José Julián López
Biographic Data
| ID | 376474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Julián López |
| GIVEN NAMES | José Julián |
| FAMILY NAME | López |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5264-6212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The politics of sight and bearing witness to animal suffering
Bearing witness is a strategy used by both Human and Animal rights activists. For Animal Justice Citizen Activists (AJCAs), bearing witness is linked to a politics of sight enacted through farm occupation. This article draws on previous analyses of the Canadian context: text media coverage of four farm occupations, two provincial ag-gag laws, and in-depth interviews with AJCAs. Using Kurasawa’s critical substantive approach, we conceptualize this…
A hermeneutic dialogical understanding of data reuse across different access regimes
Policy and scholarly discourse emphasizing the panacea of Open (research) Data shapes expectations, and directs and legitimizes investments in data technologies and infrastructures. This is driven by the hope that Open Data will quicken the pace of research and innovation through data reuse, and that they do so more effectively than other access regimes, such as stewarded and proprietary data. Drawing on Leonelli's relational framework and Gadame…
Caracterización de las solicitudes de importación de medicamentos vitales no disponibles años 2016 y 2017 en Colombia
En este estudio se analizaron las solicitudes de importación de Medicamentos vitales no disponibles (MVND) presentadas al INVIMA y los registros de solicitudes de recobros presentados en la ADRES por MVND, en el periodo 2016-2017. De las 2321 solicitudes de importación de MVND, el 76% fueron autorizadas. Se identificaron 88 solicitantes, 73 subgrupos terapéuticos y 195 principios activos, así como 368 diagnósticos. El 66% de los pacientes registr…
Interrupting the Human Rights Expansion Narrative
In the growing field of the sociology of human rights, the notion that human rights might best be understood as the expansion and/or supersession of citizenship rights has taken root, as has the more generalized taken for granted 'backstories' to the effect that human rights are the product of a unique postwar consensus. In this article, I argue that these assumptions are more encumbrance than assistance when it comes time to sociologically grasp…
Judicialization of access to medicines in four Latin American countries
The results suggest that applying the adopted theoretical model creates the possibility of identifying critical points to guide policy makers to improve the health systems performances and to control lawsuits for access to medicines
The Human Right to Food as Political Imaginary
The overwhelmingly normative nature of the study of Economic, Social, and Cultural (ESC) human rights enablesESCrights to function in their default settings as taken for granted norms and principles, originating in international agreements. This paper, instead, probes the social and historical "thingness" ofESChuman rights themselves. It analyses the emergence of the Human Right to Food (HRF), and proposes a sociological model, political imaginar…
Towards a theoretical model on medicines as a health need
Nanomedicine and personalised medicine
Globally supported by public policy and investment, nanomedicine is presented as an ongoing medical revolution that will radically change the practice of health care from diagnostic to therapeutic, and everything in between. One of nanomedicine's major promises is that of personalised medicine, enabling diagnostics and therapeutics tailored to individual needs and developing a truly ‘patient‐friendly’ medical approach. Based on qualitative interv…
Elsification in Canada
ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) initiatives are frequently attached to major science programmes. The expectation is that ELSI research will produce a practical advanced assessment of the impacts of technological development. Williams' overview of the field demonstrates that this encourages a mechanistic understanding of technological development leading to compressed foresight, i.e. the notion that the future is imminent in the pres…
Par-delà l’éthique
Nous sommes confrontés à une véritable explosion des discours éthiques : les diverses éthiques professionnelles, l’éthique des affaires, de la bioéthique, la consommation éthique ou responsable, la réglementation éthique, l’investissement éthique, l’éthique individuelle, l’épargne éthique, le tourisme éthique, etc. Paradoxalement, la sociologie contemporaine n’a guère les outils pour déchiffrer le comment et le pourquoi de l’essor de ces discours…
Movement as utopia
Opposition to utopianism on ontological and political grounds has seemingly relegated it to a potentially dangerous form of antiquated idealism. This conclusion is based on a restrictive view of utopia as excessively ordered panoptic discursive constructions. This overlooks the fact that, from its inception, movement has been central to the utopian tradition. The power of utopianism indeed resides in its ability to instantiate the tension between…
Margaret S. Archer, Making our Way through the World
Nanotechnology
It is argued that the legitimacy of an emergent technology, such as nanotechnology, depends on its ability to develop a narrative that mobilises and integrates a number of pre‐existing narrative scripts. In the case of nanotechnology, especially in its NBIC variant (i.e. the convergence of Nano, Bio, Information technology and the Cognitive sciences), the narrative types include science as transcendence, risk, hype, social accountability, ELSI (E…
Ethics or Politics
Notes on Metaphors, Notes as Metaphors
This article is a contribution to the growing body of work that has emphasized the need to develop a theoretical framework capable of exploring metaphorical communication as a social rather than just as a cognitive process. The author draws attention to some of the social dynamics through which the inherent poly-valence of metaphors becomes stabilized, though never entirely neutralized. Specifically, he highlights the ways in which context, pract…
How sociology can save bioethics . . . maybe
This paper argues for the importance of a broad sociological engagement with bioethics. It begins by considering why sociologists should be interested in bioethics and then goes on to explore the cognitive critique of bioethics developed by ethnographers. Some of these authors have also suggested that a more robust bioethics might emerge through the incorporation of the tools of ethnographic analysis. In this paper, it is argued that this is an i…
The Human Right to Food as Political Imaginary
The overwhelmingly normative nature of the study of Economic, Social, and Cultural (ESC) human rights enablesESCrights to function in their default settings as taken for granted norms and principles, originating in international agreements. This paper, instead, probes the social and historical "thingness" ofESChuman rights themselves. It analyses the emergence of the Human Right to Food (HRF), and proposes a sociological model, political imaginar…
Movement as utopia
Opposition to utopianism on ontological and political grounds has seemingly relegated it to a potentially dangerous form of antiquated idealism. This conclusion is based on a restrictive view of utopia as excessively ordered panoptic discursive constructions. This overlooks the fact that, from its inception, movement has been central to the utopian tradition. The power of utopianism indeed resides in its ability to instantiate the tension between…
Nanomedicine and personalised medicine
Globally supported by public policy and investment, nanomedicine is presented as an ongoing medical revolution that will radically change the practice of health care from diagnostic to therapeutic, and everything in between. One of nanomedicine's major promises is that of personalised medicine, enabling diagnostics and therapeutics tailored to individual needs and developing a truly ‘patient‐friendly’ medical approach. Based on qualitative interv…
Elsification in Canada
ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) initiatives are frequently attached to major science programmes. The expectation is that ELSI research will produce a practical advanced assessment of the impacts of technological development. Williams' overview of the field demonstrates that this encourages a mechanistic understanding of technological development leading to compressed foresight, i.e. the notion that the future is imminent in the pres…
Notes on Metaphors, Notes as Metaphors
This article is a contribution to the growing body of work that has emphasized the need to develop a theoretical framework capable of exploring metaphorical communication as a social rather than just as a cognitive process. The author draws attention to some of the social dynamics through which the inherent poly-valence of metaphors becomes stabilized, though never entirely neutralized. Specifically, he highlights the ways in which context, pract…
Towards a theoretical model on medicines as a health need
Margaret S. Archer, Making our Way through the World
Nanotechnology
It is argued that the legitimacy of an emergent technology, such as nanotechnology, depends on its ability to develop a narrative that mobilises and integrates a number of pre‐existing narrative scripts. In the case of nanotechnology, especially in its NBIC variant (i.e. the convergence of Nano, Bio, Information technology and the Cognitive sciences), the narrative types include science as transcendence, risk, hype, social accountability, ELSI (E…
How sociology can save bioethics . . . maybe
This paper argues for the importance of a broad sociological engagement with bioethics. It begins by considering why sociologists should be interested in bioethics and then goes on to explore the cognitive critique of bioethics developed by ethnographers. Some of these authors have also suggested that a more robust bioethics might emerge through the incorporation of the tools of ethnographic analysis. In this paper, it is argued that this is an i…
Ethics or Politics
Notes on Metaphors, Notes as Metaphors
This article is a contribution to the growing body of work that has emphasized the need to develop a theoretical framework capable of exploring metaphorical communication as a social rather than just as a cognitive process. The author draws attention to some of the social dynamics through which the inherent poly-valence of metaphors becomes stabilized, though never entirely neutralized. Specifically, he highlights the ways in which context, pract…
Nanotechnology
