Stacey K Soward
Biographic Data
| ID | 338804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacey K Soward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacey K |
| FAMILY NAME | Soward |
| SIGNATURE | SOWARD S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0797-7047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Creating alternative media in Indonesia: Decolonial feminist perspectives from Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan
“Fish Forever” Campaigns: Enacting Communities of Care and Semangat Through Indonesian Fisheries Cooperatives
To illustrate communities of care in conservation, this essay provides three brief examples of campaigns in rural fishing communities in Indonesia. Based on long term fieldwork, we illustrate how the non-profit environmental organization Rare has trained campaign managers to develop community-based programs that promote people’s well-being in relationship to their environments and communities through nutrition, financial stability, education, and…
Relocating Reproductive Justice in Donor Sperm and Egg Capitalism
Privileged (in various forms, but especially class) people use egg or sperm donation and take other reproductive measures to achieve parenthood at all costs. Infertility issues for heterosexual partners and those who use donor eggs and sperm outside of heteronormative relationships has evolved into a type of entitled desperation and racial/ethnic/able-bodied form of eugenics, both further complicated by the cultural milieu of the post- Dobbs deci…
Engaging complex temporalities in environmental rhetoric
In this essay, we identify a temporal turn in environmental rhetoric. As field researchers, we have experienced different senses of time bumping against one another in intercultural, ecological situations. Although these micro-experiences of time provide a constant grounding for our lives, we are also aware of the macro-expressions of time and the ways that they order our world and understanding of environmental degradation. We detail three inter…
Ecotourism as Leisure and Labor in the Experience of the “Great” Outdoors
Ecotourism as an international concept promotes foreign and domestic tourism to locations in forests, oceans, and other forms of the natural world. National parks and other preserved ecosystems are popular destinations, usually located in the so-called developing countries or Global South countries, such as South and Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. This paper examines the construction of labor and leisure as forms of experi…
Rhetoricity of borders: Whiteness in Latinidad and beyond
The politics of visibility and whiteness are multifaceted, complicated, and nuanced in how Latinidad is perceived, represented, and stereotyped. For U.S. Latino/a/x folks, Latinidad is often identified through typical signifiers: name (e.g., anglicized and/or Spanishized), how one speaks both English and Spanish, and the color of one’s skin; stereotypic and phenotypic markers that tend to rely on codes of Spanish-accented English and dark skin, d…
Working across languages/cultures in international and environmental communication fieldwork
As environmental communication grows as an area of study, international and environmental justice issues increasingly need attention. Sustainability, climate change, habitat erosion, water access, and a number of other issues disproportionately affect rural and marginalized communities around the globe. For researchers working in and with such communities, the ethics of interviewing local and/or non-academic people requires much thought and consi…
Constant civility as corrosion of the soul: Surviving through and beyond the politics of politeness
Survival for marginalized folks requires communication skills and understanding power dynamics in ways that often result in polite and/or civil discourse. This essay examines how we survive through politeness, the consequences of such politeness, and how politeness is policed through power structures in academia that relate to privilege, merit, tokenism, whiteness, maleness, straightness, and other forms of power
Dolores Huerta, the United Farm Workers, and people power: Rhetorical participation in Latina/o/x suffrage and social movements
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union, was and still is involved in a number of social justice causes, including voter participation. Since her days working at the Community Service Organization in the 1950s, she has long advocated for registering and organizing voters as part of a broader strategy to enfranchise Mexican, Mexican American, and other historically marginalized groups. This essay explores a few brief examples o…
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…
Bordering Through Place/s, Difference/s, and Language/s: Intersections of Border and Feminist Theories
As a resident in El Paso, Texas, who lives and works within view of Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua, my life has been significantly shaped by the U.S.–Mexico border—in how I understand lang
Rhetoric’s “Distinguished” pitfalls: A plática
At this specific moment, the issue likely needs no introduction; but some day, years from now, it will. In June 2019, the National Communication Association (NCA) erupted in controversy when Martin
RhetoricSoEnglishOnly: Decolonizing rhetorical studies through multilingualism
Rhetorical scholarship must move in new linguistic and decolonial directions, to illustrate those languages/cultures/nationalities that have been marginalized in academia. English language dominance in the academy reflects relations of power, race, ethnicity, culture, globalization, colonization, and dualistic ways of thinking. Fluency in English is a type of linguistic capital that is preferred and demanded within academic scholarship in the US …
Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities
Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Book Review| June 01 2014 Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier. Edited by D. Robert DeChaine. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012; pp. 273. $34.95 paper. Stacey K. Sowards Stacey K. Sowards University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 363–367. https:/…
Environmental Justice in International Contexts: Understanding Intersections for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Expectations, Experiences, and Memories: Ecotourism and the Possibilities for Transformations
This essay explores how ecotourism destinations and media materials rhetorically construct ecotourists’ anticipations, experiences, and memories through ethnographic and rhetorical analyses. Using theory related to phenomenology, this study examines how expectations are formed through rhetorical tropes such as the sublime, the exotic, and the dangerous adventure. In turn, these expectations direct attentions towards specific experiences and memor…
MTV Asia: Localizing the Global Media
Rhetorical Agency as Haciendo Caras and Differential Consciousness Through Lens of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: An Examination of Dolores Huerta's Rhetoric
Journal Article Rhetorical Agency as Haciendo Caras and Differential Consciousness Through Lens of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: An Examination of Dolores Huerta's Rhetoric Get access Stacey Sowards Stacey Sowards 1Department of Communication and Sam Donaldson Center for Communication, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume …
Contradiction as Agency: Self-Determination, Transcendence, and Counter-Imagination in Third Wave Feminism
This essay examines the contradictions often found in third wave feminist texts that function as strategic choices that may shape, foster, and enhance an individual's sense of agency. Many third wave feminists utilize contradiction as a way to understand emergent identities, to develop new ways of thinking, and to imagine new forms of social action. Agency, then, stems from the use of contradiction as a means of self-determination and identity, o…
Identification Through Orangutans: Destabilizing the Nature/Culture Dualism
The nature/culture dualism has long been criticized for constructing social beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that fail to respect and value the natural world. One possible way to bridge the divide between the human and non-human worlds is the process of identification. Orangutans, an endangered species found in Indonesia and Malaysia, enable individuals to bridge, connect, and identify with a seemingly separate natural world. Through identificat…
Juan Gabriel and Audience Interpretation: Cultural Impressions of Effeminacy and Sexuality in Mexico
Juan Gabriel's purported effeminacy and sexuality have made him a controversial subject in Mexico, but still loved by fans. Juan Gabriel, by trying to gain acceptance into Mexican society, has become part of a hybrid culture, between the feminine/masculine and homosexual/bisexual/heterosexual groups. This study focuses on interviews with 20 participants who discuss Juan Gabriel's popularity and sexuality. The findings of the study indicate that J…
Rhetorical Agency as Haciendo Caras and Differential Consciousness Through Lens of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: An Examination of Dolores Huerta's Rhetoric
Journal Article Rhetorical Agency as Haciendo Caras and Differential Consciousness Through Lens of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: An Examination of Dolores Huerta's Rhetoric Get access Stacey Sowards Stacey Sowards 1Department of Communication and Sam Donaldson Center for Communication, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume …
Contradiction as Agency: Self-Determination, Transcendence, and Counter-Imagination in Third Wave Feminism
This essay examines the contradictions often found in third wave feminist texts that function as strategic choices that may shape, foster, and enhance an individual's sense of agency. Many third wave feminists utilize contradiction as a way to understand emergent identities, to develop new ways of thinking, and to imagine new forms of social action. Agency, then, stems from the use of contradiction as a means of self-determination and identity, o…
Identification Through Orangutans: Destabilizing the Nature/Culture Dualism
The nature/culture dualism has long been criticized for constructing social beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that fail to respect and value the natural world. One possible way to bridge the divide between the human and non-human worlds is the process of identification. Orangutans, an endangered species found in Indonesia and Malaysia, enable individuals to bridge, connect, and identify with a seemingly separate natural world. Through identificat…
Rhetoricity of borders: Whiteness in Latinidad and beyond
The politics of visibility and whiteness are multifaceted, complicated, and nuanced in how Latinidad is perceived, represented, and stereotyped. For U.S. Latino/a/x folks, Latinidad is often identified through typical signifiers: name (e.g., anglicized and/or Spanishized), how one speaks both English and Spanish, and the color of one’s skin; stereotypic and phenotypic markers that tend to rely on codes of Spanish-accented English and dark skin, d…
RhetoricSoEnglishOnly: Decolonizing rhetorical studies through multilingualism
