Santiago Gorostiza
Biographic Data
| ID | 334285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Santiago Gorostiza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Santiago |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorostiza |
| SIGNATURE | GOROSTIZA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8516-5642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Naturaleza, paisaje y guerra: Convergencias historiográficas en el estudio de la Guerra Civil española
A pesar de coincidir cronológicamente, la expansión de la historia ambiental de la guerra y la renovación experimentada por los estudios sobre la Guerra Civil española apenas encontraron puntos de contacto hasta fechas recientes. Este artículo examina la convergencia entre distintas líneas de investigación que han incorporado el análisis de la naturaleza, el paisaje y la materialidad al estudio de este conflicto. En primer lugar, revisa los traba…
Opening up degrowth imaginaries with historical political ecology: Collectivization of tramways during the anarchist revolution in Barcelona (1936–1939)
Research on degrowth has developed a strong conceptual vocabulary for envisioning alternatives, centered on life-making and collective autonomy within ecological and societal limits. Looking into the past and engaging with anarchism, we argue, can further enrich the degrowth imaginary on transformation beyond the state. A historical approach to political ecology – where delving into the past reclaims suppressed practices and is oriented at imagin…
“¡El Lago de Sanabria está en peligro!" Entre el desarrollo hidroeléctrico y la protección de la naturaleza en la España franquista (1943-1972)
Este artículo explora la polémica suscitada por un proyecto hidroeléctrico en la España franquista de principios de la década de 1950. La propuesta de transformar el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora) en un embalse destinado a la producción de energía hidroeléctrica, planteada en 1952, suscitó rechazo entre buena parte de los sectores locales afines a la dictadura, que reivindicaron el valor cultural y estético del paisaje del Lago. Impulsada desde El Cor…
El crimen de ecocidio en tiempos de guerra y de paz. De Arthur W. Galston (1920-2008) a Polly Higgins (1968-2019)
The article examines the contributions of Arthur W. Galston (1920–2008) and Polly Higgins (1968–2019) to the concept of ecocide, from its origins in the Vietnam War to its revival in the twenty-first century. Biologist Arthur W. Galston, whose doctoral research was used to investigate defoliating agents, led a scientific campaign in the late 1960s against the massive use of herbicides by the United States in Vietnam. In 1970, Galston proposed the…
Ecología necropolítica de la militarización: Guerra, militarismo verde y ecocidio
Capitanear la reconstrucción, organizar el trabajo forzado. El ingeniero Juan Petrirena, del Servicio de Colonias Penitenciarias Militarizadas a la fortificación de los Pirineos
Los diálogos interdisciplinares entre la historia política, la historia ambiental y la historia de la ciencia y la técnica han experimentado un auge notable durante los últimos años. En este contexto, la investigación sobre los ingenieros como grupo profesional clave en la construcción material del Estado ha abordado las dimensiones políticas y materiales de su trabajo, especialmente durante el franquismo. Sin embargo, estas investigaciones han p…
The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid’s University City (1927–1956)
At the intersection of environmental histories of war, fascism and urban parks, this article analyses the transformation of the political meaning attached to the green spaces of Madrid’s University City. Conceived in the late 1920s as a ‘university park’ inspired by North American academic campuses, the ‘Ciudad Universitaria’ was heavily damaged during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The subsequent campus’ reconstruction and reforestation proj…
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research
Concern has risen that current global warming and more frequent extreme events such as droughts and floods will increase conflict around the world. This concern has spurred both social science research on contemporary climate, peace, and conflict as well as research in the historical sciences on past climate, weather, warfare, and violence. This perspectives article compares these two fields of scholarship and examines how each may benefit the ot…
Corrosive flows, faulty materialities: Building the brine collector in the Llobregat River Basin, Catalonia
The history of hydraulic infrastructures is plagued with failures often with catastrophic consequences. Although the agency of water in disasters has been widely documented less well known are the substances in water such as salt that may cause infrastructural collapse and harm humans, flora and fauna. In the Llobregat River Basin (Barcelona), a 120-km long pipe transports salt-saturated wastewaters produced in the potash mines of central Catalon…
The Far Right and the ‘Gifts of Nature’ in Rural Spain
Vox, a rising far-right party, plays on concerns about the emptying Spanish countryside to promote its authoritarian version of traditional values. Lately it has developed an environmental narrative portraying rural life as under threat from progressive policies
Historias del Wasteoceno: Un viaje por el vertedero global. Entrevista a Marco Armiero
Marco Armiero es profesor de investigación Icrea-Sénior en el Institut d’Història de la Ciència de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Ha sido director del Laboratorio de Humanidades Ambientales del Real Instituto de Tecnología de Estocolmo (KTH) y presidente de la Sociedad Europea de Historia Ambiental (2019-2023). Es autor de Wasteoceno: la era de los residuos. Historias del vertedero global. Catarata, 2023. Traducción de Mariella Rosso
