Albert Moncusi-Ferré

Albert Moncusí-Ferré holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain) and is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia (Spain), where he has worked as a professor since 2000. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the same university (2018-2024) and Director of the Masters in Cultural Management (2009-2015). He is a member of the MIDICO (Migrations, diversity and social cohesion) and ANTROPIA (Groupe d'études en Antrhopologie, patrimoine et imaginaires culturels), and a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans since 2021. He has also been a visiting researcher at Queens University Belfast (UK, 2003), at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Urbaine (CNRS, France, 2011) and COMPAS (Center on Migration Policy and Society, (Oxford, UK, 2015). He has participated in research projects and contracts and has published books, chapters and articles on intercultural conviviality in urban contexts, immigration and skilled migration, as well as cultural heritage and collective memory.

In recent years, he has focused in particular on the study of inter-ethnic conviviality in multicultural neighborhoods and in particular, in the Els Orriols district (Valencia). His stay in Paris is part of a project in which he is currently involved ("Participabarrio. Participation, neighborhood relations and coexistence in pandemic multicultural neighborhoods. A comparative analysis").

The project

Title: Social cohesion in working-class neighborhoods: proposals for research and public policy action

"This visit is part of the work I'm doing in the Valencian district of Els Orriols on ethnocultural diversity and coexistence, in the context of a long-term ethnographic project within the "Dynamics of coexistence, in multicultural spaces and environments" line of the MIDICO research group at the University of Valencia. The topic I intend to address is building community ties in neighborhoods affected by two major processes. First ervices, private and public infrastructures and public spaces.ly, the processes of urban precariousness defined by a combination of housing deficiencies, This is a process in which public policies have played a fundamental role, and which involves the construction of a negative image of these neighborhoods, to which the authorities themselves have contributed through practices such as the labelling of "vulnerable neighbourhoods", and to which social science researchers can contribute. France has been a benchmark for socio-anthropological work on urban precariousness, with the development of contributions echoing expressions such as "quartiers sensibles" or "quartiers en crise" and, in particular, the proposal of the notion of "neighborhood effects" to designate the influence of living conditions in these areas on their inhabitants and, in particular, on their social perception."

Hosting institution: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et Sociologie Comparative (LESC) - Université Paris Nanterre.

Selective bibliography

• Fioravanti, Hernán et Moncusí-Ferré, Albert, "Memory Politics on a Neighborhood Scale: Uses of the Past in the Historic Center and the Periphery of Valencia (Spain)", Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 52(3) (2023): 379-403.
• Moncusí-Ferré, Albert, La immigració estrangera al País Valencià, (València: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2022).
• Moncusí-Ferré, Albert, "De malestares, iniciativas y expectativas en barrios periféricos multiculturales: reflexiones a partir del caso de Els Orriols (Valencia)", Cuadernos Manuel Giménez Abad, 7 (2020): 51-69.
• Moncusí-Ferré, Albert, "Espacios públicos, condición inmigrante, orden institucional y derecho a la ciudad. Reflexiones a propósito de Valencia", kultur. Revista interdisciplinària sobre la cultura de la ciutat, 4(8) (2017).
• Moncusí-Ferré, Albert, "Subjetividades y agencias que emergen en la periferia urbana. Reflexiones sobre un barrio de Valencia", Revista de Antropología experimental, 17 (2017).
• Moncusí-Ferré, Albert "La convivencia en teoría y su conjugación en la práctica lecciones a partir de un conflicto en Els Orriols (Valencia)", Abaco: Revista de cultura y ciencias sociales, 94 (2017): 83-92.