HISTAGRA welcomes visiting researchers from the University of Costa Rica, Université Catholique de Louvain and KTH Royal Institute of Technology

 

In the first four months of the academic year 2022-2023 HISTAGRA received the visit and stay of the researcher Lissy Marcela Villalobos Cubero from the University of Costa Rica, Eleonore Haddioui from the Université Catholique de Louvain and the researcher Marco Armiero from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.

 

Lissy M. Villalobos contextualised the global socio-economic conditions in rural areas at the end of the 20th century, with the aim of specifying the role played by the third global food regime, the trends in rural tourism and the economic development paradigms in vogue. He identified the process of constructing the definition of rural tourism as a public socio-economic problem in Costa Rica between the 1980s and 2000s, in order to explain its articulation as part of the productive practice in rural areas.

 

Marco Armiero researched the Ribadelago reservoir and the accident that caused one of the biggest catastrophes of the dictatorship and compared this event with the one that happened in Italy Vajont.

 

Eleonore Haddiou worked on field research based on the civil society contacts of the HISTAGRA group, with themes revolving around memory issues, and the exhumation of graves under the Four-Year Plan for Democratic Memory. This research was carried out using the ethnographic method: participant observation, in-depth interviews and detailed life histories.