Tyanif Rico

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Researcher in Environmental Humanities interested in Latin American Environmental History and Local struggles for Territorial Care. I’m teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology and at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. I have co-edited magazines and specialized books on socio-environmental conflicts and territory in Latin America, and published articles, reviews, and photo-essays on peasant community organization and agrarian conflicts in Colombia. My current research interest is the territorial relations of care in more than human entanglements in contexts of coffee production in México and Colombia.

Universität Bielefeld

tyanif.rico@uni-bielefeld.de

Project

Practices of Territorial Care. An affective analysis of peasant collective strategies in the context of coffee cultivation

The project analyzes the responses of different communities and local organizations in the global south to the challenging conditions created by crises, understanding their ways of life and collective struggles from an affective perspective.

Publications

Rico Rodríguez, T. (2023). Cuidado del territorio y reconocimiento del campesinado como sujeto de derechos. Experiencia desde el norte de Nariño y sur del Cauca, Colombia. LEISA – Revista de Agroecología. Vol.38 (1), 40-44

Rico Rodríguez, T., Volmer, A. (2022) Usos y Definiciones del Territorio en Contextos de Explotación Minera: Miradas al Macizo Colombiano. Forum for Inter-American Studies – FIAR Vol. 15(2) 10-29.

Rico Rodríguez, T., Chaparro Montaña, R. (2021). Contested Meanings of territorial production: Modern territories of coffee and steel in Colombia in McCall, M., Napoletano, B., Boni, A., Rico-Rodríguez, T. (Eds) Territorializing Space in Latin America (89-106) Springer Book Series.

McCall, M., Napoletano, B., Boni, A., Rico Rodríguez, T. (Eds). (2021). Territorializing Space in Latin America, Springer Book Series.

Rico Rodríguez, T. (2021). Sobre la figura del Campesino en Colombia, De la gestión del espacio al ordenamiento social del territorio. Historia Agraria, Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural 83, 225-258.

Rico Rodríguez, T. (2020). Cartografías de la agencia. Apuntes para una etnogeografía de paisaje. El caso de Nariño, Colombia in Urquijo, P., Boni, A. (Eds.). (2020). Huellas en el paisaje. Geografía, Historia y Ambiente en las Américas (269-289). CIGA – UNAM.

Rico Rodríguez, T. (2020). Geografías del cuidado, relaciones territoriales de la producción de café. Revista Brújula 13, 36-64.