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Urban policy, local governance, neighbourhood governance, urban regeneration, community participation, urban social exclusion, social innovation, public sector innovation
Spain

Biography

PhD in political science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ramon y Cajal researcher in the IGOP and in the Department of political science and public law at the UAB. Ramon y Cajal researcher already been linked to the Department of political and Social Sciences of the University Pompeu Fabra. He has been a researcher in the Department of Beatriu de Pinós public policies of the De Montfort University (Reino Unido), and visiting researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Joao Pinheiro (Brazil). Is member of the research group of Urban Governance, Commons, Internet and Social Innovation of the IGOP. His current research focuses on the impact of the socioespaciales crisis in the cities and in the emerging forms of governance and participation in this context. He is a member of the consortium of Research Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparison, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (United Kingdom) and directed by Prof. Jonathan Davies.

Activities

Employment (10)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2017-05-22 to present | Lecturer (Department of Political Science and Public Law)
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2016-01-25 to 2017-05-21 | Interim Lecturer (Department of Political Science and Public Law)
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2011-10-01 to 2015-12-31 | Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow (Department of Political Science and Public Law)
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Barcelona, Catalunya, ES

2011-01-01 to 2011-10-01 | Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow (Department of Political and Social Sciences )
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

De Montfort University: Leicester, Leicestershire, GB

2008-09-20 to 2010-09-20 | Visiting Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Local Governance Research Unit )
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2005-01-01 to 2008-09-14 | Director Grup de Recerca en Exclusió Social i Polítiques d'Inclusió (Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques (IGOP))
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2003-09-14 to 2008-09-14 | Assistant Professor (Departament de Ciència Política i Dret Públic)
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2000-02-01 to 2003-12-31 | FPI Research Fellow (Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques (IGOP))
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Fundação João Pinheiro: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BR

2002-06-01 to 2002-09-11 | Visiting Research Fellow (Escola de Governo)
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, MG, BR

2001-10-10 to 2001-10-30 | Visting Research Fellow (Departamento de Ciencia Politica 10/10/2001 30/10/2001)
Employment
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Ismael Blanco

Education and qualifications (2)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

2000 to 2004-11-26 | Ph.D. in Political Science
Education
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Ismael Blanco

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona : Bellaterra, Catalunya, ES

1995 to 1999-01-27 | Bachelor in Political and Administration Sciences
Education
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Ismael Blanco

Funding (17)

Combining guaranteed minimum income and active social policies in deprived urban areas of Barcelona (B-MINCOME)

2016-11 to 2019-10 | Grant
European Commission - Urban Innovative Actions Programme (Bruxelles, BE)
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Ismael Blanco

Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: and eight-case comparative study

2015-04 to 2017-04 | Grant
Economic and Social Research Council (Swindon, GB)
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Ismael Blanco

2014DEMOC-00024 Polítiques Públiques i Innovació Social: Oportunitats i Reptes

2014-12 to 2015-12 | Grant
Oficina de Qualitat Democràtica and AGAUR, Ajuts Projectes de Recerca DEMOC 2013 (Barcelona, Catalunya, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

2014 SGR 1391 URGOCIS (Urban Governance, Commons, Internet and Social Innovation)

2014-10 to 2016-10 | Grant
Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (Barcelona, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

DEMOC00042 El Valor de la Participació en Temps de Crisi

2013-12 to 2014-10 | Grant
Oficina de Qualitat Democràtica and AGAUR, Ajuts Projectes de Recerca DEMOC 2013 (Barcelona, Catalunya, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

CSO2012-32817 – Urban governance transformations in the context of crisis. Evolution and prospects of participative governance in Spain and the UK

2013-03 to 2016-03 | Grant
Ministry of Economy and Innovation, Goverment of Spain (Madrid, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

2012ACUP00004 Disadvantaged neighborhoods under the crisis: urban segregation, social innovation and civic capacity

2013-02 to 2015-04 | Grant
Recercaixa Programme (Obra Social 'La Caixa' and ACUP) (Barcelona, Catalunya, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

EAPC2011/01 La innovació administrativa com a resposta a l'incertesa

2013-01 to 2013-12 | Grant
Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya (Barcelona, Catalunya, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

CSO2011-28850 – Políticas urbanas en el escenario 2015. Tras 30 años de democracia local, análisis y propuestas sobre resiliencia y nuevas políticas urbanas

2012-01 to 2015-01 | Grant
Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia, Gobierno de España (Madrid, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

