Communication technologies have become essential for connecting people from different countries searching for employment and challenging careers. Highly skilled migrants keep in touch with family members through communication technologies, which have engendered intimacy based on long distance relationships. This work explores the use of communication technologies among the highly skilled, focusing both on professional and personal relationships, with an emphasis on the gender perspective. Throughout their discourses, technology appears as a fundamental tool for managing professional careers from a distance. Findings reveal both persisting patterns of traditional relationships managed by technology and the emergence of new habits and codes for enhancing personal connections. A gender approach illuminates few differences in the professional environment, in which information and communication technologies appear as neutral tools. However, in the personal sphere, although traditional family roles are being reshaped through technology, they are also partially reinforced.
Throughout history the division of gender roles has been a serious impediment for women working in science. Although they never desisted from conducting research, firstly as amateur and later as professional, they stood outside of scientific institutions and even now they hold low positions of ladder career. Women are finally in research institutions but they still need to make great efforts to achieve recognition from their colleagues and gatekeepers. Using the biographies of some contemporary scientific women, the objective of this work is to discover the role of partners at women's professional advancement. Their partners' role can supports, interferes or outlines professional decisions of women. This work also compares different cohorts of women scientist since a long-term approach that underlines social changes in Spanish society. Findings reveal that women need to plan very carefully work-life balance because some of the most important milestones coincide in the life-course. Social expectations regarding gender roles also mold women's decisions even when they are professionals and totally independents. The role of partners if they both collaborate, family background, financial status, childcare facilities, workplace environments and gender policies also contribute to success of women in professional careers.
Introduction -- Sharing vulnerabilities : searching for "unruly edges" in times of the neoliberal academy / Monika Rogowska- Stangret -- Knowmadic knowledge production in times of crisis / Olga Cielemecka and Beatriz Revelles Benavente -- (No) time for care and responsibility : from neoliberal practices in academia to collective responsibility in times of crisis / Ester Conesa Carpintero -- "It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself" : troubling the personal and the political in feminist pedagogy / Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- Precarious responsibility : teaching with feminist politics in the marketised university / Lena Wånggren and Muireann Crowley -- Feminist science literacy as political and pedagogical challenge : insights from a high school research project / Rosa Costa & Iris Mendel -- Screening feminisms : approaches for teaching sex and gender in film / Felicity Colman and Erin K. Stapleton -- Doubt, excitement, pleasure : feminist practices of teaching and learning in art and education / Barbara Mahlknecht -- Feminist ethics of responsibility and art therapy : Spanish art therapy as a case in point / Ángela Harris Sánchez & Adelina Sánchez Espinosa -- (Fostering) princesses that can stand on their own two feet : using wonder tale narratives to change teenage gendered stereotypes in Portuguese EFL classrooms / Alexandra Cheira -- The case of Tumblr : young people's mediatised responses to the crisis of learning about gender at school / Jessie Bustillos -- On the road : feminist alliances across Europe / Verònica Gisbert Gracia -- Index
El personal académico viene afrontando situaciones de vulnerabilidad y precariedad en el contexto español y europeo. Por un lado, la situación de crisis proporciona una justificación a los recortes en financiación para ciencia y universidades; por otro, la dinámica neo-gerencialista produce nuevas condiciones simbólicas y materiales basadas en la competitividad en la academia, previamente a la crisis. Este artículo aporta evidencias acerca de la situación laboral del profesorado universitario español en relación a ambas dinámicas, y analiza algunas diferencias de género. Para ello, en primer lugar, examinamos la dinámica neo-gerencialista y la dinámica de austeridad en el contexto académico europeo y español. En segundo lugar, mostramos la evolución numérica del profesorado en las universidades públicas españolas durante la última década, mediante un análisis de fuentes secundarias públicas distinguiendo categorías laborales y sexo. Los resultados muestran el descenso del personal funcionario (mayormente hombres) y el incremento del personal laboral con anterioridad a la implementación de las medidas de austeridad. Se mantiene un alto número de profesorado asociado apoyando una gran carga docente. El número de mujeres aumenta muy lentamente, estrechando la brecha de género en las etapas iniciales y medianas de las carreras académicas. En conclusión, las políticas de austeridad justifican y facilitan una implementación más rápida del modelo neoliberal de ciencia en España.
