Nizaiá Cassián Yde

Nizaiá Cassián Yde has a PhD in Social Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), is a professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and coordinates the feminism area of bachelor's degree final projects in Social Education. Her academic activities are set within the framework of anti-racist feminist approaches, research on participatory action and self-managed spaces for training and the popular creation of activist thought and research. She is a member of the CareNet research group. Her research focuses on decolonial geographies, Marxist feminism in neoliberal cities, body-space relations, job insecurity and political action. She has participated in Spanish and European research on the ethics of care. She is the co-author of the book Por una acción social crítica. Tensiones en la intervención social (2019), which critically analyses the relations of power, exclusion and governmentality that pervade social intervention. She participates in spaces for feminist and migrant self-organization.

Her thesis addressed the intersection between urban studies and decolonial geography, the critical analysis of gentrification, the instrumentalization of culture in processes of urban transformation and its effects on urban spoliation, the colonial and racial hierarchization of urban spatialities and the whitening by dispossession of public space. Her work takes an interest in how particular forms of spatialization relate to the design and governance of the productive body and the urban infrastructures of care, generating effects of violence and dispossession, as well as community resistance and self-organization.

As a researcher, she has been involved in several projects in the area of technological innovations in the field of care and the ethical reflections that accompany such transformations: in the European project EFORTT: Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for Older People at Home (FP7, 2008-2011), and in the projects Elderly, social media and social isolation (RECERCAIXA-2012-ACUP-00325); Science, Technology and Attention to Dependence (Spanish National RDI Plan, 2008-2011); Feeling at home with Technologies? An analysis of the impact of (assistive) technologies for the elderly and disabled people (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 2007-2009).