Crisis of political and legal institutions

This line of research focuses on the analysis of the complexities and transformations affecting political and legal institutions in contexts of crisis. Researchers explore how political crises impact governmental and legal structures, examining the responses of civil society, normative changes, and emerging power manifestations in times of institutional crisis.

This line seeks to understand the cultural and social dynamics that arise around the crisis of political and legal institutions, offering an anthropological perspective on the adaptation and contestation of communities in the face of these challenges.

The following members of CRITS conduct research that falls within this line of investigation:

• Raúl Márquez and Ignasi Terradas: conceptions of justice
• Mikel Aramburu: delegitimization of institutional politics
• Sílvia Bofill: regulation of domestic work
• Irene Sabaté: property and rental of housing, evictions
• Ferran Estrada and Camila del Mármol: extractive policies, political transformations of governance in rural areas
• Oriol Beltran and Ismael Vaccaro: transformations of property and the politics of the commons
• Violeta Argudo: regulation of biomedical innovations and biological data, end of life, transformations of the national health system

Projects framed within this line of research:

Popular conceptions of social justice in the face of crisis and austerity policies (CONJUST). PI: Sílvia Bofill-Poch and Mikel Aramburu Otazu.

Study and recovery of ancestral legal cultures: the case of the Shuar communities of Alto Nangaritza. PI: Raúl Márquez.