Author Archives: Mauricio Baez

Mauricio Báez is a Ph.D. candidate at Universidad Javeriana. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's in Epistemology of Social and Natural Sciences. In addition, he has worked on the production of various audiovisual projects.
It is an image of a text, part of my doctoral proposal, with a rotoscoped drawing of a walking person on top.

Feeling Adrift in the Ethnography of a Laboratory

This semester, I officially began my fieldwork for my doctoral dissertation in the city of Bogotá. As part of an ethnography, I will be wandering through different neuroscience laboratories in Colombia, observing some of their studies as well as certain outreach activities they prepare. My questions aim to understand the academic and non-academic ties that enable the consolidation of research networks, and how these networks are also articulated with other spaces. (read more...)