- Israel Rodríguez Giralt
IN3 - Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
CareNet Research Group
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- I'm currently Senior Researcher at the IN3 - Open University of Catalonia (UOC). My field of research is the so-calle... moreI'm currently Senior Researcher at the IN3 - Open University of Catalonia (UOC). My field of research is the so-called STS (Science and Technology Studies) and the study of new forms of technical democracy. My work revolves around the forms social experimentation, citizens' mobilization and public debate in highly-uncertain and disputed situations, such as environmental crisis, emergencies, disasters, and public controversies. I'm interested in how citizens, sometimes non-experts, engage in knowledge production and innovation to the issues that affect them. I have recently applied this approach to the understanding of disabled people activism in Spain and in the UK; and to community and grassroots disaster and emergency management.
I hold a degree in Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (with honours). I received my PhD from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (with honours) for the PhD thesis entitled “El gir simètric en l’estudi de l’acció col•lectiva: les mobilitzacions per la controvèrsia ecològica de Doñana” ("The symmetrical turn in the study of collective action: the ecological controversy of Doñana").
From 2002-2016 I have been a professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at UOC. From early 2016, I'm leading the CareNet Research Group (Care and Preparedness in the Network Society) at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) in UOC.
I have been visiting researcher at Loughborough University (2002), Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College, London (2009; 2010-2012) and Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia, Universidad Católica de Chile (2015).
I am member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) & of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). As member of the Local Committee, I co-organised the 2016 EASST/4S Joint Conference in Barcelona.
In 2014, I received the Amsterdamska award from the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology for the book: "Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments and Preparedness" (Wiley/Blackwell, 2014), co-edited with Manuel Tironi and Michael Guggenheim.edit
Edited by: Maggie Mort, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt and Ana Delicado. Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN: 978-1447354437 Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing... more
Edited by: Maggie Mort, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt and Ana Delicado.
Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN: 978-1447354437
Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as ‘victims’, overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people.
Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children’s capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN: 978-1447354437
Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as ‘victims’, overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people.
Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children’s capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
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Arguing that disasters configure the political in new ways, this collection provides a truly international insight into how they can help us to understand the materiality and the pragmatics of politics. As events of radical disruption,... more
Arguing that disasters configure the political in new ways, this collection provides a truly international insight into how they can help us to understand the materiality and the pragmatics of politics. As events of radical disruption, disasters can also lead to a re-evaluation of the very definition of the political itself. In exploring these issues, the collection brings together disaster studies, with political theory and science and technology studies, to stimulate a more robust conversation between disciplines and feed into broader sociological debates.
Takes an innovative approach to the relationship between disasters and the nature, composition, and effects of the political: 1) Leading experts scrutinize how events of radical disruption enable a re-evaluation and redefinition of the political, and the tools and processes through which this happen. 2) Comparative case studies give an unrivalled geographic scope, covering Australia, Europe, South America, and the United Kingdom and United States. 3) Brings together disaster studies, political theory, and science and technology studies to stimulate broader sociological debate. 4) Combines empirical and theoretical approaches to provide an essential teaching resource for graduate and postgraduate students and to open up this dynamic field for mainstream sociology researchers and academics
Takes an innovative approach to the relationship between disasters and the nature, composition, and effects of the political: 1) Leading experts scrutinize how events of radical disruption enable a re-evaluation and redefinition of the political, and the tools and processes through which this happen. 2) Comparative case studies give an unrivalled geographic scope, covering Australia, Europe, South America, and the United Kingdom and United States. 3) Brings together disaster studies, political theory, and science and technology studies to stimulate broader sociological debate. 4) Combines empirical and theoretical approaches to provide an essential teaching resource for graduate and postgraduate students and to open up this dynamic field for mainstream sociology researchers and academics
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In this chapter we search to think with a concrete set of activist practices: the En torno a la silla collective, and in particular the research engagement afforded by its intense social and material explorations in the environmental... more
In this chapter we search to think with a concrete set of activist practices: the En torno a la silla collective, and in particular the research engagement afforded by its intense social and material explorations in the environmental intervention and remaking of wheelchair users and their surroundings. We characterize this particular form of research activism as ‘joint problem-making’: comprising a series of social and material interventions to problematize, transform, and account for the worlds being produced together with others. Building upon this, the chapter analyses the impact it had on us as researchers: or, to be more specific, on our ways of engaging ethnographically, and to consider how this might inspire the ‘experimentally collaborative’ or ‘activated’ ways in which ANT researchers might engage in other activist ecologies. Our hope is that in exploring our engagements with activism, ANT could become a more open and nonconformist research space: an ‘activated’ practice, problematizing in newer ways the relationship between description and action, exploring the manifold ways of being an analyst or a researcher that might be available when engaging in activist settings.
