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Casas Cortés, María Isabel
Department: Departamento de Psicología y Sociología
Field: Antropologia Social
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo

Group: S66_23R: Sociedad, creatividad e incertidumbre

UNESCO codes
  • Nomadismo
  • Métodos de investigación social
  • Desarrollo socio-económico
  • Relaciones inter-raciales
Academic position: Prof. Titular Univ.
Email: drcasascortes@unizar.es
Personal web page: https://maribelcasascortes.weebly.com/
ORCID number: 0000-0001-9390-4022

Research interests
  • Humanidades y ciencias sociales
  • Antropología social

University degrees
  • M.A. in Latin American Studies. Universidad de Salamanca. 2000
  • Graduate Studies (M.A. 2nd year) in Political Theory. McGill University. 2000
  • Certificate of Political Studies. Institut d’ Etudes Politiques. 1998
  • Licenciado en Humanidades, Especialidad: Ciencias Políticas y Antropología. Univerisdad de Salamanca. 1998

PhDs
  • Ph.D. in Anthropology. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2009

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Journal articles

  • Casas-Cortés, Maribel. More than a glitch in the platforms: Precarious migratory status and other structural anomalies in app-based food delivery FOCAAL. 2025. DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2025.0123OF1

  • Moya, Laura; Casas-Cortés, Maribel. Delivery depletion: rider viapolitics and the effects of im/mobilities upon platform food delivery couriers. JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH. 2025. DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2025.2523745

  • Casas-Cortés, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastián. Rethinking mobility in social theory: Yann Moulier-Boutang and the motor of history. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY. 2024. DOI: 10.1177/13684310241270435

  • Diz, Carlos; Casas-Cortés, Maribel. On delivery waiting: The entanglement of gig and border temporalities in platform cities. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE. 2024. DOI: 10.1177/02637758241290881

  • Casas-Cortés, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastian. A corona-carnival? A carnivalesque interpretation of (im)mobilities under COVID-19 lockdowns. POLITICS. 2023. DOI: 10.1177/02633957231165220

  • Sanz de Miguel, Pablo; Casas-Cortés, María Isabel; Prieto Arratibel, Amaia; Arasanz Díaz, Juan. El empleo irregular tras la Ley Rider: ¿nueva regulación, idénticas estrategias empresariales?. RES. REVISTA ESPANOLA DE SOCIOLOGIA. 2023. DOI: 10.22325/fes/res.2023.177

  • Casas-Cortés, Maribel. Can the subaltern be listened to? an anthropology of platform commonsense in spite of the law - Juan M. del Nido, Taxis vs. Uber: courts, markets, and technology in Buenos Aires (Stadford University Press, 2021, 238 p.). ARCHIVES EUROPEENNES DE SOCIOLOGIE. 2023. DOI: 10.1017/S0003975623000061

  • Casas-Cortés Maribel; Moya Santander, Laura; Piñeiro Aguiar, Eleder. Algoritmos de reconocimiento facial entre repartidores en España: Vigilancia y complicidad con las prácticas de subarriendo y uso compartido de cuentas personales. REVISTA DE ANTROPOLOGIA. 2023. DOI: 10.3989/dra.2023.001c

  • Cobarrubias, S.; Cuttitta, P.; Casas-Cortés, M.; Lemberg-Pedersen, M.; El Qadim, N.; Isleyen, B.; Fine, S.; Giusa, C.; Heller, C. Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102911

  • Casas Cortés, M.; Cobarrubias Baglietto, S. La migración como (f)actor geopolítico: una aproximación desde la autonomía de la migración. SCRIPTA NOVA-REVISTA ELECTRONICA DE GEOGRAFIA Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES. 2022. DOI: 10.1344/SN2022.26.33950

  • Báez Melián, Juan Miguel; Bergua Amores, José Angel; Casas Cortés, Maribel; Gracia Bernal, Amparo; Moya Santander, Laura. De la precariedad económica a la vulnerabilidad existencial. Notas para una ampliación de paradigma. DIGIT.HVM (BARCELONA). 2022. DOI: 10.7238/d.v0i29.394169

  • Minguijon, Jaime; Pac Salas, David; Casas-Cortés, Maribel. La vulnerabilidad social desde la perspectiva territorial. REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE ORGANIZACIONES. 2022. DOI: 10.17345/rio28.137-160

  • Casas Cortés, M. Precarious Writings. Reckoning the Absences and Reclaiming the Legacies in the Current Poetics/Politics of Precarity. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY. 2021. DOI: 10.1086/716721

  • Casas-Cortes, M. ''Migration thinking'': Embracing mobility all the way down. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2021. DOI: 10.1177/2043820621989592