Televising the Space Race in Francoist Spain: Sebastià Estradé and the “Friends of Outer Space” (1967-1969)
In the context of the space race, space science became an area of collaboration between the Spanish dictatorship and the United States of America during the 1960s. The Francoist regime leveraged its collaboration in the space race as an internal tool for political legitimization. This article examines the role of science popularization in this legitimization process by focusing on the TV show Amigos del Espacio (“Friends of Outer Space”), broadca…
Liquid assets”: Coastal wetlands, regional parks, and the protection of Mediterranean deltas
After a century of accelerating drainage, in the 1960s coastal wetlands became the object of unprecedented protection campaigns around the world. This paper compares the history of three successful cases of coastal wetland protection in the Mediterranean between the 1960s and 1980s: the Rhône (France), Po (Italy), and Ebro (Spain) River deltas. As most of the coast of Mediterranean Europe, these three cases were at the centre of renewed redevelop…
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River
At the intersection of natural and social sciences, interest in river sedimentary fluxes and their alteration by human activities is increasing in the context of general retreat of delta formations. Since the 1950s, the construction of large dams in the main course of rivers has produced, among other impacts, a radical decrease in sedimentary fluxes — a key factor in the worldwide sedimentary crisis. While sediment accumulates in reservoirs, the …
Feeding the City and Making the Revolution: Women and Urban Agriculture in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
The everyday difficulties faced by working‐class women, including access to food, are aggravated in critical periods, such as wars and economic crises. However, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was accompanied by a revolution, in the Republican zones, where women opened spaces for their emancipation. By examining social reproduction practices surrounding food in Barcelona during the years 1936–1939, we contribute to critical research on food sov…
Introducción
...
Cultivar bajo las bombas: La agricultura urbana y periurbana en Barcelona durante la Guerra Civil, 1936-1939
Urban agriculture is key when food security is threatened, as in the cases of wars, which disrupt food production, conservation, transportation, and distribution systems. During the two World Wars of the 20th century, governments mobilized civilians to participate in food production and to increase morale by contributing to the war effort from the rearguard. Unlike these cases, food production in Spanish cities during the civil war of 1936-1939 h…
Facing the Sun’: Nature and Nation in Franco’s ‘New Spain’ (1936–51)
There Are the Pyrenees!” Fortifying the Nation in Francoist Spain
Literature on war and the environment has examined a wide range of militarized landscapes, but massive fortification systems such as the Maginot or Siegfried lines, which are symbols of a military trend in vogue during the interwar period, have largely been ignored. These military walls interwove natural and national values and constituted massive landscape interventions, aimed at reinforcing political borders, embedded in—and relying upon—geogra…
Dangerous assemblages: Salts, trihalomethanes and endocrine disruptors in the water palimpsest of the Llobregat River, Catalonia
Flows from beyond the Pyrenees. The Rhône River and Catalonia's search for water independence
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
The unclaimed latifundium’: The configuration of the Spanish fishing sector under Francoist autarky, 1939–1951
Hacia una ecología política de la bicicleta
Reseña del libro de James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road. 2015, Washington University Press
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
Dangerous assemblages: Salts, trihalomethanes and endocrine disruptors in the water palimpsest of the Llobregat River, Catalonia
Servicing Customers in Revolutionary Times: The Experience of the Collectivized Barcelona Water Company during the Spanish Civil War
Debates on the total or partial privatization of water usually follow the rationale that efficient and rational management is best left to the private sphere. In this paper and using a historical example, we attempt to assess critically this assumption arguing that efficiency and rationality in resource management are and have been an asset of collective management as well. We present the case of the Barcelona Water Company, run by its workers du…
Facing the Sun’: Nature and Nation in Franco’s ‘New Spain’ (1936–51)
There Are the Pyrenees!” Fortifying the Nation in Francoist Spain
Literature on war and the environment has examined a wide range of militarized landscapes, but massive fortification systems such as the Maginot or Siegfried lines, which are symbols of a military trend in vogue during the interwar period, have largely been ignored. These military walls interwove natural and national values and constituted massive landscape interventions, aimed at reinforcing political borders, embedded in—and relying upon—geogra…
Urban Ecology Under Fire”: Water Supply in Madrid During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
This paper investigates the critical role of workers to enhance the resilience of water supply services in cities at war through analyzing the case of Madrid and the Madrid water company Canales del Lozoya during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). We argue that securing the protection of vital urban flows mediated through infrastructures is a key objective of cities under attack. In doing so we contend that examining how those affected by the int…
