Uzuri Aboitiz Hidalgo

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Uzuri Aboitiz is a postdoctoral researcher in Anthropology (Basque Government 2024-2029) at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico and at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Concerned about the expansion of financialization in the field of social reproduction, she investigates the specific expressions and implications of indebtedness among women.
She holds an international PhD in Anthropology from the University of Barcelona, and her dissertation analyzed the effects of the 2008 crisis and austerity policies on the lives and life projects of the working classes in a deindustrialized city of the Basque Country. Through the observation of household economies, she focuses on the transformations of social reproduction relations. Her work is situated within the theoretical frameworks of political economy, moral economy, and feminist economics.
In addition to being part of the Feminist Anthropology Research Group (University of the Basque Country), she is a member of the “Grup d’Estudios sobre Reciprocitat” (University of Barcelona) and the “International Seminar on the Anthropology of Money and Economy” (CIESAS and University of California). She has taught the subjects “Economic Anthropology”, “Anthropology and Social Work”, “Globalization and the World Economic System”, and “Mechanisms and Processes of Exclusion and Inclusion” at the University of Barcelona and the University of the Basque Country, and is a guest lecturer in the master’s program “Anthropology and Ethnography” at the University of Barcelona. She has also taught specialization courses in “Feminist Economics” for Emakunde, the Basque Institute for Women. She is currently conducting fieldwork in Mexico with indebted household groups.