Francisco Martinez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 105023 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Francisco Martinez |
| NOMBRES | Francisco |
| APELLIDO | Martinez |
| FIRMA | MARTINEZ F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2113-9987 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Making room for the future? Half-emptiness and the ordered demolition of Soviet housing in Estonia
Luces y Sombras de la Climatización
Este artículo desarrolla el concepto de climatización para el análisis de políticas públicas. La climatización es el “proceso mediante el cual un tema, actor o institución es enmarcado como relacionado al cambio climático” (Aykut, Maertens, 2021: 502). La estudiamos en el caso del proceso de cierre de las centrales termoeléctricas a carbón en Chile, iniciado formalmente en el año 2018, y donde participan actores del sector privado como público, y…
Introduction
Gifts are deeply seated in the organisation of social life and how we make sense of the world; we all give and receive gifts, and tend to think of the rituals of exchange as rather pleasing. However, gifts can also create ambiguity and tension, especially around expectations for reciprocity. When gifts are given without a clear indication of their expectations, recipients may feel uncertain about how to respond. The timeline of reciprocation can …
Parasitic Gifts in a Forgotten Soviet Library
This article introduces the concept of parasitic ethnography to explore how gifts can be abandoned or out of time, unsettling classical theories of reciprocity. Drawing on the case of a forgotten Soviet library in Sillamäe, Estonia, and a series of artistic interventions, it examines how belated gifts – objects that linger in storage, fall out of circulation, or survive beyond their original contexts – continue to shape social life. Rather than p…
For an inviting anthropology
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork. Having each worked for well over a decade at these crossroads, the authors reflect on a search for anthropological relevance undertaken through collaborative materializations o…
Anthropology as a Practice and as a Discipline
This article rethinks the possibilities and limits of experimental collaborations in ethnographic research, showing how such practices can reshape anthropology both as a discipline and as a mode of inquiry. By using art exhibitions as sites of knowledge-making, I propose curatorial anthropology as a way to expand the notion of fieldwork and invite practitioners from diverse backgrounds into the ethnographic process. These collaborative experiment…
Garbography
This article reconsiders the relation between ethnographic accounts and non-human inscriptions by tracing waste as material data. It engages with the dynamism of residual matter at the epistemic level while aiming at expanding the range of possibilities of research on waste. What we call garbography unsettles the predominant meaning-centric understanding of our methods by paying attention to the expressiveness of residual matter as an asemic insc…
Lights out
This essay engages with alternative regimes of invisibility by investigating the things that are kept, and the practices that take place in basements of eastern Estonia. The use of hiding infrastructures is here taken as part of wider claims about epistemic disobedience and resistance of any social control over our interiority. Ethnographic descriptions show the way placing things underground is an enactment of inattention at the intersection bet…
Alberto Corsín Jiménez y Adolfo Estalella, Free Culture and the City
Las cosas qué hay que hacer para estar juntos – pensé al acabar Free Culture and the City; pero también las cosas que estar juntos nos hace (de vuelta, como un boomerang). Este libro tiene tres dimensiones analíticas: primero, es una etnografía del movimiento de cultura libre en Madrid. Segundo, es un estudio histórico sobre la traducción de lo digital a lo urbano, favoreciendo una nueva manera de posicionarse en la ciudad como resultado. Tercero…
Hitchhacking, Passenger Ethnography, and Four-Wheeled Hospitality
This article proposes hitchhacking as a way of problematising contemporary mobility and as a practice of what we call 'passenger ethnography'. To this end, we review some of the literature on hitchhiking and hosting, offering empirical examples from artistic projects and field vignettes in Estonia, Russia, and Finland. We also reflect on how hitching can be experienced as a means of knowledge production. Accordingly, we discuss how travelling tog…
What kind of documents do curators produce? Contemporary cases from Estonia
In this article, I study curating as a way of producing documents. By looking back retrospectively to the array of documents produced during my art projects and reviewing theoretical approaches relevant to the development of archival documentation, I will discuss how art documents can be constitutive of both knowledge and relations. Art documents help to account of and multiply the knowledge that is mobilized during the making of an exhibition, b…
With and Without Things. An Introduction
This theme issue deals with contemporary dispositions towards conserving or discarding objects at home. It investigates practices of sorting and divesting through an ethnographic approach. In a cross-cultural and cross-generational fashion, we illustrate the contemporary editing of domestic materiality and the social implications of re-accommodating things elsewhere. This means examining the spatialities of storage and how the decisions to get ri…
