HISTAGRA presents a new Research Seminar by Jaume Franquesa Bartolomé 

Continuing with the HISTAGRA 2023-2024 Seminar series, Jaume Franquesa Bartolomé, professor and researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Buffalo (NY-USA), presents his latest work, Mills and giants. Lana lucha por lana dignidad, lana soberanía energética y lana transición ecológica, in the HISTAGRA Seminar series, thanks to the support of the project A Just Transition to the Circular Economy (Just2CE) (IP Stefania Barca). The conference is entitled Electricity Generation, the Rural World and Ecosocial Transition in Contemporary Spain.

Jaume Franquesa (Igualada, 1976) holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona and since 2011 he has been working as a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Buffalo, New York. On a theoretical level, his interests focus on political ecology, always from a line that integrates ethnographic analysis within a historical perspective and linked to social struggles. 

The book is an invitation to get to know the political and economic history behind the Spanish electricity sector, from the caudillo's personal agreements with the ultra-Catholic president of Hidrola (now Iberdrola) to the liberalisation of the sector decreed by the Aznar government and the subsequent imbrication of renewable energies in the successive brick booms. 

Data: 

Date: 17 June 2024 
Title: Mills and giants. The fight for wool dignity, wool energy sovereignty and wool ecological transition 
Speaker: Jaume Franquesa Bartolomé 
Time: 11 a.m. 
Place: Seminar 103. CISPAC 
Presented by: Stefania Barca