Carles Viñas Gracia

E-mail: carlesvinas@ub.edu

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Visiting professor in the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2023). PhD in Contemporary History from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), currently works as Professor Lector (Serra Húnter program) in the Department of History and Archeology at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). He is also a contributing professor on the Humanities course at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and on the Master’s in Radicalization Prevention at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). He is a member of the Consolidated Research Group Center Estudis Històrics Internacionals (GREC-CEHI), the Study Group on the History of Culture and Intellectuals (GEHCI-UB) of the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de Barcelona, and the Research Group on States, Nations and Sovereignties (GRENS-UPF). Furthermore, he is a member of the International Expert Network of the C-REX Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo (Right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe: RTV data set) and the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy & Political Violence (European Consortium for Political Research). He is currently part of the team of the I + D + i research project “The right in democratic Spain (1977-1996). Projects, institutional performance and social presence” (PID2020-112679GB-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (2021-2025). He is also a member of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES), the European Committee for Sports History (CESH), the Societat Catalana d’Estudis Històrics, the Contemporary History Association (AHC), the Far Right Observatory (UFJF), the Association of European Latin American Historians (AHILA) and the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (COMFAS). His research has focused on topics such as the study of youth cultures and political and sporting extremism. On these topics, he published several essays and contributed to collective works.

Main Publications

• “Claques, ultras and radicals. The uneven development of fandom in Spain and Portugal. A History of Identities and Political Extremism”, en Bernardo Buarque y Thomas Busset (eds.) Football Fandom in Europe and Latin America. Culture, Politics, and Violence in the 21 st Century. Londres: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
• El mundo ultra. Los radicales del fútbol español, Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2023.
• Entre la nostàlgia i el populisme. Breu història de l’extrema dreta i la dreta radical a Catalunya. Juneda: Fonoll, 2023.
• Skinheads. Historia global de un estilo. Barcelona: Bellaterra, 2022.
• Tolerància zero. La violència en el futbol. Barcelona: Angle, 2006.