Indigenous communities are the main ones facing the direct consequences of climate change due to their intricate relationship with the environment, their culture and their resources. In the case of the Amazon, environmental devastation and exploitation threaten the basic human rights of its native peoples, which, added to the impacts of climate change, threatens the survival of its biodiversity. In this plot, indigenous women play a crucial role in the intergenerational transmission of ancestral knowledge about caring for the land. The growing mobilization of indigenous women's organizations in resource preservation is highlighted in decolonial ecofeminist debates. Intertwining the rights of women and those of nature, seeking alternatives for the preservation of life. Within this framework, this project will examine how a new understanding of what constitutes evidence-based knowledge can become crucial for an ontological turn in forms of sustainable knowledge production and transmission, to halt the destruction of Amazonian biodiversity. We refer specifically to the productive practices of indigenous women in their ways of preserving traditional knowledge. We investigate the connection between the organizational forms of women's collectives in the Amazon regions of Brazil-Colombia and their relationship with nature. At another level, we will conceptualize how indigenous and non-indigenous technologies can be intercepted, for the creation of technologies that contribute to expanding the fields of action and sustainable development, in the mitigation of climate change. We will create a knowledge integration platform, useful for indigenous and scientific communities. By creating an open-access data bank, we will invest in legal frameworks that protect the intellectual and cultural property of communities and can enhance and drive future initiatives.

Data mining and big data approaches are changing the ways in which we create knowledge, access information and preserve our cultural heritage. This research applies cutting-edge technology to analyse a neglected aspect of European and non-European social and cultural life of the 20th century: the impact of Hispanic and Lusophone literary networks and cultural mediators in international modernity between 1898 and 1959. The project pursues three central goals: 1) to retrieve the lost history of Iberoamerican mediators in modernist intercultural and multilingual networks and reappraise their role; 2) to narrow the knowledge divide in terms of access and production in the Iberoamerican field by generating and making freely available new and reliable data that addresses the lack of documented cultural heritage, and 3) to offer an innovative and reproducible model that can be applied across periods, languages, and disciplines to analyse cross-border phenomena, under-examined mediators and networks and overshadowed geographical scales in their relations to the wider world. These goals will be achieved by a twofold methodology: i) an open and collaborative research tool providing a data source for quantitative and qualitative analysis on Iberoamerican mediators, and ii) four subprojects on key cultural transformation processes distinctive of modern societies (the institutionalization of Iberoamerican cultures, the rise of translated literature in key Iberoamerican modernist journals, the position of Iberoamerican women in the cultural field, and the role of Iberoamerican mediators in new forms of mass media). By combining computational methods, cultural, literary history, translation, sociology, gender and media studies, I will lead an interdisciplinary team of 6 researchers that will fill the gap in modernist studies and will offer an original, reproducible and empirically tested method for studying social human interaction within a global, cultural and decentred approach

Food and violence are two major themes in 2019, together figuring in five of the EU’s six research priorities. Given two themes of such contemporaneity, purchase, and formalized priority, the following gap is surprising: There is almost no work that attempts to understand the relationship between food and violence. The goal of this project is to breach that gap, lay the first bricks in the foundation of a new research line at the food/violence nexus, and set the trajectory for what I expect to become a thriving area of work at the scholarship/society interface over the next decade. This project disrupts the facile approaches to both food and violence that predominate in mainstream attention and policy action. It will open a new research space at the food/violence nexus; amplify the reach and impact of food studies as a field; create operationalizable methodological and theoretical models at the underexploited anthropology/philosophy interface; forge continuable bonds among researchers, universities, civil society organizations, and UN bodies across Europe and the Americas; and introduce cutting-edge critical research into active human rights deliberations. It will also restart the career and renew the capacity for intellectual and policy contribution of a tenacious ER disabled and disembedded by a catastrophic medical error. The ER will be supervised by Dr. F.X.Medina in UOC’s world-renowned FoodLab research group, carry out a secondment with Dr. E. Pérez in CSIC’s pioneering Science, Technology, and Gender (STG) research group, and perform three study visits to the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Anarchist periodicals worldwide historically offered readers an uncommon and often outlawed experience of world literature. Yet, their countless literary translations, as well as the editors and translators involved in this circulation, have been largely ignored by anarchist, literary and translation studies. Data driven approaches, along with the rise of digital archives, make it possible, for the first time, to carry out a comprehensive, large-scale study of these translations by considering periodicals in multiple languages, a wide geopolitical space (several port cities in the Americas and Southern Europe) and a critical period for both literary and anarchist history, 1890-1910. Thus, ARGOT will unveil the significant contribution of anarchist periodicals to world literature by taking into account the people who enacted this transfer. With a specific focus on women and their role in thriving translation flows, ARGOT pursues three main goals: 1. to identify the literary translations that appeared in anarchist periodicals in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Río de Janeiro, Havana, New York, Lisbon or Barcelona; 2. to rediscover the cultural mediators involved in these translations (particularly women), and 3. to address the multilingualism of anarchist communities through a spatial approach. These goals will be achieved using an innovative, interdisciplinary methodology that combines data mining and computational science, anarchist, literary and translation history, and women’s and gender studies. By making freely available two open-access reusable databases on translated texts, translators and publishers, ARGOT will shift our understanding of anarchist periodicals in the circulation of world literature and shed light on exciting new connections. From a personal perspective, the MSCA-IF will greatly contribute to my career as a strong and highly skilled researcher in translation, literary, anarchist studies and digital humanities.

Fertility data can be misused to increase women’s inequalities, affect their reproductive autonomy, and violate their rights. THELMA will explore such impacts on women’s rights due to algorithm surveillance in reproductive health by Femtechs, the tech industry focused on women’s health and well-being, which can provide statistical analyses enough to control fertility on a mass level. Several concerns about this industry have been reported in scientific studies: gender biases; enforcement of gender binary stereotypes; sharing users’ data with third parties without consent; data collection for profit and advertising; unwanted pregnancies, etc. However, the invisible power relations that drive the use of fertility data with multi-level effects on women’s rights due to their - social, economic, and political – body value in producing human capital have not been explored until now. THELMA will provide critical analyses about this industry producing data-driven analysis and insights that will contribute to developing an EU regulatory framework for Femtechs based on interdisciplinary, intersectional, and gender-sensitive approaches. Combining social science methods with legal analyses, THELMA will be carried out in the Gender and ICT Research Group (GenTIC) from the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) – Spain focused on gender studies in the digital age. The research findings will contribute to enriching the current state-of-art on fertility data and digital surveillance in the EU with end-user experiences as focal points. Success in my multi-dimensional training with my Host will position me as an intranational expert combining quantitative research and legal theoretical expertise that will contribute to innovative EU research on fertility data.