Gabriel Nardacchione

Gabriel Nardacchione holds a doctorate in sociology (EHESS) and is an independent researcher at CONICET. He teaches doctoral and master's courses at numerous national and foreign universities, notably on social theory, public space and research methodology. He holds the “El lado B de la Sociología” chair at the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA). he heads the Public Action Study Group (GEAP) at the “Gino Germani” Social Science Research Institute at the University of Buenos Aires. He has directed several collective projects (PIP-CONICET: “Actuando en público”) and the PICT-MINCyT project: “Modos alternativos de vida”, which brings together research from various scientific and artistic disciplines around interventions in public space.

The project

Title: Associativities of alternative worlds of life

"These “worlds” associated with unconventional practices and criteria refer to a series of works on the emergence of the “alternative circuit” understood as a network of individuals, communities and organizations offering services and training in various disciplines. Our investigation qualitatively analyzes the practices and knowledge of five axes of so-called “alternative” experience: i) food, ii) spiritual, iii) the art world, iv) therapies and v) the educational world. Methodologically, we combine ethnographies that capture the meanings of a particular situation, with a comparative dimension that brings common grammars and practices closer together, and finally a transversal strategy that captures connections and trajectories of actors between different fields. On the other hand, the research analyzes in an articulated way: criticisms of the dominant model of the field, the constitution of alternative devices which allow to maintain their practices and values, and finally, the negotiations of the groups in front of the broader processes of commodification and massification of the practices."

Host institution: LIER-FYT-EHESS

Selective bibliography

• 2024  El lado B de la sociología. Un recorrido del pragmatismo en la teoría social (c/ M. Paschkes Ronis), Editorial Teseo, Buenos Aires.
• 2022 Dossier en Papeles de Trabajo, “Asociatividades alternativas en la Argentina contemporánea” (c/ S. Muñoz-Tapia y M. Paschkes Ronis), 16(29), La Revista electrónica de la Escuela IDAES (UNSAM)
• 2022 El pragmatismo como método de formación de categorías. Calibrando el foco en la investigación social, Gabriel Nardacchione (coord.), Editorial SB, Buenos Aires.
• 2023 “Imperativo pragmatista e investigación social, parte II” (con Sebastián Pereyra), Cinta de Moebio, 77, 106-119.
• 2023 “Docencia, organización y liderazgo de un mundo en movimiento. El Contact Improvisación en Buenos Aires de 1985 a 2005” (c/ S. Muñoz), Revista Disparidades, 78(1).