How is time composed and configured in health-related processes?
Time in health is the title of the research project FONDECYT Regular N° 1241495, funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID).
Its main purpose is to understand the ways in which time is composed in processes involved in health, considering its political, clinical and experiential layers. Based on proposals from Science and Technology Studies and semiotic-material approaches, we propose an approach to the agency, conditions, processes and relationships that produce time in health, considering two layers: an analytical-descriptive one, oriented by the notion of device; and an analytical-interpretative one, associated with the idea of temporal regime.
Thus, instead of conceiving time as a given and homogeneous dimension, and analytically assuming dichotomies that assign normativity to certain temporal structures, we propose an exhaustive empirical research on the patterns of temporality in practice, opening the possibility of understanding its configurations.
Our research team is composed of researchers trained in areas of the social sciences, including sociology, social psychology, sociology, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
We hope with this initiative to configure elements that involve health policies regarding the temporal implications of their configurations.
Project objectives and emphasis
Our objective is to analyze the composition of time in public and private health care facilities in the Metropolitan Region, interpreting temporal regimes and identifying their implications for the biopolitical management of time.
Composition of time in health care facilities
Describe normative-political, epistemic, technological and practical relationships that make up the temporal dimension in public and private health care facilities.
Processes of subjectivation of time
To describe and analyze the link between temporalization devices and the subjectivation of patients considering their disease trajectories, as well as management strategies and epistemic exchange around time developed by biosocial collectives.
Semiotic-material dynamics
To identify socio-material dynamics linked to the configuration of temporary health regimes.
Temporary regimes
To interpret the configuration of temporal regimes in health from the circulation of temporal processes in scenarios of political design, clinical practice and disease trajectories.
Relevant epistemic aspects
Identify socio-material and epistemic processes relevant to temporary health management.
Implications for the biopolitical management of time.
Describe practical implications of temporal devices and regimes for a biopolitics of time in health.
Research team
Our research team is organized around the field of Science and Technology Studies, and is composed of researchers trained in areas of the social sciences, including sociology, social psychology, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Jorge Castillo Sepúlveda
Responsible Researcher, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
José Antonio Román
Co-investigator, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Maya Zilveti
Co-Investigator (United Nations Development Programme)
Felipe Torres
Co-Investigator, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pedro Güell
Co-Investigator, Universidad Austral de Chile
Marsha Rosengarten
Research Collaborator, Goldsmiths, University of London
Fernanda Bywaters Collado
Thesis
Mariana Gálvez Ramírez
Technical Staff
Ámbar Ángel Toledo
Technical Staff
Diego Gilabert
Technical Staff
Daniel Hernández
Assistant
Activities and Progress
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Interview: time management in healthcare
>We share the record of an interview about the project carried out in the space Palabra FAHU, of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Santiago de Chile. It can be reviewed at the following link.
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Keys to the socio-material study of temporalities in health care
>We participated in the International Seminar on Social Systems, Networks and Complexity. In this seminar, we present some elements related to the socio-material study of temporalities in health.
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Time care in healthcare settings: participation in EASST-4S 2024
Between July 16 and 29, 2024, we had the opportunity to participate and present elements of the project at the #easst4s2024 meeting, held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.