My work integrates animal geographies and more-than-human political ecologies to study the
reciprocal influence of animals and humans on each other's socio-cultural, economic and political lives. Through the use of
a diverse range of multispecies qualitative methods, I have explored nature-society relations in various geographic contexts,
investigating cases that range from animal agriculture and biosecurity to biodiversity conservation and human-wildlife
interactions.
My work sits at the intersection of more-than-human geographies and political ecologies.
My research explores multiple nature-society relations through a diversity of cases ranging from industrial animal agriculture to biodiversity conservation
and environmental conflicts.
Current research
I currently work as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Human Geography work package of the project Remaking One Health: Decolonial Approaches to Street Dogs and Rabies Prevention in India. The project investigates the persistence of rabies as a public health problem in India. Challenging the (post)colonial One Health conceptualization of street dogs as out-of-place disease vectors, the project's analytical framework of multispecies cultures directs new interdisciplinary attention to the lived experiences of human and nonhuman animal actors.
Moreover, my PhD research at the University of Edinburgh examined how animal agriculture and meat cultures
in Catalonia and Scotland have been built over a wealth of national (hi)stories of human-nonhuman entanglements.
The project aimed —paraphrasing Natalie Koch and Tom Perreault— to analyze the kinds of imagined communities that pig
farming and salmon farming invoke in both nations. While working on my thesis, I covered some of these aspects in
conferences and seminars. As selected examples, I explored the relationship between biosecurity,
nationalism and animal agriculture in this public
conference and this poster
presentation.
More-than-human geographies
My work in more-than-human geographies examines the relationship between nonhuman animals, culture and development. In this sense, my MPhil research (UiO, 2019)
looked at the tensions between rural economic activities and wildlife reintroduction programmes in the Catalan Pyrenees.
Since then, my interests have broadened to include other topics such as animal-based food systems (see below).
Some of my work specifically centered on human-animal geographies has been presented in academic conferences and can be read
in chapters and papers (see Publications). When it comes to public scholarship, I have written about some of these topics in media outlets
like Sentient Media or
La Directa.
Animal agriculture and food geographies
As part of my doctoral research, I worked on topics related to animal agriculture and animal-source food systems through
concepts and bodies of work like human-animal studies, food assemblages, biosecurity, and meat cultures. In this sense, I
studied nationalism and animal agriculture as convergent phenomena. Furthermore, apart from my PhD research, in
2020 I assisted Dr Srinivasan's project on meat cultures and animal agriculture in contemporary India. As part of my completed doctoral research,
in 2022 I co-organized the workshop “Food, Animals & the Nation” to explore, with a diversity of academic and non-academic stakeholders,
the links between animal-based food systems, development, and economic nationalism.
Public engagement
Since my undergraduate studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where I
collaborated with the news outlet Núvol,
I have considered public engagement a fundamental part of my professional
development and civic engagement as a researcher and writer. As part of my MPhil studies in
Development, Environment and Cultural Change at the University of Oslo
I joined the Editorial Board of Tvergastein (2017-2019), a student
journal at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM). During my
postgraduate studies at SUM I also developed an internship at the Debates and Conferences
Programme at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. In 2021, I returned to the CCCB
but this time doing some academic consultancy work for the cycle
of debates In Symbiosis, which celebrated (and was inspired by) the work of Lynn Margulis and Donna
Haraway. In addition, I have also been part of the Sentient Media
Writer Collective and have also contributed articles to different media outlets (See Publications).
I am always open to new collaborations, cultural and academic projects, and opportunities to work in
multidisciplinary teams.
PhD Thesis
2024. Building Animal Nations: Industrial Animal Agriculture in the Making of Catalonia and Scotland. University of Edinburgh. [Read here]
Journal articles, book chapters, and other academic publications
Forthcoming."Animal Geography at its Limits" (Special Issue, editor). In Scottish Geographical Journal, with Chris Philo and Krithika Srinivasan.
2023."Animal Geographies". In Concise
Encyclopedia of Human Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan, edited by
David Demeritt and Loretta Lees. Edward Elgar Publishing. [Read here]
2022. “Methodologies for animal geographies:
approaches within and beyond the human” In Routledge Handbook of
Methodologies in Human Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan, edited by
Rosenberg, Coen and Lovell. Routledge. [Read here]
2022. “Establishing nationhood through
landscapes: the return of the bear to the Catalan Pyrenees” In
Landscape as heritage: critical perspectives, with Karen V. L. Syse,
edited by G. Petennati. Routledge. [Read here]
2019. "The Bear and the Shepherd: Nationalism, Nature Politics and Rural
Development in the Catalan Pyrenees". Universitetet i Oslo. [Read MPhil thesis here].
