ECTS credits ECTS credits: 5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 5 Expository Class: 15 Interactive Classroom: 20 Total: 40
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Contemporary History
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
- Complex knowledge of the contemporary agrarian past for a critical analysis of the agrarian and rural present, from a new epistemology of the rural world and society.
-To think historically the current problems identifying in the long term the problems of the rural world of the present from agrobiodiversity and agroecology.
-To identify in the past of organic agriculture sustainable solutions for the future, in line with an applied history.
-Application to environmental and agroecological historiography: another look at the past.
-Comparative analysis of the different historical models of technological change in contemporary European agriculture separated by 1945: organic agrarian modernism, autarkic fascism and modernizing green revolution.
-To identify the social and gender biases in the processes of technological change.
-A rural history of gender: uses of time and subalternities.
-Procura of a historical proposal of Country Governance of the rural spaces.
1.- What do we know and what do we think we know about the contemporary rural world?
a) Topics and prejudices in memory and historiography: progress and rediscovery of nature.
b) Epistemology and sources to know the rural world from below: Pontedeva's neighbors and other...
2.- Contemporary rural societies of the XIX-XX centuries: real risks of its evolution.
3.- Production, reproduction, ecology: gender and rural societies.
4.- The historical war of the liberal State against the commons and the resistance and resilience of the working class.
5.- Capitalism in the countryside. Land, work and technology between XVIII and XX centuries.
6. - The post-1945 Green Revolution: mechanisms, implementation and current consequences.
7.- Agricultural innovation in contemporary European agriculture. America versus Europe
Agriculture in the Anthropocene. Long-term prospects.
Bibliografía básica e complementaria
BIBLIOGRAFÍA de traballo, selección.
- Barca, S. (2010) Enclosing Water. Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796-1915, Cambridge: White Horse Press
- Cabana Iglesias, A. (2018) En femenino plural. La perspectiva de género en la historia rural, en D. Soto y J-M Lana Berasaín Del pasado al futuro como problema. La historia agraria contemporánea española en el siglo XXI, Zaragoza : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
-Carral E. e Carreira X. C. (2014), O pequeno é grande. A agricultura familiar como alternativa. O caso galego, Santiago de Compostela, Através Editora.
- Corbelle, E. & R. Crecente (2014) “Urbanización, forestación e abandono. Cambios recentes na paisaxe agraria de Galicia, 1985-2005”, Revista Galega de Economía, 23-1 pp. 35-52
-Díaz Geada, A & Fernández Prieto, L (2020) Senderos de la Historia Agraria. Miradas y actores en medio siglo de Historia rural, Granada, Comares.
- Federici, S. (2010) La privatización de la tierra en Europa, producción de escasez y separación de la producción respecto de la reproducción, en Calibán y la bruja. Mujeres, cuerpo e acumulación originaria (98-113)
- Federico, G. (2011): Breve Historia Económica de la Agricultura. Zaragoza, SEHA, Monografías de Historia Rural, 8.
- Fernández Prieto, L. (2000) Terra e progreso. Hª Agraria da Galicia contemporánea. Vigo. Xerais. (tm en Dubert (2017) Historias das Historias de Galicia.
-(2021) Agrarismo de mulleres na folga das leiteiras de Ferrol en 1910. Revisando o agrarismo, en Artiaga Rego, A. Et al (eds), Á volta do tempo. Estudos de Historia Contemporánea, Vigo: Xerais
-& J. Pan-Montojo & Miguel Cabo (2014) Agriculture in the Age of Fascism. Authoritarian Technocracy and rural modernization, 1922-1945, Turnhout, Brepols.
- Garrabou, R. (2010). Sombras del progreso. Las huellas de la historia agraria, Barcelona. Crítica. (LFP&DS “El Atlántico no es el Mediterraneo...”)
-González de Molina, M., J. Infante y A. Herrera (2014) “Cuestionando los relatos tradicionales: desigualdad, cambio liberal y crecimiento agrario en el Sur peninsular (1752-1901)”, Historia Agraria, nº 63
- Köning, N. (1994): The failure of agrarian capitalism, London Routledge.
- Marco, I., R. Padró, E. Tello (2020) Labour, nature, and exploitation: Social metabolism and inequality in a farming community in mid-19th century Catalonia, Journal of Agrarian Change 20: 408–436
-Martin, C, J. Pan-Montojo & P. Brassley Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960,pp. 165-184.
- Martínez, H. (2017) Territorio-Eucalipto, en Programa de Estudos en Man Común, A través das marxes. Entrelazando feminismos, ruralidades e comúns
- Marx, K. (1842) Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood, in Rheinische Zeitung, No. 298, Supplement, October 25 1842 (now in Marx and Engels Archives: http://hiaw.org/defcon6/works/1842/10/25.html#n1
- McNeill, J. R. (2000): Algo nuevo bajo el sol. Historia Medioambiental del mundo en el siglo XX. Madrid, Alianza Ed.
