Maialen Altuna Etxeberria
Maialen Altuna Etxeberria (Lasarte-Oria, 1985) is a graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of the Basque Country and holds Master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (UPV/EHU). She is currently a lecturer in the Philosophy of Values and Social Anthropology Department (UPV/EHU).
Her research career began with her Master’s thesis consisting of a study of the participation of women in punk-rock groups, entitled ‘Emakumeak punk-rock taldeetan’ (2010). That same year, she also completed a research project on the construction of female gender identity in the early years of the Franco era under the second ‘Women’s Contribution to the History of Tolosa’ Research Grant awarded by the City Council of Tolosa.
From 2013 to 2016, she worked on her dissertation within the framework of the programme Zabalduz 2012: Research staff in training in cooperation with the productive and social environment, working jointly with the UPV-EHU and AHOA (Archive of Oral History). The dissertation, on which she is still working, looks at the construction of gender identities in the early years of the Franco era based on an analysis of everyday life and emotions, focusing on power relationships and corporeality.
In 2015, she undertook an academic residency at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies in the Philosophy Department of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
She is a member of the Basque Association of Anthropology Ankulegi and AHOA (Archive of Oral History)..
Main publications:
- Maialen Altuna (2018): ‘Represión cultural, género y control social en el primer franquismo. Análisis desde los bailes juveniles’ in Esteban, Mari Luz y Hernandez, Jone Miren (coord.), Etnografías Feministas en el País Vasco, Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.
- Maialen Altuna (2016): “Emozioen erabilera genero-sistemaren inposaketan. Frankismoko dantzaldien kasua” iin Esteban, Mari Luz y Hernandez, Jone Miren (coord.), Etnografia Feministak Euskal Herrian. XXI. Mendera begira dagoen antropologia, Bilbo: UEU-UPV/EHU.
- Maialen Altuna (2010): Emakumeak punk-rock taldeetan, Master’s thesis, published online. Doctoral programme in Women’s and Gender Studies.