Study on the contribution of local development in delivering interventions co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the periods 2000-2006 and 2007-2013

2011-01 to 2012-01 | Grant
European Commission, ESPON 2013 Programme (Bruxelles, BE)
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Ismael Blanco

2008PBR00038 Modes and impacts of public participation in urban regeneration policy

2008-10 to 2010-10 | Grant
Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (Barcelona, Catalunya, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

2007 BP-A 00011 - Models de governança en les politiques de regeneració urbana. Els casos de Catalunya i d'Anglaterra

2008-01 to 2009-09 | Grant
Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (Barcelona, Catalunya, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

SEJ 2007-67388/CPOL Redes, participación y políticas de regeneración urbana en centros históricos

2007-10 to 2010-10 | Grant
Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia, Gobierno de España (Madrid, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

124/2007 Los Consejos de Personas Mayores, la Participación Social y el Envejecimiento Activo

2007-10 to 2009-02 | Grant
Instituto de Mayores y Servicios Sociales, Ministerio de Sanidad y Política Social, Gobierno de España (Madrid, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

FIPROS2005-29 La dimensión relacional de la exclusión social y las políticas de protección social

2005-10 to 2006-10 | Grant
Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales, Gobierno de España (Madrid, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

SEJ2004-01945/CPOL Exclusión Social Urbana en España. Bases Conceptuales y Análisis Comparado

2004-12 to 2007-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

SEJ2004-01 Análisis de la Exclusión Social en España

2001-12 to 2004-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Gobierno de España (Madrid, ES)
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Ismael Blanco

Works (21)

Crisis, urban segregation and social innovation in Catalonia

Partecipazione e Conflitto
2017 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Austerity Urbanism: Patterns of Neoliberalisation and Resistance in Six Cities of Spain and the UK

Environment and Planning A
2017-07-01 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

El Municipalisme del Bé Comú

Editorial Icària
2016 | Book
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Ismael Blanco

El papel de la innovación social frente a la crisis

Ciudad y Territorio. Estudios Territoriales
2016-07 | Journal article
ISSN:

1133-476 2

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Ismael Blanco

Social innovation, reciprocity and contentious politics: facing the socio-urban crisis in Ciutat Meridiana, Barcelona

Urban Studies
2016-07-26 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Between democratic network governance and neoliberalism: a regime-theoretical analysis of collaboration in Barcelona

Cities: the International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning
2015 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Yes you can: the "Who", the "What", the "Why" and the "How" of Innovation in American Government

Public Administration Review
2015-04-02 | Book review
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Ismael Blanco

Situating the local in the neoliberalisation and transformation of urban governance

Urban Studies
2014-09-18 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Entornos y motores para la innovación en las políticas públicas

Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia
2014-06 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Geographies of governance: How place matters in urban regeneration policies

Urban Studies
2014-01-08 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Crise et changement d'époque en Espagne. Réponses politiques et crise institutionnelle

Pôle Sud
2013 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

De la experimentación participativa a la radicalidad democrática. Crisis, movimientos sociales y participación ciudadana en el ámbito local

Documentación social
2013 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Els motors de la innovació a l'Administració Pública

Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya
2013 | Book
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Ismael Blanco

Inclusividad democrática e inteligencia colectiva, ¿la gobernanza participativa como respuesta?

Inmigración y ciudadanía activa: contribuciones sobre gobernanza participativa e inclusión social
2013 | Book chapter
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Ismael Blanco

Urban governance and regeneration policies in historic city centres: Madrid and Barcelona

Urban Challenges in Spain and Portugal.
2013 | Book chapter
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Ismael Blanco

Was steckt hinter dem Partizipationsangebot?

Hoffnung auf eine neue Demokratie. Bürgerhaushalte in Lateinamerika und Europa
2013 | Book chapter
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Ismael Blanco

Analysing Urban Governance Networks: Bringing Regime Theory Back in

2013-01-01 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Nuevas miradas sobre viejos problemas: periferias urbanas y transformación social

Gestión y Política Pública
2012 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

From networks to hegemony… and back to networks?

Dialogues in Human Geography
2012-11-01 | Book review
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Ismael Blanco

Policy Networks and Governance Networks: Towards Greater Conceptual Clarity

Political Studies Review
2011-08-11 | Journal article
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Ismael Blanco

Polis, la ciudad participativa

Diputació de Barcelona
2006 | Book
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Ismael Blanco

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Nature Cities. (1)