Sebastián Ureta
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 202182 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sebastián Ureta |
| NOMBRES | Sebastián |
| APELLIDO | Ureta |
| FIRMA | URETA S |
| AFILIACIONES | Alberto Hurtado University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3169-4992 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 180 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Soil publics
In contexts of regulatory neglect, it often falls to concerned individuals and community groups to identify and reduce people’s exposure to health-threatening pollutants in urban soils. The Our Soil project, based in Troy, New York (U.S.A.) proposed that engaging people in a “do-it-together” process of scientific inquiry could cultivate both appreciation of soil’s value and urgency to protect people from toxic soil pollution. In this paper, we de…
Glosario tecno-climático para orientarse en una época incierta
El "Glosario tecno-climático" es una obra colaborativa que recopila entradas abordando conceptos fundamentales para explorar la intersección entre tecnología y crisis climática. Cada entrada se presenta de manera concisa, estableciendo puntos clave sobre los siguientes términos: "Activismo Digital", "Alteración Climática", "Antropoceno", "Atmósfera", "Dinámicas de inflexión social", "Gaia", "Geosimbiosis", "Progreso", "Sostenibilidad", "Tecnologí…
Technopolitics of fear
Despite the regular occurrence of disasters such as infrastructural collapse and massive pollution, the mining industry has failed to introduce substantive innovations in waste management. In this paper, we explore a key factor behind such reluctance, which we have called a technopolitics of fear. Based on a science and technology studies framework, such technopolitics will be understood as a complex assemblage of affects, practices, and technolo…
Beyond samplism
Given the many forms of environmental pollution that have accompanied the global spread of industrial capitalism, there is an urgent need to carry out extensive assessments of the potential toxicity of many compounds on human and nonhuman populations. However, the scientific procedures developed to carry out such assessments present several critical shortcomings that greatly diminish their capacity to protect populations at risk. Through an ethno…
El SIRSD-S o los riesgos de una problematización productivista de los suelos degradados
Diversos estudios han mostrado un nivel de degradacin alarmante de los suelos en Chile, pilar fundamental de la biodiversidad y la produccin de alimentos.Este reconocimiento ha llevado en las ltimas dcadas a implementar una gobernanza del suelo, a travs de la cual se pueda empezar a revertir esta situacin.Adoptando un marco analtico de los estudios sociales de los suelos, este artculo analiza el principal instrumento pblico generado con este fin,…
Strength out of weakness
Faced with the ecological crisis, environmental scientists are asking what else besides providing evidence can they do to steer needed processes of substantive change. We argue that such an exploration should start by recognizing their weakness regarding the forces aiming at slowing down the pace of change. Recognizing this weakness should lead scientists to a change of tactics, embracing forms of strategic action used for centuries by groups on …
Worlds of Gray and Green
Seeing copiapósols
Y nos vamos a ir toditos para abajo”. Ontologías subterráneas en conflicto en Tierra Amarilla
On November 2013 a massive sinkhole appeared in a terrain near Tierra Amarilla, a small mining town in northern Chile. This event immediately raised the alarms of the local population, given the possible occurrence of new sinkholes directly in the inhabited area of the city. In order to deal with such fears, the local mining companies established a task force with representatives of the community, authorities and mining experts. At the center of …
Ruination Science
The multiple environmental crises our planet is experiencing forces us to change the ways we engage with it, especially the ones developed by scientific disciplines such as toxicology. In particular, widespread degradation should lead us to develop scientific practices that take environmental ruination as a framework condition, not only as an object of analysis. In doing so, we should take into account the practice of science at laboratories loca…
Constituting Chileans
Besides large-scale rallies on the streets, the Chilean estallido social that commenced in October 2019, was noteworthy by the sudden emergence throughout the country of local-based and largely improvised instances of direct citizen participation, known as cabildos. Adopting multiple formats, cabildos invited people to meet and discuss a wide variety of public issues. Emerging at a moment in which national authorities agreed to hold a referendum …
Baselining nature
Baselines are one of the most ubiquitous, yet unrecognized, components of contemporary environmental regulation. Usually understood as the ‘natural’ or ‘historical’ state of a species population, ecosystem, or climatic zone, baselines become reified through regulatory processes, management schemes, and consultant reports that attempt to assess and/or mitigate the effects of environmental change. Though the natural sciences have long recognized th…
Victimization Devices
With the emergence of global mechanism for toxic harm accountability, a transnational environmental justice regime is slowly rising. One of the ways in which its taking form is through transnational litigation schemes where corporations are being locally sued by the alleged victims of their overseas misbehaviours. Using a science and technology studies approach, this article deals with one of the most central components of those schemes: victimiz…
Frail modernities
Problematizing markets