  • Moya, Laura; Casas-Cortés, Maribel; Monge, Cristina; Pac, David; Báez, Juan Miguel; Minguijón, Jaime; López, Ivan; Gastón, Diego; Bergua, José Angel. Creatividad sin moldes: emergencias inesperadas desde la vulnerabilidad colectiva. IMAGINACIÓN O BARBARIE. 2020

  • Moya, Laura; Bergua, José Angel; Casas, Maribel. Activismo y arte Crip: la solución está en lo (im)posible. IMAGINACIÓN O BARBARIE. 2020

  • Casas-Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastián. La autonomía de la migración: Una perspectiva alternativa sobre la movilidad humana y los controles migratorios. EMPIRIA (MADRID). 2020. DOI: 10.5944/empiria.46.2020.26967

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel. Care-tizenship: precarity, social movements, and the deleting/re-writing of citizenship. CITIZENSHIP STUDIES. 2019. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2018.1556248

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Heller, Charles; Pezzani, Lorenzo. Clashing Cartographies, Migrating Maps: The Politics of Mobility at the External Borders of E.U.rope. ACME. 2017. DOI: 10.14288/acme.v16i1.1094

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Pickles, John. 'Good neighbours make good fences': Seahorse operations, border externalization and extra-territoriality. EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES. 2016. DOI: 10.1177/0969776414541136

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; de Genova, Nicholas; Garelli, Glenda; Grappi, Giorgio; Heller, Charles; Hess, Sabine; Kasparek, Bernd; Mezzadra, Sandro; Neilson, Brett; Peano, Irene; Pezzani, Lorenzo; Pickles, John; Rahola, Federica; Riedner, Lisa; Scheel, Stephan; Tazzioli, Martina. New keywords: migration and borders. CULTURAL STUDIES. 2015. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2014.891630

  • Casas-Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Pickles, John. Riding Routes and Itinerant Borders: Autonomy of Migration and Border Externalization. ANTIPODE. 2015. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12148

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel. A Genealogy of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities in and out of the Workplace. RETHINKING MARXISM. 2014. DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2014.888849

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Pickles, John. Re-bordering the Neighbourhood: Europe’s Emerging Geographies of Non-Accession Integration. EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES. 2013. DOI: 10.1177/0969776411434848

  • Cobarrubias, Sebastian; Cortes, Maribel Casas; Pickles, John. An Interview with Sandro Mezzadra. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE. 2011. DOI: 10.1068/d03int

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Pickles, John. Stretching Borders Beyond Sovereign Territories? Mapping EU and Spain’s Border Externalization Policies. GEOPOLITICA(S). 2011. DOI: 10.5209/rev_GEOP.2011.v2.n1.37898

  • Herb, Guntram H.; Häkli, Jouni; Corson, Mark W.; Mellow, Nicole; Cobarrubias, Sebastian; Casas-Cortes, Maribel. Intervention: Mapping is critical!. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.09.005

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. Activist Cartography: Enabling Alternative Political Spaces. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. 2009

  • Casas Cortes, Maribel; Osterweil, Michal; Powell, Dana. Blurring Boundaries: Recognizing Knowledge-Practices in the Study of Social Movements. ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY. 2008. DOI: 10.1353/anq.2008.0006

  • Casas Cortés, María Isabel. World anthropologies network and activist research: towards building decolonial and feminist projects. WORLD ANTHROPOLOGIES NETWORK E-JOURNAL (WAN) ELECTRONIC JOURNAL. 2006

Books

Scientific chapters

  • How to counter-map collectively . Counter- Cartographies Collective (3Cs). Casas Cortés, María Isabel; Cobarrubias, Sebastian; Mason-Deese, Liz; Stallman, Tim; Swanson, Nathan. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC INVENTORY FIELD DEVICES FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRY. 2023

  • Articulating Europe from the Sephardic Margin: Restoring Citizenship for Expulsed Jews, and not Muslims, in Spain?. Casas Cortés, María Isabel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastián. CREATING EUROPE FROM THE MARGINS: MOBILITIES AND RACISM IN POSTCOLONIAL EUROPE. 2023

  • Tinkering with Care and Citizenship in Times of Uncertainty. Contributions by Feminist Precarity Activists. Casas Cortés, María Isabel. GENDER, RACE AND INCLUSIVE CITIZENSHIP. 2022

  • Politics of Care, Emotions and Social Change. Casas Cortés, María Isabel; Pratesi, A.; Sielert, D.: Supik, Linda. GENDER, RACE AND INCLUSIVE CITIZENSHIP. 2022