Store it in a Cool Place
This article discusses the role of basements in the settlement of relationships, allowing the possibility of editing of one’s own life and testing multiple sides of the self. Hence, it contests the accounts that present storing as a negatively coded process and basements as merely containers to be filled. After conducting ethnographic research in 37 cellars located in the liminal region of Eastern Estonia, I argue for the need to go beyond the un…
How to Write Things
Why can the anthropologist be a writer but not an author? This essay reflects on the possibility of conveying anthropological knowledge through creative writing while reconsidering ethnographical authorship and its audience. The research material is a fiction written by myself to evoke a particular structure of feeling bound to a specific location, contemporary Berlin. The story is not told, however, from the perspective of an ethnographer who ma…
Time to fix
This paper discusses the relevance of repair actions for the maintenance of social bonds, suggesting that these interventions have heuristic possibilities to address the crises of our time. The general argument points to important questions, such as the distinction between caretaking, endurance and resilience. Building on a literature review and ten years of fieldwork in two different locations (Estonia and Portugal), it develops an argument for …
Adjusting the Knox test by accounting for spatio-temporal crime risk heterogeneity to analyse near-repeats
The near-repeat phenomenon usually occurs with any crime. Hence, to implement preventive measures, it is of great interest to figure out at which spatio-temporal scale crimes are more likely to be repeated by offenders. The Knox test is the most used statistical tool for evaluating the presence of the near-repeat phenomenon given a dataset of crimes that are located in space and time. The classic version of this test assumes that crime risk is ho…
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the quality of sleep of mental health workers in Colombia
Límites etnográficos
Los futuros de la etnografía están relacionados con cómo nos acercamos a los límites de la práctica etnográfica y de la disciplina antropológica. Dicho acercamiento se puede lograr al plantear nuevos tipos de preguntas y objetos de estudio, con una aproximación a lo que la ciencia a menudo ha dejado sin mirar o decir. También a través de innovaciones metodológicas, por medio de conectar técnicas para investigar relaciones sociales hasta ahora sep…
Memory, Don't Speak! Monumental neglect and memorial sacrifice in contemporary Estonia
In this article, I discuss how memorials exist in time by conceptualising memory politics in relation to monumental neglect and a lack of maintenance work. I also study the way political discourses have material resonances by foregrounding how the Soviet memory is silenced in Estonia through the crumbling materiality of its cultural heritage - as a slow-motion sacrifice. In my research, I focused on the Maarjamäe memorial complex in Tallinn (whic…
Postcards from the Edge
Francisco Martínez and Marika Agu invite us to consider the nature of postcards as archival documents and as visual and material culture, and to explore their transformation into ethnographic devices through display in a contemporary art installation
Peripheral Methodologies
Peripheral methodologies unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits
How does peripherality challenge methodology and theory-making? This book examines how the peripheral can be incorporated into ethnographic research, and reflects on what it means to be on the periphery-ontologically and epistemologically. Starting from the premise that clarity and fixity as ideals of modernity prevent us from approaching that which cannot be easily captured and framed into scientific boundaries, the book argues for remaining on …
Revising Postsocialism
This article reflects on the current explanatory value of concepts such as postsocialism and Eastern Europe by exploring how they are represented in contemporary art projects in Estonia. Through an overview of recent exhibitions in which I collaborated with local artists and curators, the research considers generational differences in relation to cultural discourses of the postsocialist experience. Methodologically, artists and curators were not …
Politics of Recuperation
Antropología periférica
Desde Estonia, un país situado en la periferia de Europa (y donde la Antropología tiene una tradición limitada), el artículo analiza lo que significa ser ‘periférico’ dentro de la antropología europea: ¿Hablamos de relevancia, capacitación, tipo de colaboraciones, restricciones disciplinarias, relación de dependencia, mecanismos de in/visibilidad, reputación científica o de financiación? El artículo concluye con una nota positiva, indicando que l…
Getting a joke
Social sharing of emotion, post‐traumatic growth, and emotional climate
A questionnaire measuring social sharing of emotion, coping, intensity of emotions and rumination related to March 11th (2004) terrorist attacks in Madrid, emotional climate, social integration, and post‐traumatic growth was completed by 644 students and their relatives (38%) in 5 Spanish regions and 8 universities 1 week, 3 weeks, and 8 weeks after the terrorist act. Results supported a two‐sided model of the effects of social sharing of emotion…