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Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate... more
Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate Regime. Latour discusses the need for breaking with the modernist framework that set the stage for the environmental crisis in the first place, and which has also hindered the capacity of social movements to affect the situation. Latour argues that only a new body politic (inclusive of non-humans) and a new geosocial politics (attuned to Gaia) will open up the possibility for sustaining life on our severely damaged planet.
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How can politics be articulated or at least imagined by ill, impoverished and abandoned communities? This article documents how care is invoked by activist groups and local citizens in their search for ethical recognition and... more
How can politics be articulated or at least imagined by ill, impoverished and abandoned communities? This article documents how care is invoked by activist groups and local citizens in their search for ethical recognition and environmental justice in Puchuncaví, Chile. The authors argue that in a context of prolonged and systematic harm, care emerges as a way to render their suffering understandable, knowable and actionable, and thus as a mode of intervention that instantiates politics in different spaces and at several scales. At the interfaces of feminist science studies, environmental sociology and political theory, this article examines how care acts as a grammar to enunciate problems and make connections deemed irrelevant by expert apparatuses. Specifically, the authors ethnographically track the capacity of care practices to create therapeutic spaces of affective endurance and healing, and to produce new forms of sensual and ecological knowledge about beings, things and relations. These different modes of caring and being cared for, it is suggested, underline the capacity of care for the politicization of harm and suffering: to rearrange what is visibilized, valued and problematized in the face of intractable environmental crises – a crucial objective for collectives removed from every form of politics. Care, as it is articulated here, is not a coherent and predefined programme, but a fluid and adaptable ethico-political set of practices and potentialities always concerning specific individuals facing specific problems in specific circumstances. If care is to be mobilized to craft more response-able policy, researchers should think more thoroughly about these multiple configurations of care, and the disparate ways in which they can contribute (or not) to invoke new styles and formats, new sensitivities and possibilities for policy-making.
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This paper analyses how in the aftermath of one of the worst environmental disasters ever to occur in Spain – the Aznalcóllar Disaster – various environmentalist and conservationist groups mobilised migratory birds to bring new insights... more
This paper analyses how in the aftermath of one of the worst environmental disasters ever to occur in Spain – the Aznalcóllar Disaster – various environmentalist and conservationist groups mobilised migratory birds to bring new insights and the need for new precautions to the controversy elicited by the spill. The case study, thus, revolves around how environmentalists established a “hybrid collective action” to draw attention to unconsidered risks and impacts of the disaster and thereby make the case for open debate. Building upon this, I engage with two different, though interrelated, theoretical debates that contribute to a rethinking of environmental management (EM) as a social and materially situated practice. Drawing on the idea of “tactic” (De Certeau, 1984), I draw attention to the devices, actions and procedures that environmentalists carried out to resist attempts to minimise the spill and to undermine administrations’ assumptions of control, coherence and singularity associated the idea of management. Drawing on Tim Ingold’s latest work (2007, 2008, 2011), I analyse environmentalists’ most successful tactic: the enactment of migratory birds as “lines”. Together with other authors in this special issue, I will use this notion to make an argument against some of the assumptions of the “hybrid ontology”. In contrast to more essentialists and static notions of non-human agency and politics, the idea of line is particularly useful as a way of understanding how nature(s) can be effectuated differently and how this leads to the imagining of new regimes of cohabitation, human and non-human management and intervention.
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The aim of this article is to revisit disasters as materially enlivened events. The sociology of disasters has usually rested upon two assumptions. First, that disasters are phenomena circumscribed in time and space. They are... more
The aim of this article is to revisit disasters as materially enlivened events. The sociology of disasters has usually rested upon two assumptions. First, that disasters are phenomena circumscribed in time and space. They are geographically situated and time‐specific, thus their effects can be controlled and compared. And second, that the main actors involved in disasters are humans and institutions, the basic units of sociological research and theory. These principles, taken together, help in converting disaster into objects for cultural inquiry, but at the expense of diluting their material surplus. Based on the work of Tim Ingold, and drawing on the case of the Aznalcóllar ecological disaster in Doñana, one of the most damaging environmental disasters in the history of Spain, we propose to define disasters as meshworks in order to fully grasp the vibrant ontology of disasters. More specifically, by focusing on the role played by migratory birds in the enacting of the disaster, we argue that disasters are dynamic realities, difficult to localize and always distributed along disparate scales and actors. Moreover, disasters have a dual reality, unfolding actually and virtually at once – and therefore comprising a form of cosmopolitics rather than conforming to classical political imaginations. Finally, our larger point is to take disasters as opportunities to rethink our ways of living together.
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Conceptualizing and understanding forms of collective action has historically been one of the primary preoccupations of social thought. In this context, I propose that the conceptual and methodological baggage that goes with Actor-Network... more
Conceptualizing and understanding forms of collective action has historically been one of the primary preoccupations of social thought. In this context, I propose that the conceptual and methodological baggage that goes with Actor-Network theory (ANT) can be transformed into a fundamental resource for renewing and enriching the analysis if collective action. To achieve this, I focus on two main contributions of ANT to social
thought: i) its alternative understanding of social action and ii) its alternative definition of the “collective”. Both contributions, I will affirm, allow the opening up of an interesting discussion about the possibility of articulating a non-dichotomic theory of collective action that differs from the dominant traditions in that it takes into account and incorporates the materially heterogeneous and relational character of social movements. To give an example of the fertility of this approach I will focus on an analysis of the actions and reactions of environmentalist groups during the Doñana’s ecological disaster (1998-2002), in Spain.
thought: i) its alternative understanding of social action and ii) its alternative definition of the “collective”. Both contributions, I will affirm, allow the opening up of an interesting discussion about the possibility of articulating a non-dichotomic theory of collective action that differs from the dominant traditions in that it takes into account and incorporates the materially heterogeneous and relational character of social movements. To give an example of the fertility of this approach I will focus on an analysis of the actions and reactions of environmentalist groups during the Doñana’s ecological disaster (1998-2002), in Spain.
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Conceptualizar y comprender las formas de acción colectiva es una de las preocupaciones históricas del pensamiento social. Buena prueba de esto es el extenso historial de disputas y de polémicas que recorre la larga historia del... more
Conceptualizar y comprender las formas de acción colectiva es una de las preocupaciones históricas del pensamiento social. Buena prueba de esto es el extenso historial de disputas y de polémicas que recorre la larga historia del pensamiento acerca de estos fenómenos sociales, lo ...
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Con la llegada de las tecnologías y su implementación de forma más o menos masiva en los contextos y las prácticas educativas, han surgido narrativas que exaltan Internet y sus múltiples posibilidades de salvación. El problema de esta... more
Con la llegada de las tecnologías y su implementación de forma más o menos masiva en los contextos y las prácticas educativas, han surgido narrativas que exaltan Internet y sus múltiples posibilidades de salvación. El problema de esta perspectiva es que en la mayoría de los casos únicamente se centra en las dimensiones tecnológicas y se olvida de su dimensión social. La propuesta de este artículo es situar, a partir de la revisión de textos y contextos, otras posibilidades de mirar el e-learning, puesto que, en realidad, son múltiples las miradas que se pueden realizar al e-learning y muchas las perspectivas y los enfoques que de ellas se desprenden.
