Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (UOC), Estudios de Psicología y Ciencias de la Educación (UOC)

Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Rambla del Poblenou 156, 08018 Barcelona

irodriguezgir@uoc.edu

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Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Co-director · Full time Researcher · Associate Professor · UOC

Presentation

I’m currently Full Research Professor at the IN3 – Open University of Catalonia (UOC). My field of research is the so-called STS (Science and Technology Studies) and the study of new forms of technical democracy (social experimentation, public debate and mobilization). I’m particularly interested in understanding the role of technoscience in new health and social care activism and in public engagement and participation in disaster situations.

I hold a degree in Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (with honours). I received my PhD from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (with honours) for the PhD thesis entitled: “The symmetrical turn in the study of collective action: the ecological controversy of Doñana”.

From 2002-2016 I have worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at UOC. Since 2016 I’m coordinating CareNet Research Group.

I have been visiting researcher at Loughborough University (2002), Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College, London (2009; 2010-2012) and Instituto de Sociología, Pontificia, Universidad Católica de Chile (2015).

I am member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) & of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). As member of the Local Committee, I recently co-organised the 2016 EASST/4S Joint Conference in Barcelona.

In 2014, I received the Amsterdamska award from the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology for the book: “Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments and Preparedness” (Wiley/Blackwell, 2014), co-edited with Manuel Tironi and Michael Guggenheim. In 2018, I received the David Edge Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) for the article “Healing, Knowing, Enduring: Care and Politics in Damaged Worlds” published in The Sociological Review in 2017.

Research interests

Social Movements
Science & Technology Studies
Disasters

PROJECTS

FIREPRIME

European Program for Wildfire-Prepared Communities

European Commission, DG ECHO (European Civil Protection Authority)

competitius

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater, Míriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez

Finalitzat

The RESIST Project

Testing Adaptation Solutions to Key Climate Challenges

European Commission

Competitius

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater, Míriam Arenas

Finalitzat

EduFire Toolkit

Educational Toolkit for secondary schools in wildfires within a climate change scenario

Comisión Europea

Competitius

Maria Cifre Sabater, Míriam Arenas, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

WUICOM-BCN

Fire Resilient Interface Communities of Barcelona project

competitius

Míriam Arenas, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Maria Cifre Sabater, Álvaro Poo

Finalitzat

PyroLife

Training a new generation of interdisciplinary experts in holistic fire management

European Commission

Competitius

Míriam Arenas, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Isabeau Ottolini

Finalitzat

ResiCOVID-19

Evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on care homes in Catalonia and proposals to improve the healthcare model

Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR)

Competitius

Catuxa Maíz, Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

Dialogues on the management and communication of chemical risk in Tarragona

Direcció General de Protecció Civil de la Generalitat de Catalunya

contractes

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas

Finalitzat

BCONNECT@HOME

Being Connected at Home: Making use of digital devices in later life

Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad

competitius

Daniel López Gómez, Andrea García-Santesmases, Roser Beneito Montagut, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

VINCLES-COVID

VINCLES in times of pandemic: entertainment, social connectivity and support

Ajuntament de Barcelona | Departament de Promoció de Persones Grans Drets Socials, Justícia Global, Feminismes i LGTBI

contractes

Daniel López Gómez, Roser Beneito Montagut, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

Grassroots community care initiatives in Barcelona

Ayuntamiento de Barcelona

contractes

Joan Moyà Kohler, Míriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

CUIDAR

Cultures of Disaster and Resilience among children and young people

European Commission

competitius

Míriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

CANDID

Checking Assumptions and promoting responsibility in Smart Development

European Commission

Competitius

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

EXPDEM

Acción política de los grupos concernidos con la promoción de la vida independiente en España

Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad

Competitius

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Daniel López Gómez, Asun Pié Balaguer, Míriam Arenas, Tomás Sánchez Criado

Finalitzat

PUBLICATIONS

The relational, emotional and infrastructural work of older people in pandemic digital interventions

2024 Information, Communication & Society Articles

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Comunicació del risc i ciutadania: la visió dels barris de ponent

2023 Informes

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas, Laia Ventura Garcia

Essential workers balancing life and work during the COVID-19 syndemic in Spain: a qualitative and gender-based study

2023 Divulgació

Catuxa Maíz, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

¿Para cuándo el diálogo interdisciplinar en la gestión de la sindemia de la COVID-19?

2022 Revista Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Vulnerability analysis to wildland- urban interface fires in metropolitan areas: an integrated approach

2022 Tesis

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas

VINCLES en temps de pandèmia: entreteniment, connectivitat social i suport

2021 Informes

Daniel López Gómez, Roser Beneito Montagut, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction: Agency and Resilience

2020 Llibre Llibres

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Concluding remarks: Reimagining children’s place in disaster risk management

2020 Llibre Capítols

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Building a framework for child-centred disaster risk management in Europe

2020 Llibre Capítols

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Children, participation and disasters in Europe: A poor record

2020 Llibre Capítols

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Míriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez

Introducing CUIDAR: A child-centred approach to disasters

2020 Capítols

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Incidents within Incidents: social perspectives on the global pandemic and wildfire

2020 Articles

Míriam Arenas, Isabeau Ottolini, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Coreografías del abandono: Cuidado y toxicidad en zonas de sacrificio

2020 Capítols

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Participación pública en los proyectos de investigación: formas de crear conocimiento colectivo en salud.

2019 Articles

Can ANT be a form of activism?

