Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Graduate Student, Departamento de Psicología Básica
About
Currently taking part in an ethnographic research project devoted to the study of telecare devices for the elders in their domestic environments, focusing on the users' modes of subjectivation/embodiment (i.e. ways of practicing life, safety and security, family, care and autonomy) and their modes of dwelling
Main research topics
-Science and technology studies (social and health care technologies)
-Genealogy of social protection (governmentalities and biopolitics of third age)
-Relational approaches to practices and the development of human ecologies (anthropology of techniques, distributed cognition, embodiment and modes of subjectivation, dwelling practices)
Since 2005 I am Publishing Manager of AIBR. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana (quarterly journal of Anthropology in Spanish), where I have been member of the Editorial Board since 2004: www.aibr.org
In January 2009 I was elected Student Representative Member of the EASST Council (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - www.easst.net )
Contact Information
http://www.aibr.org/antropologia/equipo/tomas.php
Departamento de Psicología Básica, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 28049 Madrid, Spain