La tendencia mercantilista y tecnofílica que, en cierto modo, rodea el presente y el futuro del e-learning debe ser balanceada por una mirada que acentúe su dimensión ambivalente y política, así como su papel motor en la construcción de engranajes sociales, en su dimensión social y cultural y, sobre todo, en su papel en la conformación de una nueva justicia social que permita hacer frente, con y a través de la educación, a los retos y las desigualdades crecientes que viven nuestras sociedades.
De este modo y frente al discurso excesivamente publicitario y triunfalista de las posibilidades que abren las tecnologías educativas, es bueno tomar en consideración su dimensión social. Es necesario recoger un acervo importante de prácticas, ejemplos y realidades capaces de articular un sentir y un sentido común sobre la necesidad, la idoneidad del e-learning para el desarrollo, la mejora y la innovación de nuestras empresas, organizaciones y sociedades, o para la formación, sin precedentes, constante y de calidad, de nuestros ciudadanos.
La mirada social al e-learning forma parte de lo que podríamos denominar el compromiso de la universidad en la transformación de la sociedad, aunque más allá de los aspectos ligados a la investigación, entendemos que la universidad debe implicarse en la sociedad, y una forma clara de hacerlo es a través del e-learning.
Existen diferentes formas de analizar las perspectivas sociales y culturales del e-learning, pero lo más significativo es estar abierto a la dimensión social del e-learning, porque detrás aparecen los rostros de personas que con ilusión, esperanzas y utopías, creen en la posibilidad de mejorar sus vidas y sus relaciones y de transformar aquellos aspectos más problemáticos de su entorno. Y toda esta mejora que tiene la posibilidad real de transformar a la sociedad puede ser posible a partir de incorporar en las prácticas, reflexiones, políticas e investigaciones lo que hemos denominado social e-learning.
La tendencia mercantilista y tecnofílica que, en cierto modo, rodea el presente y el futuro del e-learning debe ser balanceada por una mirada que acentúe su dimensión ambivalente y política, así como su papel motor en la construcción de engranajes sociales, en su dimensión social y cultural y, sobre todo, en su papel en la conformación de una nueva justicia social que permita hacer frente, con y a través de la educación, a los retos y las desigualdades crecientes que viven nuestras sociedades.
De este modo y frente al discurso excesivamente publicitario y triunfalista de las posibilidades que abren las tecnologías educativas, es bueno tomar en consideración su dimensión social. Es necesario recoger un acervo importante de prácticas, ejemplos y realidades capaces de articular un sentir y un sentido común sobre la necesidad, la idoneidad del e-learning para el desarrollo, la mejora y la innovación de nuestras empresas, organizaciones y sociedades, o para la formación, sin precedentes, constante y de calidad, de nuestros ciudadanos.
La mirada social al e-learning forma parte de lo que podríamos denominar el compromiso de la universidad en la transformación de la sociedad, aunque más allá de los aspectos ligados a la investigación, entendemos que la universidad debe implicarse en la sociedad, y una forma clara de hacerlo es a través del e-learning.
Existen diferentes formas de analizar las perspectivas sociales y culturales del e-learning, pero lo más significativo es estar abierto a la dimensión social del e-learning, porque detrás aparecen los rostros de personas que con ilusión, esperanzas y utopías, creen en la posibilidad de mejorar sus vidas y sus relaciones y de transformar aquellos aspectos más problemáticos de su entorno. Y toda esta mejora que tiene la posibilidad real de transformar a la sociedad puede ser posible a partir de incorporar en las prácticas, reflexiones, políticas e investigaciones lo que hemos denominado social e-learning.
