Dr Montserrat Guibernau

Montserrat Guibernau is Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College Oxford. She is also affiliated to the Forum on Geopolitics at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) University of Cambridge and has recently been awarded a Visiting Professorship at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). She received a PhD in Social and Political Theory from King’s College, University of Cambridge in 1993 and a BA Honors in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona in 1994.

Montserrat has held the following positions: Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, 2005-2016. Reader in Politics at the Open University 2002, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University 2000, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University 1998. At the University of Warwick, Montserrat was ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations 1994, and Senior Research Fellow 1994-1996.

Research Interests

Her current research focuses upon two interrelated topics within the field of Political Sociology: the study of global transformations shaping the construction and expression of nationalism, migration and national identity, and the analysis of national and ethnic diversity within the European Union and North America. Her concerns relate both to cultural issues of identity and political mobilization -including the rise of populism and the resurgence of authoritarian regimes in the West- as well as political questions connected to emerging governance mechanisms and models. She has engaged in empirical research in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Catalonia, Quebec, the Veneto, Austria, Norway and most recently, Greece. She has just completed a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship to research ‘Identity, Emotions and Political Mobilization’ examining the rise of euro-skepticism and secessionism in the EU as markers of significant political and social transformations worldwide.

Key Publications - Books

Guibernau, M. (2013). Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies. (Polity Press: Cambridge) 225 pages. ISBN 978-0-7456-5507-9ppb, 978-0-7456-5506-2hb.

Guibernau, M. (2009) For a Cosmopolitan Catalanism (Winner of the 2009 Eines Prize) (Angle Editorial Press, Barcelona) 123 pages. ISBN-978-84-927-5824-1.

Key Publications - Journal Articles

Guibernau, M. (2015) ‘Self-Determination in the 21st Century’ Ethnopolitics: Formerly Global Review of Ethnopolitics, 14:5, 540-546, DOI:10.1080/17449057.2015.1051814.

Guibernau, M. (2014) ‘Catalan Secessionism: Young people’s expectations and political change’, The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 49:3, 106-117, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2014.952955.

Guibernau, M. (2013) ‘Prospects for an independent Catalonia’, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (IJCPS) New York, Springer. DOI 10.1007/s10767-013-9165-4.

Guibernau, M. (2013). Catalan Secessionism: After Democracy. Ethnopolitics. Vol 12, 4, ISSN:1744-9056.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2013.843245.

Guibernau, M. (2011) ‘The Birth of a United Europe: On why the EU has generated a ‘non emotional’ Identity’, Nations and Nationalism, vol.17 (2), 2011, pp. 302-315.

Guibernau, M. (2011). ‘Prospects for a European Identity’, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (IJPCS) New York, Springer, vol. 24 (1), 2011, pp. 31-43.

Grants and Projects

2012-2014 Leverhulme Trust Fellowship project: ‘Identity, Emotions and Political Mobilization’.

2007-2010 The Westfield Trust. Research project: Religious Diversity and National Identity in Britain and Spain.

2003-2006 Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. Research project: The Impact of Migration on National Identity.

1999-2001 ESRC 'One Europe or Several?' Programme. Research project: Regional Identity and European Citizenship. Co-director. Award reference number L213 25 2031.

Awards

2009 The EINES Essay Prize (Irla Foundation) on Catalan Studies for a book length manuscript. Title: For a Cosmopolitan Catalanism.

Additional Information

1986-1989 Lecturer in Sociology and Politics, University of Barcelona
1993-1994 Lecturer in Sociology and Politics, University of Barcelona
1994-1996 ESRC Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations
University of Warwick
1996-1998 ESRC Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick
1998-2000 Lecturer in Politics, Open University
2000-2002 Senior Lecturer in Politics, Open University
2002-2005 Reader in Politics, Open University
2005-2016 Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London

Invited recent Talks: Keynote Speaker

17-21 February 2016. 31st Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC Symposium on ‘Europe in Turmoil’/ Tufts University, Boston, USA. Title: Migration and The future of the European Project.

30th June 2015. Title: Nationhood for Scotland and Catalonia; Threat or opportunity for the EU? The Forum on Geopolitics at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge.

13th March 2015. The University of Newcastle, CSoP event around Montserrat Guibernau’s book: Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies, Polity Press, 2013. Title: Belonging: The Necessary Ambiguity of Symbols.

16th March 2015. The British Library, Conference Centre, Bronte Room, London. Title: ‘Prospects for an independent Catalonia’.

24th September 2014, British Academy. Title: Immigration and the Making of British Identity.

11-13th June 2014, States, Peoples, Languages: A Comparative Political History of Ukrainian, 1863-2013. Title: Francoism: Portrait of a Dictatorship, CGIS, Harvard University.

27-29th April 2014, Self-Determination in 21st Century. A Double Edged Word? Title: The Consequences of Democracy: On Catalonia’s self-determination. Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, LISD/WWS, Princeton University.