Lucía Argüelles

Lucía holds a PhD in Environmental Science and Technology (Cum Laude, 2018) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, an MSc in Environmental Studies from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, a Graduate Diploma in Food Sovereignty and Agroecology from the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Oviedo. In addition, she has worked as the technical editor of EJatlas and in the private sector. She currently collaborates with an organic vegetable farm in the outskirts of Barcelona.

Her research interests are environmental governance, food politics and policy, urban-rural politics, agrarian studies, environmental privilege and food gentrification. Her PhD thesis interrogated the role of power and privilege in the construction and expansion of an alternative-provisioning strategy for social change. She looked particularly at the imaginaries and discourses embedded in sustainability-oriented alternative practices, as well as at the socio-economic and political structures that maintain and institutionalize (certain) alternative practices. She paid special attention to alternative food and community-organized energy provisioning initiatives.

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