Marisa Revilla Blanco

The aspect I would like to highlight from the review of my academic career is that it has been combined with an extensive professional career and has met the changing curricular and research demands that have arisen during this extended period. The list of positions held, the variety of topics I have addressed both in publications and in teaching, as well as the number of citations achieved by some of my publications, substantiate this assertion (statistics can be accessed on my public Google Scholar profile). My primary research interests are centered around issues of collective action, social movements, democratic participation, and NGOs, with a special focus on gender and inequality. On these topics, I have compiled four volumes of work: in 1994, Movimientos sociales, acción e identidad (Social Movements, Action, and Identity), Zona Abierta Journal, 69; in 2002, ONG y política: detalles de una relación (Non-Governmental Organizations -NGO- and Politics: Details of a Relationship), Madrid: Istmo Editions; in 2005, Acción colectiva (Collective Action), Política y Sociedad Journal, 42/2; and in 2019, Movimientos sociales y acción colectiva en América Latina en la última década (Social Movements and Collective Mobilizations in Latin America in the Last Decade), Política y Sociedad Journal, 56/1. The issue number 69 of Zona Abierta and the article I published in it (El concepto de movimiento social: acción, identidad y sentido- "The Concept of Social Movement: Action, Identity, and Meaning") continue to be consulted and studied more than twenty years after the journal's discontinuation. Despite not meeting today's quality criteria, the journal played a crucial role in shaping the research field, particularly in the areas of Sociology, Political Science, and History. Similarly, the article América Latina y los movimientos sociales: el presente de la ‘rebelíon del coro’ -"Latin America and Social Movements: The Present of the 'Choir Rebellion'," published in 2010 in Nueva Sociedad Journal (which also falls short of today's quality criteria), had the honor of being included in the compilation by CLACSO titled Pensamiento social español sobre América Latina"- Spanish Social Thought on Latin America in 2017," standing out as the sole included female author. The 2002 book "NGOs and Politics" published by Istmo marked the first publication in Spain on this field of study, inspiring debate and reflection within Spanish NGOs themselves regarding the social role they can play and the challenges of their actions. More recent works are "Women's Movements" or "From 'Not One More!' to '#NiUnaMenos': Women's Movements and Feminisms in Latin America" and Political Frameworks for Gender-based Violence in Spain during the 14th Legislature (2019-2023). These papers delve into the line of work dedicated to the analysis of the collective actions of women and feminists and the discourses that are articulated, as well as the study of the inequalities that affect women, continuing previous works not considered in this period of time.