Antònia Casellas
Biographic Data
| ID | 385754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antònia Casellas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antònia |
| FAMILY NAME | Casellas |
| SIGNATURE | CASELLAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5252-1399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reassessing Barcelona’s Urban Strategy During the Democratic Transition, 1979–1992
This research revisits the widely accepted two-stage framework for understanding Barcelona’s transformation between the late 1970s and early 1990s. According to this view, the first stage focused on small-scale, symbolic projects (such as the Espais Urbans program and early planning efforts), followed by a second stage of large-scale development driven by the 1992 Olympic Games. While acknowledging the heuristic value of this framework, the artic…
Getting our sea back: Indigenous governance and biocultural conservation of coastal and marine commons
The Indigenous management of the commons has been the subject of considerable interest by the scientific community in recent decades. One area of growing interest is the study of how these groups organise and act to confront external development initiatives that threaten their livelihoods and the ecosystems that sustain them. This article examines the challenges and opportunities created by a law in Chile that establishes Indigenous Marine Areas,…
Navigating ecosystem services and access inequalities
Humans rely on ecosystems to meet their needs and enhance their well-being through the provision of ecosystem services. However, the distribution of these services may not benefit all groups equally. Understanding the complex relationship between human well-being and ecosystem services requires analysing access to these benefits. This study addresses the gap in ecosystem service research by providing a comprehensive analysis of the access mediati…
Evolving blue development discourses and policies: Salmon farming industry and regional making in Chile
As the second biggest producer of salmon after Norway, Chile is one of the leading forces of aquaculture with a long history of being strongly focused on international markets. Based on contributions from critical geography, political ecology and the sociology of globalization, the article analyses the dominant narratives and policies deployed by the Chilean government and the salmon farming industry in successive contexts of boom and crisis of p…
The Hiding Hand controversy as an analytical approach in the study of urban megaevents
Despite growing public opposition, megaevents such as the Summer Olympics continue to proliferate both in the Global North and South, thus reshaping the built environment of cities and the living conditions of their inhabitants. This paper presents a novel analytical tool that expands the perspectives from which to explore urban megaevents. Building on the controversy among megaproject scholars around Albert Hirschman's Hiding Hand principle, we …
Contrageografías del desarrollo acuícola: Discursos territoriales y movimientos sociales en el sur de Chile
El estudio de los discursos del desarrollo elaborados en contextos de conflictividad socioterritorial es un ámbito de creciente interés en las ciencias sociales, ya que permite comprender las condiciones de producción de los territorios desde una perspectiva geográfica y discursiva. En este artículo analizamos los discursos territoriales generados por tres movimientos sociales surgidos en el periodo 2015-2020 y que se posicionan críticamente fren…
Coevolutionary decoupling in artisanal fisher communities: A temporal perspective from Chile
Desposesión simbólica de la pesca artesanal: Las limitaciones de las políticas de sostenibilidad en Chile entre 1974 y 2021
La crisis de las capturas pesqueras que afecta a las comunidades artesanales es un fenómeno complejo causado por transformaciones climáticas, cambios en el comportamiento de los océanos y la sobreexplotación pesquera. La gestión pesquera sostenible extendida en las últimas décadas en muchos países ha cambiado la gestión de los recursos a partir de la regulación de la sobreexplotación y el establecimiento de un nuevo modelo de desarrollo de la pes…
The resident and visitor gaze: A comparison of coastal social values at risk due to sea-level rise
Development through design: Knowledge, power, and absences in the making of southeastern Turkey
The Foucauldian concept of power-knowledge has been a useful lens to study the idea, discourse, and practice of development. Since the 1980s, many scholars have employed this critical framework to unearth the overlooked power relations created and altered by the concept of development in general, and development projects in particular. This article contributes to this debate by advancing and enriching this perspective. Analyzing a broad number of…
Relationships Stretched Thin: Social Support Mobilization in Poverty
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…
Social networks as the backbone of women’s work in the Catalan Pyrenees
This paper discusses how historically the accumulation of symbolic power by men produced a glass ceiling for women in the Catalan Pyrenees and how women have overcome this constraint by engaging in male-led networks, founding gender balanced networks and developing women-nurtured networks. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, the paper investigates the strategies women employed to maintain their involvement in…
Desarrollo urbano, coaliciones de poder y participación ciudadana en Barcelona: Una narrativa desde la geografía crítica
Con un enfoque desde la geografía crítica, el artículo aborta la evolución de la gobernanza y las estrategias de desarrollo urbano y económico en Barcelona. Se analiza la reorientación paulatina de la política local, desde un modelo de gestión y redistribución social iniciada en los años ochenta, hacia una política dominada por la promoción de imagen y las plusvalías del suelo. Se identifica el punto de inflexión, las características de los agent…
Políticas estatales y transformación urbana: Hacia un proceso de gentrificación en Valparaíso, Chile
A travs de un enfoque metodolgico mixto, el presente estudio analiza la transformacin de la ciudad de Valparaso (Chile) a partir de la dcada de 2000, vinculando las caractersticas del proceso y los agentes y polticas de renovacin urbana, con los efectos en la morfologa urbana resultantes de la denominacin patrimonial Unesco. El anlisis permite identificar al Estado chileno como agente clave en la renovacin urbana a travs de su papel
Espacios Públicos, Género y Diversidad: Geografías para unas Ciudades Inclusivas [Public spaces, gender and diversity: Geographies for inclusive cities]
What is public space? Why is it relevant to think about this topic in a Mediterranean context? How does public space shape cities? How does gender interrelate with the social construction of public
Homecoming as displacement: An analysis from the perspective of returning social scientists
International mobility is a growing phenomenon in which academicians are highly represented. While studies on transnationalism have widely focused on the mobility of people in terms of migrancy and exile, homecoming has been much less studied. This article contributes to filling this gap by analysing the homecoming experiences of three social scientists who have coincided in a Catalan university. The narrative of their personal trajectories and e…
Creación de imagen, visibilidad y turismo como estrategias de crecimiento económico de la ciudad
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar como el crecimiento econó-mico de Barcelona desde mediados de los años noventa se ha basado en la producción de una economía de servicios avanzados, en el que las estrategias de creación de imagen y el turismo han jugado un papel primordial. En este proceso destaca el papel promotor de macro-eventos como los Juegos Olímpicos de 1992, los cuales han sido herramientas de cambio del modelo económico de Barcel…
Artists, Cultural Gentrification and Public Policy
Since the 1980s, artists have been studied as agents of urban gentrification. Well established theories and case studies have provided numerous evidences of the role of artists as initiators of the gentrification process in working-class neighborhoods. From a productive-side perspective, placing an emphasis on the rent-gap and land development, as well as consumption-side perspective, analyzing the features of individuals, art production and arti…
Barcelona’s Urban Landscape: The Historical Making of a Tourist Product
Barcelona’s urban characteristics and its tourist appeal are not merely outcomes of the Modernist period or a recent dramatic urban transformation but rather the result of a long and tumultuous historic evolution. The present article presents an account of relevant historical, political, economic, and social forces shaping Barcelona’s urban evolution from the medieval times until the 1970s. The urban history of Barcelona illustrates how the lands…
Public-sector Intervention in Embodying the New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience
This article investigates the urban and economic revitalisation of a traditional industrial working-class neighbourhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council and implemented by a quasi-public agency. The project represents the most important urban-growth strategy in the city at the turn of the century and also exemplifies the …
Las limitaciones del «modelo Barcelona». Una lectura desde Urban Regime Analysis
El artículo explora el modelo de desarrollo urbano en Barcelona, utilizando Urban Regime Analysis como herramienta analítica. Se presentan las principales características de gobernabilidad de la ciudad y su evolución desde principios de la década de 1980 hasta el año 2006. Se analiza la dinámica de la transformación de la ciudad estudiando con detalle el proceso de consolidación de la colaboración entre los sectores público y privado iniciada en …
Regional Definitions in the European Union: A Question of Disparities
CASELLAS A. and GALLEY C. C. (1999) Regional definitions in the European Union: a question of disparities?, Reg. Studies 33 , 551-558. This paper explores the concept of regional disparities in the European Union (EU) and challenges the present regional classification. The EU Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, referred to by the French acronym NUTS, is very heterogeneous in character. Tiny islands, cities, large rural regions and e…
Regional Definitions in the European Union: A Question of Disparities
CASELLAS A. and GALLEY C. C. (1999) Regional definitions in the European Union: a question of disparities?, Reg. Studies 33 , 551-558. This paper explores the concept of regional disparities in the European Union (EU) and challenges the present regional classification. The EU Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, referred to by the French acronym NUTS, is very heterogeneous in character. Tiny islands, cities, large rural regions and e…
Public-sector Intervention in Embodying the New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience
This article investigates the urban and economic revitalisation of a traditional industrial working-class neighbourhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council and implemented by a quasi-public agency. The project represents the most important urban-growth strategy in the city at the turn of the century and also exemplifies the …
Development through design: Knowledge, power, and absences in the making of southeastern Turkey
The Foucauldian concept of power-knowledge has been a useful lens to study the idea, discourse, and practice of development. Since the 1980s, many scholars have employed this critical framework to unearth the overlooked power relations created and altered by the concept of development in general, and development projects in particular. This article contributes to this debate by advancing and enriching this perspective. Analyzing a broad number of…
