Bart Paul Vanspauwen Editor

Bart Paul Vanspauwen is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology (INET-md) at NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal). He holds an MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology from NOVA, as well as a Postgraduate Degree in Cultural Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Literature from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). His research focuses on Afro-Portuguese and Portuguese-Brazilian cultural relations from a comparative postcolonial perspective. He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship for the ‘Sounds of Tourism’ project (NOVA), exploring TAP Air Portugal, and is currently involved in two ongoing projects: ‘Constellations of Memory’ (University of Lisbon) and ‘Lusophone Pop-Peripheral Music Networks’ (Fluminense Federal University).

Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros is a tenured researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT) within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Barcelona. His research explores the intersections of expressive culture, tourism, materiality, and heritage formation, with particular emphasis on experimental methodologies combining ethnography, image, and sound. He authored Cubaneando en Barcelona: Música, migración y experiencia urbana (CSIC, 2012) and co-edited Ambiance, Tourism and the City (Routledge, 2023).