Research position
Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3). My research focuses on knowledge co-production in environmental conflicts in the Global North. I now work on a participatory research about the eutrophication of the Mar Menor lagoon (Murcia, Spain). I have analysed how the conflict is manifested in public controversies, uncertainty, socio-political polarization and associated collective emotions, and how all these processes hamper the possibilities for effective public action. In the upcoming years, I plan to go deeper with feminist STS thinkers to explore other cases of societal polarisation triggered by the implementation of ecological transition policies and how to create transformative spaces in such contexts.
New research lines
- Conflict-sensitive knowledge co-production
- Societal polarisation in ecological transition
- Emotional turn in sustainability transformations
Previous research lines
- Narrative research
- Online-offline participation
- Water governance
- Water-Energy-Food nexus
- Science for governance & actionable knowledge
Active projects
You can visit my blog and publications to know more about my research
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