Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: CareNet Care and Preparedness in the Network Society

Was part of these groups:

Email: irodriguezgir@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis El gir simètric en l'estudi de l'acció col·lectiva. Les mobilitzacions per la controvèrsia ecològica de Doñana 2008. Supervised by Dr. Miquel Domènech Argemí.

Israel Rodríguez Giralt is an associate professor and coordinator of the CareNet research group at the UOC's Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). He has a PhD in Social Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). His research focuses on forms of activism, public participation and debate in situations of great uncertainty, such as ecological crises, disasters and pandemics. His recent projects deal with the relationship between care and disasters, focusing particularly on those who are habitually disadvantaged in crises and emergencies, such as the elderly, people with disabilities and young people. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was a member of advisory groups working with the Government of Catalonia. Israel Rodríguez Giralt is the editor of the books Children and Young People's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction (Policy Press, 2020), Reassembling Activism, Activating Assemblages (Routledge, 2019) and Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments and Preparedness (Wiley/Blackwell, 2014).