Esther González Martínez

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 esther.gonzalezmartinez@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 8385
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5239-5863

Professor
Department of Social Sciences

PER 21 bu. G312
Bd de Pérolles 90
1700 Fribourg
PER 21, G312
+41 26 300 8385

Biography

Esther González Martínez est spécialisée dans l'analyse d'interactions et pratiques sociales en milieux institutionnels. Au niveau méthodologique, ses recherches s'appuient sur des démarches ethnographiques et des enregistrements audio/vidéo de situations naturelles d'action. Elle favorise des approches interactionnistes, ethnométhodologiques ainsi que l'analyse multimodale et de conversation. Ses premières recherches ont porté sur le monde de l'art en particulier sur les visiteurs de musée et les carrières des chanteurs lyriques. Elle s'est ensuite tournée vers l'analyse d'interactions en milieu judiciaire notamment dans le cadre de procédures pénales d'urgence en France ainsi que d'interrogatoires de police et par des détectives privés aux Etats-Unis. Ces dernières années, elle a étudié des pratiques de travail en milieu hospitalier dont la communication téléphonique et les échanges en situation de mobilité des membres du personnel. Au travers de ces recherches, elle a examiné nombre de phénomènes interactionnels spécifiques dont la gestion du risque, la confiance, la multi-activité, la mobilité, la production de demandes et la cordialité.
Esther González Martínez mène ses activités de recherche dans le cadre du Interaction and Social Practices Research Group (GRIPS); voir site internet pour curriculum vitae et liste de publications.

Research and publications

  • Publications
    63 publications

    Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction
    Simona Pekarek Doehler, Johannes Wagner, Esther González-Martínez, ed. by Simona Pekarek Doehler and Johannes Wagner and Esther González-Martínez (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018) | Book

    Interactional Competences in Institutional Settings
    Simona Pekarek Doehler, Adrian Bangerter, Geneviève de Weck, Laurent Filliettaz, Esther González-Martínez, Cécile Petitjean, ed. by Simona Pekarek Doehler and Adrian Bangerter and Geneviève de Weck and Laurent Filliettaz and Esther González-Martínez and Cécile Petitjean (Springer International Publishing, 2017) | Book

    Langage, activités et ordre social. Faire de la sociologie avec Harvey Sacks
    Alain Bovet, Esther González-Martínez, Fabienne Malbois (Peter Lang, 2014) | Book

    Discovering work. Ethnomethodological studies in the natural sciences
    Philippe Sormani, Esther González-Martínez, Alain Bovet (Ethnographic Studies, 2011) | Book

    Flagrantes auditions. Echanges langagiers lors d'interactions judiciaires
    Esther González-Martínez (2007), ISBN: 9783039112388 | Book

  • Research projects

    Requesting in hospital nurses' unscheduled interprofessional interactions
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.09.2019
    End 31.08.2024
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet
    Requesting consists of asking someone to do something, responding to the request and dealing with the response. Ubiquitous in everyday life, this interactional activity is closely related to the distribution of agency and responsibility, social cohesion and human sociality (Drew, Couper-Kuhlen, 2014; Enfield, 2013). Language and bodily conduct are crucial resources and are distinctly shaped when requesting compared to, for instance, begging or ordering. They take forms that index and contribute to the production of the legitimacy and grounds of the request, the degree of entitlement of the requester, the distribution of costs and benefits, and obligations to assist and rights to decide (Drew, Couper-Kuhlen, 2014). The projected research examines requesting in hospital nurses' unscheduled interprofessional interactions. Occurring on an as-needed basis, these interactions are crucial for teamwork coordination and provision of care (Burm, Boese, Faden et al., 2018), and are strongly oriented toward enlisting coworkers and getting them involved in action (Conn, Lingard, Reeves et al., 2009). In this context, requesting is entangled with issues of division of labor, professional boundaries, cooperation and solidarity (Allen, 2001) and the specificities of distributed teams achieving closely interrelated activities under the pressure of time and material constraints (Reddy, Dourish, Pratt, 2006). The projected research tackles two interrelated questions: 1) How is requesting in hospital nurses' unscheduled interprofessional interactions sequentially organized, on the spot and in real time? and 2) How is requesting connected to the social organization of nurses' interprofessional practice at the hospital? We specifically examine formal features of request sequences (position, components, formats, order) with regard to distribution of agency, professional identifies and relationships, and material constraints. Ultimately, we pursue the identification of distributional patterns of such features across participants, the objects of requests and the interactional environments in which they occur (Haakana, Laakso, Lindström, 2009; Sidnell, 2009). In terms of methods and data, conversation and multimodal analytic approaches are deployed for the collection and analysis of audio and video recordings, supplemented by ethnographic data, documenting requesting activities in several hospitals, involving nurses in contact with a wide variety of healthcare professionals. This 48-month project will lead to a dissertation by compilation of articles in Sociology at the University of Fribourg and several oral communications and publications at scientific and professional venues. It includes collaboration with the University of York (England). On a scientific level, the project contributes new knowledge about the organization of requesting in work interactions and the concrete practices of hospital personnel when communicating and working together, in a diversity of collaborative situations. On a practical level, it provides insight to further nurses' interprofessional training and practice in ways that take into account the potentialities and constraints of the hospital workplace.

