Speakers Speakers (The 2024 Biennial of Thought)

<p>Independent researcher, activist, editor, and “pirate philosopher.” He has co-directed Aquarel·la Llibres and the magazine Arxipèlag and has actively participated in various collective movements (student, anti-globalization, copyleft, no to war, V d'Habitatge, 15-M). Ned Ediciones has published <em>Habitar y gobernar</em> (2020), <em>El eclipse de la atención</em> (2023), and <em>Capitalismo Libidinal</em> (2024). His various works can be consulted at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.filosofiapirata.com">www.filosofiapirata.com</a>.</p>

<p>Director of Participation and Democratic Innovation at the Barcelona City Council. Head of <a target="_blank" href="http://decidim.barcelona">decidim.barcelona</a> and co-founder of <a target="_blank" href="http://Decidim.org">Decidim.org</a>. Head of the Canòdrom - Center for Digital and Democratic Innovation. Former coordinator of Technopolitics at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3-UOC). PhD in Information and Knowledge Society from the UOC.</p>

<p>Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Amsterdam (2017) and Master’s in Urban Studies, UAB (2023). Specialized in urban political economy, housing, and public policies.</p><p>She has been a project coordinator at the Laboratorio para la Ciudad, the experimental think tank of the Government of Mexico City, and at the public innovation lab Coboi lab. She has experience as an independent consultant on urban public policies. She has also designed political advocacy strategies for the protection of land and territory defenders at risk in Mexico (PBI).</p>

<p>Chris Ealham works at the Madrid Campus of Saint Louis University. He specializes in the history of Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements, on which he has published numerous academic articles in English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, and Russian. He is also the author of two books on this subject: <em>The Struggle for Barcelona: Class, Culture and Conflict 1898-1937</em> and <em>Living Anarchy, Living Utopia: José Peirats and the History of Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalism</em>, both published by Alianza in 2005 and 2016, respectively. He is currently researching anarcho-syndicalist insurrectionalism and preparing a biography of Juan García Oliver for the publisher Debate. His first experience of what democracy meant was within the British anti-fascist movement during the Thatcher era.</p>

<p>Bachelor’s degree in Art History (USC). Postgraduate studies in International Cooperation and Cultural Management &amp; Technopolitics and Rights in the Digital Age (UB). Cultural manager and mediator for over a decade. She has worked in the management, coordination, and support of cultural and interdisciplinary projects at local, national, and international levels.</p><p>Between 2015 and 2022, she was a councilor at the City Council of A Coruña with the municipalist platform Marea Atlántica. Between 2015 and 2019, she was a deputy at the Diputación de A Coruña and Councilor for Participation and Democratic Innovation in the municipal government of A Coruña, where she implemented several radically innovative public policies.</p><p>She currently co-coordinates the Seminar “Rethinking the Museum: Institutional Practice and Mezzopolitics” within the Program of Own Studies in Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices, and Cultural Studies “Tejidos Conjuntivos” at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid).</p>

<p>Doctora en Història Contemporània per la Universitat de Barcelona amb una tesi sobre la formació de la cultura llibertària a Catalunya i l'organització de grups d'afinitat anarquista. Els seus llibres més recents són&nbsp;<em>Espiritistes i lliurepensadors&nbsp;</em>(2018),<em> Dones obreres al Raval&nbsp;</em>(2019),&nbsp;<em>Història de l'Anarquisme als Països Catalans</em> (2022), amb Jordi Martí.</p><p>Ha exercit com a professora de tècniques de documentació audiovisual al Màster de noves professions de la UB des del 2000 fins al 2005, i ha treballat com a documentalista i comissària de diferents exposicions:&nbsp;<em>L’Hospitalet, 100 anys d’Ajuntament; Collblanc-La Torrasssa, història d'un barri</em> (2001);&nbsp;<em>Surrealisme i Etnografia: la trobada fecunda&nbsp;</em>(2000);&nbsp;<em>Ètnic</em> (2004),<em> i Gitanos, sis segles de cultura rom a Catalunya</em> (2005).</p><p>Ha assessorat en el camp documental diferents reportatges i pel·lícules, i és autora, amb Lluís Calvo, de&nbsp;<em>Surrealisme i Etnografia CSIC-Barcelona</em> (2000);&nbsp;<em>Clandestins: El maquis contra el franquisme</em> (2001 i 2005);&nbsp;<em>Cornellà: 25 anys de Democràcia</em>, amb Àngels Marín (2004);&nbsp;<em>La Barcelona Rebel. Guia d'una ciutat silenciada</em> (2004);&nbsp;<em>Francesca Bonne-maison: educadora de ciutadans</em> (2004);&nbsp;<em>La família Montseny-Mañé: un laboratori de les idees,</em> i&nbsp;<em>Ministres anarquistes</em> (2005), així com diversos articles de divulgació històrica.</p><p>Col·labora en diferents trobades sobre la recuperació de la memòria històrica (La Gavilla Verda de Conca i Associació de Joves de la Comarca del Jerte a Extremadura), i és membre de la Marxa dels Maquis de Catalunya.</p>

