Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz

Biographic Data

ID212071
NAMEMabel Gracia-Arnaiz
GIVEN NAMESMabel
FAMILY NAMEGracia-Arnaiz
SIGNATUREGRACIA-ARNAIZ M
AFFILIATIONSUniversitat Rovira i Virgili
ORCID0000-0002-6429-6395
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS74
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Healthy Ageing: A Scoping Review of the Social Determinants of Diet, Food and Nutrition in Spain

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Isabella Riccò et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Ageing2026

    Spain’s rapidly ageing population poses significant public health challenges, particularly regarding nutrition and healthy ageing. This scoping literature review is grounded in the social determinants of health (SDOH) framework and aims to examine how key social, relational, and structural factors shape food practices and nutritional outcomes among older adults in Spain. Drawing from 22 peer-reviewed empirical studies published between 2014 and 2…

  • Food itineraries and gender inequalities in Spain: Managing meals among older people in times of crisis

    Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Thalita Kalix Garcia et al.ARTICLEJournal of Women & Aging2026

    This study examines the ways in which older people in Spain manage their daily meals, considering gender differences and the impact of increasing precarization. The main objective is to shed light on whether these two issues are at the root of certain forms of food insecurity among people with fewer resources, particularly women. We show that tasks related to the provision, preparation, distribution, and consumption of food foster both interactio…

  • Prácticas alimentarias, paternidad y sistema de género: Producción de masculinidades en Santiago de Chile

    Open AccessFernanda Díaz־Castrillón, José Joaquín Castro et al.ARTICLERevista de Sociología2025

    Este artículo discute la reproducción y/o producción de diversos tipos de masculinidad en el Chile actual a través de la presencia-ausencia de padres en la ejecución de prácticas alimentarias infantiles en el espacio doméstico. Se analizan 14 entrevistas en profundidad a diez sujetos que tenían a su cargo a niños/as menores de 3 años. Siendo este un estudio cualitativo con enfoque etnográfico de alcance exploratorio, se llevó a cabo un análisis d…

  • The Right to Food in Question: A Comparative Analysis of Food Security Policies Aimed at the Elderly in Spain and Argentina

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Flavia Demonte et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Ageing2025References: 1

    Since the 2008 economic recession, and in the wake of the health and energy crises, many countries have experienced growing precarization, forcing their governments to implement policies to alleviate increasing inequality suffered by the most disadvantaged groups. In this study, we show how this process has affected older people in Spain and Argentina. In particular, we want to determine whether there has been an increase in food insecurity (FI) …

  • Comer importa: Un análisis comparado de las políticas sobre seguridad alimentaria dirigidas a personas mayores de España y Argentina

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Flavia Demonte et al.ARTICLEPolítica y Sociedad2025References: 38

    El envejecimiento poblacional constituye un desafío global en el que garantizar la alimentación adecuada de las personas mayores constituye un reto para los Estados. Desde la gran recesión de 2008, y tras el impacto de la crisis sanitaria por la pandemia por COVID-19 y la crisis energética mundial recrudecida por la invasión rusa de Ucrania y la presión inflacionista, numerosos países han experimentado una creciente precarización que los ha oblig…

  • (Des)haciendo el género, resolviendo comidas: Un análisis del trabajo y cuidado entre las personas mayores en España

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Montserrat Garcia-Oliva et al.ARTICLEQuaderns de l Institut Català d…2025References: 12

    A partir de un análisis etnográfico de los itinerariosalimentarios de un grupo de personas mayores en España, este estudio examina los modos de resolver las comidas atendiendo, por un lado, a los efectos de los crecientes constreñimientos socioeconómicos y, por otro, a las posibles diferencias de género. El objetivo principal es dilucidar si ambas cuestiones están en la base de ciertas formas de inseguridad alimentaria entre los grupos con menos …

  • Trust and distrust in food among non-dependent elderly people in Spain. Study on socio-cultural representations through the analysis of cultural domains

    Open AccessC Larrea-Killinger, Araceli Muñoz et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024Cited by: 3References: 23

  • Historias de comida, historias de mujeres: Cuestiones De Antropología De La Alimentación Y Género

    Open AccessMabel Gracia Arnaiz, Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz et al.ARTICLEAnuário Antropológico2024References: 24

    En este artículo presentamos un monográfico sobre antropología de la alimentación, que muestra que investigar desde una perspectiva de género permite reflexionar no sólo sobre las múltiples dimensiones socioculturales de las comidas sino sobre cuestiones de orden más general que tienen que ver con el trabajo, el cuerpo, la salud o la desigualdad social. Reivindicar las cocinas no solo como espacios fundamentales de interacción, sino también de tr…

  • Liquid Bread: Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Dante M Aquino, Walter Van Beek et al.BOOKLiquid bread2022

    “This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”— Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK Award Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisc…

  • The problem of hunger in Spain: Analysis of digital media from 2008-2018

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Montserrat Garcia-Oliva et al.ARTICLERevista Internacional de…2022

    In Spain, between 2008 and 2014, hunger was recognised as a social problem from different spheres. As a relevant actor, the press associated it with the increase in food insecurity as a result of the financial crisis, austerity policies and growing unemployment. This article takes up this previous analysis and compares it with the media discourses produced between 2015 and 2018, a period referred to as "post-crisis". A qualitative study of news s…

  • The precarisation of daily life in Spain: Austerity, social policy and food insecurity

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-ArnaizARTICLEAppetite2022Cited by: 1References: 12

    This article examines the extent to which the 2008 economic crisis has led to a shift in ways of eating among people living in precarious conditions in Spain, and the kinds of strategies they have developed to obtain daily food. Building on a literature review on precarisation in Spain and an analysis of action plans to combat food insecurity, participant-observation ethnography was carried out in Catalonia. Fieldwork was conducted during 2017-20…

