ECTS credits ECTS credits: 5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 85 Hours of tutorials: 5 Expository Class: 15 Interactive Classroom: 20 Total: 125
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: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | (Yes)
- The subject is designed to provide students with tools to investigate in Rural History and to build a historical explanation of the present of the rural world: emptying, abandoned, depressed and disordered.
- Complex knowledge of the contemporary agrarian past for a critical analysis of the agrarian and rural present, based on: 1) To historically think of the current problems, identifying the structural problems of the rural world of the present in the long term; 2) To Identify in the past of organic agriculture sustainable solutions for the future, in the line of an applied history.
-Approach to environmental historiography related to the rural world and the agroecology. To know the historiography, theory and concepts in order to interpret the processes of technological change, from the environmental point of view.
- Agrarian history as a co-evolution of society and nature over time.
-Sources and research methods in agrarian / rural history: written, oral, graphic, ethnographic, cartographic...
- Comparative analysis of the models of agrarian development, in time and space: the intensive organic agriculture. before the 2nd World War and the green revolution, taking into account the hinge between the two periods to explore the modernizing nature of fascisms and their influence on the post- 1945.
-History as a useful knowledge; approach to an applied History: inefficiency of the current model and search for sustainable proposals in the knowledge of the forms of management of organic agricultural products.
- Knowledge of peasant societies and their gender, social, economic and cultural diversity.
1.- Presentation: what we know and what we believe to know about the rural world. Practical session outside the classroom.
a) Topics and prejudices in memory and historiography: progress and rediscovery of nature.
b) Dark sources to know the rural world: Residents of Pontedeva.
2.- Contemporary rural societies ss. XIX-XX: general risks of their evolution.
3.- Introduction to the sources and the methods for Rural History (in the General Course)
4.- History of the process of technological change in intensive European organic agriculture. Paradigms of technological change. Galicia 1880-1940: intensive organic model.
5.- Fascisms and autarky: processes, paradigms and historical models of agrarian progress.
6.- The Green Revolution: implantation mechanisms and current consequences.
7.- The environmental perspective and the applied History: sustainability and future of innovative organic agriculture with application of science.
-D. Worster (1990) “Transformations of The Earth: Toward an Agroecological Perspective in History”, Journal of American History, 76,4, pp.1087-1106/+ W.Cronon.
-Rolf Peter Sieferle (2001): “Qué es la historia ecológica?” in González de Molina y Martínez Alier (eds): Naturaleza transformada, Barcelona, Icaria, pp. 31-54.
-J. R. McNeill (2000): Algo nuevo bajo el sol. Historia Medioambiental del mundo en el siglo XX. Madrid, Alianza Ed.
-Stuart McCook (2002), States of Nature. Science, Agriculture and enviromment in the Spanish Caribbean. 1740-1940, Austin. University of Texas Press.
-N. Köning (1994): The failure of agrarian capitalism, London Routledge.
-M. González de Molina, 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 pp
-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)
- E. Corbelle & 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
-Carral E. e Carreira X. C. (2014), O pequeno é grande. A agricultura familiar como alternativa. O caso galego, Santiago de Compostela Através Editora,
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G. Federico (2011): Breve Historia Económica de la Agricultura. Zaragoza, SEHA, Monografías de Historia Rural, 8.
-R. Garrabou (2010). Sombras del progreso. Las huellas de la historia agraria, Barcelona. Crítica. (LFP&DS “El Atlántico no es el Mediterraneo...”)
-J. Pujol et ali (2001): El pozo de todos los males. Sobre el atraso en la agricultura española contemporánea, Barcelona, Crítica.
-L. Fernández Prieto (2000) Terra e progreso. Hª Agraria da Galicia contemporánea. Vigo. Xerais. (tm en Dubert (2017) Historias das Historias de Galicia...
- (2007): El apagón tecnológico del franquismo. Estado e innovación en la agricultura española del siglo XX, Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanc.
-J. Pan-Montojo & Miguel Cabo (2014) Agriculture in the Age of Fascism. Authoritarian Technocracy and rural modernization, 1922-1945, Turnhout, Brepols.
- & Daniel Lanero (2016); “Technology Policies in dictatorial contexts: Spain and Portugal” C. Martin, J. Pan-Montojo & P. Brassley Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945-1960,pp. 165-184.
-Brassley, Segers and Van Molle (2012). War, Agriculture and food. Rural Europe form the 1930s to the 1950s, London. Routledge.
-Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 40,4, 2010 (Agriculture, genetics, fascisms).
- Competence to analyze processes of technological change in contemporary European farms; the different historical models.
- Capacity to search, select and treat specialized bibliography.
- Ability to manage Internet sites in order to delve into these contents.
- Capacity to perform, exhibit and publicly discuss academic work.
- Knowledge and management of sources and methods for Rural History.
- To know the techniques of interpretation and reconstruction of agricultural landscapes.
- Knowledge of the logic of the landscape and its historical explanation.
Fundamental:
- Practical sessions in field work.
- Lecture, discussion and debate of materials: sources, texts, articles ...
Presentation of the 3/4 first sections by the teacher in the classroom, work of the students with selected readings and discussion with the students + (in) field practice.
-Preparation by students, in pairs, of a monographic work on the contents of Lessons 4 / 5-7 applying the acquired knowledge and public presentation followed by a critical discussion with the teacher.
Topics for the works: 1) The problems of the rural world in the present: visions from the Agrarian History; 2) Historical model of organic agriculture in Galicia (advanced organic agriculture and technological change); 3) Innovation and technological change: Green revolution and current agriculture; 4) Fascisms and agrarian policies: the weight of the past; 5) Peasantry, conflicts and social movements; 6) The commons in the Galician organic system; 7) other options to draw...
Presentation, discussion and defense of work: 50%
Attendance and participation during the lessons, seminar debates and field practice: 50%
To know and understand, read and debate will be the formula in this course.
* IMPORTANT: The absence without justification for two or more face-to-face sessions or repeated and proven breach of the preparation of texts and works will prevent the approved.
Workload: Estimated total work hours of the student: 125
5 ECTS, Optional
Hrs. Presentation of the teacher and discussion in the seminar 20
Hrs. Practices, presentations, students and discussion: 25
Hrs. personal work (preparation of works): 80
(workload students: 125-150 hours / course: 20-30 hours classes and seminars, 70-95 hours readings primary and secondary sources (400-700pp.), 30 hours preparation work and presentation).
Practical course organization
- 1 field session.
- 2 Sessions of September, October 2 dedicated to presentation topics, discussion texts.
- Field practice: Caurel: Agrarian landscape and oral history. Physical conditions of agrarian production; organic organic agriculture and mounts in Galicia.
- Preparation of works: end of October in mid-November.
- International Seminar on Rural landscapes, of optional assistance, in November.
- Presentation, discussion and defense work since the end of November.
- Final session of balance and conclusions December.
Attitude and disposition.
Adaptarase a presencialidade e os traballos ás dúas fases de continxencia previstas, en diálogo cos estudantes:
usando Teams e materiis en rede para seguir a actividade e sen modificar a lóxica da avaliación.
Lourenzo Fernandez Prieto
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Contemporary History
- Phone
- 881812578
- lourenzo.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor