I am an Associate Professor (Profesora Contratada Doctora; acreditada a Titular) at the Departmento of Sociology III (Tendencias sociales) - Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia (UNED). I hold a PhD in Sociology with high honors (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and a MA in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris (France). Before joining the UNED, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Feminist Studies Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the Department of Sociology II of the University of the Basque Country.
My research areas include social movements, collective identity, agency, feminist theory, precarity and vulnerability. My PhD dissertation focused on identity processes in the contemporary feminist movement in Spain. Through an articulation of social movement and feminist theories on identity, I propose a theoretical and analytical tool to radicalize the processual conception of identity. My current research project deals with the complex relation between vulnerability and agency through the analysis of sex workers and victims of domestic violence mobilizations, collective organizations and articulations.
I have also worked for several years as an equality consultant in Spain and taken part in teams in Spanish and European funded research projects. My individual and collective work has appeared in different countries (USA, Canada, France, UK, Belgium, Colombia and Spain) and in three languages (English, Spanish and French) in venues such as Signs, Hypatia, Women's Studies International Forum, Patterns of Prejudice, Pensée Plurielle, Revista de Estudios Sociales, Política y Sociedad, Recherches Féministes, etc.
My research areas include social movements, collective identity, agency, feminist theory, precarity and vulnerability. My PhD dissertation focused on identity processes in the contemporary feminist movement in Spain. Through an articulation of social movement and feminist theories on identity, I propose a theoretical and analytical tool to radicalize the processual conception of identity. My current research project deals with the complex relation between vulnerability and agency through the analysis of sex workers and victims of domestic violence mobilizations, collective organizations and articulations.
I have also worked for several years as an equality consultant in Spain and taken part in teams in Spanish and European funded research projects. My individual and collective work has appeared in different countries (USA, Canada, France, UK, Belgium, Colombia and Spain) and in three languages (English, Spanish and French) in venues such as Signs, Hypatia, Women's Studies International Forum, Patterns of Prejudice, Pensée Plurielle, Revista de Estudios Sociales, Política y Sociedad, Recherches Féministes, etc.
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Edited Books & Special Issues by Maria Martinez
Special issue at the Oñati Socio-Legal Series journal of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
investigación, sitúan en el País Vasco contemporáneo
las tesis que insisten en la centralidad de los procesos de
construcción de la ciudadanía y las instituciones políticas
del Nosotros para explicar las siempre socialmente inquietantes
representaciones sobre los Otros. El último jalón histórico
local que hace a este juego de identidad-alteridad
viene marcado por la presencia de las migraciones internacionales,
un fenómeno social profusamente tematizado y
normado a nivel europeo que, sin embargo, muestra algo
carentes a las sociedades locales de epistemologías políticas
sobre su tratamiento e inclusión. Ante esta falta, la vulnerabilidad
es, entonces, condición de alteridad; sobre todo
cuando ésta inspira algún tipo de cuidado. La vulnerabilidad
es la forma en la que el Nosotros se acerca al Otro, lo
constituye como tal y se piensa en relación a, desde sus
propias normas e instituciones sociales, desde su identidad.
La situación es, por tanto, de oportunidad sociológica para
dar continuidad a la extensa cuestión de la identidad colectiva
en el País Vasco pero sobre todo para, desde este contexto
local, contribuir a los copiosos debates sobre la inmigración,
la integración, la tolerancia y el racismo en la
Europa actual.
Papers by Maria Martinez
Violence, vulnerability and victim are part of the vocabulary of our time. And they are particularly so in feminisms that have abandoned or subsumed other concepts: oppression, inequality, discrimination… Violence, vulnerability and victim is a particularly fecund vocabulary: it produces subjects but, given the meanings attributed to those categories, it also de-produces them. This article works on this tension. The proposal that runs through the text is that violence, vulnerability and victim are dis-appearing categories and mechanisms: they allow existing in the frames of existence of the moral economy of humanitarianism, while at the same time they prevent being part-entière of the realm of appearance that constitutes the citizen-subject, even the human. The proposal is based on qualitative techniques in Spain with, besides experts, women victims of gender violence and sex workers.
