Team
Research team
ECCE-CANN brings together researchers with complementary expertise in social anthropology, drug research, cannabis cultivation and regulation, ethnography, health, and qualitative research.
Arturo Álvarez-Roldán
Principal Investigator · University of Granada
Social anthropologist working on drugs, cannabis, regulation, health and social inequality. His research combines ethnography, socio-legal analysis, social epidemiology and mixed methods. His work on cannabis includes domestic and commercial cultivation, cannabis use, Cannabis Social Clubs and the evolution of cannabis regulation in Spain.
He leads ECCE-CANN and develops its relational framework for studying cannabis cultivation.
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Juan F. Gamella
Co-Investigator · University of Granada
Anthropologist with more than three decades of research on drugs and alcohol, drug markets, cultures of use and drug regulation. His work combines historical analysis, ethnography and comparative research.
His research on cannabis includes the history of cannabis policies in Spain, cannabis regulation, intensive use and the social and regulatory contexts surrounding cannabis cultivation.
Iván Parra Toro
Co-Investigator · University of Granada
Lawyer and social anthropologist whose research focuses on drug cultures, cannabis production, cultivation and regulation. His work examines intensive use, normalization, emerging regulatory scenarios, domestic cultivation, Cannabis Social Clubs and informal networks.
His combined legal and ethnographic perspective is particularly relevant to the study of the relationships between cultivation practices, legal frameworks, local economies and social networks in Spain.
Rafael Clua García
Co-Investigator · Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya
Social anthropologist and mental-health nurse with more than twenty years of experience working with people who use drugs. His research combines ethnography and qualitative research with work on drug use, drug markets, mental health, prisons and harm reduction.
In ECCE-CANN, he contributes an applied perspective on drug-related practices, care, vulnerability and the social contexts in which cannabis is produced, circulated and consumed.
Carmen Castilla-Vázquez
Co-Investigator · University of Granada
Social anthropologist whose research examines religion, community, migration, gender, health and social vulnerability. Her recent work includes the relationships between religious organisations, addiction, gender and forms of social support.
In ECCE-CANN, she contributes an ethnographic perspective on community networks, moral frameworks, gender relations and the social meanings surrounding cannabis cultivation and consumption.