Neoliberalism is usually associated with pro-market values. This paper argues that more attention should be paid to the specific forms of market criticisms that unfold in neoliberal settings. We adapt Foucault's and Callon's notion of problematization to study recent policy reforms in Chile. The analysis shows a transition from a set of policies justified in terms of the virtues of the market to policy interventions based on a comparison between …
Sujetos de desecho
Al centro del análisis y la regulación de conflictos ambientales en países como Chile está la figura de un sujeto de derecho que se moviliza públicamente para resolver situaciones de contaminación. Este modelo ha invisibilizado el fenómeno de la inacción ambiental, referido a comunidades afectadas por situaciones de contaminación evidentes y de larga data pero que sin embargo no realizan ningún tipo de demanda pública al respecto. En este artícul…
Don't wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
This paper is an invitation to view tailings - the most prominent byproduct generated by mining activity - as more than their usual incarnation as waste, object of governance by waste management programs. In doing so, it applies Elizabeth Povinelli's notions about geontopower/geontologies to analyze the practices devoted to managing the tailings produced by Mina El Teniente, a large copper mine located in central Chile. From this framework, the m…
Selling the sociotechnical sublime
Since its very beginning, science and technology studies (STS) has focused on the complex dynamics involved in the transnational mobilization of scientific knowledge. Beyond their merits, until recently, such analyses have been devoid of reflexivity about the global travels of STS as such, and the differences its practitioners and concepts make at their point of destination. To begin filling this void, this paper uses the method of autoethnograph…
A very public mess
Economizing Justice
This paper considers the issue of how energy justice is economized; how political and ethical claims about particular energy (in)justices are turned into economic valuations. Drawing on science and technology studies, we present a conceptual framework that understands economization as emerging from three interrelated processes: problematization, framing and overflowing. Applying this framework to the drafting of new energy legislation in Chile, w…
A failed platform
This article starts by reviewing the setbacks that the recent Science and Technology Studies literature has identified in the functioning of technologies of democracy, the different arrangements that look to enact deliberation on technoscientific issues. Putting a focus on the Citizen Consensus Conference, it then proposes that several of these setbacks are related to the kind of “work” that these technologies are expected to do, identifying two …
Caring for waste
How do we practically deal with the waste produced by industrial processes? Until now this question has overwhelmingly been answered in one way: through the deployment of different kinds of waste management programs, technology-based top-down actions for waste whose ultimate aim is to make it disappear both physically by leaving it in fully enclosed dumps and politically by eliminating it as a matter of concern that must be dealt with. Due to the…
Normalizing Transantiago
This article looks to propose a new way to understand the repair of failing large sociotechnical systems. Leaving aside romantic valuations, repair always involves a certain degree of normalization. Derived from conceptualizations by Foucault, repair as normalization is understood as a particular form of power that, first, recognizes a certain normal state to which the failing system should evolve and, second, develops different strategies to rea…
Policy assemblages
This paper looks to propose an alternative conceptual framework that could help policy studies to better capture the complexity and multifaceted character of contemporary policy processes. Mixing science and technology studies with critical policy studies, it sees policies as assemblages formed by an ample array of heterogeneous elements, from technical standards to everyday practices. Three major configurations of policy assemblages are explored…
The Shelter that Wasn’t There
The concept of assemblages has gained an important degree of momentum in urban studies claiming to offer a new ontology for understanding cities as emergent and fluid concatenations of multiple elements. Such a conception, however, has also been criticised in relation to its supposed failure to deal effectively with the issue of power and inequality in urban dynamics. This paper contributes to this on-going discussion by exploring in detail the w…
Normalizing Transantiago
This article looks to propose a new way to understand the repair of failing large sociotechnical systems. Leaving aside romantic valuations, repair always involves a certain degree of normalization. Derived from conceptualizations by Foucault, repair as normalization is understood as a particular form of power that, first, recognizes a certain normal state to which the failing system should evolve and, second, develops different strategies to rea…
To Move or Not to Move? Social Exclusion, Accessibility and Daily Mobility among the Low-income Population in Santiago, Chile
Changes in the patterns of quotidian physical mobility of the population are at the very centre of transformations in contemporary urban life. The city of Santiago, Chile is no exception to this trend. But these changes do not affect the whole population in the same way. This paper is based on a case study of a low‐income population group and how their situation of social exclusion interferes with their patterns of everyday mobility. In order to …
Caring for waste
How do we practically deal with the waste produced by industrial processes? Until now this question has overwhelmingly been answered in one way: through the deployment of different kinds of waste management programs, technology-based top-down actions for waste whose ultimate aim is to make it disappear both physically by leaving it in fully enclosed dumps and politically by eliminating it as a matter of concern that must be dealt with. Due to the…
