Isaac Marrero-Guillamón
Biographic Data
| ID | 74611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac Marrero-Guillamón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac |
| FAMILY NAME | Marrero-Guillamón |
| SIGNATURE | MARRERO-GUILLAMÓN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7888-3769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The future of the past: Barcelona’s Rec Comtal
La promesa multimodal: Hacia Una Política Del Encuentro Etnográfico
The ongoing debate on multimodal anthropology has created a vital disciplinary space for reflection, exchange, and experimentation. Within these discussions, the diversification of ethnographic fieldwork methods-alongside innovative ways of presenting research findings, such as exhibitions, audiovisual pieces, theater performances, board games, digital interfaces, drawings, graphic novels, radio dramas, and video clips-has been closely tied to th…
Etno-especulación: Etnografía en Modo Subjuntivo
Inspirado por la etnoficción de Jean Rouch y el diseño especulativo, este ensayo propone el concepto de etno-especulación para definir el uso de métodos especulativos en la investigación etnográfica. Se conceptualiza como una práctica colaborativa orientada a la producción de escenarios alternativos y la escritura de ficciones especulativas a partir de materiales y relaciones etnográficas. La propuesta se fundamenta en la discusión de una experie…
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura
Since the mid-1990s, the mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain) has been in limbo. Despite being listed as a Natural and Cultural Asset by virtue of its environmental singularity and indigenous engravings, the conservation plans have never been implemented. Instead, the state institutions designated it as the location for artist Eduardo Chillida's Monument to Tolerance (a huge, bare cubic cave to be dug in its interior) - a co…
Pedagogies of the Senses Multimodal Strategies for Unsettling Visual Anthropology
Drawing from our experiences teaching the subdiscipline of visual anthropology, we coin the term pedagogies of the senses to refer to a series of teaching strategies aimed at unsettling anthropology's visual archive through sonic displacements, figure–background reversals, and redactions. We argue for an attention to how experiments with the senses in the visual anthropology classroom have the capacity to actively interrupt colonial visual regime…
More than a mountain: The contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) has been surrounded by controversy since the mid-1990s. It is, at once, a listed indigenous site, a protected natural environment, a mining resource, and the designated location of a monumental intervention by artist Eduardo Chillida, consisting in digging a grand cubic cave in its interior. This article conceptualizes Tindaya as a contentious multiplicity and analyses the mountain's competi…
Reassembling Activism, Activating Assemblages
Monumental Suspension: Art, Infrastructure, and Eduardo Chillida’s Unbuilt Monument to Tolerance
More than 25 years after it was unveiled, Eduardo Chillida’s Monument to Tolerance has been neither built nor abandoned—it is, rather, suspended. From the outset, the project, which consists in digging a vast cubic cave inside the mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands), has faced the opposition of environmental activists, who argue that it is incompatible with the mountain’s status as a protected site. Drawing from anthropological ap…
Down to earth social movements: An interview with Bruno Latour
Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate Regime. Latour discusses the need for breaking with the modernist framework that set the stage for the environmental crisis in the first place, and which has also hindered the capacity of social movements to affect …
Introduction: Multimodal Anthropology and the Politics of Invention
This essay and the articles included in this special issue theorize the possibilitiesand pitfallsthat emerge as anthropologists utilise a combination of audio, video, text, still images, performance methodologies, and web platforms to iteratively, collaboratively, and sensually generate relations with research participants, interdisciplinary colleagues and beyond.We are not necessarily interested in developing multimedia approaches to representin…
Making Fieldwork Public: Repurposing Ethnography as a Hosting Platform in Hackney Wick, London
Reassembling activism, activating assemblages: An Introduction
This introductory essay conceptually situates the dialogue between Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and Social Movement Studies that this special issue aims to foster. Rather than considering ANT as a theory in the classic sense, we define it as a theoretical sensibility open to permanently redrawing its own shape in response to the relational entanglements it studies. ANT and its sibling, assemblage theory, have allowed scholars to attend to the compl…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Non-Representation: Re-Imagining Ethnographic Cinema with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
