Manuel Delgado Ruiz
Born in Barcelona in 1956. Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the Universitat de Barcelona. Ph.D in Anthropology from the same university. Graducate studies at the Section de Sciences Réligieuses de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris. Since 1984, Professor of Religious Anthropology at the Departament d’Antropologia Social at the Universitat de Barcelona and Coordinator for the Doctoral Programme in Anthropology of Space and Territory and its Research Group on Public Spaces.
His work has focused mainly on the construction of collective identities in urban contexts, and he has published articles on that subject in Spanish and international journals. He has also edited the following collections: Antropologia social (1994), Ciutat i immigració (1997), Inmigración y cultura (2003), and Carrer, festa i revolta (2004). He is the author of the following books: Ciudad líquida, ciudad interrumpida (1999), El animal público (Anagrama Essay Award, 1999), Luces iconoclastas (2001), Disoluciones urbanas (2002), Elogi del vianant (2005), Sociedades movedizas (2007), and La ciudad mentirosa (2007).