Sarah De Los Santos Upton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1399757 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sarah De Los Santos Upton |
| NOMBRES | Sarah De Los Santos |
| APELLIDO | Upton |
| FIRMA | UPTON S S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7934-3764 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Spectacles of control
This forum brings together rich and diverse interdisciplinary scholarship examining how violence against women operates not only as physical harm but also as cultural communication that reinforces power, hierarchy, and control. Spanning historical and contemporary contexts, the forum explores how myths, artistic canons, media narratives, legal systems, wartime practices, and everyday discourses normalize or obscure gendered violence while simulta…
Comadrisma as Method
Student parents are often marginalized and/or rendered invisible by academic systems that view their dual role as incompatible with the idealized student (Moreau & Kerner, 2015; Sallee & Cox, 2019; Springer et al., 2009). As a result, these students are often offered limited resources and passed over for opportunities, leading to a lesser academic experience than that of their childless peers. In this article, we argue that eliminating barriers f…
A Comadrisma Toolkit for Care and Well-Being on Campus
In this article, Naomi Fertman and Sarah De Los Santos Upton explore the concept of comadrisma as a framework for care and well-being among communities of color in higher education, with particular attention to the experiences of student parents. The authors draw on personal narratives as faculty and mothers, and the piece highlights the significance of communal support and othermothering within academic contexts. They provide insights into how c…
Reproductive Justice and the Post- Roe Landscape
the official decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was handed down, which led to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had been upheld since 1973.The overturn of Roe v. Wade set several trigger laws into effect across the United States, posed significant questions about the future of abortion rights, and resulted in protests both in favor of and against the ruling.As two Chicana feminist …
Construyendo Conexiones Para Los Niños
Familias Unidas del Chamizal is a community organization in El Paso, TX that works to increase awareness around the issues of education, environmental racism, development, and public health. In 2019, the El Paso Independent School District launched an initiative to close several schools due to low enrollment, forcing students in Barrio Chamizal to relocate to Frederick Douglass Elementary, which borders a designated industrial zone and is surroun…
“We Need to be Better”
The summer 2020 protests following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other African-Americans sparked important conversations about race, police brutality, and institutionalized racism in the United States. In response to widespread civil unrest, organizations across the country issued statements condemning anti-Black violence and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. This essay analyzes public statements relea…
Transgender Migrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and the Mexico–US Border in the Time of Covid-19
Research Article| October 01 2020 Transgender Migrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and the Mexico–US Border in the Time of COVID-19 Leandra Hinojosa Hernández; Leandra Hinojosa Hernández Leandra Hinojosa Hernández (PhD, Texas A&M University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University. She is the coauthor of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, Power…
Critical Health Communication Methods at the U.S.-Mexico Border
This essay re/envisions what critical health communication methods look like on the U.S.-Mexico border in reproductive justice contexts. For example, traditional health communication theories and methods have privileged objectivity, generalizability, and the creation of critically important health communication patterns and concepts that have guided the development, deployment, and execution of health communication programs and cultural competenc…
Across Bridges and Islands
In this essay, we invoke the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and the broader constellation of borderland theory to make sense of how we have negotiated the boundaries of research in academic environments that have sought to marginalize and diminish our perspectives. Recognizing that academe is disciplined by whiteness, we provide personal reflections as a form of embodied connectivity in an attempt to decolonize communication studies. We use two metaphor…
Nepantla Activism and Coalition Building
As a child, I remember how it stung when my elementary school peers would use the word guera1 to insult me. It was the same, yet somehow different, when my White cousins would call me brown—not as
The co-conspiring methodology
Co-conspiring is an approach to action research aimed at decolonizing the research process. This research method is inspired by an ongoing, collaborative research relationship with East Central Ministries, a faith-based non-profit organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico’s international district. Guided by East Central Ministries’s practices of intention setting/leaving space for what emerges, focusing on feelings, being community minded, an…
Moving from nos/otros to nosotros
Traditional top-down approaches to community development reinforce nos/otros binaries within provider/recipient relationships; transcendent approaches, on the other hand, create space for nosotros collaborative development. This article describes an instance of the nos/otros binary, in which a foreign volunteer in a rural community in Ecuador assumed the role of practitioner and limited community members’ roles to recipients or beneficiaries of h…
The co-conspiring methodology
Co-conspiring is an approach to action research aimed at decolonizing the research process. This research method is inspired by an ongoing, collaborative research relationship with East Central Ministries, a faith-based non-profit organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico’s international district. Guided by East Central Ministries’s practices of intention setting/leaving space for what emerges, focusing on feelings, being community minded, an…
Nepantla Activism and Coalition Building
