Irene Teixidor Toneu a été post-doctorante au CEFE de 2020 à 2022 (resp. Sophie Caillon)
Elle est actuellement Chaire Professeure Junior IRD à l’UMR IMBE-Marseille.
Short biography
Biologist and ecologist by training (University of Barcelona, 2005-2011), I turned to the inter-discipline of ethnobiology during my PhD (University of Reading, 2014-2017) to study the cultural transmission of knowledge about medicinal plants in the Moroccan High Atlas. For that I mobilized ethnographic and botanical methods and research approaches and developed a collaboration with local communities and organizations. I continued to work with them after my PhD as a consultant for the NGO Global Diversity Foundation. With GDF I helped kick-off transdisciplinary research on how local communities protect the environment around them by creating and maintaining cultural landscapes.
In 2018, I received a postdoctoral fellowship (University of Oslo, 2018-2022) with the project “Nordic people and plants”. During this time I delved into historical ethnobiology in collaboration with archaeologists, historians, philologists and linguists to understand how local ecological knowledge changes though time at deep time scales (multiple centuries). By combining ethnographic, archival and linguistic data we evidenced the high dynamism of knowledge about plants. During my postdoc, I had the opportunity to be a visiting researcher at Naturalis (the Netherlands, 2019-2020) and at the Centre d’Ecologie Fontionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS, 2021-2022).
Since November 2022 I hold an IRD Junior Professorship at IMBE where I lead the 5-year project “People’s contributions to nature” (see Projects).
Research interests
I am a researcher working interdisciplinarity across the disciplines of ethnobiology, biocultural diversity research and sustainability science, with a focus on Indigenous and local knowledge systems.
My research aims to understand the reciprocal relations between humans and nature. I am interested in understanding (1) the dynamic changes of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) through space and time to support knowledge holders adaptation and resilience, and (2) the impacts of traditional management practices on the natural environment, especially plant community composition and structure. My research is often in relation with projects that partner with Indigenous and knowledge holders take a biocultural approach to biodiversity conservation and social-ecological restoration.
Awards
2022 - MSCA-Postdoctoral Fellowship « peopleC2eco »
2020 - Female researcher @the Natural History Museum of Oslo
2018 - MSCA-IF Seal of Excellence « VikingPlants »
2017 - PhD researcher of the year in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading
Websites
https://www.imbe.fr/irene-teixidor-toneu.html
https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/about/organization/research-collections/people/irente/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2kNI-zMAAAAJ&hl=ca
Postdoctoral researcher My work aims to explore biocultural interactions and cultural dynamics in tropical ecosystems while bridging gaps between local and academic knowledge systems. My research addresses the biocultural dynamics in small-scale societies' food systems articulated around three main themes: (1) The perception of climate change and the agrobiodiversity adaptation, (2) the ethnobotanical knowledge of wild food within Austronesian cultures and (3) the local ecological knowledge transfer process and biocultural heritage. To address these thematic, I use interdisciplinary approaches borrowing methods from botany and ecology (voucher, GIS, transect) to ethnobotany, cognitive anthropology and linguistics (surveys, free listing, pile sorting, drawings interviews, participatory observation) using both qualitative and quantitative data. courriel : Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. |