Tyanif Rico-Rodriguez

Tyanif Rico Rodríguez is Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University.

As Feminist interdisciplinary scholar, her research concerns multispecies, community-based care relations in peasant context amid socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America.

Prior to joining CEU she was a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Postdoctoral Fellow at Bielefeld University in the CALAS Laboratory the Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis, and Postdoctoral researcher at the Open Society Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene at CEU.

She is sociologist and holds a PhD in Geography with honorable mention from UNAM, a master’s degree in agrarian social studies from FLACSO, Argentina, and another on social sciences from COLMICH, México. Her work explores concepts of care, territoriality, and politics from decolonial, feminist, and neo-materialist approaches.

In her book Territorial Care: Poetics, Politics and Ethics in Latin American Peasant Worlds, she discusses how modes of resistance entangle poetics and politics in peasant societies through affective socio-ecological relationships centered on territory. Her work offers a sharp critique of the objectifying view of nature and bodies perpetuated by narratives such as the Anthropocene. Drawing on the experiences of women's movements in Latin America, and engaging with feminist philosophical and analytical perspectives, she develops a comprehensive framework for forms of resistance in obliterated worlds, which recreates and displaces the sensible. This framework creates new ethical possibilities by reclaiming the territorial, affective, and poetic dimensions of politics.

She is currently investigating the role of affect in strategies of collective and territorial care, as well as exploring how strategies for the care and healing of ecosystems emerge in relationships between institutions, academics, and communities of care, based on ancestral or local knowledge. She has researched and taught in Mexico, Colombia and Germany, as well as participated in numerous international conferences and organized international academic events and publications.