Cultivar bajo las bombas: La agricultura urbana y periurbana en Barcelona durante la Guerra Civil, 1936-1939
Urban agriculture is key when food security is threatened, as in the cases of wars, which disrupt food production, conservation, transportation, and distribution systems. During the two World Wars of the 20th century, governments mobilized civilians to participate in food production and to increase morale by contributing to the war effort from the rearguard. Unlike these cases, food production in Spanish cities during the civil war of 1936-1939 h…
The unclaimed latifundium’: The configuration of the Spanish fishing sector under Francoist autarky, 1939–1951
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research
Concern has risen that current global warming and more frequent extreme events such as droughts and floods will increase conflict around the world. This concern has spurred both social science research on contemporary climate, peace, and conflict as well as research in the historical sciences on past climate, weather, warfare, and violence. This perspectives article compares these two fields of scholarship and examines how each may benefit the ot…
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River
At the intersection of natural and social sciences, interest in river sedimentary fluxes and their alteration by human activities is increasing in the context of general retreat of delta formations. Since the 1950s, the construction of large dams in the main course of rivers has produced, among other impacts, a radical decrease in sedimentary fluxes — a key factor in the worldwide sedimentary crisis. While sediment accumulates in reservoirs, the …
Feeding the City and Making the Revolution: Women and Urban Agriculture in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
The everyday difficulties faced by working‐class women, including access to food, are aggravated in critical periods, such as wars and economic crises. However, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was accompanied by a revolution, in the Republican zones, where women opened spaces for their emancipation. By examining social reproduction practices surrounding food in Barcelona during the years 1936–1939, we contribute to critical research on food sov…
Introducción
...
Servicing Customers in Revolutionary Times: The Experience of the Collectivized Barcelona Water Company during the Spanish Civil War
Debates on the total or partial privatization of water usually follow the rationale that efficient and rational management is best left to the private sphere. In this paper and using a historical example, we attempt to assess critically this assumption arguing that efficiency and rationality in resource management are and have been an asset of collective management as well. We present the case of the Barcelona Water Company, run by its workers du…
Urban Ecology Under Fire”: Water Supply in Madrid During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
This paper investigates the critical role of workers to enhance the resilience of water supply services in cities at war through analyzing the case of Madrid and the Madrid water company Canales del Lozoya during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). We argue that securing the protection of vital urban flows mediated through infrastructures is a key objective of cities under attack. In doing so we contend that examining how those affected by the int…
The unclaimed latifundium’: The configuration of the Spanish fishing sector under Francoist autarky, 1939–1951
Hacia una ecología política de la bicicleta
Reseña del libro de James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road. 2015, Washington University Press
Dangerous assemblages: Salts, trihalomethanes and endocrine disruptors in the water palimpsest of the Llobregat River, Catalonia
Flows from beyond the Pyrenees. The Rhône River and Catalonia's search for water independence
Beyond "Socially Constructed" Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk
Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe's most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable o…
There Are the Pyrenees!” Fortifying the Nation in Francoist Spain
Literature on war and the environment has examined a wide range of militarized landscapes, but massive fortification systems such as the Maginot or Siegfried lines, which are symbols of a military trend in vogue during the interwar period, have largely been ignored. These military walls interwove natural and national values and constituted massive landscape interventions, aimed at reinforcing political borders, embedded in—and relying upon—geogra…
Cultivar bajo las bombas: La agricultura urbana y periurbana en Barcelona durante la Guerra Civil, 1936-1939
Urban agriculture is key when food security is threatened, as in the cases of wars, which disrupt food production, conservation, transportation, and distribution systems. During the two World Wars of the 20th century, governments mobilized civilians to participate in food production and to increase morale by contributing to the war effort from the rearguard. Unlike these cases, food production in Spanish cities during the civil war of 1936-1939 h…
Facing the Sun’: Nature and Nation in Franco’s ‘New Spain’ (1936–51)
Feeding the City and Making the Revolution: Women and Urban Agriculture in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
The everyday difficulties faced by working‐class women, including access to food, are aggravated in critical periods, such as wars and economic crises. However, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was accompanied by a revolution, in the Republican zones, where women opened spaces for their emancipation. By examining social reproduction practices surrounding food in Barcelona during the years 1936–1939, we contribute to critical research on food sov…
Introducción
...
