Francisco Ferrándiz Martín

Francisco Ferrándiz (PhD University of California at Berkeley, 1996) is Associate Researcher in the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology (ILLA) of the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His research in the anthropology of the body, violence and social memory encompasses two main ethnographic objects: the spiritist cult of María Lionza in Venezuela and, since 2003, the politics of memory in contemporary Spain, through the analysis of the current process of exhumation of mass graves from the Civil War (1936-1939). Before being hired at CSIC, he has taught and conducted research at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), the University of Utrecht, the Autonomous University of Morelos (UAEM), the University of Deusto and the University of Extremadura. He is the author of Escenarios del cuerpo: Espiritismo y sociedad en Venezuela (2004), and co-editor of The Emotion and the Truth: Studies in Mass Communication and Conflict (2002), Before Emergency: Conflict Prevention and the Media (2003), Violencias y culturas (2003), Jóvenes sin tregua: Culturas y políticas de la violencia (2005), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Research (2007), and Fontanosas 1941-2006: Memorias de carne y hueso (2010), among others.

Main publications:

Books (as author):

2018 (Bajo contrato. Fecha prevista de publicación). Bare Bones: Civil War Exhumations in Contemporary Spain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
2014. El pasado bajo tierra: Exhumaciones contemporáneas de la Guerra Civil. Barcelona: Grupo Editorial Siglo XXI/Anthropos
2011. Etnografías contemporáneas: Anclajes, métodos y claves para el futuro. Barcelona: Grupo Editorial Siglo XXI/Anthropos/UAM Iztapalapa
2004. Escenarios del cuerpo: Espiritismo y sociedad en Venezuela. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto

Books (as co-editor and/or co-author):

2015. & A. Robben A. Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
2015. & J. A Flores, M. García Alonso, J. López García y P Pitarch Manuel Gutiérrez Estévez: Maestro de etnógrafos (americanistas). Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuet
2014. & M. Hristova, L. Douglas y Z. De Kerangat Faces and Traces of Violence: Memory Politics in Global Perspective. Número Especial de la revista Culture and History Digital Journal 3(2) (CSIC)
2012. & Solé Q. Desenterrando el silencio: Antoni Benaiges, el maestro que prometió el mar. Barcelona: Blume
2011. & A. Leizaola y M. García Alonso Etnografías contemporáneas de las violencias políticas: Memoria, olvido, justicia. León: FFAAEE/Michael Kenny
2010. & J. López García Memorias de carne y hueso: Fontanosas 1941-2006. Ciudad Real: Diputación de Ciudad Real
2009. & R. Hudson y W. Bender Peace, Conflict and Identity: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research. Bilbao: HumanitarianNet/ Deusto University Press
2007. & A. Robben Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Research. Bilbao: HumanitarianNet/ Universidad de Deusto
2006. & C. Feixa Tierra quemada: Violencias y culturas en América Latina. Número especial de la RevistaNueva Antropología, n65 (Colegio de México, México D.F.)
2005. & C. Feixa Jóvenes sin tregua: Culturas y políticas de la violencia. Barcelona: Anthropos
2003. & J. M. Pureza Before Emergency: Conflict Prevention and the Media. Bilbao: HumanitarianNet/Universidad de Deusto
2003. & C. Feixa Violencias y culturas. Barcelona: FAAEE/ICA
2002. & M. Aguirre The Emotion and the Truth: Studies in Mass Communication and Conflict. Bilbao: HumanitarianNet/ Universidad de Deusto

Articles and chapters of books (of the last 3 years):

2017 (En prensa) “Death on the Move: Pantheons and Reburials in Spanish Civil War Exhumations”. En A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. Ed. por Antonious C.G.M. Robben. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
2017 (En prensa) “Unmaking Militarism Spanish Style: Engaging the Civil War Legacy”. Current Anthropology, número especial Cultures of Militarism, editado por Catherine Besteman y Hugh Gusterson
2017 (En prensa) & A. Robben “The Transitional Lives of Crimes against Humanity: Forensic Evidence under Changing Political Contexts”. En Bodies of Evidence: Anthropological Studies of Security, Knowledge and Power. Ed. por Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao and Nils Zurawski. Durham: Duke University Press
2017 (En prensa)“Exhumaciones de fosas comunes y políticas de victimización”. En Víctimas políticas en España y Europa. Ed. por Gérôme Truc. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez
2016 “Afterlives: Tracing Exhumed Bodies beyond the Mass Grave”. En Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain: Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present. Ed. por Ofelia Ferrán y Lisa Hilbink. Nueva York: Routledge
2016 & E. Silva “From Mass Graves to Human Rights: The Spanish Disappeared in a Transnational Context”. En Missing Persons: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Disappeared. Ed. por Derek Congram, pp. 74-101. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press Inc.
2016 “From Tear to Pixel: Political Correctness and Digital Emotions in the Exhumation of Mass Graves from the Civil War”. En Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (18th Century to the Present). Ed. por María Elena Delgado, Pura Fernández y Jo Labanyi, pp. 242-261. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press
2016 & P. Aguilar “Historical Memory, Media and Spectacle: Interviú and the Portrayal of Civil War Exhumations in the Early Years of Spanish Democracy”. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 17(1): 1-25
2015 “Exhumar la derrota”. En Políticas de memoria y construcción de ciudadanía. Ed. por A.Jerez y E. Silva, pp. 255-263. Madrid: Postmetrópolis Editorial
2015 “Mass Graves: A Spanish Tale”. En Necropolitics: Masss Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights. Ed. Por F. Ferrándiz y A. Robben, pp. 92-118. Filadelfia: University of Pennsylvania Press
2015 & A. Robben “The Ethnography of Exhumations”. En Necropolitics: Masss Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights. Ed. por F. Ferrándiz y A. Robben, pp. 1-38. Filadelfia: University of Pennsylvania Press
2015 “Ethnographies on the Limit: Ethnographic Versatility and Short-Circuits before Contemporary Violence”. Etnologia (Revista d’Etnologia de Cataluya) 40: 47-50