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 "Bad to eat? Empirical Explorations of Fat as Food"  was awarded the university’s annual prize in Humanities and Arts.

For her postdoctoral research, she worked in the Anthropology department at the University of Amsterdam with Prof. Annemarie Mol under the ERC-funded project “The Eating Body in Western Theory and Practice.” In 2017, she was awarded a NWO-MVI Responsible Innovation grant for the project “Normativities of waste water treatment: Putting micro-algae to work in Ecovillage Boekel”,led by Annemarie Mol. In this project, Ibáñez Martín studied the design and implementation of an experimental nutrient recovery system from wastewater developed at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW).

In January 2019, Rebeca 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.

She has held fellowships at the Amsterdam Centre for Urban Studies (CUS, 2020-2021) with the project “Greenhouse Futures: an ethnography of a complex socio-ecological system” and at the Amsterdam Center of European Studies (ACES, 2021-2022) with “Human and Non-Human Mobilities in Dutch and Spanish horticultural greenhouses”. Earlier in her career, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Aarhus (2010) and the University of California Davis (2008-2009).

Teaching experience

2017

Thematic Module: Anthropology of Food. Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam. 12EC.

Co-teacher: Thesis Seminar RMSS (Research Master Social Sciences), University of Amsterdam. 6EC.

2016                                     

Master in Science, Technology and Society: Knowledge and Public Participation. Course: “Research methods in science studies”. Philosophy Institute, STS department, CCHS-CSIC. Madrid, Spain.

2013                                       

Master in Science, Technology and Society: Knowledge and Public Participation. Course: “Research methods in science studies”. Philosophy Institute, STS department, CCHS-CSIC. Madrid, Spain.

2012                                       

Master in Science, Technology and Society. Course: “Research methods in science studies”.  Philosophy Institute, STS department, CCHS-CSIC. Madrid, Spain.

2011                                       

Master in Gender Equality Studies in Social Sciences. Course: “Gender and science practice”.  Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), School of Social and Political Sciences. Madrid, Spain.

2009                                       

Master in Gender Equality in Social Sciences. Course: “Science, technology and gender: social dinamics and scientific practice”. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), School of Social and Political Sciences. Madrid, Spain.

Recognitions and Prizes

My dissertation was awarded the  "cum laude" mention and the 2014 Ph.D. Prize in the Humanities and Arts.

Nov., 2009- 2014.         

Funding agency: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC),                                      

Madrid, Spain. 4 year grant for PhD studies (€ 21 500 per year).

Jan., 2008 – Nov. 2009.            

Funding agency: Spanish Foundation of Science and Technology ( € 28 000)

May, 2010 –August, 2010.         

Funding agency: (CSIC). Travel grant for guest researcher, MAPP Department Aarhus University, Denmark (€ 5 000)

Jan., 2011 – July 2011.             

Funding agency: (CSIC). Travel grant for guest researcher, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, AISSR University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (€ 9 700)

Jan., 2012 –July, 2012.

Funding agency: (CSIC). Travel grant for guest researcher, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, AISSR University of Amsterdam (€ 9 700)

Sept., 2006 – Sept. 2007.           

Funding agency: Education Abroad Program (EAP) for doctoral studies at University of California Davis, (USA) ( € 14 000)

Professional Affiliations

• The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
• The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
• (founder) The Spanish Network of Social Studies of Sciecne,  EsCTS 

Audiovisual

Founder of the Feminist Audiovisual Collective ENVIDEAS, the feminist collective A.D.A. (Apaños Digitales Audiovisuales), and more recently of MIRLO Audiovisual Collective (2014).

• Video EsCTS -2014, Barcelona
• Vimeo Envideas, 2009
• YouTube Envideas
• Rompamos el Silencio - 2011

Refereed

2023

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca. 2023. "The New Plantation." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, January 24. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-new-plantation

Barua, Maan, Rebeca Ibáñez Martín, and Marthe Achtnich. 2023. "Introduction: Plantationocene." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, January 24. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/introduction-plantationocene.

2022

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca & Fenna Smits. (2022). The material politics of living in close proximity with our wastewaters: A case of decentralisation in the Netherlands. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, DOI: 10.1177/25148486221131191   

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín & Annemarie Mol (2022) Joaquín les gusta: On Gut-Level Love for a Lamb of the House, Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2022.2052926

2021

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca. 2021. «Commentary to Anne Dippel’s Metaphors We Live By. Three Commentaries on Artificial Intelligence and the Human Condition». Arbor 197 (800):a605.  https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2021.800007

Van Erp, M., Reynolds, C., Maynard, D., Starke, A. D., & Ibañez Martín, R.  et al. (2021) Using Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence to Explore the Nutrition and Sustainability of Recipes and Food. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 3(115). https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.621577

2020

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca. 2020. «El ‘monstruo de las toallitas’: Relacionalidad Material En El Antropoceno». Política Y Sociedad 572, 375-93.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/poso.66449

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca. (2020). The balcony: normativity lessons in times of crisis. Retrieved February 19, 2021, from Somatosphere Web site: http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-balcony-normativity-lessons-in-times-of-crisis.html/

2019

Smits, Fenna and Rebeca báñez Martín. "‘The Village’ as a Site for Multispecies Innovation: Rethinking the Village in Response to the Anthropocene." Etnofoor 31, no. 2 (2019): 67-86. Accessed September 2, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26856486.

Driessen, Annelieke & Ibáñez Martin, R., (2019) “Attending to difference: Enacting individuals in food provision for residents with dementia” Sociology of Health and Illness 42 (2). 247-261.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13004

Laurent, Justine & Ibáñez Martin, R., (2019) “Voor onze shit zorgen” Wijsgerig Perspectief, 59, 2, pp. 32-42.

2018

Ibáñez Martin, R.,  (2018) Thinking with La Cocina: fats in Spanish kitchens and dietary recommendations, Food, Culture & Society,  21, 3, pp. 314-330. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2018.1451039

₂₀₁₇

Ibáñez Martin, R., & de Laet, M. (2017). Geographies of fat waste. Or, how kitchen fats make citizens. The Sociological Review. DOI: 10.1177/0038026117726731 

Ibáñez Martin, R. (2017). Enactment. In E. Ortega Arjonilla, M. Roson, & R. Platero Mendez (Eds.), Barbarismos queer y otras esdrújulas (pp. 21-24). Bellaterra.

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca, Ortega Arjonilla, Esther, & Pérez Sedeño, Eulalia. (2017). Cuerpos y prácticas: una década de estudios CTG. Cadernos Pagu, (49), e174906. Epub January 23, 2017. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/18094449201700490006

2016

Ibáñez Martin, Rebeca. 2016. "The Politics of Walking: Rural Women Encounters with Space and Memoir."  The Unfamiliar, 5 (1-2). DOI:https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v5i1-2.1362

2015

Abrahamsson Sebastian, Bertoni, Filippo, Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca, Mol, Annemarie. 2015. "Living with omega-3: new materialism and enduring concerns" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 1 (February 2015): 4–19. https://doi.org/10.1068/d14086p

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca. 2015. "Who Needs Visual Anthropology?" Fieldsights - Visual and New Media Review, Cultural Anthropology, June 16, 2015, http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/686-roundtable-report-who-needs-visual-anthropology

2014

Ortega Arjonilla, E., Romero Bachiller, C., & Ibáñez Martín, R. (2014). Discurso activista y estatus médico de lo trans: hacia una reconfiguración de cuidados y diagnósticos. In E. Pérez Sedeño, & E. Ortega Arjonilla (Eds.), Cartografías del cuerpo: biopolíticas de la ciencia y la tecnología (pp. 521-572). (Feminismos; No. 121). Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra. [details] ​

2012

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca. 2012. Prácticas efectivas y conocimientos parciales: negociaciones en torno a la ‘hipótesis del colesterol’. Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, 20(7), 1-26.

2010

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca; Marta I. González García. 2010. Una Alimentación de Cuidado: la biomedicalización y la persistencia de la performatividad de género en la comercialización del os alimentos funcionales. Cuadernos KORÉ, 1(3), 71-82.

