Jordi Gascón

PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain

Jordi Gascón is an anthropologist specialized in rural studies. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Barcelona (1998). His areas of research are the impacts of tourism in the rural world and sustainability in the agri-food cycle. Since 1990 he has been conducting research in the Andean Area (Peru and Ecuador), and in the Iberian Peninsula since 2014 (Aragon and Catalonia). He has published in high impact international academic journals, and is the author of several monographs on these topics. Professor at the University of Barcelona since 2019, he has also been a professor at the University of Lleida, and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN) in Ecuador. Previously, for 20 years, he worked in development cooperation, in projects for the defense of indigenous and peasant rights in Latin America. He is a member of the Research Group “Antropología de las crisis y las transformaciones contemporáneas – CRITS” (Anthropology of Contemporary Crises and Transformations) at the University of Barcelona, and the Institute for Research in Nutrition and Food Safety (INSA-UB) of the same university.