A D O L F O E S T A L E L L A

Postdoc researcher, Spanish Research Council (CSIC)
Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Temas de interés: Ciudad, urbanismo, arquitectura, Internet, culturas digitales, giro ontológico, comunidades hackers, software libre, okupación, movimientos sociales, relaciones de propiedad, ética de la investigación, metodología etnográfica, culturas experimentales, antropología urbana, antropología de lo digital, antropología de la ciencia y la tecnología, antropología de los movimientos sociales

Mail: joseadolfo.estalella@cchs.csic.es
Research fields: anthropology of science and technology – STS – methodological innovation.
Research interests: grassroots urbanism – prototypes – experimental collaborations.
Education
Ph.D. in Information and Knowledge Society (anthropological specialty). Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
Thesis: ‘Hope assemblages. An anthropological study of passionate blogging’.
2011
Master in Information and Knowledge Society, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 2004
B.S. in Cultural Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). 2013
Master in Journalism, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / El País. 2000
University Expert in Science, Technology and Society, UNED. 1999
B.S and M.S. in Theoretical Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 1997
Professional positions
2015 – present Postdoc Researcher, Juan de la Cierva Program. Spanish Research Council,
Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Madrid).
2013 – 2014 Postdoc Researcher. University of Manchester, Center for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) (Manchester).
2010 – 2012 Research contract. Spanish Research Council, Centre for the Humanities and
Social Sciences (Madrid).
2005 – 2009 PhD Fellowship. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Internet Interdisciplinary
Institute (Barcelona).
Teaching
2010 – present Lecturer online (consultor), Qualitative Methods for Social Research, Master
in Information and Knowledge Society, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
2012 – 2013 Lecturer in Digital Methods for Social Research, Master in Digital
Communication, Culture and Citizenship, U. Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid.
Grants
2015– 2017 Postdoctoral research grant, Juan de la Cierva program.
2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral research grant Beatriu de Pinós (70.000 €).
2005 – 2009 Pre-doc research grant, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (UOC) (40.000 €).
2008 Beques per estades de recerca fora de Catalunya, AGAUR, (4.000 €).
2008 Scholarship ‘Short Term Scientific Mission’, COST298 Action (1.500 €)
Adolfo Estalella Curriculum Vitae

Publications
3 most relevant papers
2015 _ Experimental collaboration: An invocation for the redistribution of social research.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (with
Tomás Sánchez Criado).
2014 _ Assembling Neighbours. The City as Archive, Hardware, Method. Common Knowledge,
20(1), 150-171 (with Alberto Corsín).
Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings. Information, Communication and Society,
15(1), 23-42 (with Anne Beaulieu).
3 most relevant book chapters
2015 _ Locating digital methods. In Snee, H., Hine, C., Morey, Y., Roberts, S., Watson, H. (eds.),
Digital Methods for Social Sciences. An Interdisciplinary guide to research innovation.
Palgrave.
(forthcoming) Airing the assembly: on the weathering of urban politics. In Blok, A. and Farías, I.
(eds) Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. Wiley-Blackwell
(with Alberto Corsín).
(forthcoming) Ecologies in beta: the city as infrastructure of apprenticeships. In Harvey, P.;
Bruun Jensen, C, and Morita, A, (eds) In Infrastructure and Social Complexity. Routledge
(with Alberto Corsín).
Books (in process)
Experimental collaborations (forthcoming). Edited book with Tomás Sánchez Criado. EASA book
series. Berghahm.
Free Madrid. Citizen Urbanism in the Age of Indignation. Ethnographic monograph in
collaboration with Alberto Corsín, writing in process.
Etnografía/digital/prototipo. Un manual de antropología abierta (finished manuscript).
Refereed Papers and book chapters [last five years]
Forthcoming —
Ethnography: a prototype. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (with A. Corsín).
Political exhaustion and the experiment of street: Boyle meets Hobbes in Occupy Madrid.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) (with A. Corsín).
Antropocefa: un kit para las colaboraciones experimentales en la práctica etnográfica. Cadernos
de Arte e Antropologia (with T. Sánchez Criado).
Airing the assembly: on the weathering of urban politics. In Blok, A. and Farías, I. (eds) Urban
Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. Wiley-Blackwell (with A. Corsín).
Ecologies in beta: the city as infrastructure of apprenticeships. In Harvey, P.; Bruun Jensen, C,
and Morita, A, (eds) In Infrastructure and Social Complexity. Routledge (with A. Corsín).
Adolfo Estalella Curriculum Vitae

2015 —
2015 _ Locating digital methods. In Snee, H., Hine, C., Morey, Y., Roberts, S., Watson, H. (eds.),
Digital Methods for Social Sciences. An Interdisciplinary guide to research. Palgrave.
2015 _ Experimental collaboration: An invocation for the redistribution of social research.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (with
Tomás Sánchez Criado).
2014 —
The interior design of [free] knowledge. Journal of Cultural Economy, 7(4), 403-515. (with Corsín
Jiménez and zoohaus)
La apertura del archivo etnográfico (Opening the Ethnographic Archive). Anales del Museo
Nacional de Antropología.
Laboratorios de procomún: experimentación, recursividad y activismo. In Figueroa, H. J, Gordo,
A. and de Rivera, J. (eds.) (2014) ‘Teknokultura entre dos siglos. Tecnociencia, arte y
cultura’ (con J. Rocha y A. Lafuente).
2013 —
The atmospheric person: Value, experiment, and “making neighbours” in Madrid’s popular
assemblies. Hau. Journal of ethnographic theory, 3(2), 119-139 (with Alberto Corsín
Jiménez).
Asambleas al aire: la arquitectura ambulatoria de una política en suspensión (Assemblies in the
air: the ambulatory architecture of a politics in suspension). Revista de Antropología
Experimental, 13, 73-88 (with Alberto Corsín Jiménez).
Laboratorios de procomún: experimentación, recursividad y activismo (Laboratories of
commons: experimentation, recursivity and activism). Teknokultura, 10(1), 21-48 (with Jara
Rocha and Antonio Lafuente).
Asambleas populares: el ritmo urbano de una política de la experimentación (Popular
assemblies: the urban rhythm of a politics of experimentation). In M. Cruells & P. Ibarra
(Eds.) La democracia del futuro. Del 15M a la emergencia de una sociedad civil viva, (pp.
61-80). Barcelona: Icaria (with Alberto Corsín Jiménez).
2012 —
Ensamblajes de esperanza. Una etnografía de los bloggers apasionados (Hope assemblages. An
ethnography of passionate bloggers). Athenea Digital, 12(2), 161-174 .
Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings. Information, Communication and Society,
15(1), 23-42 (with Anne Beaulieu).
Beyond Virtual Ethnography. The Uses of the Internet in Ethnographic Research (with Elisenda
Ardévol). In U. Kockel, M. N. Craith & J. Frykman (Eds.), Blackwell Companion to European
Anthropology (pp. 480-496). Oxford: Blackwell
2011 —
#spanishrevolution. Anthropology Today, 27(4), 19-23 (with Alberto Corsín Jiménez).
‘e-Research’: desafíos y oportunidades para las ciencias sociales (e-Research: challenges and
opportunities for the social sciences). Convergencia, 18(55), 87-111 (with Elisenda
Ardévol).
Hacia la ética de la investigación como un espacio epistémico. Una oportunidad para innovar en
sus formas institucionales (Making of research ethics an epistemic space. An opportunity
to innovate in its institutional forms). Ankulegi, 15, 91-101.