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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care - An Introduction -- 1 Cracks in the Door? Technology and the Shifting Topology of Care -- 2 The Securitization of Care Spaces: Lessons from Telecare -- 3 Exploring the Affordances of Telecare-related Technologies in the Home -- 4 Clutter Moves in Old Age Homecare -- 5 Homespace or Workspace? The Use of Multiple Assistive Technologies in Private Dwellings -- 6 Electric Snakes and Mechanical Ladders? Social Presence, Domestic Spaces, and Human-Robot Interactions -- 7 Technology and Good Dementia Care: An Argument for an Ethics-in-Practice Approach -- 8 Social Remembering as an Art of Living: Analysis of a 'Reminiscence Museum' -- 9 A Pillow Squirrel and its Habitat: Patients, a Syndrome, and their Dwelling(s) -- 10 Accessing Care: Technology and the Management of the Clinic -- Index.

Der Beitrag zielt darauf, die Relevanz FOUCAULTs für die Analyse der Erforschung moderner Technologien zu verdeutlichen: Er will die Fruchtbarkeit der FOUCAULTschen Diskursanalyse im Hinblick auf die Machteffekte von Diskursen im Bereich neuer Technologie illustrieren. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel der Analyse der elektronischen Überwachung. Dazu werden die Verbindungen zwischen den diskursiven Dispersionen und den Zugängen zu den technischen Vorrichtungen näher betrachtet. Dabei bildet gerade nicht eine Analyse von Ideologien und Wissen zur Legitimation elektronischer Überwachungsapparaturen den Ausgangspunkt der Überlegungen. Vielmehr geht es darum, die Verbindungen der diskursiven Rhetoriken und Begrifflichkeiten mit Techniken und Prozeduren der Machtausübung zu erforschen. Auf diese Weise wird gezeigt, wie eine der von FOUCAULT untersuchen Machttechniken – die Disziplinartechnologie – sich in andere Logiken der sozialen Kontrolle eingeschrieben hat, diese stärken, ihnen aber auch entgegenwirken kann.

Este artículo propone una interpretación etnográfica de cómo, en uncontexto de cuidado familiar en transición, servicios de teleasistenciaespañoles buscan proveer a las personas mayores de vínculos socialespara prevenir su aislamiento, articulando una infraestructura de conexióny monitorización para promover lo que denominamos «autonomíaconectada». Para funcionar estos servicios necesitan articular redes de«contactos». Empleamos diferentes acepciones del término figuraciónpara entender los significados de la materialización práctica de diferentesformas relacionales por parte de estos servicios, prestando atención a:los roles que hacen disponibles; con qué otras figuraciones relacionalesse encuentran y qué ocurre al encontrarse. A partir de esta descripción,abrimos un debate ético acerca de las promesas y retos relacionales queenfrentan los intentos por tecnologizar el cuidado de las personasmayores.

The growing complexity of technoscientific issues has posed a challenge to decision-making in our democracies. Over the last two decades, we have thus witnessed a rise in the participatory processes that promise to democratize these issues by including citizens in decision-making. This paper aims to study the discourses and practices of the organizers of participatory processes in Spain to analyze these proposals' limits. In order to accomplish this objective, we conducted eight case studies by interviewing the individuals responsible for these processes and examining publicly available materials related to them. The analysis of the collected data reveals that, although the participation of laypeople is considered a positive contribution, the very configuration of participation—based on a problematic division between experts and non-experts—ends up limiting the ambition of democratizing decision-making. Based on these findings and drawing on lessons from the field of activism, the paper proposes a 'participation in the wild', which would allow rethinking the disposition of the stages and rhythms of participatory processes, and thereby blur the asymmetries that constitute these devices. This work, therefore, aims to contribute to the assembly of elements of political theory and science and technology studies, as well as bridging the gap between two fields that can make important contributions to achieve more democratic ways of conceiving decision-making concerning science and technology in society.

AbstractFreezers with biospecimen deposits became biobanks and later were networked at the pan-European level in 2013 under the Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure—European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC). Drawing on document analysis about the BBMRI-ERIC and multi-sited fieldwork with biobankers in Spain from a science and technology studies approach, we explore what biobanks are expected to do and become under the BBMRI-ERIC framework, and how infrastructural transitions promote particular transformations in biobanking practices. The primary purpose of biobanks in Europe is presented as being to become mediators in contemporary biomedical research (global sharing nodes) distribution, and distributed nodes of samples and their associated data. We argue that infrastructural transitions are complicated and heterogeneous, giving rise to unattended local concerns on adjusting their practices to fit into the BBMRI-ERIC framework, even for non-members, as the case of Spain illustrates, where "old practices" of collection and storage are questioned. In this article, we aim to encourage qualitative studies to explore the lags between pan-European policies and prospects, different contextual interpretations, and biobanking reconfigurations as an opportunity to explore what that lag is made of (e.g. tensions with "old practices," unresolved conflicts with the national agendas, reservations on a possible centralization of the biobanking practices by regional biobanks, lack of funding, etc.). Such research could enrich not only policy guidance, but also the understanding of technoscientific infrastructures' scalability.

In this paper, we analyse patients' perspectives on the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic systems in healthcare. Based on citizens' experiences when hospitalised for COVID-19, we explore how the opinions and concerns regarding healthcare automation could not be disassociated from a context of high pressure on the health system and lack of resources, and a political discourse on AI and robotics; a situation intensified by the pandemic. Thus, through the analysis of a set of interviews, a series of issues are identified that revolve around the following: the empirical effects of imagined robots, the vivid experience of citizens with the care crisis, the discomfort of the ineffective, the virtualised care assemblages, the human-based face-to-face relationships, and the automatisation of healthcare tasks. In light of these results, we show the variability in patients' perspectives on AI and robotic systems and explain it by distinguishing two interpretive repertoires that account for different views and opinions: a well-being repertoire and a responsibility repertoire. Both interpretative repertoires are relevant in order to grasp the complexity of citizens' approaches to automatisation of healthcare. Attending to both allows us to move beyond the dominant (political) discourse of technology markets as the only way to respond to healthcare challenges. Thus, we can analyse and integrate patients' perspectives to develop AI and robotic systems in healthcare to serve citizens' needs and collective well-being.

The article stems from a science fiction classic: Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem. The novel enables the authors to suggest a change of episteme needed in organizational thinking in order to grasp the kind of relationships that define our present. Relationships both in the novel and in organizations have to do with the clash between finite and unlimited-finite strengths. The authors use the concept of `logic of cyborganization' to refer to the features this new setting has in present organizations. It is possible to review such logic through four considerations: (i) it moves away from the logic of representation; (ii) its condition of possibility is digital codification; (iii) its sufficient condition is simulation; (iv) it questions time as a principle of intelligibility.

In order to know how Catalonian citizens account water controversies in Spain, we analyzed six focus groups carried out in Catalonia in 2006. A concept of 'urban social identity' is used for our interpretations, having been adapted to highlight its interactional character. Tracking the spatial categories used in the discussions, we identified the variety of denominations employed to debate water problems in Spain. The analysis is focused on the most frequent categories to establish their utility and identify discursive actions that participants produce. Results indicate that speakers account the "water problems" mobilizing a common sense political geography that highlights the socio-spatial and conflicting character of water issues. ; In order to know how Catalonian citizens account water controversies in Spain, we analyzed six focus groups carried out in Catalonia in 2006. A concept of 'urban social identity' is used for our interpretations, having been adapted to highlight its interactional character. Tracking the spatial categories used in the discussions, we identified the variety of denominations employed to debate water problems in Spain. The analysis is focused on the most frequent categories to establish their utility and identify discursive actions that participants produce. Results indicate that speakers account the "water problems" mobilizing a common sense political geography that highlights the socio-spatial and conflicting character of water issues. ; Peer reviewed

In order to know how Catalonian citizens account water controversies in Spain, we analyzed six focus groups carried out in Catalonia in 2006. A concept of 'urban social identity' is used for our interpretations, having been adapted to highlight its interactional character. Tracking the spatial categories used in the discussions, we identified the variety of denominations employed to debate water problems in Spain. The analysis is focused on the most frequent categories to establish their utility and identify discursive actions that participants produce. Results indicate that speakers account the "water problems" mobilizing a common sense political geography that highlights the socio-spatial and conflicting character of water issues. ; Para acercarnos a cómo los ciudadanos catalanes dan cuenta de las controversias hídricas en España, se analizaron seis grupos de discusión realizados en Cataluña durante 2006. Se utilizó el concepto "identidad social espacial" para las interpretaciones, adaptándolo para resaltar su carácter interaccional. Al rastrear las categorías espaciales empleadas en las discusiones, se identificó la variedad de denominaciones usadas para debatir sobre los problemas hídricos en España. El análisis se centra en las denominaciones más usadas para determinar su utilidad e identificar las acciones discursivas que los participantes realizan con ellas. Los resultados indican que los hablantes dan cuenta de los "problemas del agua" movilizando una geografía política del sentido común que resalta el carácter socioespacial y conflictivo de los asuntos hídricos.