Francisco
Colom González
Redes sociales
Francisco Colom González is a Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy from the Complutense University and a Diploma in Political Science and Constitutional Law from the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid. He also completed postgraduate studies at the Free University of Berlin and postdoctoral studies at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). Previously he was a tenured professor of sociology at the Public University of Navarre. He has also been a visiting researcher and guest professor at various Latin American, European and North American universities. Between 2000 and 2005 he was president of the Ibero-American Association of Political Philosophy and from 2004 to 2012 president of the Spanish Association of Canadian Studies. Likewise, between 1998 and 2006 he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
His research focuses broadly on the relationships between culture, political identity, and processes of social change, as well as the normative conflicts that arise from their interaction. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, he has explored these issues through the history of ideas, sociological, political and legal theory. Over the last decade, he has adopted a new epistemological approach to this type of research, viewing it primarily from a spatial perspective. This has led him to concentrate on the social, symbolic and normative dynamics of urban spaces.
His latest project, co-directed with Ana López Sala (IEGD-CSIC), was entitled The Just City. Exclusion, Belonging and the Commons. An Urban Approach to the Theory of Justice (URBS). His latest book on this subject is entitled Urban Justice. Debating Spatial Exclusion, Common Goods and the Built Environment (Springer, 2024).
Main recent publications in English:
1. Urban Justice. Debating Spatial Exclusion, Common Goods and the Built Environment (ed.) Cham, Springer Verlag, 2024, 194 págs. ISBN: 978-3-031-73339-0
2. "City as Utopia”, in Carrión Mena, F., Rodríguez Alvarez, S. (eds) From the City as a Project to the City Project. The Urban Book Series. Cham, Springer, 2025, pp. 47-66 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94226-6_4
3. “The Social Agency of the Urban Commons”, in P. Cristina Pereira and I. Afonso (eds.): Philosophy of the City. Ethical and Political Challenges, Vol. 1: Common Good. Porto, University of Porto Press. Coleção Transversal (forthcoming)
4. “Agonistic Memory Revisited” (with Anna Cento Bull and Hans Lauge Hansen), in Stefan Berger & Wulf Kansteiner (eds.): Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 13-38. ISBN: 978-3-030-86054-7. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-86055-4
5. “Patrimonial Liberalism. A Weberian Approach to Early Latin American State-making”, in Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR), Vol. 13/3 (Dec. 2020), pp. 75-87
6. “The Spanish Transition Forty Years Later. Democracy, Devolution and Pluralism”, in Accounting for Change in Diverse Societies: Cases and Themes. Global Centre for Pluralism https://www.pluralism.ca/press-release/spanish-transition-forty-years-later-democracy-devolution-pluralism/
7. Multireligious Society. Dealing with Religious Diversity in Theory and Practice (edited with Gianni D’Amato), Abingdon – New York, Routledge, 2017; 300 pgs. ISBN: 978-1-47248802-2
8. The Traditions of Liberty in the Atlantic World. Origins, Ideas and Practices (edited with Ángel Rivero). Leiden - Boston, Brill, 2016, ISBN: 978-90-04-29964-1
9. The Legal Self-regulation of Religious Groups: Tackling the Normative and Practical Challenges of Legal Pluralism”, in Francisco Colom González and Gianni D’Amato (eds.): Multireligious Society. Dealing with Religious Diversity in Theory and Practice, London – New York, Routledge, 2017, pp. 267-284; ISBN-13: 978-147248802-2
10. “Nationalism in Latin America”, in The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 2) Ray, Sangeeta, et al. (eds). Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-4443-3498-2, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119076506.wbeps264
1. The Just City. Exclusion, Belonging and the Commons (URBS) (PID2020-120021GB-I00). Main researchers: Francisco Colom González and Ana López Sala. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (2021-2025)
2. The Political Philosophy of the City (CIVITAS) (FFI2016-78014-P). Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (2017-2019)
3. Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe (UNREST) H2020 REFLECTIVE-5-2015, REF. 693523. Main researcher: Stefan Berger. European Commission (Horizon 2020; 2016-2019)
4. Philosophy and the Political Space (POLIS) (FFI2012-31640). Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (2013-2015)
5. Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada (RECODE) RW/CE/SCSS-L10-N°051. Main researcher: Peter A. Kraus. European Science Foundation (Research Networking Programmes; 2010-2014)
