Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Valencia (2025-27). Previous postdoctoral position at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2021-24). PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona (2020) awarded with the First Prize for the best PhD in Economic Sociology (FES, 2021). Visiting scholar at the Centre Européen Des Études Républicaines-CEDRE in Paris (2019), the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam (2022) and the Queen Mary University of London (2025). Member of: (i) the Editorial Board of Sin Permiso; (ii) the Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcies-CEDID (since 2022); (iii) the Group of Social History of Political Thought, Catalan Society of Philosophy at the Institut d’Estudis Català (since 2024); (iv) the Barcelona Network for Critical Thought and Social Research (since 2024). Main research lines: History of Political Thought, Social Theory, British Post-war Socialism, European Marxism, and Alternative Property Regimes. His PhD demonstrates the systematic influence of the radical republican tradition on the political and historical work of the historian Edward Palmer Thompson. His postdoctoral project deals with the democratic momentum of 1945 and its legacies in postwar Socialist forces and postwar historiography.
Contact: juliomartinezcava@gmail.com; @juliomtzcava
Further information: academia.edu
Featured publications
[under review] Martínez-Cava, J. & Martínez, R. (2026) “Revisiting Capital and Class in the Ecological Crisis: Toward a Relational Critique”, Sociology Compass, vol. 20.
[in press] Martínez-Cava, J. (2026), “Économie Morale”. In J. Rochfeld, M. Cornu and F. Orsi (eds.), Dictionnaire des biens communs, 3ª ed., Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, pp. 1-6
Martínez-Cava, J. (2024). “Marx está de nuestro lado y no nosotros del lado de Marx”. Introducción a Miseria de la teoría. In E. P. Thompson, Miseria de la teoría. Verso Libros, 1-42.
Martínez-Cava, J. (2022). La tradición democrática en el comunismo británico. E. P. Thompson a la luz de los archivos del MI5, Historia Social, 104, 93-111.
Guerrero, D. & Martínez-Cava, J. (2022). Between Tyranny and Self-Interest Why Neo-republicanism Disregards Natural Rights. Theoria, 69(171), 140-171.
Martínez-Cava, J. (2019). Introducción. In E. P. Thompson, Costumbres en común. Estudios sobre la cultura popular. Capitán Swing, 11-45