Rhetorical scholarship must move in new linguistic and decolonial directions, to illustrate those languages/cultures/nationalities that have been marginalized in academia. English language dominance in the academy reflects relations of power, race, ethnicity, culture, globalization, colonization, and dualistic ways of thinking. Fluency in English is a type of linguistic capital that is preferred and demanded within academic scholarship in the US …
Working across languages/cultures in international and environmental communication fieldwork
As environmental communication grows as an area of study, international and environmental justice issues increasingly need attention. Sustainability, climate change, habitat erosion, water access, and a number of other issues disproportionately affect rural and marginalized communities around the globe. For researchers working in and with such communities, the ethics of interviewing local and/or non-academic people requires much thought and consi…
Relocating Reproductive Justice in Donor Sperm and Egg Capitalism
Privileged (in various forms, but especially class) people use egg or sperm donation and take other reproductive measures to achieve parenthood at all costs. Infertility issues for heterosexual partners and those who use donor eggs and sperm outside of heteronormative relationships has evolved into a type of entitled desperation and racial/ethnic/able-bodied form of eugenics, both further complicated by the cultural milieu of the post- Dobbs deci…
Bordering Through Place/s, Difference/s, and Language/s: Intersections of Border and Feminist Theories
As a resident in El Paso, Texas, who lives and works within view of Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua, my life has been significantly shaped by the U.S.–Mexico border—in how I understand lang
Rhetoric’s “Distinguished” pitfalls: A plática
At this specific moment, the issue likely needs no introduction; but some day, years from now, it will. In June 2019, the National Communication Association (NCA) erupted in controversy when Martin
Juan Gabriel and Audience Interpretation: Cultural Impressions of Effeminacy and Sexuality in Mexico
Juan Gabriel's purported effeminacy and sexuality have made him a controversial subject in Mexico, but still loved by fans. Juan Gabriel, by trying to gain acceptance into Mexican society, has become part of a hybrid culture, between the feminine/masculine and homosexual/bisexual/heterosexual groups. This study focuses on interviews with 20 participants who discuss Juan Gabriel's popularity and sexuality. The findings of the study indicate that J…
Juan Gabriel and Audience Interpretation: Cultural Impressions of Effeminacy and Sexuality in Mexico
Juan Gabriel's purported effeminacy and sexuality have made him a controversial subject in Mexico, but still loved by fans. Juan Gabriel, by trying to gain acceptance into Mexican society, has become part of a hybrid culture, between the feminine/masculine and homosexual/bisexual/heterosexual groups. This study focuses on interviews with 20 participants who discuss Juan Gabriel's popularity and sexuality. The findings of the study indicate that J…
Identification Through Orangutans: Destabilizing the Nature/Culture Dualism
The nature/culture dualism has long been criticized for constructing social beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that fail to respect and value the natural world. One possible way to bridge the divide between the human and non-human worlds is the process of identification. Orangutans, an endangered species found in Indonesia and Malaysia, enable individuals to bridge, connect, and identify with a seemingly separate natural world. Through identificat…
Contradiction as Agency: Self-Determination, Transcendence, and Counter-Imagination in Third Wave Feminism
This essay examines the contradictions often found in third wave feminist texts that function as strategic choices that may shape, foster, and enhance an individual's sense of agency. Many third wave feminists utilize contradiction as a way to understand emergent identities, to develop new ways of thinking, and to imagine new forms of social action. Agency, then, stems from the use of contradiction as a means of self-determination and identity, o…
Rhetorical Agency as Haciendo Caras and Differential Consciousness Through Lens of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: An Examination of Dolores Huerta's Rhetoric
Journal Article Rhetorical Agency as Haciendo Caras and Differential Consciousness Through Lens of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class: An Examination of Dolores Huerta's Rhetoric Get access Stacey Sowards Stacey Sowards 1Department of Communication and Sam Donaldson Center for Communication, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume …
Environmental Justice in International Contexts: Understanding Intersections for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Expectations, Experiences, and Memories: Ecotourism and the Possibilities for Transformations
This essay explores how ecotourism destinations and media materials rhetorically construct ecotourists’ anticipations, experiences, and memories through ethnographic and rhetorical analyses. Using theory related to phenomenology, this study examines how expectations are formed through rhetorical tropes such as the sublime, the exotic, and the dangerous adventure. In turn, these expectations direct attentions towards specific experiences and memor…
MTV Asia: Localizing the Global Media
Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities
Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Book Review| June 01 2014 Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier. Edited by D. Robert DeChaine. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012; pp. 273. $34.95 paper. Stacey K. Sowards Stacey K. Sowards University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 363–367. https:/…
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…
Bordering Through Place/s, Difference/s, and Language/s: Intersections of Border and Feminist Theories
As a resident in El Paso, Texas, who lives and works within view of Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua, my life has been significantly shaped by the U.S.–Mexico border—in how I understand lang
Rhetoric’s “Distinguished” pitfalls: A plática
At this specific moment, the issue likely needs no introduction; but some day, years from now, it will. In June 2019, the National Communication Association (NCA) erupted in controversy when Martin
RhetoricSoEnglishOnly: Decolonizing rhetorical studies through multilingualism
Rhetorical scholarship must move in new linguistic and decolonial directions, to illustrate those languages/cultures/nationalities that have been marginalized in academia. English language dominance in the academy reflects relations of power, race, ethnicity, culture, globalization, colonization, and dualistic ways of thinking. Fluency in English is a type of linguistic capital that is preferred and demanded within academic scholarship in the US …
Working across languages/cultures in international and environmental communication fieldwork
As environmental communication grows as an area of study, international and environmental justice issues increasingly need attention. Sustainability, climate change, habitat erosion, water access, and a number of other issues disproportionately affect rural and marginalized communities around the globe. For researchers working in and with such communities, the ethics of interviewing local and/or non-academic people requires much thought and consi…
Constant civility as corrosion of the soul: Surviving through and beyond the politics of politeness
Survival for marginalized folks requires communication skills and understanding power dynamics in ways that often result in polite and/or civil discourse. This essay examines how we survive through politeness, the consequences of such politeness, and how politeness is policed through power structures in academia that relate to privilege, merit, tokenism, whiteness, maleness, straightness, and other forms of power
Dolores Huerta, the United Farm Workers, and people power: Rhetorical participation in Latina/o/x suffrage and social movements
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union, was and still is involved in a number of social justice causes, including voter participation. Since her days working at the Community Service Organization in the 1950s, she has long advocated for registering and organizing voters as part of a broader strategy to enfranchise Mexican, Mexican American, and other historically marginalized groups. This essay explores a few brief examples o…
Ecotourism as Leisure and Labor in the Experience of the “Great” Outdoors
Ecotourism as an international concept promotes foreign and domestic tourism to locations in forests, oceans, and other forms of the natural world. National parks and other preserved ecosystems are popular destinations, usually located in the so-called developing countries or Global South countries, such as South and Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. This paper examines the construction of labor and leisure as forms of experi…
Rhetoricity of borders: Whiteness in Latinidad and beyond
The politics of visibility and whiteness are multifaceted, complicated, and nuanced in how Latinidad is perceived, represented, and stereotyped. For U.S. Latino/a/x folks, Latinidad is often identified through typical signifiers: name (e.g., anglicized and/or Spanishized), how one speaks both English and Spanish, and the color of one’s skin; stereotypic and phenotypic markers that tend to rely on codes of Spanish-accented English and dark skin, d…
Engaging complex temporalities in environmental rhetoric
In this essay, we identify a temporal turn in environmental rhetoric. As field researchers, we have experienced different senses of time bumping against one another in intercultural, ecological situations. Although these micro-experiences of time provide a constant grounding for our lives, we are also aware of the macro-expressions of time and the ways that they order our world and understanding of environmental degradation. We detail three inter…
“Fish Forever” Campaigns: Enacting Communities of Care and Semangat Through Indonesian Fisheries Cooperatives
To illustrate communities of care in conservation, this essay provides three brief examples of campaigns in rural fishing communities in Indonesia. Based on long term fieldwork, we illustrate how the non-profit environmental organization Rare has trained campaign managers to develop community-based programs that promote people’s well-being in relationship to their environments and communities through nutrition, financial stability, education, and…
Relocating Reproductive Justice in Donor Sperm and Egg Capitalism
Privileged (in various forms, but especially class) people use egg or sperm donation and take other reproductive measures to achieve parenthood at all costs. Infertility issues for heterosexual partners and those who use donor eggs and sperm outside of heteronormative relationships has evolved into a type of entitled desperation and racial/ethnic/able-bodied form of eugenics, both further complicated by the cultural milieu of the post- Dobbs deci…
Creating alternative media in Indonesia: Decolonial feminist perspectives from Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (6 works)