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Dr. Joan Pujol-Tarrés works as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He combines academic activity with LGBTQ activism. His current areas of study include trans-activism, affective disablism, intersectionality, articulation and necropolitics.
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November 1997 - present
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- Professor (Full)
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- I am teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervising Ph.D. theses. I am also doing research from a psychosocial perspective.
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El artículo desarrolla una propuesta teórica a partir del trabajo de Rizoma de Gilles Deleuze y Felix Guattari (1980/2015). Se propone gezoma como un dispositivo que permite pensar el género de una manera expandida y, a la vez, desbinarizar el lenguaje y los cuerpos binarios. El objetivo de gezoma consiste en proporcionar un marco conceptual que pe...
The Narrative Productions’ Methodology emerges from Haraway’s epistemological and political concept of “situated knowledges”. According to this perspective, all knowledge emerges from semiotic and material conditions that give rise to a specific gaze, which diverges from both a gaze “from nowhere” – realism – and a gaze “from everywhere” – relativi...
The Spanish colonial past permeates the institutions of higher education, configuring the contents and forms of disciplinary knowledge production that constitute it, as is the case of social work. In this article, we visit different scenarios where colonial memories are disputed in the context of the commemorations of 12 October (also called ‘Hispa...
Beatriz Espejo has worked in Barcelona as a trans-sex-worker since the 1980s, and in 1993 she founded the CTC, one of the leading activist organisations in the Spanish trans movement during the ’00s. The CTC had a direct impact on the definition of the Spanish law on gender identity. Although it may seem like a success story, this activist articula...
By conceptually framing disability under the lens of the Foucauldian apparatus, this article applies dis/ability studies to examine the constitution of the disabled subject by exploring how ableism and other axes of oppression (such as ageism and heterosexism) intersect in everyday situations of affective disablism. The article illustrates these pr...
El avance del neo-conservadurismo liberal amenaza las conquistas de los derechos sociales y civiles en un contexto de crisis económica. La incorporación de las políticas de identidad en los discursos conservadores, en tiempos de progresiva individualización y fragmentación social, dificulta la articulación de una respuesta emancipadora a las necesi...
Homonationalism offers a conceptual framework that allows us to understand the assimilation of the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights by national exceptionalism in the constitution of a geopolitical colonial differentiation. In light of recent developments, both in terms of national identity and LGBTI legal...
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Contemporary governmentality combines biopolitical and necropolitical logics to establish social, political and physical borders that classify and stratify populations using symbolic and material marks as, for example, nationality, gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, social class and/or disability. The social sciences have been prolific in...
While monogamy is the norm for romantic and intimate relationships in contemporary western societies, having other sexual and affective interactions alongside a monogamous relationship is a common practice. Instead of a unilateral and/or covert non-monogamy, polyamory promises a consensual, ethical, and responsible non-monogamy. The personal transf...
An analysis on the corporeal nature as a geopolitical territory and privacy among men in the african continent. It is based in the report about state-sponsored homophobia of the International association of lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex rights (ILGA), this subject is considered from an africanist perspective, in order to question conte...
This paper explores Occupational Therapy (OT) interventions using a dialogical perspective with therapists and people with functional diversity.1 Framing the dialogue between the discourses that participate in the therapeutic process, the paper reflexively explores the interferences in the forms of subjectivity that the discipline promotes under th...
El homonacionalismo constituye un marco conceptual que permite comprender cómo las políticas LGTB han sido instrumentalizadas en la construcción de una diferenciación geopolítica de carácter colonial. Construye relaciones de equivalencia entre las posiciones de sujeto ‘homosexual’ y ‘nacional’ que permite una diferenciación intra-nacional y entre-n...
The “gender digital divide” constitutes a prolific research program that compares the differences between women and men in access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Nevertheless, those using feminist socio-constructivist perspectives argue for the need to pay attention, not only to “access,” but also to “design,” in addition to co...
The processes of knowledge production are a central element in the mechanisms of governmentality of contemporary societies. In this context, the social sciences are progressively incorporated into population management strategies producing an homogenization of thought that operates from unified academic productivity criteria. The question of the va...
