Carlos Manuel Faísca
Research Fellow (CEIS20) & Invited Assistant Professor (DHEEAA-FLUC)
carlos.faisca@uc.pt
Carlos Manuel Faísca is a Researcher Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20), Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Board member of CEIS20, all at the University of Coimbra. He also serves as President of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History.
He holds a degree in History (2007) and a Master's in Information Sciences (2011), both from the NOVA FCSH, and a PhD in Economics (2019) from the Universidad de Extremadura. His research relies on long-term interdisciplinary approaches using methods from History and Economics, and also using the knowledge from other sciences such as Agronomy, Forestry, or Biology. His doctoral thesis, entitled “El negocio corchero en Alentejo: explotación forestal, industria y política económica, 1848-1914”, received the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado from the U. Extremadura, as well as the first Honorable Mention of the Jorge Gelman Prize, awarded biennially to the best doctoral thesis in the Ibero-American space by the Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria. In addition to these, he has received the Joaquim Romero Magalhães Prize, granted by the Municipality of Loulé, and the Santiago Zapata Blanco Prize, awarded by the University of Girona. Currently, among other investigations, he is developing the project DryMED – Exploring dryland: agrarian systems and crop varieties in Mediterranean Iberia (18th to 20th centuries), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
Selected Publications
FAÍSCA, Carlos Manuel – «De la retórica a la aplicación: ideas, expectativas e impactos del regadío en el Alentejo (siglos XVIII a XXI)» In MATÉS-BARCO, Juan Manuel; MATOS, Ana Cardoso; BERNARDO, Ana Maria – Control y usos del agua en la Península Ibérica: Perspectivas diversificadas a largo plazo. Jaén: Sílex ediciones, 2024, p. 207-236.
FAÍSCA, Carlos Manuel; FREIRE, Dulce; VIANA, Cláudia – Changing rice geographies: a long-term view of Portuguese regional production (1860-2018). Historia Agraria, Issue 91, Year XXIII (2023), p. 99-128. https://doi.org/10.26882/histagrar.091e07f
FAÍSCA, Carlos Manuel; PAREJO MORUNO, Francisco – From raw materials to where the industry is lived: Standards of industry location in the Portuguese cork manufacture, 1880–1980. Rubrica Contemporanea, vol. XII, n.º 23 (2023), p. 179-201 https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/rubrica.273
FAÍSCA, Carlos Manuel – «Desigualdades de rendimento na zona norte do Alentejo: Arraiolos, Avis, Portalegre e Ponte de Sor (1690-1728)». In GATO, Ana Paula; BARROS, Filomena – Desigualdades. Évora: Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades, 2020. htpps://doi.org/10.4000/books.cidehus.12937
FAÍSCA, Carlos Manuel – Lagging or catching up? The mechanization of the Portuguese cork industry (1880-1914). Revista de Historia Industrial, N.º 76, Ano XXVIII (2019), p. 49-77. https://doi.org/10.1344/rhi.v28i76.26771
Research fields
Economic History, Agrarian History, Industrial Heritage, Economic inequality.
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