Victoria Reyes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Reyes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Reyes |
| SIGNATURE | REYES V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1372-189X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Poetic Sociology
Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer. But what if sociology embraced the experimental in form and structure? The affective and emotional? In this article, I draw and build upon Bl…
My Body
This poem was written after a sexual assault at a conference and heeds Moussawi’s (2022) call to center affect and “bad feelings” in our writing. Embracing Rosamond King’s (2019) call for radical interdisciplinarity and Audre Lorde’s (1984) assertation that poetry is not a luxury, I write how the sexual assault was both traumatic and familiar. The poem and methodological note that follows aims to open up conversations about what it means to study…
Imperial Violence, Imperial Lies: How Colonial Archives Package History
Crisis Feminisms: How Convenient Forgetting, Feminist Ambivalence, and Racial Gaslighting Maintain the Status Quo
In this paper, we interrogate what are considered feminist issues for feminist sociologists, prodding us to expand our definition of 'feminist sociology' considering what we are still learning from global crises. We take our cue from Black, indigenous, women of color, and transnational feminisms, who highlight the importance of the self, center gender, sexuality, racialization, class, power and transnational processes, and have a commitment to fe…
Resilience promotion through religiosity among Chilean older adults during the global outbreak of Covid-19
The stressors caused by the pandemic, as well as a lockdown measure generated a greater mental and emotional burden in many individuals, especially among older people. This qualitative study examined from 22 semi-structured interviews how religiosity acted as a psychosocial resource that promoted resilience, positive coping, and social support among older Chilean adults. Religious older adults not only showed a strong capacity for resilience, but…
Love and Gendered Racism in the Academy: A Reply
Persevering during the Pandemic: Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis
Transparency is once again a central issue of debate across types of qualitative research. Work on how to conduct qualitative data analysis, on the other hand, walks us through the step-by-step process on how to code and understand the data we've collected. Although there are a few exceptions, less focus is on transparency regarding decision-making processes in the course of research. In this article, we argue that scholars should create a living…
Neferti X. M. Tadiar's Remaindered Life
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
Theorizing the Teaching Triad
In this conversation essay, the authors incorporate teaching assistants (TAs) into pedagogical theorizing through what they call the teaching triad, an analytic heuristic to understand faculty-TA-undergraduate interactions. TAs are graduate students who are tasked with running discussion sections, smaller settings where undergraduates interact more directly with the material and one another. Yet, faculty pedagogies enable or constrain the work of…
Transgressing the Academy
For a Du Boisian economic sociology
The discipline is at a crossroads. Will sociology answer ASA past president Aldon Morris' call for an emancipatory sociology? Or will sociology, as Morris puts it, “continue pretending to be an aloof, objective, detached science”? Recently, Hirschman and Garbes issued a call for an economic sociology of race, wherein they contend that race and racism are not central to economic sociology and that economic sociologists don't engage with contempora…
Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders." Tenure-track, published author, recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards —these credentials mark Victoria Reyes as somebody who has achieved the status of insider in the academy. Woman of color, family history of sexual violence, first generation, mother —these qualities place Reyes on the ma…
Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States
Maria Ressa: Cyber Libel
Maria Ressa worked at CNN for nearly twenty years, was the lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for terrorist networks, and she helped found the news website Rappler. In June 2020, Ressa was convicted of “cyber libel” and faces up to six years in prison
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
The U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case study, Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings. For some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status. Drawing on archival and ethnogr…
For a Global Social Science
Afterword
Contractual and stewardship timescapes: The cultural logics of US–Philippines environmental conflict and negotiations
In 1992, the US military withdrew from its bases in the Philippines. But they left behind environmental toxins that continue to pollute the land and people. Why was the US military able to leave without cleaning up this environmental damage? What can the environment tell us about the broader Philippine–US relationship? In this article I analyse a 2002 class action lawsuit against the United States regarding environmental damages caused by the US …
Teaching the Veil: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Classical Theory Courses
