Violeta Argudo-Portal
Biographic Data
| ID | 902147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Violeta Argudo-Portal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Violeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Argudo-Portal |
| SIGNATURE | ARGUDO-PORTAL V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6057-2559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anticipatory images: Visual depictions of the not-yet and the politics of temporality
Images and anticipatory logic are intertwined. Humans have granted images the power to visually anticipate the future, which is traceable to the Palaeolithic but newly intensified in contemporary digital visual culture and platform economy. In this crosscurrent piece, we seek to interrogate the enduring and evolving nexus between images and anticipatory imaginaries and technologies, foregrounding what we refer to as anticipatory images : visual d…
A perfect match: Expanded carrier screening in Spain's gamete economy
This article examines how expanded carrier screening (ECS) – a genomic test based on whole-genome sequencing – has been integrated into Spain’s assisted reproductive technology sector. Marketed as a tool to enhance reproductive safety and personalization, ECS has become increasingly routinized within third-party gamete in vitro fertilization (IVF) through its use in genetic matching (GM), a technique that identifies shared genetic risks between d…
Storing Life in Public Hands: The Problem of Unfulfilled Mobiles in Biobanking
Fresh or Thawed T Cells: How Modes of Bioavailability Matter in the Study of Translational Medicine
This article explores how cell immunotherapy becomes deliverable at the in-betweens of the bench, bedside, and community in translational medicine. During ethnographic research in an advanced cell therapies unit, I observed how the staff made virus-specific T cells available for therapeutic use. In dialogue with recent Science and Technology Studies scholars' thinking around the concept of readiness, this paper highlights the analytic richness of…
Testing Ecology: Breast and Gynecological Cancer Predisposition Tests and the National Healthcare System in Spain
This research asks what is being put to the test by breast and gynecological cancer predisposition testing in Spain beyond genes or cancer. By combining document analysis and fieldwork with national healthcare professionals and drawing on the anthropology and sociology of testing, I examine how the molecular relations of these tests extend to the political economy of the national healthcare system. I show how the capacity of these tests to produc…
The political stakes of cancer epistemics
We demonstrate a transnationally situated dialogue as a method to bring ethnographic and historical research in Brazil, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), India, Russia and Spain into conversation to show three cancer epistemics sites (research, detection, and care access) where the politics of cancer epistemics are at play. First, in the field of research, we show how certain ways of knowing, and certain questions about and interests in c…
We came here to stay: Making biobanks worth maintaining in Spain
The oscillation between the promise and the disappointment of biobanks as techno-scientific infrastructures for contemporary biomedical research is frequent in the literature. In this article, we analysed how the precariousness of biobanks is leading to shifts in the focus of biobanking in Spain, where there are calls for some practices to be rearticulated. Drawing upon fieldwork and interviews with biobankers, we looked at which practices are hi…
Manufacturing Life, What Life? Ethical Debates Around Biobanks and Social Robots
The reconfiguration of biobanks in Europe under the BBMRI-Eric framework: Towards global sharing nodes
Freezers with biospecimen deposits became biobanks and later were networked at the pan-European level in 2013 under the Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure—European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC). Drawing on document analysis about the BBMRI-ERIC and multi-sited fieldwork with biobankers in Spain from a science and technology studies approach, we explore what biobanks are expected to do and become under …
Temperatura y temporalidad: Un Análisis Criopolítico Para Pensar Y Actuar en El Presente
Kula revisited: From mobilities in the classics to the mobilization of anthropology
En su afán por estudiar las relaciones sociales la antropología se ha encontrado desde sus comienzos como disciplina con personas y objetos en movimiento. Por lo tanto, las obras presentadas como clásicas abordan de un modo u otro las actualmente denominadas “movilidades”. Este artículo presenta un ejercicio reflexivo que invita a la incomodidad y la movilización, a través de un abordaje de los clásicos desde el “paradigma de las movilidades”. Es…
Fresh or Thawed T Cells: How Modes of Bioavailability Matter in the Study of Translational Medicine
This article explores how cell immunotherapy becomes deliverable at the in-betweens of the bench, bedside, and community in translational medicine. During ethnographic research in an advanced cell therapies unit, I observed how the staff made virus-specific T cells available for therapeutic use. In dialogue with recent Science and Technology Studies scholars' thinking around the concept of readiness, this paper highlights the analytic richness of…
We came here to stay: Making biobanks worth maintaining in Spain
The oscillation between the promise and the disappointment of biobanks as techno-scientific infrastructures for contemporary biomedical research is frequent in the literature. In this article, we analysed how the precariousness of biobanks is leading to shifts in the focus of biobanking in Spain, where there are calls for some practices to be rearticulated. Drawing upon fieldwork and interviews with biobankers, we looked at which practices are hi…