Academic

Estalella, Adolfo; Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca; Pavone, Vincenzo. 2013. “Prototyping an Academic Network: people, places and connections. Three years of the Spanish Network for Science and Technology Studies” EASST REVIEW, 32/1. Pp. 4-6. ISSN: 1384-5160

Edited Volumes

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca, Pérez Sedeño, Eulalia (Ed.). 2012. Cuerpos y Diferencias. Madrid: Plaza y Valdés.

Chapters in Books

Ibáñez Martin, R. (2017). Enactment. In E. Ortega Arjonilla, M. Roson, & R. Platero Mendez (Eds.), Barbarismos queer y otras esdrújulas (pp. 21-24). Bellaterra.

Ortega Arjonilla, Esther; Carmen Romero Bachiller and Rebeca Ibáñez Martín. 2014. Discurso activista y estatus médico de lo trans: hacia una reconfiguración de cuidados y diagnósticos. In Eulalia and Ortega Arjonilla Pérez Sedeño, Esther (Ed.), Cartografías del cuerpo: biopolíticas de la ciencia y la tecnología. Madrid: Cátedra.

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca; Pablo Santoro. 2012. Elecciones inciertas en tiempos inciertos: «elección informada» en el almacenamiento de células embrionarias de cordón umbilical y los alimentos funcionales. In Rebeca Ibáñez Martín and Eulalia Pérez Sedeño (Ed.), Cuerpos y Diferencias (pp. 179-193). Madrid: Plaza y Valdés.

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca;  González García, Marta I. 2009. Conocer, creer y comprar: el papel de la cultura científica en las actitudes hacia los alimentos funcionales y el medio ambiente. In José Antonio López Cerezo; Francisco Javier Gómez González (Ed.), Apropiación social de la ciencia (pp. 91-115). Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.

Translations

Miranda Suárez, María José and Ibáñez Martin, Rebeca. 2012. “Cuerpos actuados, acciones corporeizadas: el ejemplo de la hipoglucemia”. In Cuerpos y Diferencias. Ibáñez Martin, Rebeca y Eulalia Pérez Sedeño (Eds.) Pp. 131- 153. Madrid: Plaza y Valdés. Translation of original article by Annemarie Mol & John Law (2004) “Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies: the Example of Hypoglycaemia” in Body and Society, 10/2-3. Pp. 43-62.

In the Media

De Volskrant.  “Minister Bruins verheft opnieuw het heterogezin tot norm”. Rebeca Ibáñez Martín & Else Vogel. https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/minister-bruins-verheft-opnieuw-het-heterogezin-tot-norm~bcf17723/  (12 March 2019).

Ibáñez Martin, R. (02-11-2018). Hoe UvA’ers een ecodorp in Boekel helpen bij het recyclen van ontlasting Folia. Hoe UvA’ers een ecodorp in Boekel helpen bij het recyclen van ontlasting. https://www.folia.nl/wetenschap/124907

Ibáñez Martin, Rebeca (Ed.), 2016. Book Forum — Emily Yates-Doerr’s “The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala” Somatosphere, 14 November 2016.

Ibáñez Martin, Rebeca. 2016. Response to The Weight of Obesity. Somatosphere, 14 November 2016.

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín. 2015. “Cronica de una ocupacion de un puerto”.  Periódico Diagonal. 18 agosto de 2015.

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín. 2014 “Compromiso y cuidado en la ciencia”. Periódico Diagonal. Del 11 al 24 de septiembre de 2014.

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín. 2013. FOOD LAB, in Media LAB prado, Madrid, Spain.

Book Reviews

Ibanez Martin, R. (2017). Patient-centred IVF. Bioethics and care in a Dutch clinic (Author: Trudie Gerrits). Medicine, Anthropology, Theory. DOI: doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.5.509 ​

Ibáñez Martín, Rebeca. 2012. “Un Universo por Descubrir. Género y Astronomía en España”. By Eulalia Pérez Sedeño & Adriana Kiczkowski (2010).  Madrid: Plaza y Valdés, 306 pp.  ISBN 978-84-96780-88-0. In European Journal of Women's Studies. Vol. 19. Pp. 138-140.

Doctoral Thesis

Bad to Eat? Empirical Explorations of Fat.