José Garriga Zucal holds a degree in Social Anthropology (UBA), a Master's Degree in Social Anthropology (UNSAM), and a PhD in Social Anthropology (UBA). Currently, he is a professor at the National University of San Martín and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), and researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). He is compiler of Swollen (Prometheus, 2005). As an author, José Garriga Zucal published Making friends with pineapples. Violence and social networks of a soccer fan (Prometheus, 2007) and "We fight." Violence and identity of a soccer fan (Prometheus, 2010); besides writing articles for different media.