Currently I work on two simultaneous research projects; one for my doctorate in anthropology, the other for CEITT (Research Center on Time and Temporality).
The anthropological project is called social imaginaries of nature and territory. This is an ethnographic study that aims to account for the central categories of thought holding discourses and practices of various social groups that live in the same territory and they have a deficient communication with each other. The research is limited to a specific territory (agricultural and tourist region). It explores the cultural imagination around the key concepts of “nature” and “territory” as path to the set of imaginaries and symbols that identify different social groups, as well as create new ways of communication and the development of social policies for the efficient management of natural and cultural resources of the area under study. The project also focuses on clarifying the construction of categories related to temporality relevant for different actors and social groups such as history, past, tradition, identity, present, progress, space, development, production, sustainability science , technology, innovation, modernity, globalization, rhythms of life, among others. The theoretical and methodological purpose is to expand previous studies of temporality and cultural rhythmics. Studying the imaginaries that people have of their rhythms of life and their way of thinking provides complementary analysis to the study of historically constructed rhythmic categories: tempo and notion of progress, timing of actions and decisions, economics rhythm, time-reckoning, calendars rites, linear time-clocks, accumulative past, projective future, between others.
The current project of the CEITT aims at developping a paradigm called “time and temporality”, a perspective that allows the simultaneous study of the phenomenon of becoming (time) and the interpretations of time by people and researchers (temporality). Nowadays, after several years of developping theoretical models describing the philosophical framework reached, we are working on developing computational software that allows visualizing a mathematical model in order to get experimental findings.