<p>Donatella Della Porta is a Professor of Political Science, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center for Social Movement Studies (Cosmos).</p><p>Her main research topics include social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, policing, and police surveillance of protests. She has directed a major ERC project, <em>Mobilizing for Democracy</em>, on the participation of civil society in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. In 2011, she received the Mattei Dogan Prize for her outstanding achievements in the field of political sociology. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Lausanne, Bucharest, Gothenburg, Jyväskylä, and the University of the Peloponnese.</p><p>She is the author or editor of 90 books, 150 journal articles, and 150 contributions in edited volumes. Her most recent publications include: <em>Social Movements: An Introduction</em>, 3rd edition (Blackwell, 2020); and <em>Can Social Movements Save Democracy?</em> (Polity, 2020).</p>

<p>Hug March Corbella is a professor at the Department of Economics and Business and a researcher at the Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He holds a degree in Environmental Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, 2005) and a PhD in Environmental Sciences also from UAB (2010). March is an expert in sustainability and ecological transition, urban political ecology, water cycle management, and urban studies.</p><p>His academic contribution is situated in the field of urban studies, geography, and urban political ecology, and it helps to understand the various processes (technological, sociodemographic, politicoeconomic) that influence socio-environmental governance and ecological transition.</p><p>Professor Hug March Corbella's R&amp;D activity focuses on analyzing new urban sustainability paradigms (smart cities, resilience, urban agriculture, etc.), the political ecology of ecological transition, and changes in governance and political economy of natural resources, with special attention to water resources.</p><p>His main research interests include urban political ecology, urban water management, the political economy of the hydrological cycle, management models, and the emergence of new supply technologies, as well as the intersection of ecological and digital transitions in the context of climate emergency.</p>

<p>Geographer and specialist in water policy by training, Dr. Katie Meehan is co-director of the King's Water Centre at King's College London and principal investigator of the Plumbing Poverty project. Her expertise includes environmental justice, water governance, and socio-spatial and infrastructural inequality. Meehan's current research project was selected for a prestigious European Research Council award and is funded by the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee (2023-2028). Meehan, a two-time Fulbright scholar and former Peace Corps volunteer, has lived and worked in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, the southwestern United States, and now England. Her research has appeared in leading journals such as Science, PNAS, Geoforum, WIRE Water, and Annals of the American Association of Geographers. She is co-author of <em>Water: A Critical Introduction</em> (Wiley, 2023) and is finishing a book on the water crisis in Mexico City and its less visible struggles concerning social reproduction, state power, and domestic labor.</p>

<p>Environmental scientist, PhD in geography, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change, she has just completed her training as a facilitator. She is driven by questions about how to live together on a damaged planet and how to build bridges between ways of knowing and experiencing the world while respecting the differences between them. She has explored these issues mainly in problems related to water, distribution, depletion, pollution, and the conflicts this generates in areas where it is scarce. Recently, she is particularly concerned with considering ecosystems, plants, and animals as subjects that challenge and co-constitute us. Since 2021, she has intermittently lived in the Mar Menor lagoon, trying to understand the complexity surrounding its crisis and whether it is possible to activate something that could be called collective agency to navigate it.</p>