Pre-service elementary school teachers' expectations about student performance
Memory, Don't Speak! Monumental neglect and memorial sacrifice in contemporary Estonia
In this article, I discuss how memorials exist in time by conceptualising memory politics in relation to monumental neglect and a lack of maintenance work. I also study the way political discourses have material resonances by foregrounding how the Soviet memory is silenced in Estonia through the crumbling materiality of its cultural heritage - as a slow-motion sacrifice. In my research, I focused on the Maarjamäe memorial complex in Tallinn (whic…
Communal Coping and Posttraumatic Growth in a Context of Natural Disasters in Spain, Chile, and Colombia
The aim of this study was to identify communal coping strategies that enhance posttraumatic growth of individuals, communities, and societies in the context of natural disasters. Participants were 540 people affected by floods in Colombia and by earthquakes in Spain and Chile. Posttraumatic growth was assessed at individual, community, and society levels. Direct and indirect relationships between trauma intensity and posttraumatic growth were ana…
The Bid-Choice Land-Use Model
Alonso's bid-rent theory and the discrete-choice random-utility theory appear in the literature as well-established alternative frameworks to model urban land use. As both approaches share the support of microeconomic theory, the main issue addressed in this paper is the theoretical comparison of the two approaches. It is demonstrated that in perfectly competitive land markets these approaches are equivalent, therefore they should be understood a…
The Invisible City
With this article I intend to contribute to the debate about how to study urban life. Firstly, I argue for the relevance of invisible and silent aspects of cities and inbetween sutures, which I understand to mean a third 'something' beyond forms and flows. Secondly, I explore several examples and draw on arguments from Wittgenstein and Lefebvre to frame this hypothesis. Thirdly, I use the chess game as a metaphor to illustrate the multiplicity an…
Narva as Method
This article asks how a post-Soviet city went global and became something else, mutating, in the sense of generating a new set of features that go beyond a narrow understanding of postsocialism. The research provides a synthetic conceptualisation of Narva and the organisation of its ordinary life, by combining methods of urban observation and classification with geographical and ethnographic descriptions of this city. Using visual imagery of urba…
The use of space–time constraints for the selection of discretionary activity locations
Doing nothing
This article proposes an artistic performance to reflect on the labour of fieldwork. The experimental method consists in installing myself at a café in Lisbon and Tbilisi for 35 hours beyond the reach of smartphones and laptops and then doing nothing. Across this exercise, time slows, opening a clearer window into ordinary life. The intervention raises questions about the way digital technologies transform the temporality and experience of ethnog…
Rethinking Euro-anthropology
Waste and postsocialism in Estonia
This article explores notions of postsocialism and waste in relation to each other. The research approaches waste as a means of considering changing orders of knowledge, scripts and standards, which in our view is a key element of postsocialist societies. The research offers important information in relation to the ways in which waste practices have changed (or not) in accordance to EU regulations and standards in Estonia, and provides significan…
An expert in peripheries
This research explores the relationship between knowledge production and place by studying different notions of disciplinary and personal peripherality. In an auto-ethnographic manner, the author discusses some of the power relations at work and the politics of representation of an anthropology being done at the margins of European scholarship. By analysing his own professional trajectory, the author surmises that the question of centre or periph…
Introduction
This special section explores and problematises the disciplinary boundaries of European anthropology by studying the shifting conditions of our work and changing centres of gravity in the field. The contributors have been invited to think about what the concept of 'European anthropology' brings actually to the fore, while working in a context of changing epistemic relations, labour conditions, institutional assessment and claims to disciplinary v…
Tallinn as a City of Thresholds
This article examines post-socialist transformations by studying material traces and gaps in the Estonian capital. The need for sutures is presented as the consequence of a state of collective liminality, here manifested in the juxtaposition of unfinished projects and in threshold experiences in Tallinn. Relying on empirical examples, literature, architecture, and visual signs, I explore the lack of contextual fit, saturation, and redundancy in t…
Garbography
