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Es fa un repàs de l'aproximació al cos des de l'antropologia i la etnografia destacant aq... more Es fa un repàs de l'aproximació al cos des de l'antropologia i la etnografia destacant aquells anàlisis de gènere i de l'acció general i individual que ens permeten fixar-nos tan en el nivell micro com en el macro de l'experiència, en els conflictes i en la desigualtat social i en el poder que també tenim de transformació
This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in differ... more This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in different activisms and in the way we understand the political subject, in both the Spanish state and the Basque context. Afterwards I propose an anthropological analysis with a triple theoretical approach: some theories about the body; ontological readings being made around the concept of vulnerability; and the recovery of the concept of “crisis of presence” by Ernesto de Martino. This framework will help us outlining a somatic and vulnerable ethnography addressing political actions and experiences, like silence, that generally are classified as negative, and that enables a diagnosis of reality that recovers and reformulates notions as interdependence, collective action or resistance.En este artículo se hace un breve repaso a algunas transformaciones que están ocurriendo en las últimas décadas en distintos activismos y en la manera de entender el sujeto político, tanto en el Estado español co...
This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of... more This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of Basque culture to the vision that makes feminist anthropology and social theories of the body and emotions possible. This type of ethnography has the profound capacity to describe the heterogeneity, complexity and materiality of cultures and to explain the diverse meaning that people give to life. Therefore, it treats the enriching experience of being a Basque speaker and a speaker of other languages, or the diverse definitions and experiences that people possess with regard to Basque culture, attempting to underline the differences between lived identity and identification. Chroniclers have mentioned the embodiment and distinctive features of Basque culture, which makes the notion of “Basque” its own whilst also spreading it out and making it something unstable.El objetivo de este artículo, que toma como punto de partida la evolución de la antropología vasca, es aplicar al estudio de l...
Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua eBooks, 2020
Ankulegi Gizarte Antropologia Aldizkaria Revista De Antropologia Social, 2012
UPV/EHU ml.esteban ehu.es Hitz gakoak: euskal kultura, gorputza, emozioak, identitate bizitua. La... more UPV/EHU ml.esteban ehu.es Hitz gakoak: euskal kultura, gorputza, emozioak, identitate bizitua. Laburpena: Euskal antropologiaren bilakaera abiapuntu hartzen duen artikulu honen helburua da, gaur egungo antropologia feministak eta gorputzaren eta emozioen gizarte teoriak ahalbidetzen duten ikuspegia euskal kulturaren azterketari aplikatzea. Etnografia mota honek ahalmen handia du kulturen heterogeneitatea, konplexutasuna eta materialtasuna deskribatzeko eta jendeak bizitzari eman ohi dion zentzu anizkoitza adierazteko. Era honetan, euskara edota beste hizkuntzen hiztun izatearen esperientzia oparoaz eta jendeak euskal kulturari dagokionez dituen definizio eta bizipen anitzez jardungo da, identitate bizitua eta identifikazioaren artean leudekeen aldeak nabarmendu guran. Berriemaileek euskal kulturak lituzkeen haragitasunak eta berezitasunak aipatu dituzte, "euskal" nozioa bere eginez baina, aldi berean, zabalduz eta ezegonkortuz.
Journal of Gender Studies
This article analyzes the key characteristics of the Women’s Houses in the Basque Country and how... more This article analyzes the key characteristics of the Women’s Houses in the Basque Country and how they are run. These municipal centres are promoted by the feminist movement in close collaboration with local institutions and are part of the long international feminist tradition of creating spaces specifically for women. The Houses run a diverse range of programmes and offer legal, employment and sexual health counselling services and other targeted support for precarious groups. The central point of this article is that these spaces are laboratories in which activity related to politics, training and support services influences the recomposition of the political subjectivities of the people who participate in them. Another key and distinctive aspect is the particular interrelationships found in the Houses between the institutionalist rationale coming out of the politics of equality and the rupturist rationale of movements like the feminist movement. Furthermore, different groups of feminist women (members of associations or institutions, professionals and researchers) co-exist in the Houses, which contributes to the horizontality of the relationships. Nevertheless, these aspects are not free of tensions, a point that will also be analysed here.
