Carles Feixa Pàmpols

Professor Carles Feixa Pàmpols

Small Group Project 2024-25

“Juvenicide”: Conceptualizing, measuring, preventing and countering systematic violence against young people

Systematic lethal violence against young people is widespread around the world, yet it is largely overlooked. This project aims to bring together the co-PIs, in consultation with a wider network of scholars, to conceptualize, build awareness on, and counter the phenomenon of ‘juvenicide’, which we define as the systematic assassination of young people because they are young. Specifically, the project aims to finance a 2-month research stay of one of the PIs (Dr. Butti) in the institution of the other PI (Prof. Feixa) in order to allow in-depth collaborative work to achieve the project aims based on their complementary expertise.

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Areas of interest

Social Anthropology Youth Mexico Colombia

Cohort

FG10

Biography

Carles Feixa Pàmpols is Professor of Social Anthropology at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He has a PhD from the University of Barcelona and an Honoris Causa from the University of Manizales (Colombia). Former professor at the University of Lleida, he has been visiting scholar in Rome, Mexico City, Paris, Berkeley, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Newcastle and Lima. He has specialized in the study of youth cultures, conducting fieldwork research in Catalonia, Mexico and Colombia. He is author or coauthor of more than 50 books, including De jóvenes, bandas y tribus (Barcelona, 1998, 5th ed. 2012), Jovens na America Latina (São Paulo, 2004), Global Youth? (London & New York, 2006), Youth, Space and Time (Boston & Leiden, 2016), La imaginación autobiográfica (Barcelona, 2018), Oltre le bande (Rome, 2020) and El Rey. Diario de un Latin King (Barcelona, 2020). He has been co-editor of the journal Young (UK) and member of the editorial board of Nueva Antropología (México), Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud(Colombia), Última Década (Chile), Mondi Migranti (Italia), Analise Social (Portugal), among others. He has been a consultant on youth policies for the United Nations and VP for Europe of the research committee “Sociology of Youth” of the International Sociological Association. Nowadays he is coordinator of the Youth and Society Research Network and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project TRANSGANG.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25