This article argues that the work of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul offers conceptual and methodological tools that may contribute to the re-imagination of ethnographic cinema beyond representation. Weerasethakul’s films emerge out of a para-ethnographic engagement with people and places, rely on participatory methods and operate as hosting devices for a multiplicity of subaltern beings and stories. They enact an inventive and often ani…
Objetos textuales y dispositivos colaborativos: De la etnografía como plataforma pública
Este artículo traza el inesperado devenir colaborativo acontecido en el transcurso de una investigación etnográfica en Hackney Wick (Londres) en torno al rol del arte en la crítica a la transformación urbana asociada a los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012. El descarrilamiento de lo que debía haber sido un ejercicio clásico de trabajo de campo condujo a una reformulación del ejercicio etnográfico como dispositivo colaborativo orientado a la produc…
Monadology and ethnography: Towards a Tardian monadic ethnography
This article outlines the project of a 'monadic ethnography' based on Gabriel Tarde's monadology. Tarde's key contention is that 'everything is a society', i.e. that the world is made up of composite and relational entities of infinitesimal complexity called monads. These assemblages of heterogeneous elements engaged in relations of mutual possession constitute the object of study of 'monadic ethnography'. Their analysis, in turn, has a series of…
Actor-Network Theory, Gabriel Tarde and the Study of an Urban Social Movement: The Case of Can Ricart, Barcelona
Photography against the Olympic spectacle
This article sets the official images of the transformation of East London for the 2012 Olympics against two independent documentary photography projects, Alessandra Chilá's Olympian Visions and Chris Dorley-Brown's Decisive Moments. The first section analyses the Olympic Delivery Authority's computer-generated images as acts of political imagination and in terms of the production of consensus. The work of Chilá and Dorley-Brown is then presented…
Descentrar el sujeto. Erving Goffman y la teorización del sujeto
Este artículo agrupa y ordena las aportaciones de Erving Goffman y la sociología situacional-interaccionista a la reflexión en torno al sujeto. En concreto, aborda el impacto que esta perspectiva tiene en la concepción moderna del sujeto y su contribución a una teorización relacional del mismo. El origen interactivo del sujeto, su multiplicidad constituyente y la importancia de las relaciones superficiales en su configuración como ente social ser…
Luces y sombras. El compromiso en la etnografía
Cómo defender Hoy que la tarea primordial de la etnografía es acercarse más a la realidad? ¿Cómo combinar una conciencia posestructuralista con el intento de describir y explicar un mundo "ahí fuera"? ¿Qué sentido tiene una etnografía que no aspire a la transformación de la realidad? Estas son algunas de las cuestiones que este artículo aborda, retomando el debate entre naturalismo y realismo planteado por Manuel Delgado (2003) en esta misma Revi…
Introduction: Multimodal Anthropology and the Politics of Invention
This essay and the articles included in this special issue theorize the possibilitiesand pitfallsthat emerge as anthropologists utilise a combination of audio, video, text, still images, performance methodologies, and web platforms to iteratively, collaboratively, and sensually generate relations with research participants, interdisciplinary colleagues and beyond.We are not necessarily interested in developing multimedia approaches to representin…
Down to earth social movements: An interview with Bruno Latour
Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate Regime. Latour discusses the need for breaking with the modernist framework that set the stage for the environmental crisis in the first place, and which has also hindered the capacity of social movements to affect …
Reassembling activism, activating assemblages: An Introduction
This introductory essay conceptually situates the dialogue between Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and Social Movement Studies that this special issue aims to foster. Rather than considering ANT as a theory in the classic sense, we define it as a theoretical sensibility open to permanently redrawing its own shape in response to the relational entanglements it studies. ANT and its sibling, assemblage theory, have allowed scholars to attend to the compl…
Pedagogies of the Senses Multimodal Strategies for Unsettling Visual Anthropology
Drawing from our experiences teaching the subdiscipline of visual anthropology, we coin the term pedagogies of the senses to refer to a series of teaching strategies aimed at unsettling anthropology's visual archive through sonic displacements, figure–background reversals, and redactions. We argue for an attention to how experiments with the senses in the visual anthropology classroom have the capacity to actively interrupt colonial visual regime…
