Browsing by Autor "Marco Gemignani"

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Arts-Based Research in the Social and Health Sciences: Pushing for Change with an Interdisciplinary Global Arts-Based Research Initiative
(2020) Nancy Gerber; Elisabetta Biffi; Jacelyn Biondo; Marco Gemignani; Karin Hannes; Richard Siegesmund
The impact of current trends in technology, digitalization and mass media on our global culture raises questions regarding the responsibility and ethics of research decisions in contemporary social and health sciences. Embedded in the dominant paradigms, these trends subtly affect our worldviews, our valuation of the human condition, and the nature of socio-political discourse. In such critical post normal times (SARDAR, 2009) radical imagination (HAIVEN & KHASNABISH, 2014) and epistemic activism, embracing non-dominant modes of knowledge production in the social and health sciences, becomes a necessity. Arts-based research (ABR) is resonant with the onto-epistemological perspectives and methodologies necessary to challenge and disrupt current unilateral and hegemonic paradigms underlying decaying societal and geo-political constructs. In this article, we advocate for the development of a global network of ABR scholars and stakeholders invoking a radical imaginative philosophy and arts-based research methodologies as an approach to social activism and epistemological change.
Countering Cultural Imperialism in Psychology: A Scoping Review of the Concepts of Anti‐, De‐, Post‐, and Neo‐Coloniality as Used in the Scientific Literature
(Wiley, 2026) Belén Jiménez Carrasco; Marco Gemignani
ABSTRACT Despite the growing attention to counter‐concepts of coloniality in the social sciences and humanities, the ways in which they are defined in psychology are often unclear. This scoping review aims at identifying and creating possible assemblages of the ways in which journals in psychology define and use the concepts of anti‐, de‐, post‐, neo‐coloniality. To this goal, we identify academic and scientific articles concerned with contemporary consequences or critiques of coloniality. We present the main themes and narratives, including specific issues and practices as well as broader discourses, about which the 30 resulting articles were concerned in their critical definitions and uses of coloniality. First, the impact of epistemic violence and imperialism on academic and clinical practices is a common concern to these critiques. Epistemic violence tends to create a sharp division between the victimized global South and the abusive North. Second, all criticisms of coloniality value the crucial role of bottom‐up movements in which the community, rather than intellectuals or academics, aims at creating new forms of community‐based knowledges. Third, these knowledges engage in difficult and critical dialogues with or oppositions to Western epistemologies, methodologies, and research orthodoxies, from which they aspire to partially liberate. These three positions and narratives frame anti/de/post/neo‐psychology as a general movement to question taken‐for‐granted truths and epistemologies, in a never‐ending critical and reflexive process.
Familias Transnacionales Hondureñas: Experiencias de Mujeres que Cuidan a Menores de Padres y Madres Migrantes
(Hipatia Press, 2025) Nerea Larrinaga‐Bidegain; Yolanda Hernández‐Albújar; Marco Gemignani
En las familias transnacionales, el reparto de responsabilidades y la organización de los cuidados de los menores o adolescentes pasan a ser centrales en las vidas de quienes se quedan a cargo de estos en el país de origen cuando uno o ambos progenitores emigran. Esta investigación cualitativa recoge y analiza las necesidades, experiencias y afectos de esta población cuidadora, principalmente conformada por mujeres, en el contexto del occidente de Honduras. Con una mirada interdisciplinar de los retos que supone la transnacionalidad para una familia, nuestra investigación tiene el objetivo de comprender las formas en las que el cuidado mantiene los lazos familiares en la distancia física. A través de un análisis temático reflexivo de entrevistas y grupos focales, nuestra investigación identifica y analiza los cambios principales en los roles de género, la responsabilidad social, la comunicación, los afectos y el apoyo institucional que se producen en este nuevo modelo familiar. La función de mediadoras que adoptan las cuidadoras y la poca claridad sobre sus responsabilidades son temas centrales en sus narraciones.
“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right
(Wiley, 2023) Marco Gemignani; Belén Jiménez Carrasco
Abstract Vox is a far‐right, Spanish political party that has steadily grown to become the third main party in the national congress. Immigration is a major presence in Vox's political agenda. Through Critical Discourse Analysis, we analyze the party's public speeches and Twitter communications on immigration in the last 3 years, from the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020 to the Ukraine‐Russia war in 2022. These contexts have provided a fertile ground for Vox's concerns with the protection of national borders, the criminalization of African and irregular immigrants, and the Spanish Government's ineffectiveness to protect the Spaniards' homes. Vox's main discursive strategies entail constructions of migrants and migration based on dichotomous binaries, culture clash, exclusionary discourses of domopolitics, and fears of imminent social and cultural changes. These constructions are based on the unproblematized belief on essential and unchangeable values that forge the identity of the homeland, which is implicitly threatened by immigrants. Against the migratory invasion, Vox constitutes itself as the ethical protector of the Spanish society and nation, “out of care for the insiders and not out of hatred for outsiders.”