Francisco Javier Tirado

Autonomous University of Barcelona | UAB ·  Departamento de Psicología Social

The implementation of biosecurity measures in livestock production systems can be affected by the psychosocial factors of its stakeholders, which can be observed through their knowledge, attitudes and perceptions/practices. In Spain, there are no regulations per se to promote biosecurity. Of all stakeholders, farmers and veterinarians have been add...

‘Biopolitics’ is a much-used concept in recent academic literature. One of its main fields of application is in the analysis of public health projects. This article analyses the national Explicit Health Guarantees project in Chile from that perspective. However, we criticize the standard invocation of ‘biopolitics’ by observing that such public hea...

Introduction In Spanish dairy cattle farms, veterinarians working with farmers in the field mainly influence the implementation of biosecurity measures. However, veterinarians working in governmental institutions may also influence such implementation. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of veterinarians in official services in rel...

The scholarly tradition of cosmopolitanism (illustrated by the old saying, “I am a citizen of the world”) offers important insights into the examination of agri‐food multinational corporations (MNCs) as powerful global actors. Acknowledging that agriculture is the business sector with the highest planetary environmental impact, in this paper, we ad...

This study was carried out in two regions in Spain (Catalonia and Galicia) through eight focus groups; four for dairy farmers and four for veterinarians. The results showed that dairy farmers and veterinarians attributed responsibility to one another for not following biosecurity practices. The study brings to light contradictions among veterinaria...

This article explores the role of resistance as a micro-political practice carried out by female Spanish teleworkers. Drawing on a qualitative study focused on female workers in different cities in Spain, we conceive telework as a labour logic in which resistance is the cornerstone of meaning and subjectivity creation. Micro-practices of resistance...

Biosecurity has gained significant interest in farm animal health in recent years. However, in dairy cattle farms, there is slight, or no implementation of biosecurity practices recommended by official authorities and techno‐scientific experts. This situation might be explained by the tension between old farming traditions and routines and veterina...

Introduction: The implementation of biosecurity measures on dairy farms is influenced by the diversity of people and contexts on the farm, where veterinarians are the main source of information for farmers. Thus, the main objective of this study was to explore and examine communication dynamics between veterinarians and dairy farmers in relation to...

The concept of work–life balance has recently established itself as a key component on route maps drawn up in the pursuit of social sustainability, both on a local scale, represented by individual organizations, and on a more general one, represented by global institutions such as the United Nations. Our article analyzes telework’s use as a politic...

This article analyses drones as an upcoming device in the field of epidemiology. It is based on a research project which aims to track the variations in the forms of vigilance experienced by epidemiology in recent decades. After surveying approaches such as bioepidemiology and tele-epidemiology, we propose that the use of drones in this discipline...

Background: In Spain there are various veterinarian profiles in dairy cattle farms: private veterinarians (e.g. clinical, reproduction, milk quality or nutrition, among others); veterinarians involved in animal health programs (either in an animal health defence associations (HDA) or a public company) and official veterinary services. This heteroge...

Biosecurity measures are a set of management procedures that prevent the risk of introducing and spreading infectious diseases to a farm, although these measures are rarely implemented in dairy farms. There are some studies that have identified that the decision to implement biosecurity measures can be influenced by several psychosocial factors (at...

This research explores female teleworkers' domestic and work experiences in their day‐to‐day lives. We draw on focus groups and interviews carried out in Spain and use the pragmatic regimes of engagement framework developed by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot to analyse them. Their model further develops contributions from post‐humanist discourse...

Spain has some of the longest working days in the European Union and this presents problems for women employees, especially with regard to their work–life balance. Teleworking has been introduced as a possible solution. Our article analyses this working relationship and shows how female teleworkers produce new interpretations of time, space and age...

O câncer é comumente descrito como a reprodução descontrolada de células anormais no corpo. Essa definição classifica a doença como um processo local, cuja temporalidade é linear. Nesse trabalho, colocamos em questionamento tal enfoque a partir de um estudo de caso sobre o câncer de mama, analisado através da teoria do ator-rede. Começando desde a...

The application of biosecurity measures owns a central role in disease prevention. Knowing which biosecurity measures are used, how they are applied, and which elements can limit their correct submission are fundamental to elaborate strategies that allow the optimization of them. Different issues may affect the actual application of biosecurity mea...