En este artículo voy a hacer una lectura crítica de la centralidad del concepto de cuidados en la... more En este artículo voy a hacer una lectura crítica de la centralidad del concepto de cuidados en la teoría feminista actual, centrándome sobre todo en el trabajo que se está llevando a cabo en el Estado español. Tendré en cuenta las aportaciones feministas pero me fijaré sobre todo en los riesgos de dicha centralidad, que son básicamente dos: el sobredimensionamiento del término “cuidados” (y por tanto, su descontextualización histórica y cultural) y la sentimentalización de la mirada feminista; dos tendencias que pueden estar influyendo también en la reflexión antropológica en este campo. Para ello partiré de mi experiencia como feminista en algunas iniciativas desarrolladas en el ámbito vasco, así como de mi trabajo antropológico sobre las redes o comunidades de apoyo mutuo. Mi idea es establecer un diálogo entre feminismo y antropología para proponer algunos conceptos que pueden ser alternativos o, por lo menos, paralelos al de cuidados y compensar dicha sobredimensión. Me refiero ...
Estudios humanísticos. Geografía, historia y arte
This article presents an overview of the evolution of the dominant conceptualizations of women, t... more This article presents an overview of the evolution of the dominant conceptualizations of women, the female body, reproduction and sexuality as generated by the Medical-Scientific System and the Christian-Catholic Church, bringing a gendered perspective to the analysis. It also includes a look at what specialists (gynaecologists) believe and the influence they have on women.
Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2004
Palabras clave itinerario corporal, auto-biografía corporal, antropología encarnada, embodiment, ... more Palabras clave itinerario corporal, auto-biografía corporal, antropología encarnada, embodiment, cuerpo
Estudios humanísticos. Geografía, historia y arte, 2021
This paper, based upon un anthropological research carried out in the basque urban area, provides... more This paper, based upon un anthropological research carried out in the basque urban area, provides an analysis of women's experiences in relation to health. Within this life area several key questions of women's subjectivity have been identified, which might help us to gain a better understanding into the situation.
Innovaciones democráticas feministas
This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of... more This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of Basque culture to the vision that makes feminist anthropology and social theories of the body and emotions possible. This type of ethnography has the profound capacity to describe the heterogeneity, complexity and materiality of cultures and to explain the diverse meaning that people give to life. Therefore, it treats the enriching experience of being a Basque speaker and a speaker of other languages, or the diverse definitions and experiences that people possess with regard to Basque culture, attempting to underline the differences between lived identity and identification. Chroniclers have mentioned the embodiment and distinctive features of Basque culture, which makes the notion of “Basque” its own whilst also spreading it out and making it something unstable.
This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in differ... more This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in different activisms and in the way we understand the political subject, in both the Spanish state and the Basque context. Afterwards I propose an anthropological analysis with a triple theoretical approach: some theories about the body; ontological readings being made around the concept of vulnerability; and the recovery of the concept of “crisis of presence” by Ernesto de Martino. This framework will help us outlining a somatic and vulnerable ethnography addressing political actions and experiences, like silence, that generally are classified as negative, and that enables a diagnosis of reality that recovers and reformulates notions as interdependence, collective action or resistance.
A New History of Iberian Feminisms, 2018
Mini-batch stochastic gradient methods (SGD) are state of the art for distributed training of dee... more Mini-batch stochastic gradient methods (SGD) are state of the art for distributed training of deep neural networks. Drastic increases in the mini-batch sizes have lead to key efficiency and scalability gains in recent years. However, progress faces a major roadblock, as models trained with large batches often do not generalize well, i.e. they do not show good accuracy on new data. As a remedy, we propose a post-local SGD and show that it significantly improves the generalization performance compared to large-batch training on standard benchmarks while enjoying the same efficiency (time-to-accuracy) and scalability. We further provide an extensive study of the communication efficiency vs. performance trade-offs associated with a host of local SGD variants.
Barbara Bigliak, gizarte esku-hartzea eta eraldaketa bilatzen duen ikerkuntza feministaren episte... more Barbara Bigliak, gizarte esku-hartzea eta eraldaketa bilatzen duen ikerkuntza feministaren epistemologia eta metologiaren arloan digresioa aurkezten du. Bertan, ezagutzaren produkziora hurbilpen kritiko feminista izan daitekeena, dena eta izatea gustuko genukeenaren arteko eztabaidak gurutzatzen dira. Eztabaida horiek adibideekin gorpuztea da saiakera, eta modu horretan hausnarketa teorikoak “lurreratzea”. Artikulua zientziari egiten zaizkion kritika feminista nagusienak aurkezten hasten da. Horrekin batera, egileak berebiziko garrantzia egotzi egiten dio egun ezagutzeko erak birpentsatzeari, eta ez hainbeste ikerlarien identitate generizatuaz ohartzeari. Jarraian, gure ikerketetan proposamen epistemologiko feministak praktikara eramateko aurkitzen ditugun zenbait erronka azaltzen dira, proposamen horietako batzuren “sukaldea” irekiz eztabaidak abstrakzioan gera ez daitezen. Artikulua, hausnartzen jarraitzeko kezka eta proposamen zerrenda labur batekin amaitzen da. Bigarren artikulu...
Innovaciones democráticas feministas, 2018
AIBR, Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana, 2020
This paper is an invitation to reflect on the importance eroticism may have in the different stag... more This paper is an invitation to reflect on the importance eroticism may have in the different stages of anthropological work (gathering information, analysis, writing, presenting to an audience…), starting from a definition of eroticism as potential and creative force, which includes but not be limited to the sexual sense of the term; an approach that may serve to capture the dynamic, sensorial intensity of both pleasant and unpleasant human experiences. In order to do so, I turn to classic texts by Audre Lorde, Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari and Georges Bataille as well as current authors such as Maria Livia Alga, Alba Barbé, Adriana Guzmán and Elisa Lipkau. But, above all, I take inspiration from Susan Sontag's essay "Against Interpretation", published originally in 1966 and applied to art criticism. Following a brief revision of anthropological research in the field of sexuality, I address different questions relating to importance of commitment and erotic affectation in ethnography, developed above all in certain fields such as visual anthropology and feminist anthropology. One question guides my entire reflection: What would an erotics of anthropological research be and in what sense could that be of use?
Es fa un repàs de l'aproximació al cos des de l'antropologia i la etnografia destacant aq... more Es fa un repàs de l'aproximació al cos des de l'antropologia i la etnografia destacant aquells anàlisis de gènere i de l'acció general i individual que ens permeten fixar-nos tan en el nivell micro com en el macro de l'experiència, en els conflictes i en la desigualtat social i en el poder que també tenim de transformació
This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in differ... more This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in different activisms and in the way we understand the political subject, in both the Spanish state and the Basque context. Afterwards I propose an anthropological analysis with a triple theoretical approach: some theories about the body; ontological readings being made around the concept of vulnerability; and the recovery of the concept of “crisis of presence” by Ernesto de Martino. This framework will help us outlining a somatic and vulnerable ethnography addressing political actions and experiences, like silence, that generally are classified as negative, and that enables a diagnosis of reality that recovers and reformulates notions as interdependence, collective action or resistance.En este artículo se hace un breve repaso a algunas transformaciones que están ocurriendo en las últimas décadas en distintos activismos y en la manera de entender el sujeto político, tanto en el Estado español co...
This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of... more This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of Basque culture to the vision that makes feminist anthropology and social theories of the body and emotions possible. This type of ethnography has the profound capacity to describe the heterogeneity, complexity and materiality of cultures and to explain the diverse meaning that people give to life. Therefore, it treats the enriching experience of being a Basque speaker and a speaker of other languages, or the diverse definitions and experiences that people possess with regard to Basque culture, attempting to underline the differences between lived identity and identification. Chroniclers have mentioned the embodiment and distinctive features of Basque culture, which makes the notion of “Basque” its own whilst also spreading it out and making it something unstable.El objetivo de este artículo, que toma como punto de partida la evolución de la antropología vasca, es aplicar al estudio de l...
Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua eBooks, 2020
Ankulegi Gizarte Antropologia Aldizkaria Revista De Antropologia Social, 2012
UPV/EHU ml.esteban ehu.es Hitz gakoak: euskal kultura, gorputza, emozioak, identitate bizitua. La... more UPV/EHU ml.esteban ehu.es Hitz gakoak: euskal kultura, gorputza, emozioak, identitate bizitua. Laburpena: Euskal antropologiaren bilakaera abiapuntu hartzen duen artikulu honen helburua da, gaur egungo antropologia feministak eta gorputzaren eta emozioen gizarte teoriak ahalbidetzen duten ikuspegia euskal kulturaren azterketari aplikatzea. Etnografia mota honek ahalmen handia du kulturen heterogeneitatea, konplexutasuna eta materialtasuna deskribatzeko eta jendeak bizitzari eman ohi dion zentzu anizkoitza adierazteko. Era honetan, euskara edota beste hizkuntzen hiztun izatearen esperientzia oparoaz eta jendeak euskal kulturari dagokionez dituen definizio eta bizipen anitzez jardungo da, identitate bizitua eta identifikazioaren artean leudekeen aldeak nabarmendu guran. Berriemaileek euskal kulturak lituzkeen haragitasunak eta berezitasunak aipatu dituzte, "euskal" nozioa bere eginez baina, aldi berean, zabalduz eta ezegonkortuz.
Journal of Gender Studies
This article analyzes the key characteristics of the Women’s Houses in the Basque Country and how... more This article analyzes the key characteristics of the Women’s Houses in the Basque Country and how they are run. These municipal centres are promoted by the feminist movement in close collaboration with local institutions and are part of the long international feminist tradition of creating spaces specifically for women. The Houses run a diverse range of programmes and offer legal, employment and sexual health counselling services and other targeted support for precarious groups. The central point of this article is that these spaces are laboratories in which activity related to politics, training and support services influences the recomposition of the political subjectivities of the people who participate in them. Another key and distinctive aspect is the particular interrelationships found in the Houses between the institutionalist rationale coming out of the politics of equality and the rupturist rationale of movements like the feminist movement. Furthermore, different groups of feminist women (members of associations or institutions, professionals and researchers) co-exist in the Houses, which contributes to the horizontality of the relationships. Nevertheless, these aspects are not free of tensions, a point that will also be analysed here.
En este artículo voy a hacer una lectura crítica de la centralidad del concepto de cuidados en la... more En este artículo voy a hacer una lectura crítica de la centralidad del concepto de cuidados en la teoría feminista actual, centrándome sobre todo en el trabajo que se está llevando a cabo en el Estado español. Tendré en cuenta las aportaciones feministas pero me fijaré sobre todo en los riesgos de dicha centralidad, que son básicamente dos: el sobredimensionamiento del término “cuidados” (y por tanto, su descontextualización histórica y cultural) y la sentimentalización de la mirada feminista; dos tendencias que pueden estar influyendo también en la reflexión antropológica en este campo. Para ello partiré de mi experiencia como feminista en algunas iniciativas desarrolladas en el ámbito vasco, así como de mi trabajo antropológico sobre las redes o comunidades de apoyo mutuo. Mi idea es establecer un diálogo entre feminismo y antropología para proponer algunos conceptos que pueden ser alternativos o, por lo menos, paralelos al de cuidados y compensar dicha sobredimensión. Me refiero ...
Estudios humanísticos. Geografía, historia y arte
This article presents an overview of the evolution of the dominant conceptualizations of women, t... more This article presents an overview of the evolution of the dominant conceptualizations of women, the female body, reproduction and sexuality as generated by the Medical-Scientific System and the Christian-Catholic Church, bringing a gendered perspective to the analysis. It also includes a look at what specialists (gynaecologists) believe and the influence they have on women.
Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2004
Palabras clave itinerario corporal, auto-biografía corporal, antropología encarnada, embodiment, ... more Palabras clave itinerario corporal, auto-biografía corporal, antropología encarnada, embodiment, cuerpo
Estudios humanísticos. Geografía, historia y arte, 2021
This paper, based upon un anthropological research carried out in the basque urban area, provides... more This paper, based upon un anthropological research carried out in the basque urban area, provides an analysis of women's experiences in relation to health. Within this life area several key questions of women's subjectivity have been identified, which might help us to gain a better understanding into the situation.
