GAME Grupo de Antropología, Medio ambiente y Economía / GAME Anthropology, Environment and Economy Group
Scientic Supervisor / Contact Person
Name and Surname
Mireia Campanera
ORCID (link)
Localization & Research Area
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Political and Social Science
Department
Social Anthropology and social Psychology
Research Area
Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC)
MSCA & ERC experience
Research group / research team hosted any MSCA fellow?
No
Research group / research team have any ERC beneficiaries?
No
Research Team & Research Topic
Research Team / Research Group Name (if any)
GAME Grupo de Antropología, Medio ambiente y Economía
Website of the Research team / Research Group / Department
Brief description of the Research Team / Research Group / Department
The GAME Research Group has three main areas of focus: environment, economy and territory, which current literature and research present as interlinked, as they are all shaped by the socio-environmental challenges we face on a global scale.
Research lines / projects proposed
-The first area focuses on the relationships between human groups and the cultural dynamics they develop in their interaction with the environment. Within this line, key aspects include ontologies, cosmologies and interspecies relationships addressed by David Berná in his research on agroecological production in the Sierra de Gredos; sustainability, the socio-ecological crisis and the eco-social transition, also addressed in the Ecoembedness R&D project (J. Sanz and D. Berná); narratives and experiences surrounding climate change, forms of management, governance (I. Martínez from the perspective of political science) and environmental conservation; and ethoscience, notably the work of Mireia Campanera, Isabel Ralero, Isabel Gonzáez, Victor Alonso, Ignacio Martínez, Eva Herrero and Alberto Fidalgo, carried out in different cultural areas; and the heritage status of nature, addressed by Raúl Travé in various converging projects.
-The second strand relates to the analysis of the plurality of contemporary economic forms, where the focus is on the different forms of provisioning, distribution, exchange and consumption. Particular attention is paid to economic forms not geared towards accumulation. Of particular note is the work carried out by the Ecoembedness project (J. Sanz and D. Berna) and the projects detailed in the 60 articles by researchers I. González and J. Sanz. This line of research particularly encompasses the work of E. Herrero, incorporating the gender variable into migratory processes and their relationship with economic processes, and research on food access and provision in contexts of inequality (M. Campanera).
- The third line of analysis is characterised by the examination of existing representations, practices and narratives surrounding the territory from an anthropological perspective. From this perspective, attention is paid to aspects such as development, tourism or phenomena such as depopulation, studied by R. Travé, I. Ralero and I. González, or cultural plurality in territorial configuration (Fidalgo, Campanera, Herrero, Martínez).
Through qualitative methodologies, primarily ethnographic, we aim to contribute synergistically to the interdisciplinary study of the complex relationship between human beings, the environment, economic systems and territorial management within a global capitalist socio-economic context and one of socio-ecological crisis. This group will pay particular attention to those cultural and institutional practices that, in a transformative manner, propose alternative scenarios that place life at the center. All this research work will be carried out in Spain, Portugal, Central America, the Amazon and South-East Asia; and in socio-ecosystems as varied as tropical rainforests, arid zones, coastal and riverine wetlands, and urban, peri-urban or rural-urban environments.
-The second strand relates to the analysis of the plurality of contemporary economic forms, where the focus is on the different forms of provisioning, distribution, exchange and consumption. Particular attention is paid to economic forms not geared towards accumulation. Of particular note is the work carried out by the Ecoembedness project (J. Sanz and D. Berna) and the projects detailed in the 60 articles by researchers I. González and J. Sanz. This line of research particularly encompasses the work of E. Herrero, incorporating the gender variable into migratory processes and their relationship with economic processes, and research on food access and provision in contexts of inequality (M. Campanera).
- The third line of analysis is characterised by the examination of existing representations, practices and narratives surrounding the territory from an anthropological perspective. From this perspective, attention is paid to aspects such as development, tourism or phenomena such as depopulation, studied by R. Travé, I. Ralero and I. González, or cultural plurality in territorial configuration (Fidalgo, Campanera, Herrero, Martínez).
Through qualitative methodologies, primarily ethnographic, we aim to contribute synergistically to the interdisciplinary study of the complex relationship between human beings, the environment, economic systems and territorial management within a global capitalist socio-economic context and one of socio-ecological crisis. This group will pay particular attention to those cultural and institutional practices that, in a transformative manner, propose alternative scenarios that place life at the center. All this research work will be carried out in Spain, Portugal, Central America, the Amazon and South-East Asia; and in socio-ecosystems as varied as tropical rainforests, arid zones, coastal and riverine wetlands, and urban, peri-urban or rural-urban environments.
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