Principal Investigator
Biography
Dr. Rebeca Ibáñez Martín is an anthropologist specializing in critical food studies, environmental anthropology, and social studies of science (STS). She studied History and Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid and completed master’s degrees in Feminist Critical Theory (Complutense University) and Social Studies of Science (University of Oviedo). She received her PhD in Philosophy of Science with “cum laude” distinction from the University of Salamanca, Spain (2014), where her dissertation was awarded the university’s annual prize in Humanities and Arts.
In January 2019, Ibáñez Martín began a tenure-track position at the Ethnology department of the Meertens Institute (HuC-KNAW), where she leads a thematic line on Anthropology of Food, Body and Wellbeing. She achieved tenure as senior scientist in 2022 and was promoted to Associate Professor (UHD2) in 2023 after receiving the Aspasia premie.
Ibáñez Martín serves as a supervisor and lecturer in the Master in Medical Anthropology program at the University of Amsterdam. She is developing several food-agriculture related projects with colleagues from Humanities and Social Sciences, including “A Planetary Food Commons for Healthy and Sustainable Diets”(awarded by the ‘Healthy Futures’ Strategic Plan at the UvA, 2023) and “Raw Earth Agriculture: Supply Chain Criticism and the Political Cartographies of Food” with Dr. Jeff Diamanti (awarded by The Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area, UvA). In 2024, she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for “VITALGREENHOUSE: Greenhouses as Vital Landscapes: Sustainability, Relationality, and the Future of Food,” which analyzes sustainability transitions in European horticultural greenhouses, focusing on mobility, particularly the circulation of non-humans as collaborators or pests and technological interventions and innovations.
Publications
Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca (2025). The Interior Frontier: Are greenhouses the solution to the global food crisis? In Climate's Interiors, edited by Alex Nading, Sarah Besky and Jason Cons. LIMN 12. https://doi.org/10.70312/LIMN.12
Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca & Annemarie Mol (2024). Joaquín les gusta: On Gut-Level Love for a Lamb of the House. In Eating is an English Word, edited by Annemarie Mol. Duke University Press.
Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca (2024). Cultivar relaciones: relacionalidad, vacas, y alimentación en una cooperativa de los Pirineos. In Animales y Antropología. Etnografías más que humanas en España, edited by Santiago M. Cruzada y Olatz González-Abrisketa. Madrid: CSIC.
Barua, M, Ibáñez Martín, R & Achtnich, M (2023). January 24, 2023. Introduction. Plantationocene: Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/introduction-plantationocene
Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca (2023). The New Plantation. Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-new-plantation