Actor-Network Theory, Gabriel Tarde and the Study of an Urban Social Movement: The Case of Can Ricart, Barcelona
The Politics and Aesthetics of Non-Representation: Re-Imagining Ethnographic Cinema with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
This article argues that the work of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul offers conceptual and methodological tools that may contribute to the re-imagination of ethnographic cinema beyond representation. Weerasethakul’s films emerge out of a para-ethnographic engagement with people and places, rely on participatory methods and operate as hosting devices for a multiplicity of subaltern beings and stories. They enact an inventive and often ani…
Monadology and ethnography: Towards a Tardian monadic ethnography
This article outlines the project of a 'monadic ethnography' based on Gabriel Tarde's monadology. Tarde's key contention is that 'everything is a society', i.e. that the world is made up of composite and relational entities of infinitesimal complexity called monads. These assemblages of heterogeneous elements engaged in relations of mutual possession constitute the object of study of 'monadic ethnography'. Their analysis, in turn, has a series of…
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura
Since the mid-1990s, the mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain) has been in limbo. Despite being listed as a Natural and Cultural Asset by virtue of its environmental singularity and indigenous engravings, the conservation plans have never been implemented. Instead, the state institutions designated it as the location for artist Eduardo Chillida's Monument to Tolerance (a huge, bare cubic cave to be dug in its interior) - a co…
More than a mountain: The contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) has been surrounded by controversy since the mid-1990s. It is, at once, a listed indigenous site, a protected natural environment, a mining resource, and the designated location of a monumental intervention by artist Eduardo Chillida, consisting in digging a grand cubic cave in its interior. This article conceptualizes Tindaya as a contentious multiplicity and analyses the mountain's competi…
Luces y sombras. El compromiso en la etnografía
Cómo defender Hoy que la tarea primordial de la etnografía es acercarse más a la realidad? ¿Cómo combinar una conciencia posestructuralista con el intento de describir y explicar un mundo "ahí fuera"? ¿Qué sentido tiene una etnografía que no aspire a la transformación de la realidad? Estas son algunas de las cuestiones que este artículo aborda, retomando el debate entre naturalismo y realismo planteado por Manuel Delgado (2003) en esta misma Revi…
Descentrar el sujeto. Erving Goffman y la teorización del sujeto
Este artículo agrupa y ordena las aportaciones de Erving Goffman y la sociología situacional-interaccionista a la reflexión en torno al sujeto. En concreto, aborda el impacto que esta perspectiva tiene en la concepción moderna del sujeto y su contribución a una teorización relacional del mismo. El origen interactivo del sujeto, su multiplicidad constituyente y la importancia de las relaciones superficiales en su configuración como ente social ser…
Photography against the Olympic spectacle
This article sets the official images of the transformation of East London for the 2012 Olympics against two independent documentary photography projects, Alessandra Chilá's Olympian Visions and Chris Dorley-Brown's Decisive Moments. The first section analyses the Olympic Delivery Authority's computer-generated images as acts of political imagination and in terms of the production of consensus. The work of Chilá and Dorley-Brown is then presented…
Actor-Network Theory, Gabriel Tarde and the Study of an Urban Social Movement: The Case of Can Ricart, Barcelona
Monadology and ethnography: Towards a Tardian monadic ethnography
This article outlines the project of a 'monadic ethnography' based on Gabriel Tarde's monadology. Tarde's key contention is that 'everything is a society', i.e. that the world is made up of composite and relational entities of infinitesimal complexity called monads. These assemblages of heterogeneous elements engaged in relations of mutual possession constitute the object of study of 'monadic ethnography'. Their analysis, in turn, has a series of…
Objetos textuales y dispositivos colaborativos: De la etnografía como plataforma pública
Este artículo traza el inesperado devenir colaborativo acontecido en el transcurso de una investigación etnográfica en Hackney Wick (Londres) en torno al rol del arte en la crítica a la transformación urbana asociada a los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012. El descarrilamiento de lo que debía haber sido un ejercicio clásico de trabajo de campo condujo a una reformulación del ejercicio etnográfico como dispositivo colaborativo orientado a la produc…
Making Fieldwork Public: Repurposing Ethnography as a Hosting Platform in Hackney Wick, London
Reassembling activism, activating assemblages: An Introduction
