Lucía Argüelles Ramos
R3 - Established Researcher
Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies, Human-Environmental Geography
GRANGE
I am a social scientist with interdisciplinary training and a focus on agri-food systems. I am a senior researcher at TURBA at the UOC-TRÀNSIC, where I lead research on human-environmental geography from a political ecology lens. For that, I uniquely bring together theoretical and analytical tools from political ecology and economy, STS, or critical agrarian studies among others. I completed my PhD in 2018 in Environmental Science and Technology at ICTA and received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award UAB. Since then, I have secured funding to lead my own research projects (e.g. DEMO, GRANGE). I was awarded the Juan de la Cierva Formación grant from the Ministry of Science in 2018 and the Juan de la Cierva Incorporación in 2020.
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Kovacic, Z., García, C., Argüelles, L., Yañez, P., Ribera-Fumaz, R., Prause, L., March, H. (2024). The twin green and digital transition: High-level policy or science fiction?. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(6), 2251-2278.
Kotsila, P., Argüelles, L. (2024). The necropolitics of expendability: migrant farm workers during COVID-19. Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(2), 441–465.
Mansfield, B., Werner, M., Berndt, C., Shattuck, A., Galt, R., Williams, B., Argüelles, L. et al. (2024). A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides. Agric Hum Values 41, 395–412
Argüelles, L., March, H. (2023). A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives. Journal of Rural Studies, 101, 103046.
Argüelles, L., March, H. (2022). Weeds in action. Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants. Progress in Human Geography, 46(1), 44-66.
Argüelles, L., Cole, H., Anguelovski, I. (2022) Green gentrification on track: Rail-to-park transformations in the 21st century modern city. Environmental and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 810–834.
Argüelles, L.* (2021). Growing farming heroes? Politics of imaginaries within farmer training programs in California. Annals of American Association of Geographers, 111(5), 1385-1402.
Argüelles, L. (2021). Privileged socionatures and naturalization of privilege: Untangling environmental privilege dimensions. The Professional Geographer, 73(4), 650-661.
Argüelles, L.* (2020). Entangled alternatives: Political-economic structures constructing farmer training programs as feasible solutions to the farming crisis. Journal of Political Ecology 27(1), 1148-1165.
Argüelles, L., Anguelovski, I., Sekulova, F. (2018). How to survive: Artificial quality food schemes and new forms of rule for farmers in direct marketing strategies. Journal of Rural Studies 62, 10-20.
Argüelles, L., Anguelovski, I., Dinnie, L. (2017). Power and privilege in alternative civic practices: Examining imaginaries of change and embedded rationalities in community economies. Geoforum 86, 30-41.
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HYDROSOCIAL (Tapping into the Future: Transforming Hydrosocial Cycles of the Llobregat and Besòs Rivers in the Face of Climate Emergency) 2026-2029. Fund. Agency: Spanish Research Agency (AEI, 67.125€) PIs: Hug March and Natalia Cantó (UOC).
GRANGE (Generational Replacement in Spanish Agriculture: Identifying Farm Desertion Hotspots), 2023-2026. Fund: Fundación La Caixa, Social Science Research call (114.000€). PI: Lucía Argüelles
DEMO (The Digital Turn in Environmental Governance), 2022-2024. Fund. Agency: Ministry of Science and Innovation (89.700€). PIs: Zora Kovacic and Lucía Argüelles (UOC).
GREENLULUS (Green Local Unwanted Land Uses), 2016-21. Fund. Agency: EC-ERC StG, PI Isabelle Anguelovski (ICTA-UAB) (1.450.000€). Participation: Full-time predoctoral researcher for 2 years (Oct. 2016-Nov. 2018)