As a child, I remember how it stung when my elementary school peers would use the word guera1 to insult me. It was the same, yet somehow different, when my White cousins would call me brown—not as
Moving from nos/otros to nosotros
Traditional top-down approaches to community development reinforce nos/otros binaries within provider/recipient relationships; transcendent approaches, on the other hand, create space for nosotros collaborative development. This article describes an instance of the nos/otros binary, in which a foreign volunteer in a rural community in Ecuador assumed the role of practitioner and limited community members’ roles to recipients or beneficiaries of h…
Moving from nos/otros to nosotros
Traditional top-down approaches to community development reinforce nos/otros binaries within provider/recipient relationships; transcendent approaches, on the other hand, create space for nosotros collaborative development. This article describes an instance of the nos/otros binary, in which a foreign volunteer in a rural community in Ecuador assumed the role of practitioner and limited community members’ roles to recipients or beneficiaries of h…
The co-conspiring methodology
Co-conspiring is an approach to action research aimed at decolonizing the research process. This research method is inspired by an ongoing, collaborative research relationship with East Central Ministries, a faith-based non-profit organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico’s international district. Guided by East Central Ministries’s practices of intention setting/leaving space for what emerges, focusing on feelings, being community minded, an…
Critical Health Communication Methods at the U.S.-Mexico Border
This essay re/envisions what critical health communication methods look like on the U.S.-Mexico border in reproductive justice contexts. For example, traditional health communication theories and methods have privileged objectivity, generalizability, and the creation of critically important health communication patterns and concepts that have guided the development, deployment, and execution of health communication programs and cultural competenc…
Across Bridges and Islands
In this essay, we invoke the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and the broader constellation of borderland theory to make sense of how we have negotiated the boundaries of research in academic environments that have sought to marginalize and diminish our perspectives. Recognizing that academe is disciplined by whiteness, we provide personal reflections as a form of embodied connectivity in an attempt to decolonize communication studies. We use two metaphor…
Nepantla Activism and Coalition Building
As a child, I remember how it stung when my elementary school peers would use the word guera1 to insult me. It was the same, yet somehow different, when my White cousins would call me brown—not as
Transgender Migrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and the Mexico–US Border in the Time of Covid-19
Research Article| October 01 2020 Transgender Migrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and the Mexico–US Border in the Time of COVID-19 Leandra Hinojosa Hernández; Leandra Hinojosa Hernández Leandra Hinojosa Hernández (PhD, Texas A&M University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University. She is the coauthor of Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, Power…
“We Need to be Better”
The summer 2020 protests following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other African-Americans sparked important conversations about race, police brutality, and institutionalized racism in the United States. In response to widespread civil unrest, organizations across the country issued statements condemning anti-Black violence and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. This essay analyzes public statements relea…
Construyendo Conexiones Para Los Niños
Familias Unidas del Chamizal is a community organization in El Paso, TX that works to increase awareness around the issues of education, environmental racism, development, and public health. In 2019, the El Paso Independent School District launched an initiative to close several schools due to low enrollment, forcing students in Barrio Chamizal to relocate to Frederick Douglass Elementary, which borders a designated industrial zone and is surroun…
Reproductive Justice and the Post- Roe Landscape
the official decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was handed down, which led to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had been upheld since 1973.The overturn of Roe v. Wade set several trigger laws into effect across the United States, posed significant questions about the future of abortion rights, and resulted in protests both in favor of and against the ruling.As two Chicana feminist …
A Comadrisma Toolkit for Care and Well-Being on Campus
In this article, Naomi Fertman and Sarah De Los Santos Upton explore the concept of comadrisma as a framework for care and well-being among communities of color in higher education, with particular attention to the experiences of student parents. The authors draw on personal narratives as faculty and mothers, and the piece highlights the significance of communal support and othermothering within academic contexts. They provide insights into how c…
Comadrisma as Method
Student parents are often marginalized and/or rendered invisible by academic systems that view their dual role as incompatible with the idealized student (Moreau & Kerner, 2015; Sallee & Cox, 2019; Springer et al., 2009). As a result, these students are often offered limited resources and passed over for opportunities, leading to a lesser academic experience than that of their childless peers. In this article, we argue that eliminating barriers f…
Spectacles of control
This forum brings together rich and diverse interdisciplinary scholarship examining how violence against women operates not only as physical harm but also as cultural communication that reinforces power, hierarchy, and control. Spanning historical and contemporary contexts, the forum explores how myths, artistic canons, media narratives, legal systems, wartime practices, and everyday discourses normalize or obscure gendered violence while simulta…
Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Economic Justice (4 obras) · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (3 obras) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 obras) · Media studies (3 obras) · Reproductive justice (3 obras) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 obras)