- McCook, Stuart (2002), States of Nature. Science, Agriculture and enviromment in the Spanish Caribbean. 1740-1940, Austin. University of Texas Press.
- Merchant, C. (1987) The theoretical structure of ecological revolutions, Environmental Review vol. 11, n. 4
- Patel, R. y J.W. Moore, Unha historia do mundo en sete cousas baratas. Sobre o capitalismo, a natureza e o futuro do planeta (cap. 5), Catro Ventos Ed., S. Coop. Galega
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- Pujol J. et ali (2001): El pozo de todos los males. Sobre el atraso en la agricultura española contemporánea, Barcelona, Crítica.
-Rolf Peter Sieferle (2001): “Qué es la historia ecológica?” in González de Molina y Martínez Alier (eds): Naturaleza transformada, Barcelona, Icaria, pp. 31-54.
-Soto. D (2015) Del manejo multifuncional del territorio a la desarticulación productiva: cambios en los flujos de biomasa durante el proceso de industrialización de la agricultura gallega (1960-2012). Documento de Trabajo. SEHA (en liña)
- Soto Fernández, D., Antonio Herrera, Manuel González de Molina y Antonio Ortega Santos (2007). La protesta campesina como protesta ambiental, siglos XVIII-XX, HISTORIA AGRARIA · n.º 42 · Agosto 2007 · pp. 277-301
- Wrigley, E.A. (2006) The transition to an advanced organic economy: half a millennium of English agriculture, Economic History Review LIX, 3, pp. 435–480
- Worster, D. (1990) “Transformations of The Earth: Toward an Agroecological Perspective in History”, Journal of American History, 76,4, pp.1087-1106
-Critical handling of archival, periodical and oral sources: knowledge and methods for rural history.
-Ability to construct states of the question and to handle specialized bibliography.
-Management of sites and networks to deepen and work with these contents.
-Ability to carry out, expose and discuss publicly an academic work for publication.
-To know the techniques of reconstruction and interpretation of agrarian landscapes: aerial photography, remote sensing...
-To learn forms of applied history that allow participatory work of impact in Living Labs.
-Presentations of the teacher in the classroom accompanied by discussions with students of selected sources and readings.
-Field practice of two days (Caurel, Barbanza...) to work on historical readings of the agrarian landscape as a source.
-Preparation in team of a work on selected contents of the subject applying the acquired knowledge and public presentation with a critical discussion in the classroom, the work is based on collective elaboration and participatory action with historiographical basis with the intention of:
To train in impact research: the methodologies seek to train students in the knowledge of the agrarian past and the rural societies.
of the agrarian past and rural societies and to provide them with practical tools for participatory action.
in living laboratories in the logic of applied history, as we are doing from the Histagra group (CISPAC) in the
Ecosocial Laboratory of Barbanza.
Reading, debating, presenting and discussing is the formula in this course for learning and knowing.
Presentation, discussion and defense of the work: 50% of the qualification.
Classroom participation and seminar debates, including field practice: 50%.
Reading, debating, presenting and discussing is the formula in this course for learning and knowing.
-Presentation by the teaching staff of the selected sections in the classroom, work by the students with selected readings and discussion with the students + (in) field practice.
-Preparation by the students, in pairs, of a work on selected contents of the syllabus, applying the acquired knowledge and public presentation with a critical discussion in the classroom.
Chronogram:
- Weekly sessions in September and October. Presentation of readings and discussion of texts will take place throughout the course.
- Field practice in November and (dates to be defined).
- Design of topics for the papers and preparation of the same, supervised by the professor, during November.
- Presentation and discussion of the work in December and final session of balance and conclusions on December 15th.
Field practice will be scheduled in the first weeks of the course.
Tutoring hours: Mondays from 10:00 - 11:30 or when required.
Workload: Estimated total hours of student workload: 120
5 ECTS (40 hours). Presentation by the professor and discussion in seminar 20
Hrs. Field practicals, student presentations and discussion: 45
Hrs. personal work (work preparation): 55
(estimated maximum load of student work: 120-150 hs/course: 65 hs. Classes, seminars and field practice, 40-50 hs. reading primary sources and bibliography, 40 hs. paper preparation and presentation).
We recommend a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary vocation, as well as a socio-historical understanding of the present of rural societies in an agrosystemic perspective, and above all a good historiographical foundation of history from the bottom of the European rural world, but also American and Asian of contemporary times.
See bibliography as a guide to the subject and its contents, which seek social impact of knowledge and research.
The vocation of intervention and social application of the subject to be studied intends to gather the experience of the LIving Lab works of the histagra group, besides its academic excellence.
Lourenzo Fernandez Prieto
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812578
- lourenzo.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Noelia Parajua Carpintero
- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- noelia.parajua [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Juan de la Cierva Programme
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