The consolidation of post-Ford capitalism weakens community ties. It also makes social intervention a technical and bureaucratic endeavor and makes the consolidation of the common space that sustains collective action difficult. Community action should incorporate concepts and practices to apply in complex, diverse and delocalized contexts. The rhi...
Constructionist perspectives, at considering social reality as a product of discursive practices, considered that it is possible and necessary to transform our current state of affairs. This understanding leads to a revitalization of politics. At the same time, the difficulty at defining a clear foundation for political action has lead to a new pos...
The consolidation of post-Ford capitalism weakens community ties. It also makes social intervention a technical and bureaucratic endeavor and makes the consolidation of the common space that sustains collective action difficult. Community action should incorporate concepts and practices to apply in complex, diverse and delocalized contexts. The rhi...
Desde los más de 40 años de existencia y más de 30 desde que se legalizó la primera asociación, el colectivo LGTB español ha conseguido tanto la derogación como la aprobación de leyes que reconocen los derechos de los que carecían estos colectivos. Los logros en el ámbito legal-institucional y la proximidad a las instituciones políticas de los sect...
En aquest article explorem el procés de transformació viscut per les persones dissidents a l’ordre social establert. Mitjançant aquesta recerca, pretenem visibilitzar quin tipus de relacions, interaccions i situacions han possibilitat o afavorit aquest canvi, i quines emocions i sensacions han envoltat aquest procés de canvi. La transformació epist...
En aquest article explorem el proces de transformacio viscut per les persones dissidents a l’ordre social establert. Mitjancant aquesta recerca, pretenem visibilitzar quin tipus de relacions, interaccions i situacions han possibilitat o afavorit aquest canvi, i quines emocions i sensacions han envoltat aquest proces de canvi. La transformacio epist...
Las fracturas generadas por la actual transformación geopolítica constituye nuevas clases de servidumbre de género que cristalizan con violencia en determinadas corporeidades; unas servidumbres que interpelan las lecturas feministas de la realidad y que demandan de renovados tejidos y texturas feministas para actuar y analizar frente a estas config...
The large-scale changes that are happening in the global context are permeating every area of contemporary life. University institutions are not immune to these changes and are becoming articulated within a unique logic, creating new "cultures" related to the production of knowledge and training. This material-semiotic framework seeks to reproduce...
This paper explores the transformations experienced by those positions of dissidence to the established social order in the context of contemporary Western societies. This research visualises the relationships, interactions and situations that facilitated or encouraged these subjective transformations along the emotional elements surrounding these...
La “sociedad del conocimiento” codifica una política que, a cambio de adaptarse a las nuevas exigencias de producción, promete riqueza económica e igualdad social. En el caso del género, la retórica sobre la “brecha digital” y la inclusión tecnológica de la mujer tiene como efecto el enmascaramiento del mantenimiento de los principios de la socieda...
Las Tecnologías de la Comunicación y la Información (TIC) son herramientas que potencian diversas áreas de actividad humana relacionadas con elementos simbólicos y comunicacionales.
No se presta tanta atención, sin embargo, a cómo las herramientas técnicas configuran nuestros patrones de subjetividad. Por ejemplo, Gordo (2006) nos muestra cómo usar...
This report offers for the first time an analysis of the situation of homophobic and transphobic attacks in Catalonia (Spain). The social analysis contained in this publication is based on data reported by public institutions and NGOs that have a protocol for data collection.
The aim of this report is to analyze the experience of people who have...
p> La herramienta wiki se está consolidando como una herramienta de trabajo colaborativo y colectivo que tiene su máxima expresión en el desarrollo de la wikipedia. La herramienta wiki consiste en una página virtual para la escritura colaborativa, en la cual cada una de las personas que participa puede ir añadiendo y cambiando los contenidos de la...
In this article we report on an ethnographic research experience on Riereta, a techno-activist workshop located in Barcelona, where free software and other technologies are developed and put at the disposal of other political projects and activist collectives. Through our research experience, we answer some methodological issues but also raise rela...
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...
Q methodology was applied to investigate the views of young people from Catalunia, England and Slovakia regarding sexual relationships and their health implications. The Q sorts of 188 16-18-year-olds from these three diverse European regions were reduced by Q factor analysis to six clear accounts. These accounts are presented in relation to three...
