras en distintas ciudades del contexto iberoamericano: experiencias de mediación e integración social versus construcción de alarma mediática y punitivismo policial y penal. El presente artículo se propone analizar la situación de este fenómeno, por medio de la exploración de los posibles efectos de la constitución de asociaciones e…
Normalizing Activism and Marginalizing Radical Youth in Spain’s Post-15M Social Movements
In this article I compare the different forms of participation of young anti-capitalists in two post-15M Spanish social movements in Lleida: White Tide and Platform of those Affected by Mortgages. The objective of the article is to analyze how biopolitical normalization processes work within social movements themselves. The article explains the normalization processes that adult activists exercise against young anti-capitalists, and the ways in w…
Desde la periferia: La noción de espacio social en la movilización sociopolítica de la juventud
(analytical)This article highlights the existence of a transversal element in the relationship of youth with the public sphere, which contributes to a better understanding of the nature of their political expressions: the internalization of a certain imposed peripheral position within the social space. The idea of social space, and in particular the idea of periphery, contributes to give coherence to some phenomena and trends on the sociopolitica…
Las nuevas políticas: Repartos de poder, activismo y liderazgos en la PAH. Estudio de caso sobre el activismo juvenil en Lleida
En el presente trabajo se analiza el activismo juvenil en el espacio de la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) de Lleida entre los años 2014 y 2017. Por un lado, se busca comprender cómo modifica al propio movimiento el incremento de la participación juvenil, observando cómo las dinámicas de movilización que surgen del 15M son impugnadas en la PAH a través de los jóvenes estudiados, que promulgan un incremento de las acciones y un aumen…
Beyond the “Trans Fact”? Trans Representation in the Teen Series Euphoria: Complexity, Recognition, and Comfort
Recent anti‐LGBTQ+ discourse has increased the threat of violence against people who do not follow the cisheteronormative mandates. To face these dialectics, the media can offer alternative discourses, in particular by providing realistic and non‐stereotyped LGBTQ+ representations. Media portrayals can be seen as both positive and negative. On one hand, they may offer stereotypical and narrow representations, but on the other, they can include re…
Natural Mediation in Youth Street Groups as a Form of Resistance in the Peripheries: An Ethnographic Comparison between Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)
This paper analyses the recent evolution of transnational youth street groups in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain) in the last two decades, with special focus in the Latin Kings and Queens group and based on the definitions and uses of the terms borders, peripheries and mediation. Our data presents part of the preliminary ethnographic results of the research carried on from 2019 until mid-2021 and focuses on the comparison of the current…
Creating Insecurity Through Youth Street Groups and Applying Security for Control and Governance. A Case Study of Barcelona Latin Kings
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of the arrests and the subsequent trial and sentencing of a group of Latin Kings and Queens from Barcelona between 2015 and 2020. We analyze the actions carried out by the police, judicial institutions and media to reestablish the “hard handed” discourse in relation to these youth street groups in a time of crisis and precariousness. The concept of a “space of youth street groups” is used to construct …
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain
This article investigates how structural violence is reflected in the daily life of the peripheries of a medium-sized city in the interior of Spain. For this, three categories of analysis are used: inquisitive violence, coercive violence and horizontal violence. Forms of resistance are also highlighted. This makes it possible to trace the various ways that state institutions act and behave to exercise power over people. These actions have direct …
Relating Activist Capital and Power Relations within Social Movements: Ethnography of Current Social Movements in Lleida (Spain)
Based on an ethnographic study of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH; Platform of People Affected by Mortgages) social movement in Lleida (Spain), this article analyzes the role of activist capital within the movement. Detecting the forms that capital takes among the agents makes it possible to delimit the internal power positions occupied by the participants. Depending on who occupies these positions of power, different internal an…
Political disaffection or institutional adultcentrism? Youth perceptions of adult hegemony in institutional politics and policies
Data de publicació electrònica: 09-09-2024
Exploring mediation through creativity: Ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona
At the crossroads between artistic creation, academia and marginalised youth, we can find a space for cultural mediation through collaborative creative practices. In this article we present the ethnographic results of a fieldwork conducted in Barcelona during theatre workshops with young unaccompanied immigrants from North Africa. The workshop was an experience of personal, intra-group and intercultural mediation through creativity, during which …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Latin American socio-political dynamics (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Social science (4 works)