Man

Sebastian Ureta Icaza

Associate professor

Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Science and technology studies (STS), environmental sociology, critical policy analysis

Educación

  •  Media and Communications, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Reino Unido, 2006
  •  Sociólogía, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2002
  •  Sociología, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2000

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Social Science

    Santiago, Chile

    2006 - 2009

  •   Associate researcher Full Time

    Technical University of Berlin

    Social Sciences

    Berlin, Alemania

    2009 - 2012

  •   Assistant professor Full Time

    Universidad Alberto Hurtado

    Social Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2012 - 2023

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    College

    Chile

    2023 - At present

Formación de Capital Humano


Teaching experience

- March 2006-May 2009, Department of Sociology, Universidad Católica de Chile:
Courses: ”Sociology of Technology” (BA in Sociology, UC), “Sociology of Communication” (BA in Sociology, UC), “Science, Technology and Society” (MA in Sociology, UC) and “Material Culture, Technology and Communication” (Design School, UC)
- August 2012-Today, Ba in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado:
Courses: "Ethnography" (BA in Sociology, UAH), "Science, Technology and Society" (BA in Sociology, UAH), "Qualitative methods and thinking" (MA in Sociology, UAH), "Sociology of Waste" (Research seminar for the BA in Sociology, UAH).
- March 2018-Today, Ma in Science, Technology and Society, Department of Sociology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado:
Director, Course "Introduction to Science and Technology Studies"

Besides teaching I have directed more than 20 graduate and postgraduate thesis, mostly regarding the application of components derived from Science and Technology Studies (STS) to policy and environmental issues.


Difusión y Transferencia


In order to transfer the academic results of the Fondecyt 1170153 project to society, the "Nuestros Suelos” sub-project was created (www.nuestrossuelos.cl), which is currently under development. Our Soils aims to design and test a qualitative participatory methodology for exploratory evaluation of degraded soils based on a citizen science model. Initiated in early 2018, Our Soils has so far produced (1) a methodology describing step by step a procedure to qualitatively assess soil degradation based on citizen science, (2) a series of low-cost, open source technologies for the evaluation of soil degradation, in particular fertility and the presence of heavy metals and (3) three tests of these methodologies with base communities in the Atacama Region. Our final objective is not only to produce academic publications analyzing the experience, but also to end with a process of international dissemination of the initiative and its instruments, so that it can be used by various communities affected by soil degradation worldwide.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Beca Presidente de la Republica

    MINISTERIO DE PLANIFICACION Y COOPERACION

    Chile, 2004

    Beca para realizar estudios doctorales en el extranjero

  •   British Academy Visiting Fellowship

    British Academy

    Reino Unido, 2007

    Beca para realizar una pasantía de investigación en la Universidad de Lancaster, Reino Unido

  •   Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship

    EUROPEAN UNION

    Alemania, 2009

    Fondo de investigación para desarrollar proyecto como investigador asociado al Centro de Tecnología y Sociedad, Universidad Técnica de Berlín

  •   Carson Fellow

    LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN

    Alemania, 2016

    Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany Project title “Waste assemblages: the multiple lives of tailings in contemporary Chile”

  •   Visiting Scholar

    MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

    Alemania, 2018

    Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, Germany. Project Title “Baselining pollution: Producing “natural soil” for environmental regulation in Chile”

  •   Making and Doing Awards 2019

    Society for the Social Studies of Science

    Estados Unidos, 2019

    El proyecto “Nuestros Suelos”, encabezado por Sebastián Ureta y financiado por Fondecyt e ICM, fue premiado como Proyecto Making & Doing en la Conferencia 4S 2019 La reunión anual de la Sociedad de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia (4S por sus siglas en inglés Society for Social Studies of Science) se realizó en septiembre en Orlando, Estados Unidos.