It is argued that the legitimacy of an emergent technology, such as nanotechnology, depends on its ability to develop a narrative that mobilises and integrates a number of pre‐existing narrative scripts. In the case of nanotechnology, especially in its NBIC variant (i.e. the convergence of Nano, Bio, Information technology and the Cognitive sciences), the narrative types include science as transcendence, risk, hype, social accountability, ELSI (E…
Movement as utopia
Opposition to utopianism on ontological and political grounds has seemingly relegated it to a potentially dangerous form of antiquated idealism. This conclusion is based on a restrictive view of utopia as excessively ordered panoptic discursive constructions. This overlooks the fact that, from its inception, movement has been central to the utopian tradition. The power of utopianism indeed resides in its ability to instantiate the tension between…
Margaret S. Archer, Making our Way through the World
Par-delà l’éthique
Nous sommes confrontés à une véritable explosion des discours éthiques : les diverses éthiques professionnelles, l’éthique des affaires, de la bioéthique, la consommation éthique ou responsable, la réglementation éthique, l’investissement éthique, l’éthique individuelle, l’épargne éthique, le tourisme éthique, etc. Paradoxalement, la sociologie contemporaine n’a guère les outils pour déchiffrer le comment et le pourquoi de l’essor de ces discours…
Elsification in Canada
ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) initiatives are frequently attached to major science programmes. The expectation is that ELSI research will produce a practical advanced assessment of the impacts of technological development. Williams' overview of the field demonstrates that this encourages a mechanistic understanding of technological development leading to compressed foresight, i.e. the notion that the future is imminent in the pres…
Nanomedicine and personalised medicine
Globally supported by public policy and investment, nanomedicine is presented as an ongoing medical revolution that will radically change the practice of health care from diagnostic to therapeutic, and everything in between. One of nanomedicine's major promises is that of personalised medicine, enabling diagnostics and therapeutics tailored to individual needs and developing a truly ‘patient‐friendly’ medical approach. Based on qualitative interv…
The Human Right to Food as Political Imaginary
The overwhelmingly normative nature of the study of Economic, Social, and Cultural (ESC) human rights enablesESCrights to function in their default settings as taken for granted norms and principles, originating in international agreements. This paper, instead, probes the social and historical "thingness" ofESChuman rights themselves. It analyses the emergence of the Human Right to Food (HRF), and proposes a sociological model, political imaginar…
Towards a theoretical model on medicines as a health need
Judicialization of access to medicines in four Latin American countries
The results suggest that applying the adopted theoretical model creates the possibility of identifying critical points to guide policy makers to improve the health systems performances and to control lawsuits for access to medicines
Interrupting the Human Rights Expansion Narrative
In the growing field of the sociology of human rights, the notion that human rights might best be understood as the expansion and/or supersession of citizenship rights has taken root, as has the more generalized taken for granted 'backstories' to the effect that human rights are the product of a unique postwar consensus. In this article, I argue that these assumptions are more encumbrance than assistance when it comes time to sociologically grasp…
Caracterización de las solicitudes de importación de medicamentos vitales no disponibles años 2016 y 2017 en Colombia
En este estudio se analizaron las solicitudes de importación de Medicamentos vitales no disponibles (MVND) presentadas al INVIMA y los registros de solicitudes de recobros presentados en la ADRES por MVND, en el periodo 2016-2017. De las 2321 solicitudes de importación de MVND, el 76% fueron autorizadas. Se identificaron 88 solicitantes, 73 subgrupos terapéuticos y 195 principios activos, así como 368 diagnósticos. El 66% de los pacientes registr…
A hermeneutic dialogical understanding of data reuse across different access regimes
Policy and scholarly discourse emphasizing the panacea of Open (research) Data shapes expectations, and directs and legitimizes investments in data technologies and infrastructures. This is driven by the hope that Open Data will quicken the pace of research and innovation through data reuse, and that they do so more effectively than other access regimes, such as stewarded and proprietary data. Drawing on Leonelli's relational framework and Gadame…
The politics of sight and bearing witness to animal suffering
Bearing witness is a strategy used by both Human and Animal rights activists. For Animal Justice Citizen Activists (AJCAs), bearing witness is linked to a politics of sight enacted through farm occupation. This article draws on previous analyses of the Canadian context: text media coverage of four farm occupations, two provincial ag-gag laws, and in-depth interviews with AJCAs. Using Kurasawa’s critical substantive approach, we conceptualize this…
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