Jordi Graupera i Garcia-Milà

Jordi Graupera i Garcia-Milà (born 1980, Barcelona) is a Catalan political philosopher and politician. He works on self-determination and international relations. He works as a philosophy professor at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, teaching on globalization, cultural traditions, and creative thinking. He also works teaching history of social thought at the Open University of Catalonia.

Biography He received a PhD in Political Philosophy from The New School for Social Research with a critique of the liberal theory of the state, and has taught at Saint Francis College, NYU, Parsons School of Architecture and Design, and Princeton University, where he did his post-doc. In 2019, he ran for Mayor of Barcelona, but his political platform, Barcelona és capital, did not get more than 5% of the votes, the threshold for representation in Barcelona City Council.

His research interests focus on contemporary political theory, early modern political philosophy, and the history of culture in the Iberian Peninsula. He is the author of Una idea per Barcelona and La Supèrbia (available in English in The Seven Deadly Sins). He has worked as a journalist, op-ed writer, cultural critic, correspondent and political analyst. At Stanford, he has held the Josep Pla Visiting Professorship in Catalan Studies in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures.

In 2024, Graupera and Clara Ponsatí launched Alhora, a new political party in favour of Catalan independence but critical of existing pro-independence parties.

Electoral history + Electoral history of Jordi GrauperaElectionConstituencyPartyAllianceNo.Result 2019 local Barcelona Barcelona is Capital Catalonia Primaries 1 Not elected 2024 regional Province of Barcelona Alhora None 2 Not elected

Publications Converses amb Xavier Sala i Martín (CAT: DAU, 2008 ) (in Catalan and Spanish) (ES: Planeta, 2010 ) Cartes Ianquis de Carles Boix (collaborator) (A contravent, 2012 ) Barcelona. La ciutat del present. (Ajuntament de Barcelona. 2013). ) Una vida articulada per Josep Maria Espinàs (prologue) (La Campana, 2013 ) (in Catalan) Una idea per Barcelona (Destino, 2018) La supèrbia (Fragmenta, 2020), translated to English by Mara Faye Lethem and published as part of The Seven Deadly Sins