Approached from the classical biopolitical perspective, observations of discrepancies proposed by the escalated use of new digital technologies in epidemiology, allows us to identify particular mechanisms to analyze how the membrane of the biotic is being permeated. Proposals bases on the notion of “scenarios” give rise to conceptual transformation...

From the beginning of our civilization, the existence of infectious and contagious diseases required a search for solutions for both an individual and medical-health problem, and political interventions that involve a territory and population that must be managed. In this respect, epidemiology constitutes a strategic dimension in analysing the comp...

Monográfico "Mundo hospital: enfermedad y formas de vida en las sociedades actuales", coordinado por Miguel Ángel Martínez García https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/kamchatka/issue/view/786 Resumen: El artículo analiza cómo la aparición del ejercicio de scenario-planning y su generalización en el mundo de la salud transforma los espacios biomédicos. En...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance the debate on “cosmopolitanism or globalization” by approaching this rich literature from cultural, ethical and governance angles, and by introducing key notions from the work that has taken place in the natural sciences, around the Anthropocene. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on ana...

El concepto de ciudadanía es seguramente, uno de los más estudiados en la historia desde una perspectiva social: desde Aristóteles y la polis griega hasta la ciudad liberal del siglo XX. En este sentido, posteriormente han emergido una serie de estudios como los de Nikolas Rose o Kezia Barker donde el énfasis es puesto en la biociencia y la biotecn...

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track Biorisk Intelligence otherwise: scenarios, visual Knowledge & new mechanism of surveillance

En pleno siglo XXI, la biomedicina y la biotecnología se han convertido en dos características fundamentales del mundo en el que vivimos. Sin duda, el autor que más se ha trabajado para analizar las repercusiones políticas de estos avances ha sido Michel Foucault a partir de su concepción del biopoder y posteriormente Nikolas Rose al hablar de etho...

En pleno siglo XXI, la biomedicina y la biotecnología se han convertido en dos características fundamentales del mundo en el que vivimos. Sin duda, el autor que más se ha trabajado para analizar las repercusiones políticas de estos avances ha sido Michel Foucault a partir de su concepción del biopoder y posteriormente Nikolas Rose al hablar de etho...

This paper examines psychiatric diagnosis-making within biomedicine, as studies in this field, especially empirical ones, have attracted little attention throughout the scientific world. The widely accepted assertion, that diagnosis is the result of clinical judgement, will be discussed. Through analysis of a case study conducted in a Barcelona hos...

Two paradigms of the contemporary psychiatry which maintain important differences from an epistemologycal point of view are discussed: biopsychiatry or biological psychiatry and postpsychiatry. From a critical perspective in psychiatry, mainly influenced by Michel Foucault's work in medicine, psychiatry and madness, we consider statements of a lead...

El presente art culo analiza la emergencia del biocapitalismo a partir de un examen sobre la bioseguridad. Para ello, muestra c mo la bioseguridad es una actividad en la cual la producci n de escenarios ccionales es el principal mecanismo de inteligibilidad, y describe c mo operan los escenarios al transformar lo vivo en un ujo desterritorializado,...

This article analyzes the emergence of biocapitalism from an examination of biosafety. Thus, this text demonstrates how biosafety is a mechanism for which the production of fictional scenarios is the main means of intelligibility, and describes how those scenarios operate to transform what is living into a deterritorialized, global and fluid stream...

Speech presented at the 2nd Critical Social Psychology Congress at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

This paper analyses the relation between biosecurity and subjectivity. In order to do this, we do not follow the narrative and discursive approaches or the poststructuralist tradition that insists in conceptualizing subject as a fold of external elements. Instead, we resort to actor-network concepts. In this vein, we put forward the concept of “sub...

In the last decade the notion of biosecurity has become really relevant in Social Sciences. These have showed that the concept implies a new approach about the phenomenon of security. Nevertheless, in this paper we will argue that biosecurity means something else: it is a completely reconceptualization of the very idea of bios. On the basis of seve...

Among the most relevant elements contributing to define the One World One Health programme we find epidemics. The reason is that in recent decades, infectious diseases such as HIV/SIDA, SARS and Influenza have shown that we need new approaches and concepts in order to understand how biological emergencies and health alerts deploy new scales of acti...

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 acto...

Starting from the proposal of Simeon Lockhart Nelson about cancer as a manifestation of the complexity and instability of the formations that are part of life, the goal of this presentation is to discuss the notion of complexity in the biomedical field and how it becomes part of oncological clinic, informing from Science and Technology Studies. For...

