Jaume Montés is an FPU predoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at the Universitat de Barcelona. His doctoral project, titled “Political Freedom, Property and Sovereignty in the Republican Federalism of Pi y Margall”, traces the history of the fundamental concepts that structured Pi y Margall’s thought. It also examines the social, economic, and political institutions Pi proposed as alternatives to the liberal state in Spain during its construction and consolidation. Jaume has conducted research stays at the Université de Rouen Normandie and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has published articles on republicanism, the history of political ideas, and state theory in various academic journals and edited volumes. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Debats pel Demà and Sin Permiso.
Research lines: Conceptual History, History of Political Thought, Spanish Republicanism, State Theory.
Contact: jaume.montes@ub.edu; @JaumeMontes
Further information: ORCID; Google Scholar; ResearchGate; academia.edu
Featured publications
Montés, J. and Mundó, J. (2025). “I Shall Divide and Subdivide Power”: The Fiduciary Conception of Sovereignty in Francisco Pi y Margall’s Republican Federal Project. Modern Intellectual History, OnlineFirst: 1-25.
Montés, J. (2025). La memòria de Pi i Margall i el seu llegat actual. Algunes consideracions sobre la importància historicopolítica de les conjuntures interpretatives. In L. Puig i Gordi (ed.), Constructors de mentalitats: Víctor Balaguer, Pi i Margall, Àngel Guimerà i Josep Anselm Clavé, Afers, 31-48.
Granell, X. and Montés, J. (2024). “Un obrer de la intel·ligència”: Francesc Pi i Margall en la revolució democràtica. In F. Pi i Margall, L’hidra del federalisme, Tigre de Paper/Ajuntament de Barcelona, 5-75.
Granell, X. and Montés, J. (2024). Las huellas de la Cantonal: la polémica entre Francisco Pi y Margall y Fernando Garrido en torno a la federación (1873-1883).Sociología Histórica, 13(1): 44-75.
Montés, J. (2022). Más allá de una excrecencia parasitaria: el concepto de Estado en Gramsci y Foucault. Dorsal. Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos, 12, 105-127.