Anticipatory images: Visual depictions of the not-yet and the politics of temporality
Images and anticipatory logic are intertwined. Humans have granted images the power to visually anticipate the future, which is traceable to the Palaeolithic but newly intensified in contemporary digital visual culture and platform economy. In this crosscurrent piece, we seek to interrogate the enduring and evolving nexus between images and anticipatory imaginaries and technologies, foregrounding what we refer to as anticipatory images : visual d…
The political stakes of cancer epistemics
We demonstrate a transnationally situated dialogue as a method to bring ethnographic and historical research in Brazil, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), India, Russia and Spain into conversation to show three cancer epistemics sites (research, detection, and care access) where the politics of cancer epistemics are at play. First, in the field of research, we show how certain ways of knowing, and certain questions about and interests in c…
Kula revisited: From mobilities in the classics to the mobilization of anthropology
En su afán por estudiar las relaciones sociales la antropología se ha encontrado desde sus comienzos como disciplina con personas y objetos en movimiento. Por lo tanto, las obras presentadas como clásicas abordan de un modo u otro las actualmente denominadas “movilidades”. Este artículo presenta un ejercicio reflexivo que invita a la incomodidad y la movilización, a través de un abordaje de los clásicos desde el “paradigma de las movilidades”. Es…
The reconfiguration of biobanks in Europe under the BBMRI-Eric framework: Towards global sharing nodes
Freezers with biospecimen deposits became biobanks and later were networked at the pan-European level in 2013 under the Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure—European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC). Drawing on document analysis about the BBMRI-ERIC and multi-sited fieldwork with biobankers in Spain from a science and technology studies approach, we explore what biobanks are expected to do and become under …
Temperatura y temporalidad: Un Análisis Criopolítico Para Pensar Y Actuar en El Presente
Manufacturing Life, What Life? Ethical Debates Around Biobanks and Social Robots
We came here to stay: Making biobanks worth maintaining in Spain
The oscillation between the promise and the disappointment of biobanks as techno-scientific infrastructures for contemporary biomedical research is frequent in the literature. In this article, we analysed how the precariousness of biobanks is leading to shifts in the focus of biobanking in Spain, where there are calls for some practices to be rearticulated. Drawing upon fieldwork and interviews with biobankers, we looked at which practices are hi…
The political stakes of cancer epistemics
We demonstrate a transnationally situated dialogue as a method to bring ethnographic and historical research in Brazil, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), India, Russia and Spain into conversation to show three cancer epistemics sites (research, detection, and care access) where the politics of cancer epistemics are at play. First, in the field of research, we show how certain ways of knowing, and certain questions about and interests in c…
A perfect match: Expanded carrier screening in Spain's gamete economy
This article examines how expanded carrier screening (ECS) – a genomic test based on whole-genome sequencing – has been integrated into Spain’s assisted reproductive technology sector. Marketed as a tool to enhance reproductive safety and personalization, ECS has become increasingly routinized within third-party gamete in vitro fertilization (IVF) through its use in genetic matching (GM), a technique that identifies shared genetic risks between d…
Storing Life in Public Hands: The Problem of Unfulfilled Mobiles in Biobanking
Fresh or Thawed T Cells: How Modes of Bioavailability Matter in the Study of Translational Medicine
This article explores how cell immunotherapy becomes deliverable at the in-betweens of the bench, bedside, and community in translational medicine. During ethnographic research in an advanced cell therapies unit, I observed how the staff made virus-specific T cells available for therapeutic use. In dialogue with recent Science and Technology Studies scholars' thinking around the concept of readiness, this paper highlights the analytic richness of…
Testing Ecology: Breast and Gynecological Cancer Predisposition Tests and the National Healthcare System in Spain
This research asks what is being put to the test by breast and gynecological cancer predisposition testing in Spain beyond genes or cancer. By combining document analysis and fieldwork with national healthcare professionals and drawing on the anthropology and sociology of testing, I examine how the molecular relations of these tests extend to the political economy of the national healthcare system. I show how the capacity of these tests to produc…
Anticipatory images: Visual depictions of the not-yet and the politics of temporality
Images and anticipatory logic are intertwined. Humans have granted images the power to visually anticipate the future, which is traceable to the Palaeolithic but newly intensified in contemporary digital visual culture and platform economy. In this crosscurrent piece, we seek to interrogate the enduring and evolving nexus between images and anticipatory imaginaries and technologies, foregrounding what we refer to as anticipatory images : visual d…
Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biobank (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)