How can we guarantee the security of our means of transport? How can we strengthen that of our communications? How can we keep our ideology or our market safe? Etc. In this context, the press has recently been asking whether it is possible to be 100% certain that a person is not concealing a dangerous item on passing through an airport control. Non...

Cancer is commonly described as the uncontrolled reproduction of abnormal cells in the body. This definition enacts the disease as a local process, whose temporality is linear. In this article we challenge this approach, from a case study on breast cancer, analysed from the actor-network theory. Starting from the conception of disease as a material...

This paper seeks to offer an alternative account of Human Resources Information software (eHR) informed by a critical/postcolonial view on information systems. In so doing, it aims to explore the possibilities for managing people that information brings when Human Resources Management practices are transferred from “developed” to “developing” count...

The practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, laws and the intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes the initiative of Free Software also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of...

La gestión sostenible del agua ha aparecido en España como el centro de una controversia de primera magnitud. En ella, la participación ciudadana es un eje fundamental. A partir del análisis de grupos de discusión realizados en seis ciudades de Cataluña, este trabajo reflexiona sobre la percepción de la participación en los debates sobre el agua. S...

Recently, epidemics have become an important concern in social sciences. They currently have two important ways of conceptualizing epidemics: a) as a panic object; or b) as a bio-political situation. Nevertheless, these two perspectives disregard that epidemics basically are a way of transforming our daily life. In order to grasp this impact we put...

Recently, epidemics have become an important concern in social sciences. They currently have two important ways of conceptualizing epidemics: a) as a panic object; or b) as a bio-political situation. Nevertheless, these two perspectives disregard that epidemics basically are a way of transforming our daily life. In order to grasp this impact we put...

Los protocolos y guias han sido estudiados ampliamente por las ciencias sociales, especialmente en el campo biomedico. Han sido caracterizados como conjuntos de normas que requieren de adaptacion contextual, recogiendo heterogeneidad de actores, tiempos y espacios. En este articulo recogemos dos interrogantes que, sin embargo, no han sido tratados...

Los protocolos y guías han sido estudiados ampliamente por las ciencias sociales, especialmente en el campo biomédico. Han sido caracterizados como conjuntos de normas que requieren de adaptación contextual, recogiendo heterogeneidad de actores, tiempos y espacios. En este artículo recogemos dos interrogantes que, sin embargo, no han sido tratadas...

This paper is an introduction to the monograph titled Diasporas and Transitions in the Actor-Network Theory. Drawing a parallel with ethnomethodology, its pages present the main features of this theory, a way to figure out its origins and a description of its present. The text ends with a brief look at the state of art of actor-network theory in Sp...

Este texto es una presentacion del monografico Diasporas y transiciones en la teoria del actor-red. Sus paginas presentan las principales caracteristicas de esta teoria, una manera de entender sus origenes y una descripcion de su presente estableciendo un paralelismo con la etnometodologia. El texto finaliza con una valoracion del estado de la teor...

The protocols and guides have been studied extensively by the social sciences, especially in the biomedical field. They have been characterized as sets of rules that require contextual adaptation, collecting heterogeneity of actors, times and spaces. In this article we collect two questions that, however, have not been treated in literature. The fi...

Sustainable water management has become the focal point of a highly important issue in Spain. Citizens' participation in this controversy it is fundamental. Having carried out the analysis of several focus groups in six Catalonian cities (Spain), this study reflects on the perception of participating in discussions on water. Five actors mentioned i...

Este texto es una presentación del monográfico Diásporas y transiciones en la teoría del actor-red. Sus páginas presentan las principales características de esta teoría, una manera de entender sus orígenes y una descripción de su presente estableciendo un paralelismo con la etnometodología. El texto finaliza con una valoración del estado de la teor...

In what way is »care« a matter of »tinkering«? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably »warm«) relation between human beings, the various contributions to the volume give the material world (usually cast as »cold«) a prominent place in their analysis. Thus, this book does not continue to oppose care and technology, but contributes to rethinkin...

The practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, laws and the intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes the initiative of Free Software also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of...

Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. These mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies,...

The practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, laws and the intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes the initiative of Free Software also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of...

The authors explore transformations in the surveillance and discipline framework proposed by Foucault (technologies that “allow to see,” the panoptic as a completely closed space) by analyzing new Global Positioning System (GPS) care technologies. The authors contrast the antinomadic characteristics of traditional care practices for people with dem...

Growing attention is being paid to the increasing incidence of expert and lay citizen encounters in the processes of technological implementation. This poses the problem of the nature of participation, now a quite common topic in the field of science and technology studies. We offer firstly a brief review of the main issues regarding participation...

La teoría del actor-red ha popularizado la noción de “traducción” como herramienta de inteligibilidad de las conexiones que se establecen entre dispositivos tecnológicos y seres humanos. No obstante, el concepto se enfrenta a dos graves problemas. En primer lugar, no resuelve la cuestión de cómo es posible que diversas traducciones mantengan cierta...

The massive implementation of new information technologies has changed the surveillance and control devices. This paper analyses the anatomy of power deployed in virtual environments. Our thesis points to a shift from a "government of the soul" to a "government of freedom". This one works with a minimum codification exercise with the capacity to tr...

A través de varias noticias donde aparecen dispositivos tecnológicos de control y seguimiento introducidos en diferentes ámbitos de la vida cotidiana, analizamos cuáles podrían ser los actuales regímenes de poder y sujeción a los que nos vemos abocadas como ciudadanas. Teniendo en cuenta la centralidad que han adquirido las tecnologías de la inform...

This article outlines positioning theory as a discursive analysis of interaction, focusing on the topic of conflict. Moreover, said theory is applied to a new work environment for the social sciences: virtual spaces. The analysis is organized in the following way. First, the major key psychosocial issues which define the topic of conflict are revie...

The article outlines the field of FOUCAULTian discourse analysis. The FOUCAULTian concept of discourse is introduced, and methodological positions and methodological developments are sketched. Compared to other qualitative social research approaches, the different researchers and research groups that have adopted the FOUCAULTian concept of discours...

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For some considerable time now, the practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, law and the legal and intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes this initiative also means a call to rethink current forms of political action an...

Recientemente Michael Hardt y Antonio Negri han propuesto la noción de Imperio para inteligir la condición política de la globalización. El concepto ha recibido numerosas críticas. No obstante, sus propuestas son susceptibles de una relectura que permite soslayar esas denuncias y abrir nuevos espacios para la aplicación de tales propuestas. En ese...

In this first phase of a longer study, we identify a number of psycho-social factors which are affecting science in Spain: attitudes, stereotypes, prejudices, values, beliefs, and attribution processes. We also examine how these factors might help or hinder Spanish science's greater impact in the international scientific community. This study falls...

La teoría del actor-red es una de las perspectivas más idiosincrásicas que han aparecido en las últimas décadas en la tradición del pensamiento social. Ha sido formulada y desarrollada básicamente por tres autores: Bruno Latour, Michel Callon y John Law, y, en cierta medida, constituye la culminación del análisis social contemporáneo sobre la cienc...

Tres virtualizaciones han creado lo humano: el lenguaje, la técnica y el contrato. La tesis fuerte de Lévy consiste en afirmar que los seres humanos se constituyen en y por la virtualización. Hay un permanente proceso de autocreación de la humanidad. No obstante, éste se ha visto en el presente acelerado hasta límites hasta ahora insospechados. Pre...

Tres virtualizaciones han creado lo humano: el lenguaje, la técnica y el contrato. La tesis fuerte de Lévy consiste en afirmar que los seres humanos se constituyen en y por la virtualización. Hay un permanente proceso de autocreación de la humanidad. No obstante, éste se ha visto en el presente acelerado hasta límites hasta ahora insospechados. Pre...

Los procesos de desinstitucionalización creciente en nuestras sociedades están asociados a la implementación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Como consecuencia de ello están surgiendo nuevas formaciones sociales que exigen un replanteamiento de conceptos tan arraigados como institución o poder. A través de la Teleasistencia D...

The deinstitutionalization of society is in part associated with the growing implementation of new information and communication technologies. These new technologies bring about new collective formations. if the social sciences are succesfully to understand the impact of these technologies, we will need new ways of thinking about institutions and p...

Los procesos de desinstitucionalizacion creciente en nuestras sociedades estan asociados a la implementacion de las tecnologias de la informacion y la comunicacion. Como consecuencia de ello estan surgiendo nuevas formaciones sociales que exigen un replanteamiento de conceptos tan arraigados como institucion o poder. A traves de la Teleasistencia D...

From several social sciences disciplines, for more than ten years, we are claiming about the necessity of a material semiology. Reality is eminently symbolic, but that feature is not only exclusive of textual and discursive realms. It has to do with objects and things, as well. How can we interpret objects and things? How can we manage those? What...