Dr. Tyanif Rico Rodríguez

Tyanif Rico Rodríguez is a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University and invited researcher on the collaborative research project “Turning Land into Capital (2023–2027).” She is a sociologist and obtained a master’s degree in agrarian social studies from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Argentina (FLACSO) in 2014 and an additional master’s degree in social sciences from The College of Michoacán, Mexico, in 2016. In 2021, she received an honorable mention from the National Autonomous University of Mexico for her doctorate in geography. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she has teaching and research experience in areas such as environmental history, socio-environmental conflicts, and is skilled in ethnographic and participatory research methods. Her current project develops the concept of territorial care based on an affective and material analysis of peasants’ organizational strategies—a perspective that allows to bring together forms of community organization, resistance, territoriality, and production of subjectivities that encompass the practices of peasant organization.

RCC Research Project: Territorial Care: Politics and Poetics to Sustain Worlds

Selected Publications:

• with Olaf Kaltmeier. “Biodiversity in the Andes from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950: Tropical Andes in the Key of the Anthropocene.” In Biodiversity – Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II. The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America, edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Antoine Acker, León Enrique Ávila Romero, and Regina Horta Duarte. Bielefeld University Press, 2024.
• “Territorial and Multispecies Care Strategies: Practices and Discourses of Peasants from Nariño, Colombia” [Estrategias de cuidado territorial y multiespecie: Prácticas y discursos de los campesinos de Nariño, Colombia]. In Los cuidados en y más allá del Antropoceno: Un recorrido interdisciplinario ante las crisis socioecológicas, edited by Philipp Wolfesberger, Olaf Kaltmeier, and Ann-Kathrin Volmer. CLACSO - CALAS, 2024.
• with Ann-Kathin Volmer. “Uses and Definitions of the Territory in Contexts of Mining Exloitation: Looks at the Colombian Massif” [Usos y definiciones del territorio en contextos de explotación minera: Miradas al Macizo Colombiano]. Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR) 15, no. 2 (2022): 10–29.
• with Rodrigo Chaparro Montaña. “Contested Meanings of Territorial Production: Modern Territories of Coffee and Steel in Colombia.” In Territorialising Space in Latin America: Processes and Perceptions. The Latin American Studies Book Series, edited by Michael K. McCall, Andrew Boni Noguez, Brian Napoletano, and Tyanif Rico-Rodríguez. Springer, 2021.
• with Pedro Sergio Urquijo Torres. “On the Figure of ‘Campesino’ and the Management of the Territory: An Approach from Nariño, Colombia” [Sobre la figura del campesino y la gestión del territorio: Una aproximación desde Nariño, Colombia]. Historia Agraria: Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural 83 (2021): 225–58. https://doi.org/10.26882/histagrar.083e07r.
• “Geographies of Care: Territorial Relations of Coffee Production” [Geografías del cuidado: Relaciones territoriales de la producción de café]. Brújula 13 (2020): 36–64.