Stefania Barca is a Beatriz Galindo distinguished Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Santiago de Compostela She is part of the research group Historia Agraria e Política do Mundo Rural (HISTAGRA)

Previously, she was Visiting Professor in Climate Change Leadership at the University of Uppsala (2021), and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (2009-21).

Her research interests include environmental history, feminist political ecology, and environmental humanities, with a focus on the nexus between gender, ecology and labour in the Anthropocene.

She currently collaborates with the project ‘A Just Transition to the Circular Economy - Just2CE’ (EU-Horizon2020), of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he leads a Work Package on Just Transition; and acts as a member of the International Advisory Board in the projects ‘Energy Transitions from Coal and Carbon: Effects on Societies - ENTRANCES’ (EU-Horizon 2020) of the University of A Coruña; The Rise of Citizens Voices for a Greener Europe - PHOENIX (EU-Horizon2020) of the University of Coimbra; and “Well-being, Ecology, Gender and Community - WEGO” (EU-MSC Innovation Training Network) of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

She won the Turku prize for environmental history in 2011 with the book: Enclosing Water. Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley (Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press 2010), and is currently co-director of the series The Environment in History: International Perspectives da editora Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford).

She has directed 11 PhD theses and 6 postdoctoral projects, and has been a keynote speaker at ten international scientific events.

Among her publications it should be remarkable:

• Barca, S., Milanez, F. 2021. “Labouring the Commons: Amazonia’s ‘Extractive Reserves’ and the Legacy of Chico Mendes”, in N. Räthzel et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies, 2021, pp 319-338: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-71909-8_14#DOI
• Barca, S. 2020. Forces of Reproduction. Notes for a Counter-hegemonic Anthropocene, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878371
• Barca, S. 2019. Labour and the ecological crisis: The eco-modernist dilemma in western Marxism(s) (1970s-2000s), Geoforum Volume 98, pp. 226-235: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.011
• Barca, S. 2014. Laboring the Earth. Transnational reflections on the environmental history of work, Environmental History 19:1, pp 3-27: https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emt099
• Barca, S. 2011. Energy, property and the industrial revolution narrative, Ecological Economics 70, pp. 1309-1315