Problematizing markets
Neoliberalism is usually associated with pro-market values. This paper argues that more attention should be paid to the specific forms of market criticisms that unfold in neoliberal settings. We adapt Foucault's and Callon's notion of problematization to study recent policy reforms in Chile. The analysis shows a transition from a set of policies justified in terms of the virtues of the market to policy interventions based on a comparison between …
Don't wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
This paper is an invitation to view tailings - the most prominent byproduct generated by mining activity - as more than their usual incarnation as waste, object of governance by waste management programs. In doing so, it applies Elizabeth Povinelli's notions about geontopower/geontologies to analyze the practices devoted to managing the tailings produced by Mina El Teniente, a large copper mine located in central Chile. From this framework, the m…
Baselining nature
Baselines are one of the most ubiquitous, yet unrecognized, components of contemporary environmental regulation. Usually understood as the ‘natural’ or ‘historical’ state of a species population, ecosystem, or climatic zone, baselines become reified through regulatory processes, management schemes, and consultant reports that attempt to assess and/or mitigate the effects of environmental change. Though the natural sciences have long recognized th…
Frail modernities
Mobilising Poverty
In the last few decades physical mobility has become one of the key elements of contemporary societies. This centrality of mobility also means the development of a new kind of social exclusion caused by the problems of living in a social context in which one has to be increasingly “on the move” to access goods and services. In this article, based on fieldwork conducted with 20 low-income family inhabitants of the city of Santiago, Chile, we study…
Policy assemblages
This paper looks to propose an alternative conceptual framework that could help policy studies to better capture the complexity and multifaceted character of contemporary policy processes. Mixing science and technology studies with critical policy studies, it sees policies as assemblages formed by an ample array of heterogeneous elements, from technical standards to everyday practices. Three major configurations of policy assemblages are explored…
Ruination Science
The multiple environmental crises our planet is experiencing forces us to change the ways we engage with it, especially the ones developed by scientific disciplines such as toxicology. In particular, widespread degradation should lead us to develop scientific practices that take environmental ruination as a framework condition, not only as an object of analysis. In doing so, we should take into account the practice of science at laboratories loca…
The Shelter that Wasn’t There
The concept of assemblages has gained an important degree of momentum in urban studies claiming to offer a new ontology for understanding cities as emergent and fluid concatenations of multiple elements. Such a conception, however, has also been criticised in relation to its supposed failure to deal effectively with the issue of power and inequality in urban dynamics. This paper contributes to this on-going discussion by exploring in detail the w…
Constituting Chileans
Besides large-scale rallies on the streets, the Chilean estallido social that commenced in October 2019, was noteworthy by the sudden emergence throughout the country of local-based and largely improvised instances of direct citizen participation, known as cabildos. Adopting multiple formats, cabildos invited people to meet and discuss a wide variety of public issues. Emerging at a moment in which national authorities agreed to hold a referendum …
Sujetos de desecho
Al centro del análisis y la regulación de conflictos ambientales en países como Chile está la figura de un sujeto de derecho que se moviliza públicamente para resolver situaciones de contaminación. Este modelo ha invisibilizado el fenómeno de la inacción ambiental, referido a comunidades afectadas por situaciones de contaminación evidentes y de larga data pero que sin embargo no realizan ningún tipo de demanda pública al respecto. En este artícul…
A very public mess
Domesticating Homes
This article studies the process of appropriation of new homes in a housing estate by low-income inhabitants of Santiago, Chile. Based on material collected during fieldwork, it shows how this appropriation is a balance between two contrasting forces. On the one hand, the dwellers seek to express their individuality through the personalization of their living spaces. On the other hand, the modernist architecture of the estates materializes the id…
Victimization Devices
With the emergence of global mechanism for toxic harm accountability, a transnational environmental justice regime is slowly rising. One of the ways in which its taking form is through transnational litigation schemes where corporations are being locally sued by the alleged victims of their overseas misbehaviours. Using a science and technology studies approach, this article deals with one of the most central components of those schemes: victimiz…
Because in Chile [carbon] markets work!' Exploring an experimental implementation of an emissions trading scheme to deal with industrial air pollution in Santiago
Emissions trading schemes have gained an important degree of momentum in recent years, rapidly becoming mainstream solutions to deal with the negative environmental consequences of human activity such as pollution and global warming. However there is still little empirical knowledge about what specific kind of work emissions trading schemes do. Using the analytical tools provided by science and technology studies, especially developments studying…