    Interactional competences in institutional practices: young people between school and the workplace (IC-You)
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.01.2012
    End 31.12.2015
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet
    Research developed in the framework of the Sinergia research project "Interactional competences in institutional practices. Young people between school and the workplace" (IC-You) Swiss National Science Foundation grant no CRSII1_136291/1-2-3; PI: Prof. Simona Pekarek Doehler

    Interactional competences in institutional practices: young people between school and the workplace (IC-You) (Sous-projet: New on the job)
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.01.2012
    End 31.12.2015
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet

    Mobile and Contingent Work Interactions in the Hospital Care Unit
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.09.2011
    End 28.02.2015
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet

    10th Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.07.2011
    End 30.09.2011
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet
    10th Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

    DOING POLITICS / ACTING POLITICALLY. An International Workshop on The Political Dimension of Situated Practices
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.03.2009
    End 31.05.2009
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet

    Scientific Practice as Ordinary Action: An International Workshop on Scientists at Work
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.03.2007
    End 31.05.2007
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet

    The interactional organization of police and soft accusation methods
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.10.2006
    End 01.10.2006
    Funding Unifr 
    This research seeks to describe the interactional organization of two interrogation methods: police interrogation method and a soft accusation method developed and widely used by law enforcement and private security companies in the U.S. These method is a highly standardized technique of interrogation that is known as a “soft accusation” method, that is, one in which a direct accusation is avoided in the interrogation encounter in favor of other moves that indirectly implicate a subject in wrongful activity and lead to an admission of guilt. The research provides an analysis of how these interrogation methods are constructed as a particular sort of institutionally motivated speech exchange system. It focuses on how talk, in conjunction with the body (e.g., gesture, gaze, bodily position and movement) and the material surround, is used to perform social action in interaction with others. In this way, it provides insights into the real world, moment-by-moment unfolding of interaction—in other words, its dynamic and constructional nature. This research is based on analysis of audio and audiovisual recordings of actual interrogation encounters.

    La dimension institutionnelle des interactions au cours de la procedure penale de comparution immédiate
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.08.2004
    End 30.04.2006
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet

    Du Judiciaire à l'Institutionel: Analyse Sociologique des Interactions et des Echanges Verbaux
    Status: Completed

    Start 01.05.2003
    End 31.07.2004
    Funding SNSF  Open project sheet
    La procédure pénale française de comparution immédiate - dite de "flagrant délit" - est une procédure d'urgence conduite directement par le procureur, qui permet de juger l'accusé généralement le lendemain de sa détention. Sur la base d'un corpus d'enregistrements audiovisuels, cette recherche étudie le déroulement concret de cette procédure (dans la phase antérieure au jugement), à travers les interactions qui la jalonnent: les entretiens successifs du suspect avec l'enquêteur social, le procureur et l'avocat chargé d'assurer sa défense. Elle examine les pratiques par lesquelles les acteurs - en s'appuyant sur une certaine organisation langagière de l'échange - se coordonnent, élaborent les relations intersubjectives qui les identifient et produisent les actions auxquelles leur rencontre est vouée. L'objectif spécifique de l'enquête est l'analyse de la dimension institutionnelle des échanges, afin de comprendre comment ceux-ci engendrent les structures d'action sociales qui les caractérisent en tant que phases d'une procédure pénale. Il est postulé une relation d'élaboration réciproque entre les interactions et le procès pénal qu'elles façonnent et par rapport auquel elles prennent forme.

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