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Dr Kepa Artaraz

Senior Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 644534

Email: K.Artaraz@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Global civil society, solidarity networks and human development
  • Poverty and social exclusion
  • Professional knowledge, power and identity
  • The role of the public intellectual
  • Evaluation methodology

Teaching

  • Introduction to Social Policy
  • Social Policy: Approaches and Concepts
  • Global Social Policy
  • Welfare and Wellbeing and Social Justice
  • Organisations, Partnerships and Networks
  • Participation and Democracy
  • Research Methods

Profile

Kepa joined SASS in September 2006. He is a former nurse with work experience in acute units both in Spain and the UK . Kepa left nursing to take a BA (Hons) in Sociology and Health Studies at the University of Central Lancashire , followed by an MPhil in Research Methods/Latin American Politics at the University of Glasgow and a PhD that examined the role of intellectuals in Cuban society. Since then, Kepa has gained research experience in various areas of public policy.

He first worked as a researcher for a HEFCE-funded project to explore widening participation in higher education, followed by a two-year, national evaluation of the Connexions Service for young people at risk. Kepa has combined these posts with periods of lecturing at the Universities of Wolverhampton, Nottingham and Chester.

Since arriving to Brighton, Kepa has pursued mainly his international/global interests, spending a year living in Bolivia working with NGOs. His book Bolivia: Refounding the Nation, explores the political and policy challenges being currently faced by Bolivia and develops themes on social exclusion, recognition, indigenous understandings of wellbeing, political participation and south-south forms of solidarity networks. In addition to his academic work, Kepa contributes critical commentary and analysis to online magazines, including New Left Project, Kaos en la Red and Rebelión.

Recent publications

Artaraz, K. (2012) Bolivia: Refounding the Nation. London: Pluto.

Artaraz, K. (2012) Cuba's Internationalism Revisited: Exporting Literacy, ALBA, and a New Paradigm for South–South Collaboration. In Par Kumaraswami (ed.) Rethinking the Cuban Revolution nationally and Regionally: Politics, Culture and Identity. London: Wiley- Blackwell, pp. 22-38.

Artaraz, K. (2011) Cuba y la Nueva Izquierda: Una relación que marcó los años 60. Buenos Aires: Capital Intelectual.

Artaraz, K. (2011) New Latin American Networks of Solidarity? ALBA's contribution to Bolivia's New Development Plan (2006-2010), Global Social Policy, 11(1): 85-105.

Artaraz, K. (2009) Cuba and Western intellectuals since 1959. Palgrave MacMillan: New York

Davies, S. and Artaraz, K. (2009) Towards an understanding of factors influencing early years professionals' practice of consultation with young children. Children and Society, 23(1): 57-69.

Artaraz, K. and Luyckx, K. (2009) The French New Left and the Cuban Revolution 1959-1971: Parallel histories? Modern and Contemporary France. 17(1), pp. 67-82.

Artaraz, K. (2008) Going full circle?: Integrating provision for young people in the Connexions service. Social Policy and Society, 7(2), pp. 173-184.

Artaraz, K. (2008) Rethinking the teaching of research and its practice in applied settings (Review Essay). Sociology

Artaraz, K ., Thurston, M. and Davies, S. (2007) Understanding family support provision within the context of prevention: a critical analysis of a local voluntary sector project. Child and family Social Work, 12, pp. 306-315.

Artaraz, K. (2006) The wrong person for the job? Professional habitus and working cultures in Connexions. Critical Social Policy, 26(4), 910-931

Artaraz, K. (2006) La revolución cubana en el seno de la Nueva Izquierda británica: Una visión desde el futuro. Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, 1: 3-16. Available on http://www.eumed.net/entelequia/es.art.php?a=01a01

Artaraz, K. (2005) El ejercicio de pensar: The Rise and Fall of Pensamiento Crítico, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 348-366.