  • Notes de recerca

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, C Larrea-Killinger et al.ARTICLEArxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya2022

    Comer importa: los desafíos de una alimentación inclusiva, saludable y sostenible para un mejor envejecimiento - AGORAge

  • Desigualdad social y salud: La gestión de la (in)seguridad alimentaria en atención primaria en España

    Open AccessMireia Campanera Reig, Mercè Gasull et al.ARTICLESalud Colectiva2021

    Equity is an unresolved issue on the Spanish healthcare agenda. This paper explores the importance that health professionals give to social determinants of health and the means they possess to address them. It also analyzes the relationship between food insecurity and increases in certain diseases. One of its objectives is to ascertain how increasing uncertainty is being addressed in primary healthcare services. We present a qualitative study car…

  • Food Itineraries in the Context of Crisis in Catalonia (Spain): Intersections between Precarization, Food Insecurity and Gender

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Montserrat Garcia-Oliva et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2021Cited by: 4References: 20

    This work analyzes the relationship between the precarization of everyday life and the increase in food insecurity in Catalonia (Spain). Based on an ethnographic analysis of the food itineraries of a group of people in a situation of precarity, this article examines their lived experiences under the pressure of having to meet daily food needs. The results show that gender differences are significant in terms of the strategies adopted, particularl…

  • Retóricas del hambre en la prensa digital española (2015-2018): De Penurias Que Vienen Y Se Van

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Montserrat Garcia-Oliva et al.ARTICLERevista de Antropología Social2021Cited by: 1References: 18

    Coincidiendo con la recesión mundial iniciada en 2008, en España se multiplicaron las noticias que presentaron la inseguridad alimentaria como una realidad tangible. Vinculada a los efectos de la crisis financiera, el desempleo y las políticas de austeridad, entre 2008 y 2014 la prensa generó discursos específicos sobre el hambre y los hambrientos que fueron replicados por la opinión pública. El presente artículo retoma este primer análisis para …

  • Introducción al monografico: Antropologías del hambre: La (in)seguridad alimentaria en contextos de precarización

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, Lina Casadó-Marín et al.ARTICLERevista de Antropología Social2021Cited by: 4References: 37

    Introducción al monografico: Antropologías del hambre: La (in)seguridad alimentaria en contextos de precarización

  • “I’m fat and proud of it”: Body size diversity and fat acceptance activism in Spain

    Lina Casadó-Marín, Mabel Gracia-ArnaizARTICLEFat Studies2020

    Hegemonic representations of body size and beauty often have negative and painful impacts on fat people. Fat individuals face social discrimination because of the stigma associated with fatness and because of weight-based stereotypes. In Spain, fat activism has emerged in the last decade. Social networks are used by this movement as one of the principal means of redefining fatness and disputing prescriptive standards of body health and beauty. Th…

  • Prevenir la obesidad en contextos de precarización: Respuestas locales a estrategias globales

    Open AccessMabel Gracia Arnaiz, Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz et al.ARTICLESalud Colectiva2020

    The aim of this article is to analyze the conceptual structure underlying the models of obesity prevention implemented in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain. In their culturally distinct but epidemiologically similar contexts, the three countries have devised strategies that reproduce global diagnoses of the causes of obesity and replicate some of the measures proposed at the global level. While so-called "obesogenic environments" are considered primar…

  • Eating Outside the Home: Food Practices as a Consequence of Economic Crisis in Spain

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-ArnaizCHAPTERFood and Sustainability in the…2019

  • Notes de recerca

    Open AccessVerónica Anzil, Mabel Gracia-ArnaizARTICLEArxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya2018

    Roles de género e interculturalidad de las parejas mixtas en España:una investigación cualitativa longitudinal.La precarización de la vida cotidiana: (in)seguridad alimentaria, género y salud

  • Taking measures in times of crisis: The political economy of obesity prevention in Spain

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-ArnaizARTICLEFood Policy2017Cited by: 5References: 4

  • Estudos socioculturais em alimentação e saúde: Saberes Em Rede, Vol. 5

    Open AccessShirley Donizete Prado, Lígia Amparo-Santos et al.BOOKEstudos Socioculturais Em…2016References: 3

  • Notes de recerca

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-Arnaiz, J Moreras et al.ARTICLEArxiu d Etnografia de Catalunya2015

    Comer en tiempos de crisis: nuevos contextos alimentarios y de salud en EspañaLa promesa de la transmissió. Les iniciatives de socialització religiosa entre col·lectius evangèlics i musulmans a CatalunyaÁngel Palerm y la cátedra que honra su legado

  • Comer o no comer ¿es esa la cuestión: Una Aproximación Antropológica Al Estudio De Los Trastornos Alimentarios

    Open AccessMabel Gracia-ArnaizARTICLEPolítica y Sociedad2014Cited by: 2References: 2

    This article presents an argument for the relevance of the anthropological gaze in the study of eating disorders. Anthropology offers ways of understanding the social forces underlying food and eating practices that defy convention and are treated as irrational in biomedical discourse. Most studies of the social determinants of health, especially those dealing with their influence on nutritional and/or psychological status, are epidemiological, a…

  • Alimentación y cultura. Perspectivas antropológicas

    Open AccessJesus Contreras Hernandes, Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz et al.ARTICLEInvestigaciones Sociales2014Cited by: 22

    La alimentacion ofrece un campo de estudio de enorme interes, pues permite analizar meticulosamente las relaciones entre lo natural y lo social, entre el cuerpo y el pensamiento. El hecho de comer esta indisolublemente ligado tanto a la naturaleza biologica de la especie humana como a los procesos adaptativos empleados por las personas en funcion de sus particulares condiciones de existencia, variables, por otra parte, en el espacio y en el tiemp…