Joseba García Martín is a sociologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He holds an MA in Models and Areas of Research in Social Sciences and a PhD in Sociology from UPV/EHU (International Mention, cum laude), where he received the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize in 2023.

He is a member of the research group GAIT–Gizarte Aldaketa Ikerketa Taldea and co-founder and co-coordinator of the New Far Right Global Research Network, affiliated with the Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change (RC48) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). He has held postdoctoral positions funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities (Margarita Salas fellowship) and the Basque Government, and has been a visiting researcher at El Colegio de México, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

His research lies at the intersection of the sociology of religion and social movement studies, focusing on collective identities as infrastructures of conflict in contemporary democracies. His work examines how religiously inspired actors contribute to the reconfiguration of political cleavages through the activation of moral conflicts in the public sphere.

His research agenda is structured around four interconnected lines—labour, care, youth, and religion—as key domains for the production and politicisation of identities. Across these areas, he has analysed processes of precarisation, transformations in moral frameworks and everyday life, emerging forms of youth engagement, and the public role of Catholicism in shaping new cultural and political subjectivities.

A central focus of his research is the formation and evolution of the anti-rights field in Spain, understood as a relational space linking civil society organisations, religious actors, and political forces. Drawing on qualitative and relational approaches, he analyses how these actors construct identities and mobilise against progressive moral policies, particularly in relation to euthanasia, sexuality, and family.

Within this framework, his work within the ENLIGHT IDenti-T network focuses on identity transformations in relation to moral conflict, political polarisation, and the reconfiguration of democratic public spheres.

His research has been published in journals such as Sociology Compass, Politics and Religion, Revista Internacional de Sociología, and Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, among others, and in book chapters with Routledge and the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research (CIS).

His work contributes to international debates on secularisation, the de-privatisation of religion, and the rise of the far right, offering a relational perspective on identity, conflict, and democratic transformation in contemporary societies.