Conferences and seminars
2024, June 12th. Foie gras and animal lives: the risk of using care as a ‘frame of reference’ for industrial animal agriculture.
Panellist at the session "Animal Political Ecologies", with Felix Clarke.
Political Ecology Network Biannual Conference (POLLEN) 2024, Lund
2024, April 16th. Escaped, wild, and free-living: Nonhuman animals at the limits of nation and species.
Panellist at the session "Animal-State Relations: A Political Geography of Multispecies Nation-Making".
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2024, Honolulu
2023, June 23rd. Invited talk at the Political Ecology Reading Group at the University of Sheffield.
2023, May 10th. Work in progress on African Swine Fever and nation-building imaginaries at the
Bridg’it! European network in the science of food and sustainability workshop. University of Giessen, Germany.
2023, March 23rd. Hog Fevers: Bio(in)security and nationalism in Catalonia's pig industry.
Pannelist at the session "Pig Worlds: Understanding porcine multiplicity in the Anthropocene".
Finnish Antropological Society Conference 2023, University of Lapland - Arctic Centre.
2022, October 8th. Escape the pen, escape the nation: salmon biopolitics in
Scottish aquaculture. ERA 2022: Biopolitics, the Ecology of Humanity, and
the Anthropocene, University College London.
2022, August 25th. Co-organiser of the workshop
"Food, Animals & the Nation". University of Edinburgh.
2021, September 1st. Snouts
on the road: More-than-human nationalism, animal welfare, and the
Catalan pig industry. Panellist at the session
“Reconfiguring farmed animal health and welfare: exploring and
transcending borders between spaces, times, species and knowledge”.
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
2021, June 1st. ‘Meating
the Nation’: More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland.
Political Ecology Group seminars, University of Cambridge.
2021, April 12th. Guest lecture on ecological restoration as part
of the course "Development, Environment and Natural Resources" within
IBEI's Master's Programme in International Development.
2021, May 28th. Bio(in)security
and more-than-human nationalism: the case of pig farming in Catalonia. Witnessing
and Worlding Beyond the Human: An Interdisciplinary and Interspecies
Conversation. Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois [Watch presentation]
2021, May 3rd.'Meating the nation': More-than-human nationalism
in Catalonia and Scotand'. PGR Conference: School of Geosciences, University
of Edinburgh. [Watch presentation]
2021, February 25th. Seminar: More than human, less than
State: animal stateless nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland. Institute
of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of
Barcelona
2019, March 28th. Animal
nationalisms: unbuilding narratives of nationhood and belonging in
biodiversity conservation projects. Bergen International
Student Conference: Towards sustainable futures: facing global
challenges today, University of Bergen.
2018, November 27th. L’ós
bru als Pirineus: consideracions ètiques sobre el programa de
reintroducció Piros Life. Centre for Animal Ethics,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Public scholarship and other publications
2024. Srinivasan K., Rubio-Ramon G., Ramp D, Chapple R. "Free-living dogs and public health in India: What are the connections between public debates and everyday people-dog interactions?"
ROH-Indies Working Paper 1, University of Edinburgh; doi: 10.7488/c6569c32-fb07-4754-8dcc-30d2a88f60da
2024. "Hybrid Publics of Human and Other-than-Human Life: Free-Living Dogs and the 'Green' and 'Healthy' City in India". Berliner Gazette.
[Read full article]
2024. "The reinvention of industrial pig farming in Catalonia". RGS Animal Geographies Blog.
[Read full article]
2022. "Después del colapso 🕳️ | Qué nos enseñan DUNE y NAUSICAA". YouTube Collaboration with Alba Lafarga.
[Watch full video]
2022. “¿Cómo miramos la naturaleza?: La princesa Mononoke y la ecología”. YouTube Collaboration with Alba Lafarga.
[Watch full video]
2020. “Who Killed Cachou? Brown Bear’s Unusual Death Ignites
Controversy”. Sentient Media.
[Read full article]
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