Papers by Esther Mayoko Ortega Arjonilla
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Science, Technology and Gender studies (STG) include the different approaches to feminist epistem... more Science, Technology and Gender studies (STG) include the different approaches to feminist epistemologies, their current debates and also the theoretical analysis of different scientific controversies around cases that involve women's bodies and health, sex/gender, and techno-scientific practices. These studies are linked to the demand for another type of hybrid knowledge that revalorizes the practices, the embodied experience and care, as well as the subject positions traditionally excluded from the scientific community. The diversity of voices has allowed a plural knowledge in techno-scientific practices to emerge as well as the identification of gender, class, sexuality, race, functional diversity inequalities, for example. This has made possible a bioethical reflection which is not understood as abstract normative principles but linked to the practices and lived experience. Divided into three parts, this edited volume presents original and insightful research on STG from femi...
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 2018
The present chapter addresses the emergence of new forms of governance and citizen participation ... more The present chapter addresses the emergence of new forms of governance and citizen participation in the context of certain biotechnologies. On the basis of three case studies, we have mapped different models of public participation in health issues (especially health activism and Internet users, though not exclusively): identifying and analyzing actors, their mutual relationships (mainly those between “patients”/activists groups and the biomedical community), strategies and forms of participation, the exchange and circulation of “expert/lay” knowledge (and the role of the Internet in these processes), and the different activities and forms of knowledge production by “lay” citizen groups (or individuals). We draw special attention to the epistemic challenge resulting from these mixed forms of knowledge production derived from “experiential expertise”, “epistemic communities” and “evidence-based activism”. We detect “epistemic correctives”, demands regarding “undone science”, and hidden innovations in these types of citizen participation.
Cadernos Pagu, 2017
Resumen En este trabajo presentamos algunas investigaciones realizadas en el área de estudios soc... more Resumen En este trabajo presentamos algunas investigaciones realizadas en el área de estudios sociales de la ciencia bajo el enfoque denominado Ciencia, Tecnología y Género (CTG). La intersección de los estudios sociales de la ciencia con la teoría feminista y los estudios de género ha dado lugar a este campo de estudio interdisciplinar. En el Estado español, se han llevado a cabo múltiples trabajos en esta línea, de los que exponemos algunos de los realizados por nuestro grupo de investigación al menos en los últimos diez años. Se centran en estudios de caso, que implican diferentes tecnologías biomédicas, y en los que los cuerpos juegan un papel fundamental estableciendo alianzas, resistencias o cuestionando los marcos normativos en los que cuerpos y tecnologías se hayan inmersos.
Open Library of Humanities , 2021
The minutes of the inquisitorial process that took place in Toledo between the years 1587 and 158... more The minutes of the inquisitorial process that took place in Toledo between the years 1587 and 1589 against the person of Céspedes give rise to this article. Firstly, the article reviews how this archive has been read by historiography and makes a criticism of these readings due to the coloniality of these views. Secondly, the article offers a reading that explores the unanalyzed aspects of the archive that have to do with the racial history of Spain in the Modern Age and its problematic relationship with blackness and slavery, both in the past and in the present.
http://www.radioafricamagazine.com/, Nov 15, 2017
Resumen En este trabajo presentamos algunas investigaciones realizadas en el área de estudios soc... more Resumen En este trabajo presentamos algunas investigaciones realizadas en el área de estudios sociales de la ciencia bajo el enfoque denominado Ciencia, Tecnología y Género (CTG). La intersección de los estudios sociales de la ciencia con la teoría feminista y los estudios de género ha dado lugar a este campo de estudio interdisciplinar. En el Estado español, se han llevado a cabo múltiples trabajos en esta línea, de los que exponemos algunos de los realizados por nuestro grupo de investigación al menos en los últimos diez años. Se centran en estudios de caso, que implican diferentes tecnologías biomédicas, y en los que los cuerpos juegan un papel fundamental estableciendo alianzas, resistencias o cuestionando los marcos normativos en los que cuerpos y tecnologías se hayan inmersos.
What made current Spanish feminism shift toward transfeminism?
Based on in-depth interviews and l... more What made current Spanish feminism shift toward transfeminism?
Based on in-depth interviews and literature reviews, we explore
what factors facilitated the participation of trans women in
Spanish feminism. Tracing the history through relevant events such
as the National Feminist Conferences, it becomes clear that trans
women participated in the 1993, 2000, and 2009 conferences,
posing relevant issues regarding prostitution, transgenderism, and
the political subject of feminism. Our research allows a break with
global oppositional narratives, in which these movements are in
conflict, and highlights the importance of understanding the
vernacular nuances that take place in a particular geopolitical
context.