  • Routes Thinking. Casas Cortés, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastián. VIAPOLITICS: BORDERS, MIGRATION, AND THE POWER OF LOCOMOTION. 2021

  • Prólogo. "Europa/Crisis": Nuevas Palabras Claves de “la Crisis” en y de “Europa”. Alvarez Velasco, Soledad; Casas Cortés, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastian; De Genova, Nicholas. EUROPA/CRISIS: NUEVAS PALABRAS CLAVES DE “LA CRISIS” EN Y DE “EUROPA". 2021

  • Juan Miguel Báez Melián, Maribel Casas-Cortés, Jaime Minguijón Pablo. Desigualdad, vulnerabilidad y pandemia. INCERTIDUMBRES EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIA: UNA MIRADA HACIA EL FUTURO. 2021

  • Maribel Casas Cortés, Sebastián Cobarrubias. Los múltiples impactos del COVID 19 en las migraciones, fronteras y políticas migratorias. INCERTIDUMBRES EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIA: UNA MIRADA HACIA EL FUTURO. 2021

  • Maribel Casas Cortés. Los comunes : una manera diferente de gestionar lo social. TRAS LA INDIGNACIÓN : EL 15M, MIRADAS DESDE EL PRESENTE. 2021

  • Genealogies of contention in concentric circles: remote migration control and its Eurocentric geographical imaginaries. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION. 2019

  • A War on Mobility: The Border Empire Strikes Back. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. WAYS OF KNOWING CITIES 2019

  • B/Ordering Turbulence: Expert knowledge in the management of human mobility. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Pickles, John. MAPPING MIGRATION, IDENTITY, AND SPACE. 2019

  • Maribel Casas Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias, John Pickles ; Carlos Diz (trad.). Fronteras cambiantes, soberanias desplazadas : en defensa del derecho a migrar. FRONTERAS DEL SIGLO XXI: ¿OBSTÁCULOS O PUENTES? : IN MEMORIAM PROFESOR ÁNGEL G. CHUECA SANCHO. 2018

  • A Genealogy of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities in and out of the Workplace. Casas Cortes, Maribel. POLITICS OF PRECARITY: MIGRANT CONDITIONS, STRUGGLES AND EXPERIENCES. 2017

  • Precariedad Everywhere?! Rethinking precarity and emigration in Spain. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. MAPPING PRECARIOUSNESS, LABOUR INSECURITY AND UNCERTAIN LIVELIHOODS: SUBJECTIVITIES AND RESISTANCE. 2017

  • Fronteras borrosas. Reconocer las Practicas de Concomiento en el Estudio de los Movimientos Sociales. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Osterweil, Michal; Powell, Dana. PRÁCTICAS OTRAS DE CONOCIMIENTO(S) ENTRE CRISIS, ENTRE GUERRAS. 2015

  • The Commons. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Pickles, John. A HANDBOOK OF URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY. 2014

  • Kollidierende Kartografien, migrating maps. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Heller, Charles; Pezzani, Lorenzo. GRENZREGIME II. GLOBALE POLITIKEN DER KONTROLLE – TRANSNATIONALE KA?MPFE DER MIGRATION. 2014

  • Le regard cartographique, les nouvelles cartographies des frontières, et les responsabilités du cartographe Pickles, John; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian; Casas Cortes, Maribel. GEOESTHETIQUE. 2014

  • Transformations in Engaged Ethnography: Knowledge, Networks and Social Movements. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Osterweil, Michal; Powell, Dana. INSURGENT ENCOUNTERS. 2013

  • Introduccion. Community Organizing: el Legado de Alinsky en la Cultura Politica Estadounidense. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. TRATADO PARA RADICALES: MANUAL PARA REVOLUCIONARIOS PRAGMÁTICOS. 2012

  • Transatlantic Translations: Detectives and Researchers for the Revolution(s). Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. USES OF A WHIRLWIND: MOVEMENT, MOVEMENTS AND CONTEMPORARY RADICAL CURRENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. 2010

  • Practices of Radical Cartography. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebasitan; Dalton, Craig; Mason-Deese, Elizabeth; Pickles, John; Stallman, Timothy. TOWARDS A GLOBAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY: COGNITIVE LABOR, THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXODUS FROM THE EDUCATION FACTORY. 2009

  • Drawing Escape Tunnels through Borders: Cartographic Research Experiments by European Social Movements. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. AN ATLAS OF RADICAL CARTOGRAPHY. 2007

  • Drifting through the Knowledge Machine. Casas Cortes, Maribel; Cobarrubias Baglietto, Sebastian. CONSTITUENT IMAGINATION: MILITANT INVESTIGATIONS, COLLECTIVE THEORIZATION. 2007



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