There is one in every home
This article studies the symbolic and practical meaning of the placement of television sets in different home spaces. Based on fieldwork conducted among a low-income population in Santiago, Chile, it shows how their move to a social housing estate constitutes for these families an opportunity to start organizing their domestic space in a different way, particularly in accordance with modernist distinctions between public and private spaces. In th…
Seeing copiapósols
Y nos vamos a ir toditos para abajo”. Ontologías subterráneas en conflicto en Tierra Amarilla
On November 2013 a massive sinkhole appeared in a terrain near Tierra Amarilla, a small mining town in northern Chile. This event immediately raised the alarms of the local population, given the possible occurrence of new sinkholes directly in the inhabited area of the city. In order to deal with such fears, the local mining companies established a task force with representatives of the community, authorities and mining experts. At the center of …
Selling the sociotechnical sublime
Since its very beginning, science and technology studies (STS) has focused on the complex dynamics involved in the transnational mobilization of scientific knowledge. Beyond their merits, until recently, such analyses have been devoid of reflexivity about the global travels of STS as such, and the differences its practitioners and concepts make at their point of destination. To begin filling this void, this paper uses the method of autoethnograph…
Noise and the Battles for Space
Domesticating Homes
This article studies the process of appropriation of new homes in a housing estate by low-income inhabitants of Santiago, Chile. Based on material collected during fieldwork, it shows how this appropriation is a balance between two contrasting forces. On the one hand, the dwellers seek to express their individuality through the personalization of their living spaces. On the other hand, the modernist architecture of the estates materializes the id…
There is one in every home
This article studies the symbolic and practical meaning of the placement of television sets in different home spaces. Based on fieldwork conducted among a low-income population in Santiago, Chile, it shows how their move to a social housing estate constitutes for these families an opportunity to start organizing their domestic space in a different way, particularly in accordance with modernist distinctions between public and private spaces. In th…
Mobilising Poverty
In the last few decades physical mobility has become one of the key elements of contemporary societies. This centrality of mobility also means the development of a new kind of social exclusion caused by the problems of living in a social context in which one has to be increasingly “on the move” to access goods and services. In this article, based on fieldwork conducted with 20 low-income family inhabitants of the city of Santiago, Chile, we study…
To Move or Not to Move? Social Exclusion, Accessibility and Daily Mobility among the Low-income Population in Santiago, Chile
Changes in the patterns of quotidian physical mobility of the population are at the very centre of transformations in contemporary urban life. The city of Santiago, Chile is no exception to this trend. But these changes do not affect the whole population in the same way. This paper is based on a case study of a low‐income population group and how their situation of social exclusion interferes with their patterns of everyday mobility. In order to …
Waiting for the Barbarians
Bodies are currently recognized as central to organizations. However, until now certain kinds of bodies have remained largely outside the concerns of organization studies, especially the ones of the human beings who use the products/services provided by organizations. Using a conceptual framework that mixes elements of Foucault’s developments on discipline and science and technology studies, this article attempts to contribute to filling this voi…
Normalizing Transantiago
This article looks to propose a new way to understand the repair of failing large sociotechnical systems. Leaving aside romantic valuations, repair always involves a certain degree of normalization. Derived from conceptualizations by Foucault, repair as normalization is understood as a particular form of power that, first, recognizes a certain normal state to which the failing system should evolve and, second, develops different strategies to rea…
Policy assemblages
This paper looks to propose an alternative conceptual framework that could help policy studies to better capture the complexity and multifaceted character of contemporary policy processes. Mixing science and technology studies with critical policy studies, it sees policies as assemblages formed by an ample array of heterogeneous elements, from technical standards to everyday practices. Three major configurations of policy assemblages are explored…
The Shelter that Wasn’t There
The concept of assemblages has gained an important degree of momentum in urban studies claiming to offer a new ontology for understanding cities as emergent and fluid concatenations of multiple elements. Such a conception, however, has also been criticised in relation to its supposed failure to deal effectively with the issue of power and inequality in urban dynamics. This paper contributes to this on-going discussion by exploring in detail the w…
Because in Chile [carbon] markets work!' Exploring an experimental implementation of an emissions trading scheme to deal with industrial air pollution in Santiago
Emissions trading schemes have gained an important degree of momentum in recent years, rapidly becoming mainstream solutions to deal with the negative environmental consequences of human activity such as pollution and global warming. However there is still little empirical knowledge about what specific kind of work emissions trading schemes do. Using the analytical tools provided by science and technology studies, especially developments studying…
