Marc Morell received his BA Social and Cultural Anthropology (1999) and BA History (2002) at the Universitat de Barcelona, MA International Tourism Policy (2001) at the University of North London, DEA [Advanced Studies Diploma] Anthropology] Anthropology (2008) and Masters Human Evolution and Cognition (2009) at the Universitat de les Illes Balears. He is now finishing his doctoral studies with the support of the Direcció General de Recerca Desenvolupament Tecnològic i Innovació of the Govern de les Illes Balears (2006-2010).

He specialises in political anthropology and does research on tourism and urban issues by focusing on the production of space in market society. He has been a visiting postgraduate at the Department of Tourism Studies at L-Università ta’ Malta (2007), the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester (2009) and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen’s Belfast University (2010) and has carried out ethnographic research both in Majorca and Malta. He has worked as coordinator and ethnographer of the local team at the Universitat de les Illes Balears within the Mediterranean Voices: Oral History and Cultural Practice in Mediterranean Cities of the EUROMED Heritage Project II financed by the European Union (2003-2005).

He is a member of the Grup de Recerca i Acció Urbanes “Ciutats volgudes, Ciutat viscuda”, the Institut Català d’Antropologia, the European Association of Social Anthropologists and the Commission of Urban Anthropology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.

RESEARCH TOPIC

Production of space in market society. The current fields this research topic covers are:

• Urban anthropology (space and policy, social classes and reproduction of the social relations of production, governance and social exclusion, gentrification and neighbours’ organization).
• Anthropology of tourism (tourism and society, tourism and capitalist mode of production, commodification and heritagisation, conservation and development).

PUBLICATIONS

• Morell, M. 2010a “Patrimonio de la clase trabajadora sin la clase trabajadora. Etnografía de la gentrificación en Ciutat (Mallorca)”, S. Narotzky and J. Frigolé(eds.) Los lindes del patrimonio, consumo y valores del pasado, Barcelona: Icaria.
• Morell, M. 2010b ““Fer barri”. Escala, turisme i urbanisme en el més ençà de la globalització”, A. Aguiló and others (eds.) Globalització, visions critiques actuals. Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears.
• Morell, M. and J. Franquesa 2010 “Playing snakes and ladders in Ciutat de Mallorca. An ethnographic approach to the production of the neighbourhood scale”, T. Selwyn and others(eds.) Contested Mediterranean Spaces: Ethnographic essays in honour of Charles Tilly. New York: Berghahn, 231-261.
• Morell, M. 2009a “Ġebla and the Maltese grumbling civil society. An ethnographic inquiry on neoliberal gentrification”, En cours. Mondes et dynamiques des Sociétes 11, 25-35.
• -Morell, M. 2009b “Fent barri: heritage tourism policy and neighbourhood scaling in Ciutat de Mallorca”, Etnográfica. Revista de Antropologia, 13(2), 343-372.
• Morell, M. 2008a Paisatges d’urbanització i ciutadania. Etnografia i anàlisi política de la valorització d’entorns urbans en la ciutat neoliberal: El cas de Tigné (Sliema, Malta). Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears (DEA Anthropology Final Dissertation).
• Morell, M. 2008b “La barrialización de la ciudadanía. Localizando el urbanismo neoliberal en ciutat de Mallorca”, Diez años de cambios en el Mundo, en la Geografía y en las Ciencias Sociales, 1999-2008. Actas del X Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica, Universidad de Barcelona, 26-30 de mayo de 2008 http://www.ub.es/geocrit/-xcol/365.htm
• Morell, M. 2008c “Sabor de barrio, tesoro antiguo: Uso y abuso de la escala barrial. Hacia una etnografía crítica de la gobernanza urbana en Ciutat de Mallorca, España”, Universidad Autónoma de México (ed.) La igualdad: antiguos y nuevos desafíos. X Simposio de la AIFP. Mexico DF: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2007 “Transversal indicators and qualitative observatories of heritage tourism”, G. Richards (ed.) Cultural Tourism Global and Local Perspectives. New York: Haworth, 169-194.
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2006 “Ciutat de Mallorca”, A. Zougbi (ed.) Mediterranean Voices. Oral history and cultural practice in Mediterranean cities. Londres: IICTD, 16-17.
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2005a “Heritage deviations in relation to town planning in Ciutat de Mallorca”, Journal of Mediterranean Studies 15(2), 427-462.
• Morell, M. and J. Franquesa 2005b Ciutat: Patrimoni de centres i marges. Ciutat de Mallorca: Med-Voices Project.
• Morell, M. and J. Franquesa 2004a “Ciutat de Mallorca”, M. Hart (coord.) Voices and echoes. Reminiscences of the Mediterranean in the Atlantic. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo de Gran Canaria, 81-85.
• Morell, M. and J. Franquesa 2004b “Ciutat de Mallorca”, M. Hart (coord.) Voces y ecos. Recuerdos del Mediterráneo en el Atlántico. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo de Gran Canaria, 81-85.
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2004c “Cross-cut indicators and observatories in relation to heritage tourism”, G. Richards (ed.) Cultural tourism: globalising the local – localising the global. Tilburg: Association for Tourism and Leisure Education. Department of Leisure Studies. Tilburg University, 131-146.
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2003 “Patrimoni: Qüestions de posició”, El Mundo – El Día de Baleares / Tribuna del Mediterráneo (15th June), 15.
• Morell, M. 2002 “L’ecotaxa a les Illes Balears i Pitiüses. Imatge turística, modelat paisatgístic i patrimoni identitari”, FAAEE (ed.) Cultura & Política. IX Congreso de Antropología FAAEE. Barcelona: Institut Català d’Antropologia.