By documenting the erasure of W.E.B. Du Bois's scientific contributions to sociology, Aldon Morris's The Scholar Denied was a catalyst for scholars to rethink how we teach and understand social theory and a call to recognize the racialized origins of our discipline. How can we incorporate these insights into our teaching beyond a token addition of Du Bois to classical theory courses? Drawing on comments from anonymous student evaluations and comp…
Ethnographic toolkit: Strategic positionality and researchers' visible and invisible tools in field research
For many, reflexivity is a core tenet in qualitative research. Often, scholars focus on how one or two of their socio-demographic traits compare to their participants and how it may influence field dynamics. Research that incorporates an intersectionality perspective, which brings attention to how people's multiple identities are entwined, also has a long history. Yet, researchers tend to pay less attention to how we strategically draw on our mul…
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the Philippines declared independence from Spain. The United States did not acknowledge this declaration, suppressed an insurrection, and imposed colonial rule until 1946. Before and after World War II, the United States maintained a singular military presence in the Philippines, concentrated in Subic Bay. In the early 1990s, the United States closed the military base. Shortly thereafter, the Subic Bay Fr…
The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space
Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters
The study of foreign-local encounters is at the heart of much of social scientific research, from the dynamics of globalized travel and migration to the study of colonialism and places of foreign control. These interactions are often both shaped by structural inequalities and fleeting. How do organizations shape these interactions? This question of how organizations interact with their environment is a central puzzle that motivates the field of o…
Three models of transparency in ethnographic research: Naming places, naming people, and sharing data
Ethnographic research consists of multiple methodological approaches, including short- and/or long-term participant observation, interviews, photographs, videos, and group field work, to name a few. Yet, it is commonly practiced as a solitary endeavor and primary data is not often subject to scholarly scrutiny. In this paper, I suggest a model in which to understand the different ways in which ethnographies can be transparent - naming places, nam…
Ethnographic toolkit: Strategic positionality and researchers' visible and invisible tools in field research
For many, reflexivity is a core tenet in qualitative research. Often, scholars focus on how one or two of their socio-demographic traits compare to their participants and how it may influence field dynamics. Research that incorporates an intersectionality perspective, which brings attention to how people's multiple identities are entwined, also has a long history. Yet, researchers tend to pay less attention to how we strategically draw on our mul…
Three models of transparency in ethnographic research: Naming places, naming people, and sharing data
Ethnographic research consists of multiple methodological approaches, including short- and/or long-term participant observation, interviews, photographs, videos, and group field work, to name a few. Yet, it is commonly practiced as a solitary endeavor and primary data is not often subject to scholarly scrutiny. In this paper, I suggest a model in which to understand the different ways in which ethnographies can be transparent - naming places, nam…
Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders." Tenure-track, published author, recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards —these credentials mark Victoria Reyes as somebody who has achieved the status of insider in the academy. Woman of color, family history of sexual violence, first generation, mother —these qualities place Reyes on the ma…
Teaching the Veil: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Classical Theory Courses
By documenting the erasure of W.E.B. Du Bois's scientific contributions to sociology, Aldon Morris's The Scholar Denied was a catalyst for scholars to rethink how we teach and understand social theory and a call to recognize the racialized origins of our discipline. How can we incorporate these insights into our teaching beyond a token addition of Du Bois to classical theory courses? Drawing on comments from anonymous student evaluations and comp…
Legacies of Place and Power: From Military Base to Freeport Zone
This article examines the place–making of global borderlands—semiautonomous, foreign–controlled geographical locations geared toward international exchange. I use the case study of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ), Philippines, as an example of a global borderland that resides within a space formerly occupied by a colonial power. I show how elite Filipinos adapted and transformed the spatial boundaries the U.S. military initially erected. The e…
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis
Transparency is once again a central issue of debate across types of qualitative research. Work on how to conduct qualitative data analysis, on the other hand, walks us through the step-by-step process on how to code and understand the data we've collected. Although there are a few exceptions, less focus is on transparency regarding decision-making processes in the course of research. In this article, we argue that scholars should create a living…
