Unraveling the socio-ecological bases of contemporary accumulation processes: from the infrastructure boom to groundwater struggles/ Charles Babbage Research Group
Scientic Supervisor / Contact Person
Name and Surname
Natalia Buier
ORCID (link)
Localization & Research Area
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Political and Social Science
Department
Applied Sociology
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)
GRUPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CHARLES BABBAGE EN CIENCIAS SOCIALES DEL TRABAJO
Website of the Research team / Research Group / Department
Brief description of the Research Team / Research Group / Department
https://www.ucm.es/grupo-charles-babbage/lineas-de-investigacion
Research lines / projects proposed
Firmly rooted in the discipline of anthropology, but energized by perspectives from critical geography, political ecology and political economy, my long term research agenda has prioritized the analysis of the lived experience of socio-ecological transformations and environment-making processes.
Concretely, this has taken the form of two research lines: one on infrastructural developmentalism and a more recent one on the water-agriculture-conservation nexus. My research line on infrastructural developmentalism built on my doctoral dissertation and was consolidated at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, where I lead a research line on infrastructure and financialisation (as a member of the Financialisation Research Group) and carried out my own project on the development of Spanish high-speed rail. In the fall of 2021 I joined the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and initiated a new research line, theoretically and analytically addressing the relationship between exploitation and extraction and empirically focused
on groundwater conflicts in the region of Doñana (“Origins of Scarcity: Labour and the Metabolism of Groundwater Scarcity in the Doñana Socio-Ecological System”). I am currently consolidating this latter research line and exploring the synergies between these two major research directions as a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Department of Applied Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology). I am a member of the Charles Babbage research group (Grupo de Investigación Charles Babbage en Ciencias Sociales del Trabjo) and a member of the Reciprocity Studies Group (Grup d´Estudis sobre Reciprocitat, UB)
Concretely, this has taken the form of two research lines: one on infrastructural developmentalism and a more recent one on the water-agriculture-conservation nexus. My research line on infrastructural developmentalism built on my doctoral dissertation and was consolidated at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, where I lead a research line on infrastructure and financialisation (as a member of the Financialisation Research Group) and carried out my own project on the development of Spanish high-speed rail. In the fall of 2021 I joined the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and initiated a new research line, theoretically and analytically addressing the relationship between exploitation and extraction and empirically focused
on groundwater conflicts in the region of Doñana (“Origins of Scarcity: Labour and the Metabolism of Groundwater Scarcity in the Doñana Socio-Ecological System”). I am currently consolidating this latter research line and exploring the synergies between these two major research directions as a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Department of Applied Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology). I am a member of the Charles Babbage research group (Grupo de Investigación Charles Babbage en Ciencias Sociales del Trabjo) and a member of the Reciprocity Studies Group (Grup d´Estudis sobre Reciprocitat, UB)
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