Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid
| Dates: | 1 December 2025 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Ana Gutierrez Garza |
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Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse the impact that precarity has on masculinities among housing activists involved in the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform of People Affected by Mortgages) in Madrid through everyday practices of debt advice, political resistance and care among men in the collective. I question the ways in which the embodiment of the political figure of the activist can ameliorate, challenge or reconfigure precarious masculinities.
Ana Gutierrez Garza is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. She did her PhD in Social Anthropology at the LSE where she studied Latin American women’s lives while working as domestic and sex workers in London. She has published her doctoral work in a monograph called: Care for Sale, An ethnography of Latin American domestic and sex workers, published by Oxford University Press. She then broadened the field of her research, still with a strong focus on care, inequality and migration while studying an anti-eviction social movement in Madrid. She has also been involved in a project concerned with inequality, care and cooperation among Hispanic migrants in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her various field sites offer a comparative approach to the study of people’s (particularly women's) efforts and abilities to create possibilities for themselves in the face of precarious realities. Her lens on care and ethics has illuminated everyday day practices of resistance but also structural conditions of inequality. She has worked at the LSE, Brunel, Oxford, and currently is a lecturer in Social Anthropology where she directs the Centre for Latin American Studies and the Gender Institute where she runs the Master’s degree in Gender Studies.
Speaker
Ana Gutierrez Garza
Organisation: University of St Andrews
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