How responsive are the margins of critical psychology towards recent
profound transformations? Should we reconsider notions of subjectivity
and psychological work in the light of current socioeconomic and
cultural changes? This paper suggests that the minimal response of Critical
Psychology to recent worldwide commotion shows how its core activitie...
Una perspectiva crítica de la concepción de la intervención social como un conjunto de ajustes que no cuestionan el orden social establecido, considera que la intervención debe desembocar en una transformación social. A su vez, las posturas socioconstruccionistas y el desenmascaramiento de las tecnologías de producción de conocimiento científico, e...
A critical perspective of social intervention as a set of adjustments compatible with the social order considers that intervention should lead to social transformation. A critique by social constructionist perspectives to the possibility of a representation of reality and the unveiling of the technologies of knowledge production undermines the diag...
Perspectives such as social constructionism, discourse analysis or conversational analysis have used the linguistic metaphor to argue for an understanding of social reality as constructed through linguistic interaction. This metaphor inherits two conceptual legacies that lead to the omission of corporeality as a form of knowledge and agency. First,...
The wiki tool is being developed as a tool for collaborative work and has its maximum expression in the development of wikipedia. The tool consists of a page for virtual collaborative writing, in which each person involved may add and change content of the page. This tool enables the construction of the text, displaying the forms of students' work,...
In diesem Aufsatz stellen wir unsere ethnografischen Forschungserfahrungen mit dem "technoaktivistischen" Workshop "Riereta" in Barcelona dar, der sich der Entwicklung und Implementation von freier Software und Informationstechnologien als Angeboten für politische Projekte und Aktivist(inn)enkollektive der Stadt gewidmet hat. Von diesen Erfahrungen...
El creciente desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación obliga a reflexionar sobre cuáles son las formas de dominación en el campo de las relaciones de género que emergen de estos procesos y, además, producir prácticas tecnofeministas para contribuir a cuestionar y modificar dichas formas de dominación. En este trabajo...
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This coordinated project aims to study these mechanisms, which are enacted at both local nation-state and supranational levels in Europe and beyond (Mishtal, 2014), in the context of the current demographic anxieties related to fertility decline, abortion and new forms of reproduction (De Zordo, Marre & Smietana, forthcoming in 2022). More specifically, it aims to investigate, within this context, the different repro-flows (of people seeking access to reproduction-related technologies – assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), adoption, abortion - as well as of gametes) that these mechanisms produce in three world regions strictly related to each other: Europe, North-Africa and Latin-America.
Thus, it seems urgent to ask ourselves the following, fundamental questions that we aim to respond via this project, which will give an important contribution to the international academic and political debate on reproductive justice (Luna & Luker, 2013; Ross & Solinger, 2017; Smietana, Thompson & Twine, 2018) and cross-border reproductive care (De Zordo et al. 2020a, 2020b; Hudson et al., 2016; Kroløkke, 2014a, 2014b; Marre et al., 2018; Rozée Gómez et al, 2013; Smietana, 2017):
Who has the right to make her/his own reproductive decisions, including whether to have and/or raise children, when to do so and how?; Who can easily access the reproductive technologies that she/he needs to fulfill her/his reproductive desires where she/he lives, and who has to, and can travel to seek reproductive care including cross-borders, in a fragmented legal landscape marked by more or less restrictive legislations on ARTs, abortion and adoption?; What kind of challenges and burdens do reproductive travels imply for different groups of people in a period of increasing economic precariousness, marked also by the restrictions to people’s mobility due to the current pandemic?; How do people seeking access to different kinds of reproductive technologies overcome the legal barriers they face where they live and the challenges implied by having to travel across different parts of the world, or within their own country/region of residence? And how do these repro-flows (of people as well as gametes) transform some countries into repro-hubs for ARTs, abortion and adoption in Europe, North-Africa and Latin-America?; Finally, who is (or is not) able to travel to learn about her/his biogenetic origins? Do children born after ARTs and adoptees have the right to access this information in the age of reproductive biotechnology? What are the implications for secrecy, privacy, and the right to medical information?
