Dr Carla Gutiérrez Ramos
BA , MSc (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) , PhD (University of Sheffield)
Department of History
Teaching Associate in Twentieth-Century History
Level 1&2 Personal Tutor
Full contact details
Department of History
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
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I am a comparativist historian of twentieth century western Europe with a focus on post-war democracy, social movements and national and class identities specifically in Spain and the UK. I completed my EHS- funded doctoral research at Sheffield in 2022, where I’ve also worked as Associate Tutor and Research Assistant both at the department of History and the department of Politics and International Relations.
My interdisciplinary doctoral dissertation examined the rise of sub-state nationalism within western European multinational democracies during the ‘long 1970s’, questioning the narrow emphasis on welfare state retrenchment and offering a broader historical and sociological comparative approach that shows how it was the wider reassessment of the western European social democratic post-war settlement that framed it. Examining the cases of Scotland and Galicia in north-west Spain, my thesis highlighted the agency of regional workers’ organisations in the development of a ‘democratic regionalist-socialist’ political culture, providing comparative and global perspectives to the study of nationalism and western European history more broadly.
Building on the findings of my doctoral research, my next project will focus on the wider impact of the intersectional framework on the regional socialist critique to western liberal democracy. More specifically, I want to examine the influence of Second Wave feminism, Civil Rights activists and Third World liberation movements on the rhetorical and strategic shifts of regional workers’ organisations.
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I am a comparativist historian of modern western Europe, with a particular interest on democracy, social movements and the ‘long 1970s’. I use a global approach to the study of this region and I focus on questions of identity. My current work centres on national and class identity-building highlighting the agency of regional workers’ organisations. My future project will examine the impact of the gender and race frameworks in the regional socialist critique to the post-war liberal democratic model. More specifically, I want to look at how, facing the global expansion of corporate power and the implementation of the New Right’s conservative liberal agenda, which has translated in the sustained growth of global socioeconomic inequality since the late 1970s, worker representatives and organisations drew on ‘new’ social movements and their definitions of the democratic values of freedom, equality and justice, to build their alternative socialist projects.