CREA and Our Path Towards Socially Relevant Social Sciences

This chapter presents some of the theoretical basis on which CREA research has been built upon. Written in a narrative style and drawing on my own initial academic experience within the ‘feudal’ structures of Spanish academia, I explain how in CREA we have been able to challenge and contribute to the transformation of these structures. I also describe the seminar ‘with the book in hand’, which is a key activity in the intellectual training of CREA researchers, serving as a space of on-going reflection amid the study of inequalities and our commitment in their transformation through research.