Carlos Diz
Assistant Professor
Carlos Diz is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences at the Universidade da Coruña. He is a researcher at the Inter-University Research Centre for Cultural Atlantic Landscapes (CISPAC). With a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, his main areas of focus are collective action and social movements, urban studies, the political anthropology of the body and emotions, feminist studies of precarity, in/mobilities and ethnographic fieldwork. Hir doctoral thesis ‘Políticas y tácticas del cuerpo: retablos de la ciudad activista’ (2016) obtained the qualification of Sobresaliente Cum Laude and the Extraordinary Prize of the Universidade da Coruña. He has carried out training and research stays at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and the Université de Bordeaux (France), the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo of the Universidad de Chile (Chile), the West University of Timișoara (Romania) and the Institut für Humangeographie of the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
His latest publications include: the articles ‘Caring Democracy Now: Neighborhood Support Networks in the Wake of the 15-M’ (2023. Social Movement Studies, with Brais Estévez and Raquel Martínez-Buján), ‘Métodos etnográficos experimentais: a etnografía itinerante nunha sociedade in/mobilizada’ (2023. Revista Andaluza de Antropología) and ‘Reaprendiendo a trabajar: saberes que cuidan en el manejo de algoritmos entre riders’ (2023. Disparidades. Revista de Antropología, with Paula González Granados and Amaia Prieto Arratibel); the chapters ‘The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem’ (2023. Palgrave, with Arpan Roy), ‘¿Una antropología de los movimientos sociales? Paisajes activos y etnografías de la perturbación’ (2024. Tirant lo Blanch) and ‘Saberes migrantes: alianzas precarias y activismo transnacional de la nueva diáspora española’ (2024. Tirant lo Blanch, with Belén Fernández-Suárez); the encyclopaedia entry ‘Platform Capitalism’ (2023. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, with Maribel Casas-Cortés and Montserrat Cañedo Rodríguez); the photographic exhibition ‘Vidas Rider’ (2024. Centro Joaquín Roncal, coordinated by Paula González); and the book ‘’No nos vamos, nos echan‘: las luchas contra la precariedad de la nueva diáspora española’ (2024. Tirant lo Blanch, with Belén Fernández-Suárez).