Ignacia Perugorría
CEIC · Member, GAIT · Member
Ignacia Perugorría is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She received her PhD in Social Sciences from UPV/EHU, her MA in Sociology from Rutgers University (USA), and her BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), all three with the highest honors bestowed by these universities.
She is a Fulbright Scholar and has also been awarded fellowships by the Institute of International Education (USA), and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Spain). Additionally, she has received grants from the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), and has been named ‘Basque Ambassador’ by the Bizkaia Talent Program of the Provincial Council of Biscay. While at Rutgers, she was elected Vice President and then President of the Graduate Student Association (GSA), governing body for almost 15,000 MA and PhD students, and 70 academic and cultural Graduate Student Organizations. She also served as Graduate Workers Representative on the Executive Council of the Rutgers American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT), representing over 1,800 peer teaching and research assistants within a union that includes over 3,000 faculty members, and was appointed Delegate at the AFT National Convention.
Ignacia has taught graduate and undergraduate theory and methods courses in the United States, Latin America, and Spain, and has participated in numerous research projects with Argentine, American, and European funding. She is currently a member of the Consolidated Research Group “Social Change, Emerging Forms of Subjectivity, and Identity in Contemporary Societies” (Type A; IT-1469-22) of the Basque University System, and of the project “Building Sustainable Societies. Mobilization, Participation, and Management of Socioecological Practices” (MINECO, PID2021-126611NB-I00). She is also co-founder and co-coordinator of the New Far Rights Global Research Network, associated with the Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48) of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
Ignacia’s research interests lie at the intersection of social movement studies, sociology of culture, and political sociology. She has conducted both quantitative and qualitative research on the Neighborhood Assembly Movement in corralito-stricken Argentina; the Spanish 15M Movement’s struggle for “real democracy” and social justice; Maker Movement collaborative innovation practices amidst the COVID-19 pandemic; and the interaction between “new” and “old” social movement networks and intersectional activisms in the making of participatory culture in the Basque Country. More recently, she has opened a line of collaborative research on the ‘New Far Right,’ concentrating on the anti-rights field mobilized against progressive moral policies in both Spain and Latin America; the “Noviembre Nacional” protests at the headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Party; and politico-religious repertoires in the public space such as Rosario en Ferraz. She is also studying new youth neoconservative subjectivities, looking at the religious movement Hakuna.
Ignacia’s most relevant publications can be found in Politics and Religion, Current Sociology, Revista Española de Sociología (RES), Revista Internacional de Sociología (RIS), Política y Sociedad, and soon also in Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), and Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones. She has also co-edited a special issue in Current Sociology, and a volume in Routledge’s The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture, jointly published with Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the leading scientific journal in the field of contentious politics. She is currently working on her manuscript The Politics of Celebration. Festive Culture, Intersectional Activisms, and Ephemeral Urban Commons in Bilbao, and on a co-edited volume entitled Neoconservative Opposition to Moral Politics in Spain. Four Decades of Anti-Rights Mobilization (1978-2024).