Aurelio Castro Varela
Biographic Data
| ID | 6556123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aurelio Castro Varela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aurelio Castro |
| FAMILY NAME | Varela |
| SIGNATURE | VARELA A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9490-5972 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Atmospheric approaches to mobile media
Drawing on Celia Lury’s methodological concept of problem spaces, which highlights how conceptual frameworks shape the constitution of problems, this article critically argues that current education research on youth–smartphone relations is limited by the problem formulations it inherits from current policy. These formulations predominantly focus on behaviour, attention, well-being, and academic performance, producing a risk/benefit discourse tha…
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City
Infrastructuring” Pleasure
Montjuïc is a long flat-topped hill overlooking the harbor of Barcelona from the southeast border of the city. From 1915 onwards, it underwent a profound transformation turning it into the site of the 1929 International Exhibition. This article revolves around this turning point, examining the aesthetic role of infrastructures in delivering pleasure on the hill before and during the dazzling, monumental display that characterized the event. The s…
When the map shakes up the territory. Researching teachers’ learning through a non-representational cartographic approach
In this article, I consider how cartographies have become a onto-methodological approach that seeks to produce, rather than represent, the world that they are enacting. Going beyond Alfred Korzybski’s famous axiom that ‘the map is not the territory,’ my point is that the map can shake up the territory. This shift is discussed in relation to the post-qualitative research project How Teachers Learn: Educational Implications and Challenges for Addre…
Going researcher’ in the Occupy Poble Sec Cinema Forum
This paper discusses the main aspects of an ethnographic approach to the Occupy Poble Sec Cinema Forum in Barcelona, Spain, and the difficulties of using participant observation, in which vision is still dominant, in this setting. The methodological challenge stemmed from the ‘native’ position of the researcher – a member of the Forum’s organising group – and the sensory nature of the case study, which displaced the pre-eminence of visual inquiry…
Infrastructuring” Pleasure
Montjuïc is a long flat-topped hill overlooking the harbor of Barcelona from the southeast border of the city. From 1915 onwards, it underwent a profound transformation turning it into the site of the 1929 International Exhibition. This article revolves around this turning point, examining the aesthetic role of infrastructures in delivering pleasure on the hill before and during the dazzling, monumental display that characterized the event. The s…
When the map shakes up the territory. Researching teachers’ learning through a non-representational cartographic approach
In this article, I consider how cartographies have become a onto-methodological approach that seeks to produce, rather than represent, the world that they are enacting. Going beyond Alfred Korzybski’s famous axiom that ‘the map is not the territory,’ my point is that the map can shake up the territory. This shift is discussed in relation to the post-qualitative research project How Teachers Learn: Educational Implications and Challenges for Addre…
Going researcher’ in the Occupy Poble Sec Cinema Forum
This paper discusses the main aspects of an ethnographic approach to the Occupy Poble Sec Cinema Forum in Barcelona, Spain, and the difficulties of using participant observation, in which vision is still dominant, in this setting. The methodological challenge stemmed from the ‘native’ position of the researcher – a member of the Forum’s organising group – and the sensory nature of the case study, which displaced the pre-eminence of visual inquiry…
Going researcher’ in the Occupy Poble Sec Cinema Forum
This paper discusses the main aspects of an ethnographic approach to the Occupy Poble Sec Cinema Forum in Barcelona, Spain, and the difficulties of using participant observation, in which vision is still dominant, in this setting. The methodological challenge stemmed from the ‘native’ position of the researcher – a member of the Forum’s organising group – and the sensory nature of the case study, which displaced the pre-eminence of visual inquiry…
When the map shakes up the territory. Researching teachers’ learning through a non-representational cartographic approach
In this article, I consider how cartographies have become a onto-methodological approach that seeks to produce, rather than represent, the world that they are enacting. Going beyond Alfred Korzybski’s famous axiom that ‘the map is not the territory,’ my point is that the map can shake up the territory. This shift is discussed in relation to the post-qualitative research project How Teachers Learn: Educational Implications and Challenges for Addre…
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City
Infrastructuring” Pleasure
Montjuïc is a long flat-topped hill overlooking the harbor of Barcelona from the southeast border of the city. From 1915 onwards, it underwent a profound transformation turning it into the site of the 1929 International Exhibition. This article revolves around this turning point, examining the aesthetic role of infrastructures in delivering pleasure on the hill before and during the dazzling, monumental display that characterized the event. The s…
Atmospheric approaches to mobile media
Drawing on Celia Lury’s methodological concept of problem spaces, which highlights how conceptual frameworks shape the constitution of problems, this article critically argues that current education research on youth–smartphone relations is limited by the problem formulations it inherits from current policy. These formulations predominantly focus on behaviour, attention, well-being, and academic performance, producing a risk/benefit discourse tha…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Event (particle physics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)