Innovaciones democráticas feministas
This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of... more This article sets out from the evolution of Basque anthropology and aims to apply the analysis of Basque culture to the vision that makes feminist anthropology and social theories of the body and emotions possible. This type of ethnography has the profound capacity to describe the heterogeneity, complexity and materiality of cultures and to explain the diverse meaning that people give to life. Therefore, it treats the enriching experience of being a Basque speaker and a speaker of other languages, or the diverse definitions and experiences that people possess with regard to Basque culture, attempting to underline the differences between lived identity and identification. Chroniclers have mentioned the embodiment and distinctive features of Basque culture, which makes the notion of “Basque” its own whilst also spreading it out and making it something unstable.
This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in differ... more This article offers a review of the some transformations taking place in recent decades in different activisms and in the way we understand the political subject, in both the Spanish state and the Basque context. Afterwards I propose an anthropological analysis with a triple theoretical approach: some theories about the body; ontological readings being made around the concept of vulnerability; and the recovery of the concept of “crisis of presence” by Ernesto de Martino. This framework will help us outlining a somatic and vulnerable ethnography addressing political actions and experiences, like silence, that generally are classified as negative, and that enables a diagnosis of reality that recovers and reformulates notions as interdependence, collective action or resistance.
A New History of Iberian Feminisms, 2018
Mini-batch stochastic gradient methods (SGD) are state of the art for distributed training of dee... more Mini-batch stochastic gradient methods (SGD) are state of the art for distributed training of deep neural networks. Drastic increases in the mini-batch sizes have lead to key efficiency and scalability gains in recent years. However, progress faces a major roadblock, as models trained with large batches often do not generalize well, i.e. they do not show good accuracy on new data. As a remedy, we propose a post-local SGD and show that it significantly improves the generalization performance compared to large-batch training on standard benchmarks while enjoying the same efficiency (time-to-accuracy) and scalability. We further provide an extensive study of the communication efficiency vs. performance trade-offs associated with a host of local SGD variants.
Barbara Bigliak, gizarte esku-hartzea eta eraldaketa bilatzen duen ikerkuntza feministaren episte... more Barbara Bigliak, gizarte esku-hartzea eta eraldaketa bilatzen duen ikerkuntza feministaren epistemologia eta metologiaren arloan digresioa aurkezten du. Bertan, ezagutzaren produkziora hurbilpen kritiko feminista izan daitekeena, dena eta izatea gustuko genukeenaren arteko eztabaidak gurutzatzen dira. Eztabaida horiek adibideekin gorpuztea da saiakera, eta modu horretan hausnarketa teorikoak “lurreratzea”. Artikulua zientziari egiten zaizkion kritika feminista nagusienak aurkezten hasten da. Horrekin batera, egileak berebiziko garrantzia egotzi egiten dio egun ezagutzeko erak birpentsatzeari, eta ez hainbeste ikerlarien identitate generizatuaz ohartzeari. Jarraian, gure ikerketetan proposamen epistemologiko feministak praktikara eramateko aurkitzen ditugun zenbait erronka azaltzen dira, proposamen horietako batzuren “sukaldea” irekiz eztabaidak abstrakzioan gera ez daitezen. Artikulua, hausnartzen jarraitzeko kezka eta proposamen zerrenda labur batekin amaitzen da. Bigarren artikulu...
Innovaciones democráticas feministas, 2018
AIBR, Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana, 2020
This paper is an invitation to reflect on the importance eroticism may have in the different stag... more This paper is an invitation to reflect on the importance eroticism may have in the different stages of anthropological work (gathering information, analysis, writing, presenting to an audience…), starting from a definition of eroticism as potential and creative force, which includes but not be limited to the sexual sense of the term; an approach that may serve to capture the dynamic, sensorial intensity of both pleasant and unpleasant human experiences. In order to do so, I turn to classic texts by Audre Lorde, Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari and Georges Bataille as well as current authors such as Maria Livia Alga, Alba Barbé, Adriana Guzmán and Elisa Lipkau. But, above all, I take inspiration from Susan Sontag's essay "Against Interpretation", published originally in 1966 and applied to art criticism. Following a brief revision of anthropological research in the field of sexuality, I address different questions relating to importance of commitment and erotic affectation in ethnography, developed above all in certain fields such as visual anthropology and feminist anthropology. One question guides my entire reflection: What would an erotics of anthropological research be and in what sense could that be of use?