Reality is eminently symbolic, but that reature is not only exclusive of textual and discursive realms. There are more practices beyond that dimension which produce sense and meaning. Meaning has to do with objects and things, as well. In... more
Reality is eminently symbolic, but that reature is not only exclusive of textual and discursive realms. There are more practices beyond that dimension which produce sense and meaning. Meaning has to do with objects and things, as well. In this text we argue that to introduce materiality and object's semiotic action in aour concerns allow us to explain social reality in richer and more complex ways than those related only with a discursive linguistic dimension. If there is a paradigmatica example of those regards, that is what concerns the named object's collections and their inclusion in the spaces what we call museums. Those constitute complex machine which produces social laces. So as to get that goal we focus on some data collected, for loger than one year, in El Museu de la Ciencia de la Fundació "La Caixa" de Barcelona. The text will argue inside the science museum, the objects and material realms play a crucial role in scientific knowledge production and in the social order production as well.
Escrito por Anna Llupià (Hospital Clínic), Israel Rodríguez-Giralt (UOC), Anna Fité (consultora), Lola Álamo (Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona), Laura de la Torre (Hospital Clínic), Ana Redondo (Hospital de Bellvitge), Mar Callau... more
Escrito por Anna Llupià (Hospital Clínic), Israel Rodríguez-Giralt (UOC), Anna Fité (consultora), Lola Álamo (Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona), Laura de la Torre (Hospital Clínic), Ana Redondo (Hospital de Bellvitge), Mar Callau (Blau Advisors) y Caterina Guinovart (ISGlobal),
El documento explica en qué consiste la estrategia de control y máxima supresión de la transmisión, conocida también como COVID Cero y que se ha aplicado con éxito en países como Corea del Sur, Taiwán, Singapur, Vietnam o Nueva Zelanda. Su objetivo es mantener el contagio lo más residual posible y, en última instancia, eliminarlo en áreas geográficas concretas. Está pensada para aumentar la capacidad de identificar y trazar las cadenas de transmisión, así como de identificar y gestionar los brotes, e integra también el apoyo económico, asistencial, psicológico y social para asegurar el aislamiento de casos y contactos. Es lo que también se conoce como "Búsqueda, Test, Trazado y Aislamiento con Apoyo" (BTTAA).
Cuanto más coordinado, ágil y eficaz sea este proceso, más fácil resultará acorralar e interrumpir la circulación del virus y mantener el contagio en niveles residuales. Y a la inversa, cuanto más baja sea la incidencia del virus, más efectiva resultará la estrategia y más fácil será reducir la pandemia y los diversos impactos que genera en el plano sanitario, social y económico.
Como estrategia de salud pública, la máxima supresión es distinta a la estrategia que busca acabar con la pandemia consiguiendo una infección progresiva de la población (inmunidad de grupo). Esta última puede ser una fórmula de control larga y costosa, especialmente para los grupos con mayor riesgo de contraer formas graves de la enfermedad. Además, afecta de forma desproporcionada a las personas y comunidades que presentan mayor vulnerabilidad económica y social. Desde un principio de precaución, tampoco es aconsejable dado el poco conocimiento disponible sobre la duración de la inmunidad, el impacto de la enfermedad a largo plazo, el comportamiento de esta en sucesivas reinfecciones y la morbimortalidad que conlleva.
La estrategia de máxima supresión también se diferencia de otras estrategias de contención o mitigación (“aplanar la curva”) que persiguen evitar el colapso sanitario. La carencia de las estrategias de mitigación es que obvian las fases de transmisión baja o casos esporádicos, y actúan cuando el contagio comunitario ya es muy elevado y ejerce un impacto en el sistema sanitario. Esto, sin embargo, aumenta el riesgo de cronificar la transmisión y de quedar atrapados en ciclos de escaladas y desescaladas de medidas que debilitan mucho la economía, el sistema sanitario y la implicación ciudadana.
