J Franquesa
Biographic Data
| ID | 22985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Franquesa |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Franquesa |
| SIGNATURE | FRANQUESA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8416-2792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Keeping capital at arm’s length
Constructing a theoretically informed, historically grounded understanding of capitalist circuits of value and uneven development remains a challenge. Thomas Cowan's ‘Geographies of subsumption’ offers a lucid discussion of subsumption as an analytical framework to cut through this Gordian knot of the abstract–concrete. Of note is Cowan's discussion of formal subsumption in relation to land, as arrangements that variously preserve landed interest…
The invisible electric mobility
Energy sovereignty from below
In this paper, we put forward the notion of “energy sovereignty from below” to reflect on the visions and practices of territorial movements mobilizing around corporate energy projects and for reclaiming control over the definition, modalities, and scales of a just socioecological transition. Based on a comparative engagement with the cases of Puerto Rico and Catalonia, first, we explore how movements organize to challenge the undesired impacts o…
Producing Capitalist Landscapes
This introduction to the special issue “Producing capitalist landscapes: Ethnographies of the green transition and its contradictions” lays out the foundations of our shared approach to the study of capitalist processes of socioenvironmental transformation and spells out some of the main findings and common themes that traverse the articles in the collection. Thus, in the first part we present the basic tenets of Marxist historical ethnography, a…
Wind Struggles
In Spain, wind energy development has followed a centralized, extractivist model, with wind farms concentrated in peripheralized and impoverished rural territories. Wind developers benefit from these regions' low land value and lack of political power, thus reproducing patterns of geographical hierarchy and strengthening processes of uneven development. This paper examines these dynamics as they have unfolded in Southern Catalonia, a poor, rural …
Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe
This study depicts various manifestations of what we call 'actually existing' right-wing populism. Based on empirical insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, we explored how nationalist tendencies unfold in different contexts and what role agriculture and rural imageries play in this process. We analyse contextual factors (rural 'emptiness', socio-economic inequality, particularities of electoral systems, politics of Europeaniza…
The vanishing exception
In contrast to the dominant European tendency, the 2008 economic crisis and the ensuing austerity in Spain led to the emergence of left populist movements that have kept authoritarian populism at bay. However, those progressive movements have made few inroads in the countryside, potentially ceding this ground to reactionary politics. But if the specter of reaction haunts the countryside, I also suggest that this specter coexists with emancipatory…
The vanishing exception
In contrast to the dominant European tendency, the 2008 economic crisis and the ensuing austerity in Spain led to the emergence of left populist movements that have kept authoritarian populism at bay. However, those progressive movements have made few inroads in the countryside, potentially ceding this ground to reactionary politics. But if the specter of reaction haunts the countryside, I also suggest that this specter coexists with emancipatory…
Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe
This study depicts various manifestations of what we call 'actually existing' right-wing populism. Based on empirical insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, we explored how nationalist tendencies unfold in different contexts and what role agriculture and rural imageries play in this process. We analyse contextual factors (rural 'emptiness', socio-economic inequality, particularities of electoral systems, politics of Europeaniza…
Wind Struggles
In Spain, wind energy development has followed a centralized, extractivist model, with wind farms concentrated in peripheralized and impoverished rural territories. Wind developers benefit from these regions' low land value and lack of political power, thus reproducing patterns of geographical hierarchy and strengthening processes of uneven development. This paper examines these dynamics as they have unfolded in Southern Catalonia, a poor, rural …
Producing Capitalist Landscapes
This introduction to the special issue “Producing capitalist landscapes: Ethnographies of the green transition and its contradictions” lays out the foundations of our shared approach to the study of capitalist processes of socioenvironmental transformation and spells out some of the main findings and common themes that traverse the articles in the collection. Thus, in the first part we present the basic tenets of Marxist historical ethnography, a…
Energy sovereignty from below
In this paper, we put forward the notion of “energy sovereignty from below” to reflect on the visions and practices of territorial movements mobilizing around corporate energy projects and for reclaiming control over the definition, modalities, and scales of a just socioecological transition. Based on a comparative engagement with the cases of Puerto Rico and Catalonia, first, we explore how movements organize to challenge the undesired impacts o…
The vanishing exception
In contrast to the dominant European tendency, the 2008 economic crisis and the ensuing austerity in Spain led to the emergence of left populist movements that have kept authoritarian populism at bay. However, those progressive movements have made few inroads in the countryside, potentially ceding this ground to reactionary politics. But if the specter of reaction haunts the countryside, I also suggest that this specter coexists with emancipatory…
Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe
This study depicts various manifestations of what we call 'actually existing' right-wing populism. Based on empirical insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, we explored how nationalist tendencies unfold in different contexts and what role agriculture and rural imageries play in this process. We analyse contextual factors (rural 'emptiness', socio-economic inequality, particularities of electoral systems, politics of Europeaniza…
Producing Capitalist Landscapes
This introduction to the special issue “Producing capitalist landscapes: Ethnographies of the green transition and its contradictions” lays out the foundations of our shared approach to the study of capitalist processes of socioenvironmental transformation and spells out some of the main findings and common themes that traverse the articles in the collection. Thus, in the first part we present the basic tenets of Marxist historical ethnography, a…
Wind Struggles
In Spain, wind energy development has followed a centralized, extractivist model, with wind farms concentrated in peripheralized and impoverished rural territories. Wind developers benefit from these regions' low land value and lack of political power, thus reproducing patterns of geographical hierarchy and strengthening processes of uneven development. This paper examines these dynamics as they have unfolded in Southern Catalonia, a poor, rural …
The invisible electric mobility
Energy sovereignty from below
In this paper, we put forward the notion of “energy sovereignty from below” to reflect on the visions and practices of territorial movements mobilizing around corporate energy projects and for reclaiming control over the definition, modalities, and scales of a just socioecological transition. Based on a comparative engagement with the cases of Puerto Rico and Catalonia, first, we explore how movements organize to challenge the undesired impacts o…
Keeping capital at arm’s length
Constructing a theoretically informed, historically grounded understanding of capitalist circuits of value and uneven development remains a challenge. Thomas Cowan's ‘Geographies of subsumption’ offers a lucid discussion of subsumption as an analytical framework to cut through this Gordian knot of the abstract–concrete. Of note is Cowan's discussion of formal subsumption in relation to land, as arrangements that variously preserve landed interest…
Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)