This article reconsiders the relation between ethnographic accounts and non-human inscriptions by tracing waste as material data. It engages with the dynamism of residual matter at the epistemic level while aiming at expanding the range of possibilities of research on waste. What we call garbography unsettles the predominant meaning-centric understanding of our methods by paying attention to the expressiveness of residual matter as an asemic insc…
How to Write Things
Why can the anthropologist be a writer but not an author? This essay reflects on the possibility of conveying anthropological knowledge through creative writing while reconsidering ethnographical authorship and its audience. The research material is a fiction written by myself to evoke a particular structure of feeling bound to a specific location, contemporary Berlin. The story is not told, however, from the perspective of an ethnographer who ma…
Límites etnográficos
Los futuros de la etnografía están relacionados con cómo nos acercamos a los límites de la práctica etnográfica y de la disciplina antropológica. Dicho acercamiento se puede lograr al plantear nuevos tipos de preguntas y objetos de estudio, con una aproximación a lo que la ciencia a menudo ha dejado sin mirar o decir. También a través de innovaciones metodológicas, por medio de conectar técnicas para investigar relaciones sociales hasta ahora sep…
Locating European anthropology
This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is t…
Liminality and the Modern
Liminality is back. The unfinished legacy of the study of liminality is being reclaimed once again in order to explain contemporary states of indeterminacy. In two recent volumes, scholars utilise
Faceless control of public spaces
School Locations and Vacancies
A partial static competitive equilibrium theory is presented and the corresponding constrained logit model specified for a given scenario of policies, which yields the expected equilibrium locations, prices of schools, and students' school choices. Rational students differentiated by socioeconomic cluster demand vacancies at different schools after assessing the school quality, price, and transport costs. Students also interact among them by thei…
Transport and Land-Use Benefits under Location Externalities
Transport projects are economically assessed partly by estimating users' benefits in the transport system and by ignoring impacts on land use under the argument that these benefits are already incorporated into transport users' benefits. In this paper we discuss this argument from two main viewpoints: the level of percolation of transport benefits into land values and the presence of external economies in urban systems. We first propose and discu…
Medidas como precios y como instrumentos para la explotación
Las medidas del pasado constituyen uno de los problemas más espinosos de la historia económica y social don su énfasis cuantitativo. Anteriormente a la adopción del sistema métrico la multiplicidad y la vaguedad de las medidas tenían un carácter proverbial y prácticamente universal en todas partes del Mundo. No se trataba simplemente de la ausencia de patrones fijos y una diversidad impuesta por el aislamiento de uno que otro distrito. Detrás de …
The Bid-Choice Land-Use Model
Alonso's bid-rent theory and the discrete-choice random-utility theory appear in the literature as well-established alternative frameworks to model urban land use. As both approaches share the support of microeconomic theory, the main issue addressed in this paper is the theoretical comparison of the two approaches. It is demonstrated that in perfectly competitive land markets these approaches are equivalent, therefore they should be understood a…
Tomäs Salvador
Tomas Salvador (1921–1984) Tomas Salvador Espeso, the second of three brothers, was born in Villada, near Palencia, Spain, on March 9, 1921, in the Civil Guard residential quarters. His father, Serapio, and his mother, Pilar, hailed from nearby Grajal de Campos. When Salvador was eight years of age, his father, a Civil Guard, was posted to Madrid and the family settled in the Ventas del Espiritu Santo suburb. Salvador was educated at the Colegio …
Transport and Land-Use Benefits under Location Externalities
Transport projects are economically assessed partly by estimating users' benefits in the transport system and by ignoring impacts on land use under the argument that these benefits are already incorporated into transport users' benefits. In this paper we discuss this argument from two main viewpoints: the level of percolation of transport benefits into land values and the presence of external economies in urban systems. We first propose and discu…
Getting a joke
The Role of an Imitating Firm in a Dynamic Context
Se analizan los efectos de una empresa imitadora en el comportamiento de una empresa innovadora. La estructura del análisis usada es un modelo de duopolio dinámico de diferenciación de producto vertical, donde tanto el innovador como el imitador compiten simultáneamente en precio y calidad. Se obtiene, que cuando el mercado es pequeño, la presencia de un imitador estimula al innovador a aumentar su proceso de innovación, de modo que la entrada de…
Civil Society Theory
Community, Types of
Social sharing of emotion, post‐traumatic growth, and emotional climate