En cambio, una actuación preventiva y precoz para mantener el control de la transmisión, no solo evita el colapso sanitario a todos los niveles asistenciales, también por patologías que no son COVID-19, sino que permite preservar la salud física y emocional de la ciudadanía y de los profesionales sanitarios, además de mantener la vida social y económica, y reforzar la confianza y el compromiso del conjunto de la ciudadanía.
El documento explica en qué consiste la estrategia de control y máxima supresión de la transmisión, conocida también como COVID Cero y que se ha aplicado con éxito en países como Corea del Sur, Taiwán, Singapur, Vietnam o Nueva Zelanda. Su objetivo es mantener el contagio lo más residual posible y, en última instancia, eliminarlo en áreas geográficas concretas. Está pensada para aumentar la capacidad de identificar y trazar las cadenas de transmisión, así como de identificar y gestionar los brotes, e integra también el apoyo económico, asistencial, psicológico y social para asegurar el aislamiento de casos y contactos. Es lo que también se conoce como "Búsqueda, Test, Trazado y Aislamiento con Apoyo" (BTTAA).
Cuanto más coordinado, ágil y eficaz sea este proceso, más fácil resultará acorralar e interrumpir la circulación del virus y mantener el contagio en niveles residuales. Y a la inversa, cuanto más baja sea la incidencia del virus, más efectiva resultará la estrategia y más fácil será reducir la pandemia y los diversos impactos que genera en el plano sanitario, social y económico.
Como estrategia de salud pública, la máxima supresión es distinta a la estrategia que busca acabar con la pandemia consiguiendo una infección progresiva de la población (inmunidad de grupo). Esta última puede ser una fórmula de control larga y costosa, especialmente para los grupos con mayor riesgo de contraer formas graves de la enfermedad. Además, afecta de forma desproporcionada a las personas y comunidades que presentan mayor vulnerabilidad económica y social. Desde un principio de precaución, tampoco es aconsejable dado el poco conocimiento disponible sobre la duración de la inmunidad, el impacto de la enfermedad a largo plazo, el comportamiento de esta en sucesivas reinfecciones y la morbimortalidad que conlleva.
La estrategia de máxima supresión también se diferencia de otras estrategias de contención o mitigación (“aplanar la curva”) que persiguen evitar el colapso sanitario. La carencia de las estrategias de mitigación es que obvian las fases de transmisión baja o casos esporádicos, y actúan cuando el contagio comunitario ya es muy elevado y ejerce un impacto en el sistema sanitario. Esto, sin embargo, aumenta el riesgo de cronificar la transmisión y de quedar atrapados en ciclos de escaladas y desescaladas de medidas que debilitan mucho la economía, el sistema sanitario y la implicación ciudadana.
En cambio, una actuación preventiva y precoz para mantener el control de la transmisión, no solo evita el colapso sanitario a todos los niveles asistenciales, también por patologías que no son COVID-19, sino que permite preservar la salud física y emocional de la ciudadanía y de los profesionales sanitarios, además de mantener la vida social y económica, y reforzar la confianza y el compromiso del conjunto de la ciudadanía.
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By Bethany Hannah, Isabeau Ottolini, Kathleen Uyttewaal, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas, and Núria Prat Guitart
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Haunted by an invisible threat that yet harms their bodies in very concrete ways—especially those of the elder, the poor, and the pregnant. A threat that is biochemical in principle, but economic, social, and affective in practice. An... more
Haunted by an invisible threat that yet harms their bodies in very concrete ways—especially those of the elder, the poor, and the pregnant. A threat that is biochemical in principle, but economic, social, and affective in practice. An ubiquitous harm that roams a fuzzy geography, suspended on airs, sedimented on soils, flowing through waters. A threat that they know when it started, but cannot know—not even estimate—when it will end. A harm that while suffocates the lives of entire populations and ecosystems, is kept at armchair distance by governments more interested in keeping the economy going than in halting violence.