Los derechos de las personas transexuales en el Estado español son el resultado de complejas nego... more Los derechos de las personas transexuales en el Estado español son el resultado de complejas negociaciones que tienen lugar en nuestra historia reciente, que alude a las libertades democráticas, los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, así como de cierta conformación identitaria de los movimientos sociales que sucede desde la transición democrática. En un tiempo record, aquellos considerados como vagos y maleantes, peligrosos sociales, pasaron a ser travestis, transexuales y más tarde activistas y sujetos de derecho. En este devenir de un sujeto político inteligible, queremos fijarnos en la encrucijada de los movimientos feministas y trans*, que facilitan una perspectiva crítica sobre el papel del Estado y de la legislación, así como de la medicina a la hora de garantizar derechos a las personas trans*. Para ello hemos entrevistado a activistas clave, revisado la literatura de los movimientos sociales y presentado algunas hipótesis arriesgadas que ponemos a prueba con sus protagonistas.
… presentada en el …, Jan 1, 2006
Books Chapters by Esther Mayoko Ortega Arjonilla
La invención de las mujeres. Una perspectiva africana sobre los discursos occidentales de género., 2023
Prólogo a la edición en español de Oyeronke Oyewumi (2023). La invención de las mujeres. Una pers... more Prólogo a la edición en español de Oyeronke Oyewumi (2023). La invención de las mujeres. Una perspectiva africana sobre los discursos occidentales de género. Virus Ed., Barcelona.
Contra el feminismo blanco, 2022
Cuerpos marcados: vidas que cuentan y políticas públicas, 2019
Libro del buen [∀]mor, 2019
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Papers by Esther Mayoko Ortega Arjonilla
Based on in-depth interviews and literature reviews, we explore
what factors facilitated the participation of trans women in
Spanish feminism. Tracing the history through relevant events such
as the National Feminist Conferences, it becomes clear that trans
women participated in the 1993, 2000, and 2009 conferences,
posing relevant issues regarding prostitution, transgenderism, and
the political subject of feminism. Our research allows a break with
global oppositional narratives, in which these movements are in
conflict, and highlights the importance of understanding the
vernacular nuances that take place in a particular geopolitical
context.
Books Chapters by Esther Mayoko Ortega Arjonilla
Based on in-depth interviews and literature reviews, we explore
what factors facilitated the participation of trans women in
Spanish feminism. Tracing the history through relevant events such
as the National Feminist Conferences, it becomes clear that trans
women participated in the 1993, 2000, and 2009 conferences,
posing relevant issues regarding prostitution, transgenderism, and
the political subject of feminism. Our research allows a break with
global oppositional narratives, in which these movements are in
conflict, and highlights the importance of understanding the
vernacular nuances that take place in a particular geopolitical
context.
How do we understand and use some words that emerge in the activism, the artistic practices, the feminist studies and those about sexuality, and from subaltern positions that, although translated into Spanish, present some difficulty? Or how are they said in other languages? "Queer barbarisms and other weird words " is a collective text that arises from the need to think about how the language we use is produced, with a critical look into how we are subjects, objects and producers of knowledge while being aware of the colonial and assimilation processes in which we are immersed. We offer fifty- three entries that analyze these barbarisms, many of them Anglicisms, and which have been prepared by specialists who try to offer an imperfect and unfinished definition, as well as historical information of their use and travel between languages and cultures. These entries seek to provoke curiosity and to be a possible starting point for debate, a debate in which social movements and critical social, cultural and artistic studies can converge.
Concretly, my goal is to analyse the contribution of the first so called “Spanish/International Network for Trans Depathologization” and now The International Campaign for Trans Depathologization within the debates around next edition of DSM-5 (the diagnosis manual) and in the last version of SoC-7 (the standard of care for trangender people).
In the current debates on the medical status of transsexualism, the network is working very actively for the removal of the categories associated to transgender/transsexuality in the international diagnosis manuals . However, while the Campaign is denying the consideration of transsexuality as a mental or organic disease, they do not reject medical attention on trans health issues. They are claiming for a reorganization of the care practices based on a new relationship between physicians and users, a new “logic of care”. To do that, the International Campaign ocupy a new position breaking up the clasical distintion between “experts” and “lay” people.