 

Article (23)

Ruination Science: Producing Knowledge from a Toxic World
Victimization Devices: Exploring Challenges Facing Litigation-Based Transnational Environmental Justice
¡Nos vamos a ir toditos para abajo!: Ontologías subterráneas en conflicto en Tierra Amarilla
Problematizing markets: market failures and the government of collective concerns
Baselining pollution: producing natural soil for an environmental risk assessment exercise in Chile
Don’t wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment
Sujetos de desecho: violencia lenta e inacción ambiental en un botadero minero abandonado de Chile [Waste subjects: slow violence and environmental inaction in an abandoned mining waste impoundment in Chile]
A very public mess: Problematizing the "participative turn" in energy policy in Chile
Economizing justice: Turning equity claims into lower energy tariffs in Chile
A Failed Platform: The citizen consensus conference travel to Chile
Caring for waste: Handling tailings in a Chilean copper mine
A failed platform: The Citizen Consensus Conference travels to Chile
'Because in Chile [carbon] markets work!' Exploring an experimental implementation of an emissions trading scheme to deal with industrial air pollution in Santiago
Normalizing Transantiago: On the challenges (and limits) of repairing infrastructures
Policy assemblages: proposing an alternative conceptual framework to study public action
The Shelter that Wasn't There: On the Politics of Co-ordinating Multiple Urban Assemblages in Santiago, Chile
Waiting for the Barbarians: disciplinary devices on Metro de Santiago
Handling for Santiago. Exploring the use of automobiles on the part of inhabitants of shallows income from an optics of mobility sustentable Manejando por Santiago. Explorando el uso de automóviles por parte de habitantes de bajos ingresos desde una óptica de movilidad sustentable
Manejando por Santiago: Explorando el uso de automóviles por parte de habitantes de bajos ingresos desde una óptica de movilidad sustentable
'There is one in every home': Finding the place of television in new homes among a low-income population in Santiago, Chile
Mobilising poverty?: Mobile phone use and everyday spatial mobility among low-income families in Santiago, Chile
To Move or Not to Move? Social Exclusion, Accessibility and Daily Mobility among the Low-income Population in Santiago, Chile
Noise and the battles for space: Mediated noise and everyday life in a social housing estate in Santiago, Chile

BookSection (3)

Mobilising poverty? Mobile phone use and everyday spatial mobility among low income families in Santiago, Chile’
'Cultura juvenil móvil en un entorno urbano: Un estudio de caso en Santiago de Chile
Ruido, espacio y comunidad: tecnologías de la comunicación, paisaje sonoro y vida cotidiana’

BookWhole (2)

Assembling Policy: Transantiago, Human Devices, and the Dream of a World-Class Society
Transantiago o el fallido ensamblaje de una sociedad de clase mundial

Editorial (1)

Frail modernities: Latin American infrastructures between repair and ruination

Proyecto (8)

Assembling transnational toxic bodies=> Embodying and mobilizing responsibility on the ‘Arica Victims KB v. Boliden Minerals AB’ case
Entierrando el Antropoceno=> ensamblando nuevos ecosistemas desde suelos degradados en la Región de Atacama
Núcleo Milenio de Investigación sobre Energía y Sociedad
EL DESECHO DE CHILE=> UN ANALISIS SOCIOTECNICO DE PRACTICAS Y POLITICAS RESPECTO DEL MANEJO DE RELAVES MINEROS EN LAS ULTIMAS DOS DECADAS
Innovation in Governance
Comunicaciones móviles y desarrollo socioeconómico en América Latina
TECNOLOGIAS DE LA COMUNICACION Y DEL TRANSPORTE EN LA VIDA COTIDIANA DE HABITANTES DE ESCASOS RECURSOS EN LA CIUDAD DE SANTIAGO
Description and analysis of innovation practices and cultures in Chile’s wine industry
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Sebastian Ureta

Associate professor

Sociology

Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Santiago, Chile

1
Wilson Muñoz

Investigador doctoral

Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale

Collège de France/ EHESS/CNRS/PSL Research University

Paris, Francia

1
Manuel Tironi

Assistant Professor

Sociology

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile