Paula Escribano
Biographic Data
| ID | 90735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Escribano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Escribano |
| SIGNATURE | ESCRIBANO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4635-3325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Period of Respite? The Effects of Covid-19 on Pastoralism in Italy and Spain
Pastoralism in Italy and Spain have undergone major shifts over the last fifty years as market-driven policies have marginalised traditional herding. COVID-19 brought both challenges and opportunities for pastoralists. Lockdowns increased appreciation for shepherding and limited tourism. It provided rural areas with a temporary respite; however, higher production costs, disrupted sales channels and changing rural property values strained liveliho…
Playing by the rules
In Spain, small-scale agroecological production has emerged in response to the current environmental and food crisis. However, the lack of a protective legal framework, multiple sanctions and the political inertia of economic growth are deeply constraining and altering the very essence of such initiatives. In particular, new regulations introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated the formalisation and institutionalization of the agro…
No es negociable. Desperdicio alimentario y relaciones de poder en la cadena agroalimentaria, de Jordi Gascón, Carlota Solà y Cristina Larrea
El libro No es negociable. Desperdicio alimentario y relaciones de poder en la cadena agroalimentaria escrito por Jordi Gascón, Carlota Solà y Cristina Larrea, aparece en un momento en el que la economía política de los espacios rurales requiere de especial atención. La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) junto con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (UNDP) y el Programa de las Nacione…
Smallholdings, Livelihood Strategies and Public Policies in Europe
At the time of publication of this special issue, Smallholdings, livelihood strategies and public policies in Europe: the issue of self-sufficiency, it has become increasingly crucial to rethink the livelihood strategies and forms of production and distribution characterizing small farms and the ways in which these farms are shaped by public policies. The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine comes at a time when smallholdings are attempting…
The neo-peasant movement in Catalonia
This article analyses everyday forms of resistance of the neo-peasants in Catalonia against the dominant legal and economic system. For the purpose of the analysis, neo-peasants are defined as social movement whose actors share the same values reflected in the neo-peasant identity and try to put into practice a peasant lifestyle and a peasant economy based on agriculture and animal breeding. This article is based on the analysis of the ethnograph…
Peasants, Farmers, and Tractor Drivers
This article focuses on power relations between the rural public authorities and the neo-peasant movement in Catalonia (Spain). On the one hand, the public authorities promote a productivism-oriented, professional model of farming informed by the Common Agricultural Policy. This policy results in the gradual disappearance of small-scale agriculture. On the other hand, the neo-peasant movement resists the productivist model of agriculture, proposi…
El papel de la economía informal en los proyectos agroecológicos durante el Covid-19
El 13 de marzo de 2020 España decretó el estado de alarma debido a la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19. En este escenario el sector agroalimentario tuvo que responder a una gran demanda en términos de producción y abastecimiento. Entre los diferentes modelos productivos dentro del sector están las pequeñas iniciativas agroecológicas que pretenden desarrollar estilos de vida campesinos por encima de la reproducción del capital. Las pequeñas 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 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…
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…
Becoming Part of an Eco-Community
Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people's motivations for becoming part of an eco-community in Catalonia, Spain, through interviews with 29 informants. The research is part of a larger study, based on ethnographic data collected between 2013 and 2015 in 27 eco-communities.…
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…
The neo-peasant movement in Catalonia
This article analyses everyday forms of resistance of the neo-peasants in Catalonia against the dominant legal and economic system. For the purpose of the analysis, neo-peasants are defined as social movement whose actors share the same values reflected in the neo-peasant identity and try to put into practice a peasant lifestyle and a peasant economy based on agriculture and animal breeding. This article is based on the analysis of the ethnograph…
El papel de la economía informal en los proyectos agroecológicos durante el Covid-19
El 13 de marzo de 2020 España decretó el estado de alarma debido a la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19. En este escenario el sector agroalimentario tuvo que responder a una gran demanda en términos de producción y abastecimiento. Entre los diferentes modelos productivos dentro del sector están las pequeñas iniciativas agroecológicas que pretenden desarrollar estilos de vida campesinos por encima de la reproducción del capital. Las pequeñas in…
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…
Playing by the rules
In Spain, small-scale agroecological production has emerged in response to the current environmental and food crisis. However, the lack of a protective legal framework, multiple sanctions and the political inertia of economic growth are deeply constraining and altering the very essence of such initiatives. In particular, new regulations introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated the formalisation and institutionalization of the agro…
Peasants, Farmers, and Tractor Drivers
This article focuses on power relations between the rural public authorities and the neo-peasant movement in Catalonia (Spain). On the one hand, the public authorities promote a productivism-oriented, professional model of farming informed by the Common Agricultural Policy. This policy results in the gradual disappearance of small-scale agriculture. On the other hand, the neo-peasant movement resists the productivist model of agriculture, proposi…
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…
Becoming Part of an Eco-Community
Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people's motivations for becoming part of an eco-community in Catalonia, Spain, through interviews with 29 informants. The research is part of a larger study, based on ethnographic data collected between 2013 and 2015 in 27 eco-communities.…
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…
Becoming Part of an Eco-Community
Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people's motivations for becoming part of an eco-community in Catalonia, Spain, through interviews with 29 informants. The research is part of a larger study, based on ethnographic data collected between 2013 and 2015 in 27 eco-communities.…
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 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…
El papel de la economía informal en los proyectos agroecológicos durante el Covid-19
El 13 de marzo de 2020 España decretó el estado de alarma debido a la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19. En este escenario el sector agroalimentario tuvo que responder a una gran demanda en términos de producción y abastecimiento. Entre los diferentes modelos productivos dentro del sector están las pequeñas iniciativas agroecológicas que pretenden desarrollar estilos de vida campesinos por encima de la reproducción del capital. Las pequeñas in…
Smallholdings, Livelihood Strategies and Public Policies in Europe
At the time of publication of this special issue, Smallholdings, livelihood strategies and public policies in Europe: the issue of self-sufficiency, it has become increasingly crucial to rethink the livelihood strategies and forms of production and distribution characterizing small farms and the ways in which these farms are shaped by public policies. The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine comes at a time when smallholdings are attempting…
The neo-peasant movement in Catalonia
This article analyses everyday forms of resistance of the neo-peasants in Catalonia against the dominant legal and economic system. For the purpose of the analysis, neo-peasants are defined as social movement whose actors share the same values reflected in the neo-peasant identity and try to put into practice a peasant lifestyle and a peasant economy based on agriculture and animal breeding. This article is based on the analysis of the ethnograph…
Peasants, Farmers, and Tractor Drivers
This article focuses on power relations between the rural public authorities and the neo-peasant movement in Catalonia (Spain). On the one hand, the public authorities promote a productivism-oriented, professional model of farming informed by the Common Agricultural Policy. This policy results in the gradual disappearance of small-scale agriculture. On the other hand, the neo-peasant movement resists the productivist model of agriculture, proposi…
No es negociable. Desperdicio alimentario y relaciones de poder en la cadena agroalimentaria, de Jordi Gascón, Carlota Solà y Cristina Larrea
El libro No es negociable. Desperdicio alimentario y relaciones de poder en la cadena agroalimentaria escrito por Jordi Gascón, Carlota Solà y Cristina Larrea, aparece en un momento en el que la economía política de los espacios rurales requiere de especial atención. La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) junto con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (UNDP) y el Programa de las Nacione…
Playing by the rules
In Spain, small-scale agroecological production has emerged in response to the current environmental and food crisis. However, the lack of a protective legal framework, multiple sanctions and the political inertia of economic growth are deeply constraining and altering the very essence of such initiatives. In particular, new regulations introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated the formalisation and institutionalization of the agro…
A Period of Respite? The Effects of Covid-19 on Pastoralism in Italy and Spain
Pastoralism in Italy and Spain have undergone major shifts over the last fifty years as market-driven policies have marginalised traditional herding. COVID-19 brought both challenges and opportunities for pastoralists. Lockdowns increased appreciation for shepherding and limited tourism. It provided rural areas with a temporary respite; however, higher production costs, disrupted sales channels and changing rural property values strained liveliho…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Rural development and sustainability (4 works)