by Daniel L | Dec 1, 2015
Encounters on the social web: Everyday life and emotions online 2015 Abstract Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this study examines focused encounters on the social web. It starts from the premise that online interaction can be analyzed through the conceptual lens of...
by Daniel L | Nov 14, 2015
Birds as lines: The production of alternative regimes of environmental management in the aftermath of a toxic disaster 2015 Abstract This paper analyses how in the aftermath of one of the worst environmental disasters ever to occur in Spain – the Aznalcóllar...
by Lluvi Farré | Jul 25, 2015
The health of migrant domestic employees: an approximation of drug use among Latin American workers residing in Catalonia 2015 Abstract A significant part of today’s international women’s migrations are articulated around the growing “globalization of care.” Many...
by Lluvi Farré | Jul 25, 2015
Human biology, biomedicine and otherness 2015 Abstract The “Other” as a symbolic product, as a cultural construction of our social mind, is present in all societies and throughout human history, but its forms of production have acquired peculiar characteristics in...
by Daniel L | Jun 30, 2015
Analysing hands-on-tech carework in telecare installations: Frictional Encounters with Gerontechnological Designs 2015 Abstract In the past twenty years, gerontechnological technologies have been marketed as plug-and-play solutions to complex and costly care...
by Daniel L | Apr 14, 2015
Little arrangements that matter. Rethinking autonomy-enabling innovations for later life 2015 Abstract This paper explores the variety of socio-material arrangements that enable older people to continue living independently. Drawing on a collection of ethnographic...
by Daniel L | Jan 5, 2015
Creole Interferences: a conflict over biodiversity and ownership in the South of Brazil 2015 Abstract Delgado and Rodríguez-Giralt report on how traditional local seeds became a legal entity under the name of ‘Creole’, and had to co-exist with commercial seeds....