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…
Where have all the sediments gone? Reservoir silting and sedimentary justice in the lower Ebro River
At the intersection of natural and social sciences, interest in river sedimentary fluxes and their alteration by human activities is increasing in the context of general retreat of delta formations. Since the 1950s, the construction of large dams in the main course of rivers has produced, among other impacts, a radical decrease in sedimentary fluxes — a key factor in the worldwide sedimentary crisis. While sediment accumulates in reservoirs, the …
The Far Right and the ‘Gifts of Nature’ in Rural Spain
Vox, a rising far-right party, plays on concerns about the emptying Spanish countryside to promote its authoritarian version of traditional values. Lately it has developed an environmental narrative portraying rural life as under threat from progressive policies
Historias del Wasteoceno: Un viaje por el vertedero global. Entrevista a Marco Armiero
Marco Armiero es profesor de investigación Icrea-Sénior en el Institut d’Història de la Ciència de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Ha sido director del Laboratorio de Humanidades Ambientales del Real Instituto de Tecnología de Estocolmo (KTH) y presidente de la Sociedad Europea de Historia Ambiental (2019-2023). Es autor de Wasteoceno: la era de los residuos. Historias del vertedero global. Catarata, 2023. Traducción de Mariella Rosso
Televising the Space Race in Francoist Spain: Sebastià Estradé and the “Friends of Outer Space” (1967-1969)
In the context of the space race, space science became an area of collaboration between the Spanish dictatorship and the United States of America during the 1960s. The Francoist regime leveraged its collaboration in the space race as an internal tool for political legitimization. This article examines the role of science popularization in this legitimization process by focusing on the TV show Amigos del Espacio (“Friends of Outer Space”), broadca…
Liquid assets”: Coastal wetlands, regional parks, and the protection of Mediterranean deltas
After a century of accelerating drainage, in the 1960s coastal wetlands became the object of unprecedented protection campaigns around the world. This paper compares the history of three successful cases of coastal wetland protection in the Mediterranean between the 1960s and 1980s: the Rhône (France), Po (Italy), and Ebro (Spain) River deltas. As most of the coast of Mediterranean Europe, these three cases were at the centre of renewed redevelop…
El crimen de ecocidio en tiempos de guerra y de paz. De Arthur W. Galston (1920-2008) a Polly Higgins (1968-2019)
The article examines the contributions of Arthur W. Galston (1920–2008) and Polly Higgins (1968–2019) to the concept of ecocide, from its origins in the Vietnam War to its revival in the twenty-first century. Biologist Arthur W. Galston, whose doctoral research was used to investigate defoliating agents, led a scientific campaign in the late 1960s against the massive use of herbicides by the United States in Vietnam. In 1970, Galston proposed the…
Ecología necropolítica de la militarización: Guerra, militarismo verde y ecocidio
Capitanear la reconstrucción, organizar el trabajo forzado. El ingeniero Juan Petrirena, del Servicio de Colonias Penitenciarias Militarizadas a la fortificación de los Pirineos
Los diálogos interdisciplinares entre la historia política, la historia ambiental y la historia de la ciencia y la técnica han experimentado un auge notable durante los últimos años. En este contexto, la investigación sobre los ingenieros como grupo profesional clave en la construcción material del Estado ha abordado las dimensiones políticas y materiales de su trabajo, especialmente durante el franquismo. Sin embargo, estas investigaciones han p…
The Long Shadow of the Pines: Vegetation in the Birth, Destruction and Reconstruction of Madrid’s University City (1927–1956)
At the intersection of environmental histories of war, fascism and urban parks, this article analyses the transformation of the political meaning attached to the green spaces of Madrid’s University City. Conceived in the late 1920s as a ‘university park’ inspired by North American academic campuses, the ‘Ciudad Universitaria’ was heavily damaged during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The subsequent campus’ reconstruction and reforestation proj…
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research
Concern has risen that current global warming and more frequent extreme events such as droughts and floods will increase conflict around the world. This concern has spurred both social science research on contemporary climate, peace, and conflict as well as research in the historical sciences on past climate, weather, warfare, and violence. This perspectives article compares these two fields of scholarship and examines how each may benefit the ot…
Corrosive flows, faulty materialities: Building the brine collector in the Llobregat River Basin, Catalonia
The history of hydraulic infrastructures is plagued with failures often with catastrophic consequences. Although the agency of water in disasters has been widely documented less well known are the substances in water such as salt that may cause infrastructural collapse and harm humans, flora and fauna. In the Llobregat River Basin (Barcelona), a 120-km long pipe transports salt-saturated wastewaters produced in the potash mines of central Catalon…
Naturaleza, paisaje y guerra: Convergencias historiográficas en el estudio de la Guerra Civil española
A pesar de coincidir cronológicamente, la expansión de la historia ambiental de la guerra y la renovación experimentada por los estudios sobre la Guerra Civil española apenas encontraron puntos de contacto hasta fechas recientes. Este artículo examina la convergencia entre distintas líneas de investigación que han incorporado el análisis de la naturaleza, el paisaje y la materialidad al estudio de este conflicto. En primer lugar, revisa los traba…
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