2019 Capítols

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Tomás Sánchez Criado

Reassembling activism, activating assemblages

2018 Llibres

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Down to Earth Social Movements: An Interview with Bruno Latour

2018 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Reassembling activism, activating assemblages: an introduction

2018 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Healing, knowing, enduring: Care and politics in damaged worlds

2017 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Caring through design? En torno a la silla and the “joint problem-making” of technical aids

2016 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Tomás Sánchez Criado

Care in the (critical) making? Prototyping as a radicalisation of independent living

2016 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Tomás Sánchez Criado

Birds as lines: The production of alternative regimes of environmental management in the aftermath of a toxic disaster

2015 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Creole Interferences: a conflicte over biodiversity and ownership in the South of Brazil

2015 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Disasters as meshworks: migratory birds and the enlivening of Doñana’s Toxic Spill

2014 Articles

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Disasters and Politics: materials, experiments and preparedness

2014 Llibre Llibres

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

NEWS

How to understand what a “Slow Disaster” means, interview with Israel Rodriguez in Ràdio 4

2022 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

CareNet’s co-director participates in Vida Verda” to talk about his research in areas contaminated and devastated by chemical, energy and agricultural industries The ” Slow Disasters” are…

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Israel Rodríguez Giralt participates in “La Corba”, report on the graphic governance of the covid-19 pandemic

2022 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Directed by: Jorge Luis Marzo and Fèlix Pérez-Hita Speakers: Màrius Boada, Lorena Elvira, Albert Carles, Clara Prats, Manel Medina, Cristina Rovira, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Anna Llupià.

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Israel Rodríguez Giralt participates in the report ‘Psychosocial Project on covid – 19 syndemic’

2022 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Information pill about the implications of an exclusively biosanitary management of syndemia. It describes the mental health impact that syndemia has had on migrant and LGTBI+ populations, including non-binary people.

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Israel Rodríguez participates in the 6th session organized by NoGracias to talk about Persistent COVID

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Participating in the session: Esperanza Martín Correa. Family and community physician for 21 years. Currently working in a Primary Care center of the Institut Català de la Salut in…

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[INTERVIEW] Israel Rodríguez: “Framing the pandemic as a health emergency means overlooking other important effects”

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

*Interview by Margalida Ripoll Ferrer and originally published in IN3 Blog. Israel Rodríguez-Giralt is a researcher and the coordinator of the IN3’s Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (CareNet) research group. His…

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Israel Rodríguez-Giralt presents the chapter “Coreografías del abandono: Cuidado y toxicidad en zonas de sacrificio”

2021

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Israel Rodríguez-Giralt at the round table “Challenging a time of disasters: art and social sciences” in the Barcelona Science Biennial

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

El investigador Israel Rodríguez-Giralt participó el passado 8 de junio de 2021 en la mesa redonda “Desafiar un temps de desastres: art i ciències socials” en el marc de la Biennal…

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Israel Rodríguez-Giralt at #jotambé event discussing about the effects of conceptualizing pandemics in terms of “health emergency” preparedness

2021 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

COVID-19 crisis has helped to highlight the historical invisibility and undervaluation of care. Even so, the set of measures to face this pandemic continues to resort to social isolation and…

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Research Seminar: “Connected at Home: digital technologies and aging”

2021 Activitats

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Roser Beneito Montagut, Andrea García-Santesmases

El objetivo de este seminario de investigación es compartir con la comunidad científica algunos de los resultados del proyecto “Conectados en casa: los usos de las tecnologías digitales en la…

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Conversation with Ibero-American Networks of Science, Technology & Society

2021 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

With the purpose of learning from related experiences in other contexts, on Friday, February 26, 2021, a virtual conversation took place in which representatives of the STS networks (Science, Technology…

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Israel Rodríguez-Giralt at the round table “Art and Science of the Political Ecology of Disasters”, Ars Electronica Festival 2020

2020 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Researcher Israel Rodríguez-Giralt joined the Ars Electronica 2020 Festival held from September 9 to 13, 2020, one of the most important events in the world dedicated to the interconnections between…

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CareNet seminar: “How about we stop calling it ‘egg donation’? From assisted reproduction techniques to reproductive capacity transfer”, by Sara Lafuente (CSIC)

2018 Activitats

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Abstract Spain has become one of the leading international markets for assisted reproduction and one of the main destinations for so-called reproductive tourism in Europe in particular. For the most part, this…

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Israel Rodríguez-Giralt awarded with the international David Edge Prize

2018 Premis

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, coordinator of the UOC-IN3 CareNet Research group, was awarded the prestigious David Edge Prize for the article Healing, Knowing, Enduring: Care and Politics in Damaged Worlds published in The Sociological Review in 2017. The…

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CareNet Seminar: “No heroics, please: mapping deceased donation practices in a Catalan hospital” by Sara Bea (University of Edinburgh)

2018 Activitats

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

This talk will present an in-depth ethnographic mapping of deceased donation in a Catalan hospital. A unique site in terms of leading-edge technoscientific practices, high rates of donation and its…

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Interview with Israel Rodríguez, CareNet director, at the UOC R+I Talks

2017 Audiovisuals

Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Published at UOC R&I Talks,19/12/2017. Tell us about your professional and academic career. I’m a psychologist, specialized in social psychology, although with my doctoral degree, and in the course of my…

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Presentation of CANDID project at UOC Research Showcase 2017 by Sara Degli Esposti

2017 Audiovisuals

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Public presentation of CANDID project at UOC Research Showcase 2017, conducted by researcher Sara Degli Esposti

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The Radicalisation of Care: Practices, Politics and Infrastructures

2014 Activitats

Tomás Sánchez Criado, Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Blanca Callén

The concept of radicalisation is usually associated to a process by which groups or individuals come to adopt increasingly extreme or immoderate positions, ideals or aspirations. But it also speaks…

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