MIREIA ALCANTARA RODRIGUEZ (She/Her)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Plants embody meaningful stories on how people connect with their environment, which in turn, reflects the knowledge we share with the land. This powerful connection inspires my research. Unfairly, these relationships are often disrupted by extractive and capital-pursuit actions rooted in colonialism and the neoliberalist policies that sustain it. Within the IEK-Changes Project I aim to understand how Tsimane’s oral histories and other historical sources, such as photographs, inform us about changes and continuities in their plant knowledge and practices and how the Tsimane’ people have been affected by those processes, as well as their relationship with their territory. I previously engaged in diverse projects at the intersection of botany, history, linguistics, and art (Brazil, Colombia, Curaçao, Colombia, and the Netherlands). Additionally, I am intrigued about plant lore related to other-than-human beings in rural areas (e.g., Aragon Pyrenees) and the role they have played in the territory over time.

mireia.alcantara@uab.cat

The IEK-CHANGES project is an ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Union (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) to Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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El proyecto IEK-CHANGES es una beca «Starting Grant» del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) financiada por la Unión Europea (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) y concedida al Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.

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Todas las fotografías de la Amazonía son de Joan de la Malla

Ilustraciones y diseño del logotipo: Mar Cartró-Sabaté

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