Emilio Santiago

Anthropologist, researcher and eco-social activist. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza. He has been a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, a member of the Transdisciplinary Research Group on Socio-Ecological Transitions at the UAM, a member of the faculty of the Independent Studies Programme at MACBA in Barcelona and a parliamentary technical advisor to Más Madrid-Más País on climate and ecological transition matters. Among his solo publications are the books No es una estafa, es una crisis de civilization (Enclave, 2015), Opción Cero, el reverdecimiento forzoso de la Revolución cubana (Catarata, 2017), Rutas sin mapa (Catarata essay prize 2016), and, co-written with Héctor Tejero, ¿Qué hacer en caso de incendio? Manifiesto por el Green New Deal (Capitán Swing, 2019) and, with Yayo Herrero and Jorge Riechmann, Petróleo (Arcadia, 2018). He has also participated in numerous collective volumes of eco-social analysis, including Petróleo (Arcadia, 2018), La IV Revolución Industrial desde una mirada ecosocial (Clave Intelectual, 2018) and Ecosocialismo descalzo (Icaria, 2018). He is also an activist and a founding member of the Break the Circle Transition Institute.