PAPERS AND OTHERS

• del Mármol, C. and M. Morell 2010 “Seductions and Disenchantments in the Making of Heritage” [panel organisation], 2010 Conference: Tourism and Seductions of Difference (Lisbon, Portugal).
• Morell, M. 2010 ““The sun in the neighbourhood is only for those who can pay for it”. Fleshing out the residential dimension of class in Ciutat de Mallorca”, EASA2010: Crisis and imagination (Maynooth, Ireland).
• Morell, M. 2009a “El patrimoni com a política de gentrificació. Apunts etnogràfics sobre la societat civil de Mallorca i Malta”, V Encuentro Ibérico de Antropólogos: Los lindes del patrimonio: consumo y valores del pasado (La Seu d’Urgell, Spain).
• Morell, M. 2009b “On communities, urbanities and myths. An analysis of neighbourhood use in Ciutat de Mallorca (Spain)”, XVI ICAES. Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity. Sessions Convened under the auspices of the Commission on Urban Anthropology (Kunming, China).
• Morell, M. 2008a “View for the few: Urban ethnography on the production of real estate environments. The case of Tigné (Sliema, Malta)”, Tourism Landscapes and Luxury Consumption Conference (Lancaster, United Kingdom).
• Morell, M. 2008b “A proper viewpoint for a valued landscape: analysis of the urbanisation of heritage in the neoliberal city”, European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Experiencing diversity and mutuality (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
• Morell, M. 2008c “La barrialización de la ciudadanía. Localizando el urbanismo neoliberal en ciutat de Mallorca”, X Coloquio Internacional de Geocrítica. Diez años de cambios en el mundo, en la geografía y en las ciencias sociales, 1999-2008 (Barcelona, Spain).
• Morell, M. 2008d “La barrialización de la ciudadanía. Localizando el urbanismo neoliberal en ciutat de Mallorca”, XLV Congreso de Filósofos Jóvenes. Intervenciones Filosóficas: filosofía en acción (Granada, Spain).
• Morell, M. 2007a “A crafty bluff: picturesque tourism or the experience of neighbourhood and past as part of the property shopping-basket in Ciutat de Mallorca”, ASA Conference. Thinking through tourism (London, United Kingdom).
• Morell, M. 2007b “The Last of the Mohicans: A Neighbourhood in Ca na Pegellida or neighbourliness as public practice”, Annual Conference of the Commission on Urban Anthropology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Tirana, Albania).
• Morell, M. 2007c “Sabor de barrio, tesoro antiguo: Uso y abuso de la escala barrial. Hacia una etnografía crítica de la gobernanza urbana en Ciutat de Mallorca, España”, X Simposio de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Filosofía Política: ’La igualdad: Antiguos y nuevos desafíos (Mexico DF, Mexico).
• Morell, M. 2007d Exposició 5 anys de Fototots [texts accompanying images], Centre Social Flassaders (Ciutat de Mallorca, Spain).
• Morell, M. 2006 “Sa Gerreria: a shadowy neighbourhood. Ethnography of a place built upon de-memory”, 9th EASA Biennial Conference ‘Europe and the World’ (Bristol, United Kingdom).
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2005 “Towering heritage over the margins – A case study of Ciutat de Mallorca”, Turning Back to the Mediterranean (Alexandria, Egypt).
• Morell, M. and J. Franquesa 2005a “Tangibles i intangibles del patrimoni” [Seminar organisation within the Mediterranean Voices Project], Universitat de les Balears and Centre Social Flassaders, 15th-17th June (Ciutat, Spain).
• Franquesa, J. and Morell, M. 2005b "Ciutat: Patrimoni de centres i marges" [Exhibition organisation within the Mediterranean Voices Project], Universitat de les Illes Balears and Centre Social Flassaders, 13th-18th June and 1st-15th September (Ciutat, Spain)
• Morell, M. 2005c “Valor d'ús i valor de canvi en el patrimoni cultural – El concepte de cultura en la recerca etnogràfica” [Panel organisation and participation], II Fòrum Social de Mallorca (Ciutat, Espanya).
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2004a “Urban alteration and memory: Citizen involvement with regards to making heritage in Ciutat de Mallorca”, Conference ADAM & SIEF. AMONG OTHERS Conflict and Encounter in European & Mediterranean Societies (Marseilles, France).
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2004b “Heritage: Matters of Position”, AISE-INSA & LaRA Colloquium. Les formes du patrimoine architectural (Strasburg, France).
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2003a “The Polysemy of Environment in Balearic Tourism Policies”, International Conference in Honor of Charles Tilly. Contentious Politics: Mediterranean Perspectives (Rethemnos, Greece).
• Franquesa, J. and M. Morell 2003b “Cross-cut indicators for Heritage Tourism”, ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Group Expert Meeting. Cultural Tourism: Globalising the local – localising the global (Barcelona, Spain).
• Morell, M. 2002 “L’ecotaxa a les Illes Balears i Pitiüses: Imatge turística, modelat paisatgístic i patrimoni identitari”, IXè Congrés de la Federació d’Associacions d’Antropologia de l’Estat Espanyol (Barcelona, Spain).