Mari Paz Balibrea
I am Professor of Spanish Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London and, for the academic year 2022-2023, a fellow in residence at the Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes, France. At Birkbeck, I served as an Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Student Experience in the School of Arts from 2017-2020, where I developed a programme of employability and business engagement for the Arts. I am a founding member and part of the Steering Committee of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS) and was its Director from 2014-2020. I have been part of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) Home and Exile Working Group since 2017. In the Department of Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics I have been Director of the MA/MRes Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Cultural Studies from 2014-2018, and I was the Director of the MA/MRes Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages from 2018 to 2022. I currently serve as Foundation Year Director in the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication. I am a founding member and President of the Asociación de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. I was a Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, AHRC’s Academic Peer Review College from 2017 to 2024. I am a permanent member in the Editorial Collective of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and of MVM: Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. I am in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Catalan Studies, and serve on the advisory board of more than twenty international refereed journals in the areas of Contemporary Spanish Cultures, Cultural Studies and Urban Studies. I am a regular peer reviewer for several academic publishers, including Boydell and Brewer, Liverpool University Press, University of Toronto Press, Berghahn Books, Palgrave Macmillan, University of North Carolina Press and Vanderbilt University Press.
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If you want to get a copy of any of my published work that I have not uploaded publicly, please contact me directly by email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 203 926 2644
Address: School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
United Kingdom
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Scrutinizing municipal discourses on culture from the late 1970s, this interdisciplinary work unveils how ideas of the function and nature of citizenship articulate changing definitions of the city, from model to brand. Over the course of topics such as: tourism, social democracy and urban regeneration, Balibrea constructs an original argument for how the Barcelona image mobilizes neoliberal fantasies of subject transformation. A wide-ranging study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology and cultural studies.
Edited Books by Mari Paz Balibrea
Articles in Refereed Journals by Mari Paz Balibrea
Scrutinizing municipal discourses on culture from the late 1970s, this interdisciplinary work unveils how ideas of the function and nature of citizenship articulate changing definitions of the city, from model to brand. Over the course of topics such as: tourism, social democracy and urban regeneration, Balibrea constructs an original argument for how the Barcelona image mobilizes neoliberal fantasies of subject transformation. A wide-ranging study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology and cultural studies.
This article was commissioned by the museums Arteleku-MACBA-Universidad Internacional de Andalucía as part of their exhibition project Desacuerdos. Sobre Arte, Políticas y Esfera Pública en el Estado Español. The article was available on their dedicated website http://www.desacuerdos.org/ and on http://ypsite.net/pdfs/barcelona_del_modelo_a_la_marca.pdf until these webs disappeared.
Gerhard took part in explicitly ideological cultural debates at key historical intersections of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, while in Berlin in Weimar Germany as a student of Schoenberg, and during the Spanish Second Republic (1931–9) his work as an intellectual and musician embraced the political role of culture and art in the fight against fascism and for the advance of the popular classes. In the post-war period, this important political role was re-signified to accommodate the geopolitics of the Cold War, which had shifted the definition of democratic values vis à vis their enemies, from fascism to communism. Cultural producers like Gerhard, whose trajectories dated back to the 1920s and came from an open commitment to leftist antifascist politics, had to navigate, from their own localities, this transcendental shift. It is evidence of this ‘navigation’ in Gerhard’s exile production in England that this chapter explores.
Resina, José Ramón (ed). Iberian Cities. New York: Routledge, 2001 and Donald McNeil. Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona. London:Routledge, 1999