Salvador Zárate
Biographic Data
| ID | 105818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Salvador Zárate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Salvador |
| FAMILY NAME | Zárate |
| SIGNATURE | ZÁRATE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5391-6782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bridging work
Community Health Workers (CHW) are commonly conceptualized as a 'bridge' that connects the community to health-related systems and resources for which they have historically and contemporarily experienced systemic barriers to accessing. Nonetheless, the nuances of the bridge role remain underexamined. The bridge metaphor, by the static nature of a bridge, can overlook the dynamic and relational aspects of CHWs' work beyond simple liaison function…
Each one of us did the best we could for the community, while also supporting each other”
Engaging community members is crucial for comprehensively understanding the CHW model. Given the enormous ongoing community challenges post-pandemic, these findings call for increased CHW presence, additional support and resources for health and socioeconomic needs, and improved information dissemination to bolster community resilience. Findings center mutual aid, emphasizing the importance of supporting communities in this crucial work. Addition…
Reflecting on the Backstage and Frontstage of Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is critical for promoting health equity through the incorporation of equitable decision-making and participatory processes into health equity research. Yet, research processes often fail to align with community realities. Drawing on Goffman's frontstage-backstage framework, this paper examines how a community-academic partnership navigated and negotiated processes to support ethical inclusion of commu…
Drought mending
This article explores the politics of producing knowledge about drought in a suburban region of southern California: Orange County. Based on nine months of ethnographic research with the assistant specialists that keep the Loma Ridge Global Change Experiment (LRGCE) station running, the article demonstrates how the station, which studies microbial communities and wildfire effects on the local ecology, simply cannot produce the necessary data with…
Kinship of the Flesh
Deportations during the Obama era, along with antimigrant state legislation, such as SB 1070 in Arizona, made family separation a palpable reality for undocumented migrants at the end of the first decade of the twentieth-first century. A timely rebuke, Chris Weitz's film A Better Life (2011) tells the story of a father and son whose hopes for a better life, planted in the Southern California gardening economy, are razed by deportation and family …
Practical Qualitative Data Analysis for Public Health Research
Qualitative research is important to advance health equity as it offers nuanced insights into structural determinants of health inequities, amplifies the voices of communities directly affected by health inequities, and informs community-based interventions. The scale and frequency of public health crises have accelerated in recent years (e.g., pandemic, environmental disasters, climate change). The field of public health research and practice wo…
Community Activation to TrAnsform Local sYSTems (Catalyst)
Community Health Workers, promotores, and navigators (henceforth, CHWs) emerged as critical members of the public health workforce addressing social, economic, and health inequities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is increased appreciation for and utilization of CHW models, and recognition of the importance of tailoring and innovating these models during the pandemic, few studies have examined the processes of change by which CHW m…
Business Cards
This contribution to the “Housewife’s Secret Arsenal” intimately explores the domestication of toxicity through two pieces of material culture: a Bracero Program (1942–1964) identification card and a residential gardening business card. Both cards belonged to my father. I use these cards to tell how my father’s access to the domestic space of the nation’s agriculture fields and into the domestic exterior space of people’s gardens in Southern Cali…
It’s about Time
This article is a reflection on doing wildfire research aimed at shaping public policy in Orange County, California, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its focus is on the little-known efforts of fire mitigation by Latinx migrant workers. In this article, I discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic made me shift research focus from seeking to understand how workers’ ecological knowledge might shape fire mitigation policy to a prioritization of workers’ precar…
Furtive breath, or how your zz plant won’t free us
The Orange County gardeners of Covid-19
This article examines Latinx residential gardening in Orange County, California during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic laid bare how the suburban home is a realm of racial suffocation, where the US white propertied subject is secured through unfettered access to the life, not just labor, of racialized and gendered workers of the domestic economy. Despite disposability, residential gardeners' frontline botanical work foments …
Orange County, California Covid-19 Vaccine Equity Best Practices Checklist
Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated longstanding inequities throughout the United States, disproportionately concentrating adverse social, economic, and health-related outcomes among low-income communities and communities of color. Inequitable distribution, prioritization, and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines due to systemic and organizational barriers add to these disproportionate impacts across the United S…
Essentially Surplus
This article offers an account of the relationship between “essential” and the category of labor by examining how reproductivity, as the foundation—what is essential—to all work, life, and sociality, is, as Kalindi Vora argues, rendered (and renders those who perform it) into racialized surplus, a condition of devaluation and disposability premised on the extraction and exhaustion of life. I draw on a year of ethnographic research with domestic w…
Malinowski's Latinx Gardeners
During the pandemic, the separation between our work lives and personal lives has become complicated and sometimes untenable. By exploring an instance where my professional duties-guest lecturing for a colleague's class-were interrupted by a residential gardener and his leaf blower just outside my window, I demonstrate how the pandemic and the crises it represents to ethnographic research might be thought alongside the Latinx migrant service labo…
Practical Qualitative Data Analysis for Public Health Research
Qualitative research is important to advance health equity as it offers nuanced insights into structural determinants of health inequities, amplifies the voices of communities directly affected by health inequities, and informs community-based interventions. The scale and frequency of public health crises have accelerated in recent years (e.g., pandemic, environmental disasters, climate change). The field of public health research and practice wo…
