Department: Economía General

Research institute: Instituto para el Desarrollo Social Sostenible (INDESS)

Universidad: University of Cádiz

Area: Sociology

Research group: SEJ657 Transformations and conflicts in contemporary societies (TCSC)

Email: santiago.amaya@uca.es

Phone: 617234786

Personal web: https://produccioncientifica.uca.es/grupos/10512/detalle

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Áreas PAIDI: Social, Economic, and Legal Sciences

Doctor by the Universidad de Sevilla with the thesis Uso y gestión colectiva de la tierra en Zahínos la vigencia del comunalismo agrario en el siglo XXI 2002. Supervised by Dr. Encarnación Aguilar Criado.

PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Seville, currently a tenured professor in the Department of General Economics at the University of Cadiz. Researcher with the TCSO (Transformations and Conflicts in Contemporary Societies) group at the University of Cadiz, having worked since 1992 on some thirty research projects (11 R&D projects) in the fields of rural life, cultural heritage, food production with quality labels, and gender issues in complex societies. He has served as principal investigator on five projects. His publications (six books, 25 book chapters, and 34 journal articles) include works such as "Retroinnovation, or how the past is consumed in the foods we eat today: The case of the tortilla in the urban context of Mexico,“ ”The rural environment and agri-food quality labels,“ and ”Motivations to consume ecological foods in alternative food networks (AFNs) in southern Spain." More information can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y8IrHcoAAAAJ&hl=es. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)