Relationships Stretched Thin: Social Support Mobilization in Poverty
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…
Homecoming as displacement: An analysis from the perspective of returning social scientists
International mobility is a growing phenomenon in which academicians are highly represented. While studies on transnationalism have widely focused on the mobility of people in terms of migrancy and exile, homecoming has been much less studied. This article contributes to filling this gap by analysing the homecoming experiences of three social scientists who have coincided in a Catalan university. The narrative of their personal trajectories and e…
Barcelona’s Urban Landscape: The Historical Making of a Tourist Product
Barcelona’s urban characteristics and its tourist appeal are not merely outcomes of the Modernist period or a recent dramatic urban transformation but rather the result of a long and tumultuous historic evolution. The present article presents an account of relevant historical, political, economic, and social forces shaping Barcelona’s urban evolution from the medieval times until the 1970s. The urban history of Barcelona illustrates how the lands…
Social networks as the backbone of women’s work in the Catalan Pyrenees
This paper discusses how historically the accumulation of symbolic power by men produced a glass ceiling for women in the Catalan Pyrenees and how women have overcome this constraint by engaging in male-led networks, founding gender balanced networks and developing women-nurtured networks. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, the paper investigates the strategies women employed to maintain their involvement in…
Regional Definitions in the European Union: A Question of Disparities
CASELLAS A. and GALLEY C. C. (1999) Regional definitions in the European Union: a question of disparities?, Reg. Studies 33 , 551-558. This paper explores the concept of regional disparities in the European Union (EU) and challenges the present regional classification. The EU Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, referred to by the French acronym NUTS, is very heterogeneous in character. Tiny islands, cities, large rural regions and e…
Las limitaciones del «modelo Barcelona». Una lectura desde Urban Regime Analysis
El artículo explora el modelo de desarrollo urbano en Barcelona, utilizando Urban Regime Analysis como herramienta analítica. Se presentan las principales características de gobernabilidad de la ciudad y su evolución desde principios de la década de 1980 hasta el año 2006. Se analiza la dinámica de la transformación de la ciudad estudiando con detalle el proceso de consolidación de la colaboración entre los sectores público y privado iniciada en …
Barcelona’s Urban Landscape: The Historical Making of a Tourist Product
Barcelona’s urban characteristics and its tourist appeal are not merely outcomes of the Modernist period or a recent dramatic urban transformation but rather the result of a long and tumultuous historic evolution. The present article presents an account of relevant historical, political, economic, and social forces shaping Barcelona’s urban evolution from the medieval times until the 1970s. The urban history of Barcelona illustrates how the lands…
Public-sector Intervention in Embodying the New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience
This article investigates the urban and economic revitalisation of a traditional industrial working-class neighbourhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council and implemented by a quasi-public agency. The project represents the most important urban-growth strategy in the city at the turn of the century and also exemplifies the …
Creación de imagen, visibilidad y turismo como estrategias de crecimiento económico de la ciudad
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar como el crecimiento econó-mico de Barcelona desde mediados de los años noventa se ha basado en la producción de una economía de servicios avanzados, en el que las estrategias de creación de imagen y el turismo han jugado un papel primordial. En este proceso destaca el papel promotor de macro-eventos como los Juegos Olímpicos de 1992, los cuales han sido herramientas de cambio del modelo económico de Barcel…
Artists, Cultural Gentrification and Public Policy
Since the 1980s, artists have been studied as agents of urban gentrification. Well established theories and case studies have provided numerous evidences of the role of artists as initiators of the gentrification process in working-class neighborhoods. From a productive-side perspective, placing an emphasis on the rent-gap and land development, as well as consumption-side perspective, analyzing the features of individuals, art production and arti…
Homecoming as displacement: An analysis from the perspective of returning social scientists
International mobility is a growing phenomenon in which academicians are highly represented. While studies on transnationalism have widely focused on the mobility of people in terms of migrancy and exile, homecoming has been much less studied. This article contributes to filling this gap by analysing the homecoming experiences of three social scientists who have coincided in a Catalan university. The narrative of their personal trajectories and e…
Desarrollo urbano, coaliciones de poder y participación ciudadana en Barcelona: Una narrativa desde la geografía crítica
Con un enfoque desde la geografía crítica, el artículo aborta la evolución de la gobernanza y las estrategias de desarrollo urbano y económico en Barcelona. Se analiza la reorientación paulatina de la política local, desde un modelo de gestión y redistribución social iniciada en los años ochenta, hacia una política dominada por la promoción de imagen y las plusvalías del suelo. Se identifica el punto de inflexión, las características de los agent…
Políticas estatales y transformación urbana: Hacia un proceso de gentrificación en Valparaíso, Chile
