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Carmen Martín-Luquero Rodríguez (Valladolid, 1998) holds a degree in Art History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master in Social Sciences from the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Master Mondes méditerranéens en mouvement) and from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Master Arts, littératures et langages). She currently holds the JAE Intro grant from the CSIC, which she is developing under the supervision of Jaime Vindel in the training programme "(Post)fossil culture: socio-cultural imaginaries, global warming and energy transition". Within the framework of this programme, her research focuses on the study of the intersection between energy imaginaries, the cultural construction of water landscapes and developmentalist economic policies.
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Permanent Seminar “Images (of Art) and Political Ecology”. IX Session: “Water, energy and dispossession in the imaginaries of the Francoist hydromodernity”, with Carmen Martín-Luquero.
Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200. Many were built during Franco’s dictatorship as part of his emblematic hydraulic policy, aimed at addressing post-war social, economic, and energy crises. Aside from the failed autarkic economic project, this…
Permanent Seminar “Images (of Art) and Political Ecology”. VIII Session: “Energy Aesthetics. Alternatives to the Fossil and Social Footprint of Cement”, with Elena Lavellés
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