Una invitación a pensar cómo contar y escribir desde la sociología.
Special issue at the Oñati Socio-Legal Series journal of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
investigación, sitúan en el País Vasco contemporáneo
las tesis que insisten en la centralidad de los procesos de
construcción de la ciudadanía y las instituciones políticas
del Nosotros para explicar las siempre socialmente inquietantes
representaciones sobre los Otros. El último jalón histórico
local que hace a este juego de identidad-alteridad
viene marcado por la presencia de las migraciones internacionales,
un fenómeno social profusamente tematizado y
normado a nivel europeo que, sin embargo, muestra algo
carentes a las sociedades locales de epistemologías políticas
sobre su tratamiento e inclusión. Ante esta falta, la vulnerabilidad
es, entonces, condición de alteridad; sobre todo
cuando ésta inspira algún tipo de cuidado. La vulnerabilidad
es la forma en la que el Nosotros se acerca al Otro, lo
constituye como tal y se piensa en relación a, desde sus
propias normas e instituciones sociales, desde su identidad.
La situación es, por tanto, de oportunidad sociológica para
dar continuidad a la extensa cuestión de la identidad colectiva
en el País Vasco pero sobre todo para, desde este contexto
local, contribuir a los copiosos debates sobre la inmigración,
la integración, la tolerancia y el racismo en la
Europa actual.
Violence, vulnerability and victim are part of the vocabulary of our time. And they are particularly so in feminisms that have abandoned or subsumed other concepts: oppression, inequality, discrimination… Violence, vulnerability and victim is a particularly fecund vocabulary: it produces subjects but, given the meanings attributed to those categories, it also de-produces them. This article works on this tension. The proposal that runs through the text is that violence, vulnerability and victim are dis-appearing categories and mechanisms: they allow existing in the frames of existence of the moral economy of humanitarianism, while at the same time they prevent being part-entière of the realm of appearance that constitutes the citizen-subject, even the human. The proposal is based on qualitative techniques in Spain with, besides experts, women victims of gender violence and sex workers.
Una invitación a pensar cómo contar y escribir desde la sociología.
It is used to talk about migrants that cross the border, also for citizens that go missing, for those who were murdered during the Spanish civil war and the following dictatorship, it is also the name used to call those erased of the registers in Dominican Republic or Mexico, and sometimes it is how people refer to uncontacted tribes of the Amazonian… The name for those and many others is disappeared. None of those situations correspond, nevertheless, to what the law qualifies as “enforced disappearance”. This Special Topic considers the uses of the category disappearance looking mostly into the social, rather than the savantes, uses. The five articles gathered in this Special Topic show how the category disappearance is exceeded and its potentiality as a tool to analyze subjects expelled, pariahs, the precarious, the vulnerable, abandoned lives.
Migrants, remains, UBC (Unidentified Border Crosser or Undocumented Border Crosser), bodies in the desert, unidentified and unknown, John/Jane Doe, disappeared migrants, death person, missing, etc. Those are the categories that governmental and non-governmental agents, as well as scholars, use in the city of Tuc-son, Arizona, to refer to migrants who cross the border and whose whereabouts are unknown. In this article, based on qualitative fieldwork (mainly in-depth interviews), we analyze the names that those agents use or create to talk about the situation. We show, at the same time, how the more consolidated categories-specially forced disappearance-, are exceeded when dealing with complex phenomenon such as transnational migrations.
Autora: María Santacruz Giralt
Autora: Jana Soler Libran
Autora: Almudena de Linos Escario
Autora: Ivana Belén Ruíz Estramil
migrant houses in Mexico and the sanctuary movement in the United States – applying the same ethnographical observation approach to both and using the analysis of those situations to inform the theoretical reflection proposed here. The conclusion is that, while these “new disappearances” have, like enforced disappearances, a direct and close relationship with “spaces of exception” , that relationship now operates inversely: the space of exception is today sometimes the space of appearance, while the norm is widespread disappearance.