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Israel Rodríguez, Daniel López, Míriam Arenas, Elena Guim, Sandra González Principales conclusiones del proyecto a nivel español, ofreciendo algunas orientaciones sobre cómo fomentar la resiliencia de niños y jóvenes en situaciones de... more
Israel Rodríguez, Daniel López, Míriam Arenas, Elena Guim, Sandra González
Principales conclusiones del proyecto a nivel español, ofreciendo algunas orientaciones sobre cómo fomentar la resiliencia de niños y jóvenes en situaciones de desastre mediante estrategias participativas.
Principales conclusiones del proyecto a nivel español, ofreciendo algunas orientaciones sobre cómo fomentar la resiliencia de niños y jóvenes en situaciones de desastre mediante estrategias participativas.
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Se extiende una forma de acción asociativa cada vez más influyente que politiza la propia experiencia para convertirla en objeto de controversia política. Es el activismo “encarnado”. Lo atestiguan los movimientos surgidos en torno a la... more
Se extiende una forma de acción asociativa cada vez más influyente que politiza la propia experiencia para convertirla en objeto de controversia política. Es el activismo “encarnado”. Lo atestiguan los movimientos surgidos en torno a la Ley de
Dependencia o las luchas en relación a nuevos trastornos controvertidos.
Dependencia o las luchas en relación a nuevos trastornos controvertidos.
El activismo político contemporáneo muestra una tendencia creciente a efectuar un uso político de los artefactos tecnológicos informacionales. Las potencialidades que abren estas tecnologías están siendo aprovechadas para diferentes... more
El activismo político contemporáneo muestra una tendencia creciente a efectuar un uso político de los artefactos tecnológicos informacionales. Las potencialidades que abren estas tecnologías están siendo aprovechadas para diferentes formas de movilización y protesta, y cada vez son más los colectivos y los movimientos que ven en ellas un alto componente subversivo. Se anticipa así la llegada de un nuevo escenario para las formas de acción colectiva.
Banksy, el reverendo Billy y los Yes Men son algunos portavoces de un interesante modo de entender el activismo político, el sabotaje cultural. A través del arte y la performance, del sentido del humor y el ingenio para parodiar y... more
Banksy, el reverendo Billy y los Yes Men son algunos portavoces de un interesante modo de entender el activismo político, el sabotaje cultural. A través del arte y la performance, del sentido del humor y el ingenio para parodiar y tergiversar, los artivistas son capaces de proyectar ideas, mensajes y críticas sociales a amplios sectores de la población y de hacer circular discursos fuertemente politizados.
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"En la actualidad se está formando un cuerpo de investigación sistemáticamente aplicado al impacto de las TIC en la transformación social y cultural. Fruto de una labor prolongada, este texto presenta algunos análisis sobre los efectos... more
"En la actualidad se está formando un cuerpo de investigación sistemáticamente aplicado al impacto de las TIC en la transformación social y cultural. Fruto de una labor prolongada, este texto presenta algunos análisis sobre los efectos que estas nuevas tecnologías producen en los procesos de cambio social y, en concreto, analiza el papel de la virtualización en el campo de los denominados movimientos sociales.
En particular, en este artículo estudiaremos las transformaciones a partir de las transiciones y cambios que afectan a la organización, acción y producción de conocimientos de un movimiento social como es el ecologista. A partir del análisis de una controversia ecológica acaecida en España, analizaremos el papel de las TIC en las dinámicas de protesta, movilización, organización, producción de conocimiento y articulación con otras organizaciones de este movimiento."
En particular, en este artículo estudiaremos las transformaciones a partir de las transiciones y cambios que afectan a la organización, acción y producción de conocimientos de un movimiento social como es el ecologista. A partir del análisis de una controversia ecológica acaecida en España, analizaremos el papel de las TIC en las dinámicas de protesta, movilización, organización, producción de conocimiento y articulación con otras organizaciones de este movimiento."
