Joan Pujol

Constructions of Sexual Relationships A Study of the Views of Young people in Catalunia, England and Slovakia and their Health Implications

Q methodology was applied to investigate the views of young people from Catalunia, England and Slovakia regarding sexual relationships and their health implications. The Q sorts of 188 16-18-year-olds from these three diverse European regions were reduced by Q factor analysis to six clear accounts. These accounts are presented in relation to three emergent themes: (a) traditionalism/liberalism; (b) locus of responsibility; and (c) the relationship between sex and love, and these discursive themes are discussed in relation to health-salient criteria such as awareness of sex-related risk and corresponding implications for conduct.

Los límites de la métafora lingüística: implicaciones de una perspectiva corporeizada para la práctica investigadora e interventora

Perspectivas como el construccionismo social, el analisis del discurso o el analisis conversacional, han usado la metafora linguistica paca defender una concepcion de la realidad construida a traves de la interaccion linguistica. En el desarrollo de esta metafora confluyen das herencias que han dado lugar a la omision de la corporeidad cama forma de conocimiento y agencia. En primer lugar, la division cartesiana entre cuerpo y alma; de la cual resulta una vision del cuerpo o bien como “contenedor” del alma o como producto de una construccion cognitivo/social. En segundo lugar, la aposicion “social” frente a «natural» excluyo al cuerpo (asignado al ambito de lo natural) como tema importante en debates sobre el orden y el control social. La metafora linguistica enfatiza el polo de lo social-mental que lleva a un monismo antologico de caracter linguistico. La corporeidad acaba siendo receptora de y disciplinada por el ambito de lo discursivo (Sampson. 1996; Nightingale. 1999). Este trabajo recoge el renovado interes que la corporeidad esta teniendo en ciencias sociales (i.e. Haraway, 1991) Turner 1992; Shilling 1993; Stam 1998; Burkitt, 1999) y explora las implicaciones que se derivan de la adopcion de uno perspectiva corporeizada en las practicas de investigacion e intervencion. Desde esta perspectiva se enfatiza el caracter productivo de las relaciones constituidas en procesos de investigacion e intervencion, entendidas como actividades que articulan multiples posiciones corporeizadas desde las que se localizan y producen conocimientos.

Investigación crítica : desafíos y posibilidades

Resumen es: La emergencia de las ciencias sociales esta ligada a la constitucion de una red de tecnologias, conocimientos, practicas y discursos para regular y gob...

Suspended transitions and affective orderings: From troubled monogamy to liminal polyamory

While monogamy is the norm for romantic and intimate relationships in contemporary western societies, having other sexual and affective interactions alongside a monogamous relationship is a common practice. Instead of a unilateral and/or covert non-monogamy, polyamory promises a consensual, ethical, and responsible non-monogamy. The personal transformation of normative cultural frameworks is fundamental to the experience of “becoming polyamorous.” This article explores such occasions using the notion of liminality in order to illustrate the phenomenon of “liminal hotspots.” Focusing on a specific and exemplary case describing the first stages of a polyamorous relationship, the paper explores the reordering of social formations involved. In this case, “becoming polyamorous” is expressed through a process of suspended transition where categories can be described as both/and monogamous/polyamorous and neither/nor monogamous/polyamorous.

National construction and LGBTI rights: Exploring Catalan homonationalism

Homonationalism offers a conceptual framework that allows us to understand the assimilation of the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights by national exceptionalism in the constitution of a geopolitical colonial differentiation. In light of recent developments, both in terms of national identity and LGBTI legal rights, we carried out a case study on Catalonia through the analytical tool of homonationalism, using different public documents as well as narrative productions. Through this analysis, we identified three rhetorical figures that the homonationalist discourse adopts in the Catalan case: territorial differentiations, political differentiations and ethnic differentiations.

Bordering, exclusions and necropolitics

Contemporary governmentality combines biopolitical and necropolitical logics to establish social, political and physical borders that classify and stratify populations using symbolic and material marks as, for example, nationality, gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, social class and/or disability. The social sciences have been prolific in the analysis of alterities and, in turn, implicated in the epistemologies and knowledge practices that underpin and sustain the multiplication of frontiers that define essential differences between populations. The purpose of this paper is to develop a strategy that analyze and subvert the logic of bordering inherent in the bio/necropolitical gaze. In different ways, this paper examines operations of delimitation and differentiation that contribute to monolithic definitions of subject and subjectivity.,The authors question border construction processes in terms of their static, homogenizing and exclusionary effects.,Instead of hierarchical stratification of populations, the papers in this special issue explore the possibilities of relationship and the conditions of such relationships. Who do we relate to? On which terms and conditions? With what purpose? In which ethical and political manner?,A critical understanding of the asymmetry in research practices makes visible how the researcher is legitimized to produce a representation of those researched, an interpretation of their words and actions without feedback or contribution to the specific context where the research has been carried out. Deconstructive and relational perspectives are put forward as critical strands that can set the basis of different approaches to research and social practice.