Javier Barraycoa Martínez (Barcelona, ​​1963) holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (1993). He was a professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona for 18 years and is currently a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Abat Oliba CEU University, where he has conducted research on the construction of public opinion and social psychology. He has published numerous works in the sociological field on power and its symbolic constructions. He has carried out research stays at universities such as the University of Berkeley (1999), Harvard University (2004), the University of the Andes in Colombia (2010) and the University of Cyprus (2011), among others. One of his most important lines of research is related to the history of Catalonia and the construction of imaginaries and stereotypes around it. In this field he has contributed with works such as: Current Myths Uncovered, Hidden Stories of Catalan Nationalism, Hispanic Catalonia, Double Abdication or The (Un)controlled by Companys. He has also made incursions into satirical novels, as shown by his work The Last Catalan. With the publishing house Almuzara he has published: That Was Not in My Book on the History of Catalonia, That Was Not in My Book on the History of the Russian Revolution and That Was Not in My Book on the History of Carlism.