The relationship between literature and social networking sites (SNS) is a material context in which authors and readers merge into each other to create a literary communicative process that transforms contemporary politics. The aim of this paper is to analyse the communicative process by investigating the continuum between matter and discourse from a new materialist approach. From social sites, we can understand how elements, such as readers, authors, context, novels, culture and digital platforms, "intra-act" (Barad 2007) to create an affecting/ed communicative process. We propose feminist new materialism as a theoretical terrain that helps to reconfigure politics and communication in order to build a methodological framework for contemporary feminist politics and theory related to Literature. Using a digital genealogy and the theory of new materialism, we identify communication in literature as a trapping force in which different elements intra-act with each other and become indivisible. Affecting/ed communication is a dynamic conceptualization, a literary activity in which active agents participate in creative spaces for future social changes.
In: Sociología y tecnociencia: Revista digital de Sociología del Sistema Tecnocientífico = Sociology and Technoscience = Sociologia e tecnociência, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 1-8
Aquest número especial s'ha elaborat bàsicament amb les comunicacions presentades a la V New Materialist Conference, que es va celebrar a Barcelona els dies 25 i 26 de setembre de 2014. L'esdeveniment, acollit per l'Institut Interdisciplinari d'Internet de la UOC, va servir igualment de trobada prèvia a la COST Action 1307 («New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on How matter comes to matter»), i va ser organitzat pel grup de recerca GENTIC en col·laboració amb nombroses universitats europees. Amb el títol de «New Materialism Methodologies: Gender, Politics, the Digital», el congrés ha estat un intercanvi força productiu de contribucions intel·lectuals en forma d'idees i ponències de contingut rellevant sobre gènere, metodologies, política i cultures digitals des d'una perspectiva neomaterialista. Les ponències que conformen aquest número mostren un seguit d'aproximacions molt valuoses des d'àrees diverses relacionades amb els temes del congrés. ; This special issue has been elaborated mostly with communications presented at the V New Materialist Conference on the 25th and 26th of September 2014, in Barcelona. Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute at the Open University of Catalonia, this event was also the kick-off conference of the COST Action 1307: "New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on How matter comes to matter" and organized by the GENTIC research group in collaboration with many different European universities. Entitled "New Materialist Methodologies: Gender, Politics, the Digital", the conference has been a highly productive moment of intellectual contribution of ideas and content-wise papers around gender, methodologies, politics and digital cultures from a new materialist framework. The papers in this issue constitute a sample of very insightful approaches coming from various areas within the conference themes. ; Este número especial se ha basado mayoritariamente en las comunicaciones presentadas en el 5º Congreso Anual sobre los Nuevos Materialismos que tuvo lugar el 25 y 26 de septiembre en Barcelona. Acogido por el Internet Interdisciplinary Institute de la Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, este congreso fue el evento que dio inicio a la Cost Action ISCH IS307 «New Materialism: networking European scholarship on how matter comes to matter», organizada por el grupo de investigación GENTIC en colaboración con diversas universidades europeas y financiado parcialmente por el Instituto de la Mujer de España para resaltar opresiones estructurales (in)visibles. El encuentro de septiembre, titulado «New materialist methodologies: gender, politics, the digital» (Nuevas metodologías materialistas: género, política, lo digital) resultó altamente productivo por la contribución intelectual de ideas y contenido de las ponencias sobre género, metodologías, política y culturas digitales que partían del marco del nuevo materialismo. Los artículos de este número de Artnodes presentan una muestra de enfoques muy perspicaces procedentes de diversas áreas incluidas dentro de los temas del congreso.
