Marina Pera Ros

Marina is a Margarita Salas Post-doctoral Researcher affiliated with UAB and is currently a visiting scholar at CRIT . She holds a PhD in Public Policy from IGOP –U.A.B., a M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University and a M.A. in Human and Sustainable Development (Universitat de Girona). She has been a visiting scholar at CUNY Graduate Center (New York) and at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham. Her main area of interest is the relationship between grassroots organisations and local governments within the urban context and the policies and practices that emerge from this relationship. Her dissertation focused on identifying and understanding the circumstances that enable civic management facilities in Barcelona to become democratic and community development practices. Some of her latest publications include “Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona” (Pera and Bussu, 2024), “The Embeddedness of Public-Common Institutions. The Citizen Assets Programme in Barcelona” (Pera et al., 2023), the “Governmentality, the local state, and the commons: An analysis of civic management facilities in Barcelona” (Pera and Bianchi, 2022).