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Ignacia Perugorría is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She received her PhD in Social Sciences from UPV/EHU, her MA in Sociology from Rutgers University (USA), and her BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), all three with the highest honors bestowed by these universities.
She is a Fulbright Scholar and has also been awarded fellowships by the Institute of International Education (USA), and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Spain). Additionally, she has received grants from the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), and has been named 'Basque Ambassador' by the Bizkaia Talent Program of the Provincial Council of Biscay.
Ignacia has taught graduate and undergraduate theory and methods courses in the United States, Latin America, and Spain, and has participated in numerous research projects with Argentine, American, and European funding. She is currently a member of the Basque University System Consolidated Research Group on “Social Change, Emerging Forms of Subjectivity, and Identity in Contemporary Societies” (Type A; IT-1469-22), and of the project “Building Sustainable Societies. Mobilization, Participation, and Management of Socioecological Practices” (MINECO, PID2021-126611NB-I00). She is also co-founder and co-coordinator of the New Far Rights Global Research Network, associated with the Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48) of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
Ignacia's research interests lie at the intersection of social movement studies, sociology of culture, and political sociology. Her most relevant articles can be found in Politics and Religion, Current Sociology, Revista Española de Sociología (RES), Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS), and Política y Sociedad. She has also co-edited a special issue in Current Sociology, and a volume in The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture, jointly published by Routledge and Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the leading scientific journal in the field of contentious politics.
Her manuscript The Politics of Celebration. Festive Culture, Intersectional Activisms, and the Making of Ephemeral Urban Commons in Bilbao will appear in Routledge in 2025, and a co-edited volume entitled Neoconservative Opposition to Moral Politics in Spain. Four Decades of Anti-Rights Mobilization (1978-2024) has been accepted for publication in Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS).
For more information, please visit Ignacia’s ORCID page.