Community Activation to TrAnsform Local sYSTems (Catalyst)
Community Health Workers, promotores, and navigators (henceforth, CHWs) emerged as critical members of the public health workforce addressing social, economic, and health inequities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is increased appreciation for and utilization of CHW models, and recognition of the importance of tailoring and innovating these models during the pandemic, few studies have examined the processes of change by which CHW m…
Essentially Surplus
This article offers an account of the relationship between “essential” and the category of labor by examining how reproductivity, as the foundation—what is essential—to all work, life, and sociality, is, as Kalindi Vora argues, rendered (and renders those who perform it) into racialized surplus, a condition of devaluation and disposability premised on the extraction and exhaustion of life. I draw on a year of ethnographic research with domestic w…
Malinowski's Latinx Gardeners
During the pandemic, the separation between our work lives and personal lives has become complicated and sometimes untenable. By exploring an instance where my professional duties-guest lecturing for a colleague's class-were interrupted by a residential gardener and his leaf blower just outside my window, I demonstrate how the pandemic and the crises it represents to ethnographic research might be thought alongside the Latinx migrant service labo…
Orange County, California Covid-19 Vaccine Equity Best Practices Checklist
Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated longstanding inequities throughout the United States, disproportionately concentrating adverse social, economic, and health-related outcomes among low-income communities and communities of color. Inequitable distribution, prioritization, and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines due to systemic and organizational barriers add to these disproportionate impacts across the United S…
Business Cards
This contribution to the “Housewife’s Secret Arsenal” intimately explores the domestication of toxicity through two pieces of material culture: a Bracero Program (1942–1964) identification card and a residential gardening business card. Both cards belonged to my father. I use these cards to tell how my father’s access to the domestic space of the nation’s agriculture fields and into the domestic exterior space of people’s gardens in Southern Cali…
It’s about Time
This article is a reflection on doing wildfire research aimed at shaping public policy in Orange County, California, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its focus is on the little-known efforts of fire mitigation by Latinx migrant workers. In this article, I discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic made me shift research focus from seeking to understand how workers’ ecological knowledge might shape fire mitigation policy to a prioritization of workers’ precar…
Furtive breath, or how your zz plant won’t free us
The Orange County gardeners of Covid-19
This article examines Latinx residential gardening in Orange County, California during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic laid bare how the suburban home is a realm of racial suffocation, where the US white propertied subject is secured through unfettered access to the life, not just labor, of racialized and gendered workers of the domestic economy. Despite disposability, residential gardeners' frontline botanical work foments …
Kinship of the Flesh
Deportations during the Obama era, along with antimigrant state legislation, such as SB 1070 in Arizona, made family separation a palpable reality for undocumented migrants at the end of the first decade of the twentieth-first century. A timely rebuke, Chris Weitz's film A Better Life (2011) tells the story of a father and son whose hopes for a better life, planted in the Southern California gardening economy, are razed by deportation and family …
Practical Qualitative Data Analysis for Public Health Research
Qualitative research is important to advance health equity as it offers nuanced insights into structural determinants of health inequities, amplifies the voices of communities directly affected by health inequities, and informs community-based interventions. The scale and frequency of public health crises have accelerated in recent years (e.g., pandemic, environmental disasters, climate change). The field of public health research and practice wo…
Community Activation to TrAnsform Local sYSTems (Catalyst)
Community Health Workers, promotores, and navigators (henceforth, CHWs) emerged as critical members of the public health workforce addressing social, economic, and health inequities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is increased appreciation for and utilization of CHW models, and recognition of the importance of tailoring and innovating these models during the pandemic, few studies have examined the processes of change by which CHW m…
Each one of us did the best we could for the community, while also supporting each other”
Engaging community members is crucial for comprehensively understanding the CHW model. Given the enormous ongoing community challenges post-pandemic, these findings call for increased CHW presence, additional support and resources for health and socioeconomic needs, and improved information dissemination to bolster community resilience. Findings center mutual aid, emphasizing the importance of supporting communities in this crucial work. Addition…
Reflecting on the Backstage and Frontstage of Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is critical for promoting health equity through the incorporation of equitable decision-making and participatory processes into health equity research. Yet, research processes often fail to align with community realities. Drawing on Goffman's frontstage-backstage framework, this paper examines how a community-academic partnership navigated and negotiated processes to support ethical inclusion of commu…
Drought mending
This article explores the politics of producing knowledge about drought in a suburban region of southern California: Orange County. Based on nine months of ethnographic research with the assistant specialists that keep the Loma Ridge Global Change Experiment (LRGCE) station running, the article demonstrates how the station, which studies microbial communities and wildfire effects on the local ecology, simply cannot produce the necessary data with…
Bridging work
Community Health Workers (CHW) are commonly conceptualized as a 'bridge' that connects the community to health-related systems and resources for which they have historically and contemporarily experienced systemic barriers to accessing. Nonetheless, the nuances of the bridge role remain underexamined. The bridge metaphor, by the static nature of a bridge, can overlook the dynamic and relational aspects of CHWs' work beyond simple liaison function…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Health equity (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Public Health Policies and Education (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Community health (3 works)