Environmental, Social and Knowledge Studies Group (GEASIKO)

Researcher in charge: Leida Fernández Prieto

Members:

GEASIKO investigates how the relationships among knowledge, environment, and society have historically shaped forms of social organization, the transformation of territories, and the construction of the material world. The group studies how different forms of knowledge—scientific, technical, professional, practical, and local—are produced, circulate, transform, and acquire authority in concrete historical contexts. Likewise, it pays special attention to historical processes linked to global commodities, productive systems, environmental transformations, human mobilities, and the ways in which territories are imagined and represented.

The group promotes an interdisciplinary research agenda that integrates contributions from environmental history; the history of science, technology, and knowledge; and economic, social, institutional, and conceptual history. Its research privileges spaces characterized by the circulation of people, species, objects, commodities, technologies, and forms of knowledge, where local dynamics converge with historical processes of global reach.

Integrated into the Department of American Studies, GEASIKO develops connected studies that contribute to knowledge about American societies and strengthen dialogue with other regions and historiographical traditions of the Global South.

Research Lines
1. Knowledge, Territories, and Socio-environmental Transformations
2. Science, Field Knowledges, and the Circulation of Knowledge
3. Commodities, Economies, and Global Connections
4. Institutions, Policies, Cultures, and Spatial Imaginaries
5. Economies, and Productive Systems

Cross-Cutting Research Agenda

Agriculture, Food, and Agri-food Systems
Botanical Knowledges, Biodiversity, and Biocultural Knowledge
Circulation of Species, Objects, and Knowledge Practices
Concepts, Languages, and Political and Territorial Imaginaries
Institutions, the State, and Governance
Plantation Economies, Labor, and Social Organization
Representations of Space and the Historical Construction of Regions
Risk, Adaptation, and Innovation in the face of Environmental and Agricultural crises
Science, Technology, and Material Cultures
Scientific, Commercial, and Administrative Networks
Tropical Commodities, Global Economies, and Socio-environmental Transformations

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Dept. of American Studies

Instituto de Historia (IH)

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