Artaraz, K. (2005) Entries on populism, thirdworldism and Stokely Carmichael, in Carlisle , R. P. (2005) Encyclopaedia of Politics: The Left and Right. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Artaraz, K. (2005) Children s health: safe in nanny state s hands? In Healthmatters, 25 years after the Black Report Special Issue. Issue 60, pp. 10-11.

Artaraz, K. (2003) Intellectuals and their many histories, The European Legacy, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 791-793.

Moreland, N., Chamberlain, J. and Artaraz, K. (2003) Rurality and Higher Education: A Conceptual Analysis, in Slowey, M. and Watson, D. (eds.) Higher Education and The Lifecourse: Open University Press, pp 51-66.

Commentary and analysis

Artaraz, K. (2012) Who needs intellectuals? New Left Project. Available on http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/who_needs_intellectuals

Artaraz, K. (2012) Why should European pay attention to Bolivia? In Bolivia Rising 02/05/12. Available on http://boliviarising.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/why-should-europeans-pay-attention-to.html

Artaraz, K. (2009) Revolución en democracia. In Rebelión 28/01/09. Available on http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=79811&titular=revoluci%F3n-en-democracia-

Artaraz, K. (2009) A New Dawn for US-Latin American relations. In IndyMedia 20/01/09. Available on http://www.indymedia.org/en/2009/01/919680.shtml

Artaraz, K. (2009) After Bahia: Toward a new Latin America of the 21st Century. In Upside Down World. Upside Down World 21/01/09. Available on http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1674/1/

Artaraz, K. (2009) La iglesia católica boliviana se posiciona ante el próximo referéndum por la nueva constitución.  Kaos en la red 8/01/09. Available on
http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/iglesia-catolica-boliviana-posiciona-ante-proximo-referendum-nueva-con-2

Artaraz, K. (2008) Cronología de un golpe de estado anunciado: el golpe cívico-prefectural en Bolivia. 8/10/08. Available on
http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/cronologia-golpe-estado-anunciado-golpe-civico-prefectural-bolivia

Conference papers (a selection)

The contribution of global social movements to global social policy: the future of welfare or contradiction in terms? Social Policy Association Annual Conference, Birmingham , July 07.

New Labour's 0 to 19 Agenda: Social Inclusion in an Age of Change. Community, Work and Family: Change and Transformation. University of Manchester Metropolitan, 16-18 March 05.

Social justice as inclusion: Family support services in the twenty first century. Social Policy Association Annual Conference, University of Bath, 27-19 June 05.

The Wrong Person for the Job? Professional Habitus and Working Cultures in the Provision of Advice and Guidance. British Sociological Association (BSA), 17 March 04.

Access to Higher Education in the West Midlands: Some Preliminary Findings, Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), Glasgow, 10-12 December 02.

Reports

Kemp, M. and Artaraz, K. (2009) "It ain't easy being green". A report on a social action research project to promote sustainable living among social housing association residents. Brighton: University of Brighton.

Artaraz, K. and Thurston, M. (2006) A review of family support provision in three Sure Start local programmes in Halton. CPHR, University of Chester . pp. 1-42.

Artaraz, K. and Thurston, M. (2006) Halton Children Fund: Evaluation of the Halton Transition Project. CPHR, University of Chester. pp. 1-78.

Artaraz, K. and Thurston, M. (2005) Halton Children Fund: a Strategic evaluation. CPHR, University College Chester. pp. 1-46.

Artaraz, K. and Thurston, M. (2005) Halton Children s Fund: An Evaluation of the Branches Project. CPHR, University College Chester. pp. 1-85.

With authors from the Youth Affairs Unit (De Montfort University) and the Department of Sociology (University of Bristol) (2004) Understanding the Impact of Connexions on Young People at Risk. DfES Research Report. pp. 1-368.
Available on http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR607.pdf

Artaraz, K. (2003) Lifelong Learning on Prescription in Telford. Produced for Healthy Telford and Wrekin Partnership. pp 1-56.