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In this article I present an autobiographical account as someone who has been an academic in both Mexico and Spain for the last thirty years. My life story shows the transition from a life centred on an academic project to a life centred on mere survival in the system. These are two subjectivities that do not neatly appear consecutively but that are intertwined. The first starts from the traditional but exciting idea that an academic career must progress linearly to the achievement of a solid and stable identity, with a permanent contract as a symbolic and material destination. The second subjectivity, which starts from neo-liberalism demanding permanent mobilization, constant change, and absolute flexibility, is accompanied by pain and resignation, as precarity has already occupied the greatest part of my academic life. The story has the modest mission of exemplifying, in the flesh, without hiding class and gender marks, the neo-liberal transformation of the academy and its inhabitants. Yet it is also an example of how difficult it can be to resist this dynamic, given that we, the teaching and research staff, are more or less forced accomplices of this transformation. I write this narrative in the hope that the story may help others to visualize and plan a different future for academia and for themselves: a future based on more engaged personal relationships and built on an ethics of care which can help resist injustice, as feminist literature suggests.

Este texto explora las relaciones que el uso y la presencia de los teléfonos móviles tienen en la sociedad actual, a partir de los resultados de un estudio basado en relatos personales. Con el análisis de estos relatos intentamos responder a una pregunta que como investigadores nos planteamos: ¿dónde estamos cuando hablamos por teléfono? Hemos utilizado como material de análisis estos relatos personales, donde los participantes de este seminario han tratado de explicar su relación con el móvil. En este artículo el énfasis se ha puesto en el análisis de las emociones relacionadas con el uso de los dispositivos moviles.

Este texto es una breve presentación del artículo de Florence Kelley "Objetivos y principios de la Liga de Consumidores" publicado en 1899 en el "American Journal of Sociology". Después de introducir brevemente algunos elementos biográficos se señalan algunas reflexiones sobre la potencia actual de la vida y obra de Florence Kelley para la transformación social desde el punto de vista del consumidor. ; This text is a brief presentation of Florence Kelley's article "Aims and Principles of the Consumers' League" published in 1899 in the ""American Journal of Sociology". It offers a brief introduction to some biographical notes and it also highlights some reflections on the current power of Florence Kelley's life and work for the social transformation from the consumer's point of view.

The aim of this study is to identify the links between the exposure to, and use of, TICs in both public and private life. I shall explain how, in spite of my own easy access to TICs, barriers of gender or migration have meant that this is not a universal experience - whether in the public or private domain. For some, TICs are habitually underused and an object of some ignorance; for others, they are both a means and indeed an object of investigation. I shall examine the effects not only of gender and class, but also the production of knowledge about (and access to) TICs, as for example in moral panics over videogames and mobile phones. I shall concentrate on TICs in everyday life, and in the construction of the identity of TICs' users.