6th Inclusion Symposium

Martin Lundsteen

Anthropologist and Ramón y Cajal researcher at the University of Barcelona

Martin Lundsteen is a lecturer in social anthropology and Ramón y Cajal researcher at the University of Barcelona. His career has centred on the critical study of racism, Islamophobia and contemporary forms of urban bordering. He has carried out extended ethnographic fieldwork in Salt (Girona) and in Denmark, where he has analysed the everyday dynamics of exclusion, community and vigilance in contexts marked by structural inequalities. His research combines detailed attention to everyday practices with an interest in the political and urban structures that shape experiences of belonging, citizenship and difference. He has also worked extensively on the legislation and institutional protocols linked to preventing radicalisation, migration and housing policies and contemporary forms of social control, combining ethnography with analysis at a more macroeconomic level. He has published several books (Convivencia, 2022; La mezquita contestada, 2022) and academic papers, including the last one to appear in European Urban and Regional Studies: Displacing the Other to Unite the Nation.