Nuria Jiménez García is a social anthropologist specializing in gender, environment, and fisheries. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from UNED and master’s degrees in American Anthropology and Amerindian Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her research combines ethnographic, feminist, and socio-environmental approaches to analyze how coastal and rural communities confront inequality, cultural transformations, and ecological challenges. In particular, she examines how women relate to resources, how they inhabit and manage spaces, and how they sustain practices of care, resistance, and socio-environmental conservation that, in many cases, fall outside institutional frameworks of recognition.
She has carried out postdoctoral research projects in Mexico and Spain, including her current work as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie researcher on the project MSCA-PF 101207109 – TASTE (Cooking Transformations: Traditional Cuisines, Gastronomic Tourism and Biocultural Landscapes) at the CSIC, funded by Horizon Europe. The TASTE project stems from a very specific concern: how local food systems are being transformed and what is happening to the knowledge that has historically sustained different ways of relating to territory.
Previously, she researched the socioeconomic and gender impacts of harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of California, as well as the strategies of resistance and sustainability developed by women fishers in response to fishing bans, illegal fishing, and resource control by male actors.
Her career includes collaborations with research centers and universities such as CICESE, UAM, CIESAS, and UC San Diego, among others, as well as participation in projects on environmental conservation, women’s rights, and the management of rural and coastal territories. She is involved in the project “ARSEC: Alliance for the Restoration of Coastal Ecosystem Services” and is a member of several research networks, including ICAF, AnthSea Network, Invipesca Network, and the Genderaquafish group.
She has published articles and book chapters in international journals and publishing houses, addressing topics such as masculinities, collective action, feminist epistemologies, and women-led conservation strategies. In addition, she has supervised and advised undergraduate and doctoral theses, taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Mexican universities, and organized workshops and seminars on critical ethnography, gender perspectives, and socio-environmental studies. Her work focuses on making visible practices of care, local knowledge, and strategies for environmental and food justice from a feminist, intercultural, and rights-based perspective.