Dr Javier Jurado is a researcher and lecturer in cultural and media history. He is currently a Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Lille, where he teaches in the Culture and Media undergraduate programme. From 2016 to 2020, he was a Temporary Lecturer and Research Associate in Contemporary Spanish Visual Culture at the same institution.
His research focuses on the history of media and cultural industries, combining approaches from communication history, political economy, and discourse analysis. He is particularly interested in the interactions between media production, social transformations, and the construction of national identities in Europe since the 1960s. A central theme of his work examines how media discourse, shaped by relations with the EEC and later the EU, has legitimised technocratic models while contributing to processes of social exclusion.
He explored in his postgraduate research the legitimisation strategies of the Francoist dictatorship through audiovisual media. Since then, his research has developed around three main areas: the technocratic imaginary in Spanish cinema and television, territorial reconfigurations of cultural identities, and transformations in political discourse in the digital era.
Dr Jurado has also studied the representation of economic modernisation in audiovisual fiction and the tensions between identity claims and market-driven cultural production. His work interrogates transformations in the public sphere at the intersection of media institutions and emerging forms of resistance.
Alongside his research, he has organised and led several international academic events on cultural and media history, covering topics such as co-production dynamics between Europe and Latin America, representations of urban gentrification, and the depiction of marginality in visual arts. He has coordinated interdisciplinary conferences including Retours à l’Apocalypse dans les mondes romans, Health Crisis, Counteractions and the Media in the Ibero-American World, and Reframing Journeys: Migration, Media Narratives and Cultural Dialogues in Europe’s Changing Landscape.
Awards:
- Awards: European Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences (MESHS) bursary "Mobilités Sortantes 2025"