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Report from a scoping review of existing research and disaster management policies and practices relating to children and young people in Europe. This is a public deliverable from CUIDAR H2020 Project: "Cultures of Disaster Resilience... more
Report from a scoping review of existing research and disaster management policies and practices relating to children and young people in Europe. This is a public deliverable from CUIDAR H2020 Project: "Cultures of Disaster Resilience among Children and Young People".
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The aim of this presentation is to point out a shift within disability activism. I will base my analysis on a comparative study between Spain and the UK. In both cases, I will show, there have been important innovations in the modes of... more
The aim of this presentation is to point out a shift within disability activism. I will base my analysis on a comparative study between Spain and the UK. In both cases, I will show, there have been important innovations in the modes of protest, discourses and identities traditionally associated to disability activism. In both countries, these transformations are very much connected to the austerity programmes promoted by Spanish and UK Governments as a way to tackle their budget deficits in the context of a global financial crisis. In Spain, disability activism has been deeply influenced by the so-called 15M, a movement started in 2011 to protest against the Spanish two-party political system, unemployment, welfare cuts and political corruption. In the UK, the resurgence of activism is connected to the creation of new campaigning groups, such as Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), which aim to locate themselves within the mainstream anti-cuts movement. Although there are significant differences among them, both processes share an explicit concern to go beyond traditional identity politics and avoid targeting experts and professionals as the main interlocutors. In both cases, these (re)politicisations are build upon “spatial” forms of protest (Sbicca & Purdue, 2013). Be it camping in the Spanish Squares or organising direct actions in the streets of London, both movements use “presence” and “public space” as means to share and mutualise affects and experiences. This allows them to articulate a new plane of relation -“a fairy dust event” (Pignarre & Stengers, 2011)-, through which they share and unfold new problems, create new rights and “radicalise” a wider and more pluralistic approach to disability.
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This special issue encourages empirical and theoretical contributions that explore and enrich the intersection between Science & Technology Studies (STS), particularly Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and the study social movements and other... more
This special issue encourages empirical and theoretical contributions that explore and enrich the intersection between Science & Technology Studies (STS), particularly Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and the study social movements and other forms of non-governmental politics.
Interested scholars should submit proposals of up to 300 words to the Editors at politics.socialmovement@keele.ac.uk by March 20th, 2016.
Accepted submissions will be notified in March, and final drafts are due on July 30th, 2016 (max 9000 words, inc. all endnotes and bibliography). Please bear both the word length and the deadlines in mind when considering whether you would like to submit a proposal. Final drafts will undergo peer review and be subject to the decisions of the Editors. We aim to publish this special issue in late 2017.
Interested scholars should submit proposals of up to 300 words to the Editors at politics.socialmovement@keele.ac.uk by March 20th, 2016.
Accepted submissions will be notified in March, and final drafts are due on July 30th, 2016 (max 9000 words, inc. all endnotes and bibliography). Please bear both the word length and the deadlines in mind when considering whether you would like to submit a proposal. Final drafts will undergo peer review and be subject to the decisions of the Editors. We aim to publish this special issue in late 2017.
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How can politics be articulated or at least imagined by ill, impoverished and abandoned communities? This article documents how care is invoked by activist groups and local citizens in their search for ethical recognition and... more
How can politics be articulated or at least imagined by ill, impoverished and abandoned communities? This article documents how care is invoked by activist groups and local citizens in their search for ethical recognition and environmental justice in Puchuncaví, Chile. The authors argue that in a context of prolonged and systematic harm, care emerges as a way to render their suffering understandable, knowable and actionable, and thus as a mode of intervention that instantiates politics in different spaces and at several scales. At the interfaces of feminist science studies, environmental sociology and political theory, this article examines how care acts as a grammar to enunciate problems and make connections deemed irrelevant by expert apparatuses. Specifically, the authors ethnographically track the capacity of care practices to create therapeutic spaces of affective endurance and healing, and to produce new forms of sensual and ecological knowledge about beings, things and relati...