Javier Garcia Fernandez

A sociologist and historian serving as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Seville, he specializes in postcolonial studies and modern and contemporary colonial history – specifically, the processes of empire formation and political, economic, and cultural decolonization. He has conducted research at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra and at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His recent publications include Tierra y libertad: Sindicato de Obreros del Campo, cuestión agraria y democratización del mundo rural en Andalucía (Land and Liberty: The Farm Workers' Union, the Agrarian Question, and the Democratization of the Rural World in Andalusia (Icaria, 2017), Descolonizar Europa: Ensayos para pensar históricamente desde el Sur (Decolonizing Europe: Essays for Thinking Historically from the South, Brumaria, 2019), Pensar jondo. Crítica del eurocentrismo, descolonización y cultura (Thinking 'Jondo': A Critique of Eurocentrism, Decolonization, and Culture, Almuzara, 2023), La hoz y el olivo. Ensayos sobre marxismo andaluz (The Sickle and the Olive Tree: Essays on Andalusian Marxism, Bellaterra, 2026), and Utopías anticoloniales: Memorias del antiimperialismo en el Estado español (Anticolonial Utopias: Memories of Anti-imperialism in the Spanish State, Txalaparta, 2026). He is the Principal Investigator for the project 'Franco’s Imperial Spain: Fascism, Empire, and the Colonial Question in 20th-Century Spain', funded by the Directorate General for Democratic Memory (Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes, and Democratic Memory). Additionally, he is an Andalusian nationalist activist, a former trade unionist and member of the Andalusian Workers' Union (SAT), and a founder of 'Defender Andalucía' and the Juan Díaz del Moral Study Group.