Cristina Joanaz de Melo
History of Science, Technology, and Environment
Contact:
cristinajoanaz@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Maria Cristina Dias Joanaz de Melo has a PhD in History and Civilisations, subfield of Environmental History, from the European University Institute in Florence (2010) and a master’s degree in Contemporary History from NOVA FCSH focusing on 19th century contemporary history.
In 2017 she edited, together with Estelita vaz and Ligia Pinto, the book Environmental history in the making (Springer, 2 Vols), a publication that resulted from the II World Conference In Environmental History ICEHO, Guimarães 2014, (International Consortium for Environmental History Organisation).
A researcher at the IHC since 2011, her main research interests are the study of hunting, water, and forestry resources in the 18th and 19th centuries in Portugal and Europe. Methodologically, she works on aspects of landscape reading methodologies in historical perspective. She is currently working on a post-doctoral project at the IHC entitled “Managing public property and resources of common use – water“. She is also interested in applied history in the way that research can be useful for planning the future in environmental matters. Since 2016, she has been a guest researcher on the research project “The co-evolution Guimarães Urban Ladscape: Relations between man and water resources (1853-2001)“, coordinated by Paulo Ramísio (Coord.).
Research fields
- Environmental history
- History of landscapes and natural resources (18th-19th C)
- Landscape reading methodologies
- Applied history
Selected publications
- Vaz, Estelita, Cristina Joanaz de Melo & Lígia M. Costa Pinto (Ed.). Environmental History in the Making – Volume I: Explaining. Basel: Springer International Publishing, 2017. [link]
- Joanaz de Melo, Cristina, Estelita Vaz & Lígia M. Costa Pinto (Ed.). Environmental History in the Making – Volume II: Acting. Basel: Springer International Publishing, 2017. [link]
- Joanaz de Melo, Cristina. An Analysis of the Royal Preserves in Portugal. Issues of Privilege, Power, Management and Conflict. Sheffield: Wildtrack Publishing, 2015. [link]
- Joanaz de Melo, Cristina, Ana Isabel Queiroz, Luís Espinha da Silveira & Ian D. Rotherham (Ed.). Between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: Responses to Climate and weather Conditions Throughout History. Sheffield: Wildtrack Publishing, 2013. [link]
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “The co-evolution Guimarães Urban Landscape: Relations between man and water resources (1853-2001)” — Coordinated by Paulo Ramísio (EEUM). 2016-2017 [link]
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Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
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Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop
A dietary mainstay in non-European societies and a cornerstone of dishes like Northern Italian risotto, rice has diverse culinary significance. However, the timing of its introduction to Northern Italy remains unclear. Examining this event offers insights into the process of integrating new crops into both diet and cultural imagination. This talk is about the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy between the sixteenth and the eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. Bringing together the history of knowledge and environmental history, in this talk I will reflect on how rice was appropriated by several actors, and on how these appropriations were intertwined with perceptions and constructions of the landscape and material environment. By interlacing narratives of rice cultivation and of the landscapes rice forms, alongside discussions of infrastructural development and knowledge systems, I will also delineate the progression of interactions between humans and their environments, as well as the evolution of water management practices, scientific advancements, medical understandings, and political-economic ideologies across different historical periods. Additionally, the talk will highlight how resources were conceptualized in the early modern period, reconnecting to contemporary debates on the Anthropocene and on the agency of non-humans.
About IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar:
Lavinia Maddaluno is Assistant Professor in early modern history at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, working on David Gentilcore’s ERC project The Water Cultures of Italy 1500-1900. She is a historian of science interested in exploring the nexus between humans, nature and economy in early modern Europe. Lavinia has just completed her first monograph Science and political Economy in Enlightenment Milan (1760-1805), forthcoming with the Voltaire Foundation in autumn 2024. She is currently editing a book on rice in the Mediterranean with Rachele Scuro and a special issue on Water Knowledge with Giacomo Savani and Davide Martino. Lavinia has held multiple fellowships since the end of her PhD (Cambridge UK, 2018), from a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome, to a Max Weber Fellowship at the EUI and a joint Warburg/I Tatti Fellowship in the History of Science. More recently, she has been Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Fondazione Einaudi, working on a new project on rice-related knowledge networks between France and Italy in the Enlightenment.
Attendance is free.
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(Terça-feira) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanitiescomunicacao.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt Avenida de Berna, 26C - 1069-061 Lisbon
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