Los estudios sobre los sistemas de investigación, desarrollo e innovación (I+D+i) han realizado avances significativos al adoptar una perspectiva regional, con análisis más ajustados de las características de los actores en la estructura económica y social. También la clase política ha prestado más atención a la planificación de las políticas públicas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, con el propósito de ser más eficientes. Sin embargo, la orientación de los estudios regionales de innovación permanece anclada en los sistemas más exitosos: Silicon Valley, Manchester, Lyon., sin que sepamos con certeza si estas mismas claves pueden generalizarse a otras regiones, especialmente las periféricas, con escaso o ningún desarrollo industrial y, por tanto, con situaciones muy poco favorables para el desarrollo de las economías del conocimiento. En este trabajo analizamos las actitudes y las opiniones de los actores principales del sistema de I+D+i de Canarias, que es una región ultraperiférica y no industrializada. La metodología basada en grupos de discusión y grupos Delphi nos permitirá establecer la manera de pensar y de actuar de los agentes locales. Podremos mostrar entonces que, además de la estructura de la región, la actitud que adoptan los agentes sociales desempeña un papel fundamental en el desarrollo exitoso del sistema regional de I+D+i. ; Studies of the R&D and innovation system have been making relevant progress when adopting a regional perspective with more apropiate analysis of the characteristics of the actors in the economic and political structure. Political stakeholders have also attended to planning public policies in science and technology and innovation with the aim of being more efficient. However, orientation of regional studies of innovation is anchored in success systems: Silicon Valley, Manchester, Lyon., but we do not know certainly if these same key elements could be generalised for other regions, especially, periphery regions with nearly or none industrial development, and, therefore, with a little or no development industrial, and, therefore, with a situation very unfavorable for developing knowledge-based economies. In this work we analyse attitudes and opinions of main actors of Canary R&D and innovation system, which is an ultraperipheral and non industrialised region. The methodology based on discussion and Delphi groups allow us to establish the way of thinking and behaviour of local agents. We will be able to show, thus, in addition to the structure of the region, that the attitude adopted by the social agents play a fundamental role in the develop of the regional R&D and innovation system.
El mercado laboral tecnológico, donde las mujeres son minoría,representa una oportunidad para el empleo en España. Este trabajoanaliza los datos de la Encuesta de Población Activa (EPA) respecto a lapoblación ocupada en el sector tecnológico. En primer lugar, se analiza lasegregación de género de la población ocupada según sectoreseconómicos y, en segundo lugar, las características de empleo de lasmujeres ocupadas en el sector tecnológico. Los resultados indican quelas mujeres disponen de buenas expectativas laborales en este sector,pero también indican que sufren un mayor riesgo de sobrecualificación, loque sugiere la persistencia de factores de discriminación. Por último, lasmujeres expresan mayor preocupación que sus colegas hombresrespecto a las excesivas jornadas laborales, lo que plantea la necesidadde afrontar un cambio estructural en las organizaciones.
Spain has been hardest hit by the pandemic and, thus, one of the first to implement the strictest confinement measures. Social service is a key sector for alleviating the negative social impacts of the country's healthcare crisis and confinement. This has represented a big challenge for social workers, who have been obligated to take on larger caseloads, new responsibilities, and a new working environment. Social workers have had to handle these issues from a work setting plagued by uncertainty, coping with a crisis never experienced before.We conducted an online survey during the pandemic to aim to investigate what kind of work has developed by the social workers of the social service at the Community of Madrid and the City Council. Respondents felt stressed and confused by lack of coordination between care and public health agencies. They have had to manage aids and assistance related to food and hygiene, emotional support and general information on the pandemic, as well as all financial aids allocated by the administration. Teleworking became regular which undoubtedly has contributed to reducing any lingering reservations they still had about this method.