A travs de un enfoque metodolgico mixto, el presente estudio analiza la transformacin de la ciudad de Valparaso (Chile) a partir de la dcada de 2000, vinculando las caractersticas del proceso y los agentes y polticas de renovacin urbana, con los efectos en la morfologa urbana resultantes de la denominacin patrimonial Unesco. El anlisis permite identificar al Estado chileno como agente clave en la renovacin urbana a travs de su papel
Espacios Públicos, Género y Diversidad: Geografías para unas Ciudades Inclusivas [Public spaces, gender and diversity: Geographies for inclusive cities]
What is public space? Why is it relevant to think about this topic in a Mediterranean context? How does public space shape cities? How does gender interrelate with the social construction of public
Social networks as the backbone of women’s work in the Catalan Pyrenees
This paper discusses how historically the accumulation of symbolic power by men produced a glass ceiling for women in the Catalan Pyrenees and how women have overcome this constraint by engaging in male-led networks, founding gender balanced networks and developing women-nurtured networks. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, the paper investigates the strategies women employed to maintain their involvement in…
Development through design: Knowledge, power, and absences in the making of southeastern Turkey
The Foucauldian concept of power-knowledge has been a useful lens to study the idea, discourse, and practice of development. Since the 1980s, many scholars have employed this critical framework to unearth the overlooked power relations created and altered by the concept of development in general, and development projects in particular. This article contributes to this debate by advancing and enriching this perspective. Analyzing a broad number of…
Relationships Stretched Thin: Social Support Mobilization in Poverty
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 resident and visitor gaze: A comparison of coastal social values at risk due to sea-level rise
Coevolutionary decoupling in artisanal fisher communities: A temporal perspective from Chile
Desposesión simbólica de la pesca artesanal: Las limitaciones de las políticas de sostenibilidad en Chile entre 1974 y 2021
La crisis de las capturas pesqueras que afecta a las comunidades artesanales es un fenómeno complejo causado por transformaciones climáticas, cambios en el comportamiento de los océanos y la sobreexplotación pesquera. La gestión pesquera sostenible extendida en las últimas décadas en muchos países ha cambiado la gestión de los recursos a partir de la regulación de la sobreexplotación y el establecimiento de un nuevo modelo de desarrollo de la pes…
Evolving blue development discourses and policies: Salmon farming industry and regional making in Chile
As the second biggest producer of salmon after Norway, Chile is one of the leading forces of aquaculture with a long history of being strongly focused on international markets. Based on contributions from critical geography, political ecology and the sociology of globalization, the article analyses the dominant narratives and policies deployed by the Chilean government and the salmon farming industry in successive contexts of boom and crisis of p…
The Hiding Hand controversy as an analytical approach in the study of urban megaevents
Despite growing public opposition, megaevents such as the Summer Olympics continue to proliferate both in the Global North and South, thus reshaping the built environment of cities and the living conditions of their inhabitants. This paper presents a novel analytical tool that expands the perspectives from which to explore urban megaevents. Building on the controversy among megaproject scholars around Albert Hirschman's Hiding Hand principle, we …
Contrageografías del desarrollo acuícola: Discursos territoriales y movimientos sociales en el sur de Chile
El estudio de los discursos del desarrollo elaborados en contextos de conflictividad socioterritorial es un ámbito de creciente interés en las ciencias sociales, ya que permite comprender las condiciones de producción de los territorios desde una perspectiva geográfica y discursiva. En este artículo analizamos los discursos territoriales generados por tres movimientos sociales surgidos en el periodo 2015-2020 y que se posicionan críticamente fren…
Getting our sea back: Indigenous governance and biocultural conservation of coastal and marine commons
The Indigenous management of the commons has been the subject of considerable interest by the scientific community in recent decades. One area of growing interest is the study of how these groups organise and act to confront external development initiatives that threaten their livelihoods and the ecosystems that sustain them. This article examines the challenges and opportunities created by a law in Chile that establishes Indigenous Marine Areas,…
Navigating ecosystem services and access inequalities
Humans rely on ecosystems to meet their needs and enhance their well-being through the provision of ecosystem services. However, the distribution of these services may not benefit all groups equally. Understanding the complex relationship between human well-being and ecosystem services requires analysing access to these benefits. This study addresses the gap in ecosystem service research by providing a comprehensive analysis of the access mediati…
Reassessing Barcelona’s Urban Strategy During the Democratic Transition, 1979–1992
This research revisits the widely accepted two-stage framework for understanding Barcelona’s transformation between the late 1970s and early 1990s. According to this view, the first stage focused on small-scale, symbolic projects (such as the Espais Urbans program and early planning efforts), followed by a second stage of large-scale development driven by the 1992 Olympic Games. While acknowledging the heuristic value of this framework, the artic…
Political science (19 works) · Geography (14 works) · Art (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works)