A failed platform
This article starts by reviewing the setbacks that the recent Science and Technology Studies literature has identified in the functioning of technologies of democracy, the different arrangements that look to enact deliberation on technoscientific issues. Putting a focus on the Citizen Consensus Conference, it then proposes that several of these setbacks are related to the kind of “work” that these technologies are expected to do, identifying two …
Caring for waste
How do we practically deal with the waste produced by industrial processes? Until now this question has overwhelmingly been answered in one way: through the deployment of different kinds of waste management programs, technology-based top-down actions for waste whose ultimate aim is to make it disappear both physically by leaving it in fully enclosed dumps and politically by eliminating it as a matter of concern that must be dealt with. Due to the…
A very public mess
Economizing Justice
This paper considers the issue of how energy justice is economized; how political and ethical claims about particular energy (in)justices are turned into economic valuations. Drawing on science and technology studies, we present a conceptual framework that understands economization as emerging from three interrelated processes: problematization, framing and overflowing. Applying this framework to the drafting of new energy legislation in Chile, w…
Sujetos de desecho
Al centro del análisis y la regulación de conflictos ambientales en países como Chile está la figura de un sujeto de derecho que se moviliza públicamente para resolver situaciones de contaminación. Este modelo ha invisibilizado el fenómeno de la inacción ambiental, referido a comunidades afectadas por situaciones de contaminación evidentes y de larga data pero que sin embargo no realizan ningún tipo de demanda pública al respecto. En este artícul…
Don't wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
This paper is an invitation to view tailings - the most prominent byproduct generated by mining activity - as more than their usual incarnation as waste, object of governance by waste management programs. In doing so, it applies Elizabeth Povinelli's notions about geontopower/geontologies to analyze the practices devoted to managing the tailings produced by Mina El Teniente, a large copper mine located in central Chile. From this framework, the m…
Selling the sociotechnical sublime
Since its very beginning, science and technology studies (STS) has focused on the complex dynamics involved in the transnational mobilization of scientific knowledge. Beyond their merits, until recently, such analyses have been devoid of reflexivity about the global travels of STS as such, and the differences its practitioners and concepts make at their point of destination. To begin filling this void, this paper uses the method of autoethnograph…
Victimization Devices
With the emergence of global mechanism for toxic harm accountability, a transnational environmental justice regime is slowly rising. One of the ways in which its taking form is through transnational litigation schemes where corporations are being locally sued by the alleged victims of their overseas misbehaviours. Using a science and technology studies approach, this article deals with one of the most central components of those schemes: victimiz…
Frail modernities
Problematizing markets
Neoliberalism is usually associated with pro-market values. This paper argues that more attention should be paid to the specific forms of market criticisms that unfold in neoliberal settings. We adapt Foucault's and Callon's notion of problematization to study recent policy reforms in Chile. The analysis shows a transition from a set of policies justified in terms of the virtues of the market to policy interventions based on a comparison between …
Baselining nature
Baselines are one of the most ubiquitous, yet unrecognized, components of contemporary environmental regulation. Usually understood as the ‘natural’ or ‘historical’ state of a species population, ecosystem, or climatic zone, baselines become reified through regulatory processes, management schemes, and consultant reports that attempt to assess and/or mitigate the effects of environmental change. Though the natural sciences have long recognized th…
Seeing copiapósols
Y nos vamos a ir toditos para abajo”. Ontologías subterráneas en conflicto en Tierra Amarilla
On November 2013 a massive sinkhole appeared in a terrain near Tierra Amarilla, a small mining town in northern Chile. This event immediately raised the alarms of the local population, given the possible occurrence of new sinkholes directly in the inhabited area of the city. In order to deal with such fears, the local mining companies established a task force with representatives of the community, authorities and mining experts. At the center of …
Ruination Science
The multiple environmental crises our planet is experiencing forces us to change the ways we engage with it, especially the ones developed by scientific disciplines such as toxicology. In particular, widespread degradation should lead us to develop scientific practices that take environmental ruination as a framework condition, not only as an object of analysis. In doing so, we should take into account the practice of science at laboratories loca…
Constituting Chileans
Besides large-scale rallies on the streets, the Chilean estallido social that commenced in October 2019, was noteworthy by the sudden emergence throughout the country of local-based and largely improvised instances of direct citizen participation, known as cabildos. Adopting multiple formats, cabildos invited people to meet and discuss a wide variety of public issues. Emerging at a moment in which national authorities agreed to hold a referendum …
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