This introductory essay conceptually situates the dialogue between Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and Social Movement Studies that this special issue aims to foster. Rather than considering ANT as a theory in the classic sense, we define it as a theoretical sensibility open to permanently redrawing its own shape in response to the relational entanglements it studies. ANT and its sibling, assemblage theory, have allowed scholars to attend to the compl…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Non-Representation: Re-Imagining Ethnographic Cinema with Apichatpong Weerasethakul
This article argues that the work of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul offers conceptual and methodological tools that may contribute to the re-imagination of ethnographic cinema beyond representation. Weerasethakul’s films emerge out of a para-ethnographic engagement with people and places, rely on participatory methods and operate as hosting devices for a multiplicity of subaltern beings and stories. They enact an inventive and often ani…
Introduction: Multimodal Anthropology and the Politics of Invention
This essay and the articles included in this special issue theorize the possibilitiesand pitfallsthat emerge as anthropologists utilise a combination of audio, video, text, still images, performance methodologies, and web platforms to iteratively, collaboratively, and sensually generate relations with research participants, interdisciplinary colleagues and beyond.We are not necessarily interested in developing multimedia approaches to representin…
Reassembling Activism, Activating Assemblages
Monumental Suspension: Art, Infrastructure, and Eduardo Chillida’s Unbuilt Monument to Tolerance
More than 25 years after it was unveiled, Eduardo Chillida’s Monument to Tolerance has been neither built nor abandoned—it is, rather, suspended. From the outset, the project, which consists in digging a vast cubic cave inside the mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands), has faced the opposition of environmental activists, who argue that it is incompatible with the mountain’s status as a protected site. Drawing from anthropological ap…
Down to earth social movements: An interview with Bruno Latour
Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate Regime. Latour discusses the need for breaking with the modernist framework that set the stage for the environmental crisis in the first place, and which has also hindered the capacity of social movements to affect …
Pedagogies of the Senses Multimodal Strategies for Unsettling Visual Anthropology
Drawing from our experiences teaching the subdiscipline of visual anthropology, we coin the term pedagogies of the senses to refer to a series of teaching strategies aimed at unsettling anthropology's visual archive through sonic displacements, figure–background reversals, and redactions. We argue for an attention to how experiments with the senses in the visual anthropology classroom have the capacity to actively interrupt colonial visual regime…
More than a mountain: The contentious multiplicity of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) has been surrounded by controversy since the mid-1990s. It is, at once, a listed indigenous site, a protected natural environment, a mining resource, and the designated location of a monumental intervention by artist Eduardo Chillida, consisting in digging a grand cubic cave in its interior. This article conceptualizes Tindaya as a contentious multiplicity and analyses the mountain's competi…
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura
Since the mid-1990s, the mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain) has been in limbo. Despite being listed as a Natural and Cultural Asset by virtue of its environmental singularity and indigenous engravings, the conservation plans have never been implemented. Instead, the state institutions designated it as the location for artist Eduardo Chillida's Monument to Tolerance (a huge, bare cubic cave to be dug in its interior) - a co…
Etno-especulación: Etnografía en Modo Subjuntivo
Inspirado por la etnoficción de Jean Rouch y el diseño especulativo, este ensayo propone el concepto de etno-especulación para definir el uso de métodos especulativos en la investigación etnográfica. Se conceptualiza como una práctica colaborativa orientada a la producción de escenarios alternativos y la escritura de ficciones especulativas a partir de materiales y relaciones etnográficas. La propuesta se fundamenta en la discusión de una experie…
The future of the past: Barcelona’s Rec Comtal
La promesa multimodal: Hacia Una Política Del Encuentro Etnográfico
The ongoing debate on multimodal anthropology has created a vital disciplinary space for reflection, exchange, and experimentation. Within these discussions, the diversification of ethnographic fieldwork methods-alongside innovative ways of presenting research findings, such as exhibitions, audiovisual pieces, theater performances, board games, digital interfaces, drawings, graphic novels, radio dramas, and video clips-has been closely tied to th…
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