A questionnaire measuring social sharing of emotion, coping, intensity of emotions and rumination related to March 11th (2004) terrorist attacks in Madrid, emotional climate, social integration, and post‐traumatic growth was completed by 644 students and their relatives (38%) in 5 Spanish regions and 8 universities 1 week, 3 weeks, and 8 weeks after the terrorist act. Results supported a two‐sided model of the effects of social sharing of emotion…
Bolonia, una oportunidad para el derecho deportivo
El nuevo panorama universitario, adaptado al Plan de Bolonia, ha exigido una revisin de estudios de larga tradicin como son los de Derecho y este momento ha permitido implantar unos nuevos planes en los que el Derecho del deporte tiene un espacio. Este estudio razona sobre la importancia de esta materia por la consideracin de su contenido interdisciplinar, que ejercita en la visin unitaria del Ordenamiento, y por la realidad tan universal que aco…
Neo-liberal restructuring and the poultry industry in Mexico. The north moves south and the south moves north
School Locations and Vacancies
A partial static competitive equilibrium theory is presented and the corresponding constrained logit model specified for a given scenario of policies, which yields the expected equilibrium locations, prices of schools, and students' school choices. Rational students differentiated by socioeconomic cluster demand vacancies at different schools after assessing the school quality, price, and transport costs. Students also interact among them by thei…
Twenty Years of Interdisciplinary Studies
Vázquez, C., C. Aguilar, H. Benet, R. Carmona, T. De la Vega, H. Espinosa, M. Flores, P. Franco, I. Frias, J. Guzmán, A. Hernández, A. Licona, F. Martínez, A. Maymes, M. Mondragón, T. Montano, L. Ojeda, A. Ríos, E. Rochín, L. Rodríguez, N. Rodríguez, R. Romero, F. Solís, S. Valdés, and I. Velázquez. 2011. Twenty years of interdisciplinary studies of the “MEZA” program’s contributions to society, ecology, and the education of postgraduate students…
Estimation of a constrained multinomial logit model
Faceless control of public spaces
The use of space–time constraints for the selection of discretionary activity locations
On the Peripheral Character of Russia
This article argues that space is one of the formative elements in the construction of Russianness and explores how the occupation of the territory shaped the development of the country. Drawing on examples, I argue that 1. Russia can be presented as a conglomerate of marginalities – a centre and a periphery in itself. 2. Russian peripheries are not just plural, but also orientated towards different directions. The core deploys therefore a centri…
The Invisible City
With this article I intend to contribute to the debate about how to study urban life. Firstly, I argue for the relevance of invisible and silent aspects of cities and inbetween sutures, which I understand to mean a third 'something' beyond forms and flows. Secondly, I explore several examples and draw on arguments from Wittgenstein and Lefebvre to frame this hypothesis. Thirdly, I use the chess game as a metaphor to illustrate the multiplicity an…
A time-hierarchical microeconomic model of activities
Liminality and the Modern
Liminality is back. The unfinished legacy of the study of liminality is being reclaimed once again in order to explain contemporary states of indeterminacy. In two recent volumes, scholars utilise
Pre-service elementary school teachers' expectations about student performance
Análisis macroeconómico de los efectos de la liberalización financiera y comercial sobre el crecimiento económico de México, 1988-2011
Este artículo analiza cuáles han sido los principales obstáculos para el crecimiento económico de México durante los últimos veinticinco años, con particular énfasis en el periodo posterior a la entrada en vigor del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (tlcan). Si bien la política económica mexicana desde 1982 se ha guiado por una serie de suposiciones y disposiciones conocidas como el Consenso de Washington, estas políticas en lugar de…
Tallinn as a City of Thresholds
This article examines post-socialist transformations by studying material traces and gaps in the Estonian capital. The need for sutures is presented as the consequence of a state of collective liminality, here manifested in the juxtaposition of unfinished projects and in threshold experiences in Tallinn. Relying on empirical examples, literature, architecture, and visual signs, I explore the lack of contextual fit, saturation, and redundancy in t…
Trespass into the Liminal
This article outlines narratives of trespass. It analyses relations between the personal and the social in abandoned urban physical surroundings. Grounded in our own duo-auto-ethnographic encounters with off-limit places, the research examines the classic notion of liminality through a set of prisms that are less than orthodox. It does so by stressing the formative and transformative possibilities of those threshold spaces that often get bypassed…
Residential relocation dynamics
This article develops a mathematical model for residential location choice in which previous experience is considered via a dynamic learning process and each agent evaluates location decisions according to their utility. Agents’ idiosyncratic behavior is modeled, assuming a stochastic willingness to pay based on dwelling and neighborhood attributes and households’ socioeconomics. Additionally, the willingness to pay is affected by the agent’s exp…
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