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New spiritualities, health and wellbeing

Description and analysis of the wide variety of nutritional, therapeutic, esoteric and spiritual disciplines and techniques that have arrived in the West and through which the imaginaries of the body, health and spirituality have been modified to form a new field of social action.

Spiritualities and utopias of transformation

Analysis of how the different imaginaries that emerge and are reproduced in contexts of groups of new spiritualities are linked to utopias of socio-political transformation, and how certain social practices are developed with the aim of implementing this agenda.

Sustainability, food and health

Investigate the relationship between sustainability and food, in order to reflect on how different imaginaries, itineraries and food consumption practices are articulated in relation to sustainability and health.