Transgressing the Academy
For a Du Boisian economic sociology
The discipline is at a crossroads. Will sociology answer ASA past president Aldon Morris' call for an emancipatory sociology? Or will sociology, as Morris puts it, “continue pretending to be an aloof, objective, detached science”? Recently, Hirschman and Garbes issued a call for an economic sociology of race, wherein they contend that race and racism are not central to economic sociology and that economic sociologists don't engage with contempora…
The production of cultural and natural wealth: An examination of World Heritage sites
Global borderlands: A case study of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines
The structure of globalized travel: A relational country-pair analysis
Utilizing data from the UNWTO, IMF, World Bank, and UNESCO, this article analyzes the global structure of travel and its deep asymmetries, revealing that travel is not global but is highly concentrated among a handful of countries. Furthermore, I find that the effects of globalization are neither universal nor consistent but depend upon the identities of countries involved and their relationships with one another. This article conceptualizes trav…
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the Philippines declared independence from Spain. The United States did not acknowledge this declaration, suppressed an insurrection, and imposed colonial rule until 1946. Before and after World War II, the United States maintained a singular military presence in the Philippines, concentrated in Subic Bay. In the early 1990s, the United States closed the military base. Shortly thereafter, the Subic Bay Fr…
Theorizing the Teaching Triad
In this conversation essay, the authors incorporate teaching assistants (TAs) into pedagogical theorizing through what they call the teaching triad, an analytic heuristic to understand faculty-TA-undergraduate interactions. TAs are graduate students who are tasked with running discussion sections, smaller settings where undergraduates interact more directly with the material and one another. Yet, faculty pedagogies enable or constrain the work of…
The structure of globalized travel: A relational country-pair analysis
Utilizing data from the UNWTO, IMF, World Bank, and UNESCO, this article analyzes the global structure of travel and its deep asymmetries, revealing that travel is not global but is highly concentrated among a handful of countries. Furthermore, I find that the effects of globalization are neither universal nor consistent but depend upon the identities of countries involved and their relationships with one another. This article conceptualizes trav…
The production of cultural and natural wealth: An examination of World Heritage sites
Legacies of Place and Power: From Military Base to Freeport Zone
This article examines the place–making of global borderlands—semiautonomous, foreign–controlled geographical locations geared toward international exchange. I use the case study of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ), Philippines, as an example of a global borderland that resides within a space formerly occupied by a colonial power. I show how elite Filipinos adapted and transformed the spatial boundaries the U.S. military initially erected. The e…
Global borderlands: A case study of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Philippines
Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global
Port of Call: How Ships Shape Foreign-Local Encounters
The study of foreign-local encounters is at the heart of much of social scientific research, from the dynamics of globalized travel and migration to the study of colonialism and places of foreign control. These interactions are often both shaped by structural inequalities and fleeting. How do organizations shape these interactions? This question of how organizations interact with their environment is a central puzzle that motivates the field of o…
Three models of transparency in ethnographic research: Naming places, naming people, and sharing data
Ethnographic research consists of multiple methodological approaches, including short- and/or long-term participant observation, interviews, photographs, videos, and group field work, to name a few. Yet, it is commonly practiced as a solitary endeavor and primary data is not often subject to scholarly scrutiny. In this paper, I suggest a model in which to understand the different ways in which ethnographies can be transparent - naming places, nam…
The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
The U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case study, Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings. For some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status. Drawing on archival and ethnogr…
For a Global Social Science
Afterword
Contractual and stewardship timescapes: The cultural logics of US–Philippines environmental conflict and negotiations
In 1992, the US military withdrew from its bases in the Philippines. But they left behind environmental toxins that continue to pollute the land and people. Why was the US military able to leave without cleaning up this environmental damage? What can the environment tell us about the broader Philippine–US relationship? In this article I analyse a 2002 class action lawsuit against the United States regarding environmental damages caused by the US …
Teaching the Veil: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Classical Theory Courses
By documenting the erasure of W.E.B. Du Bois's scientific contributions to sociology, Aldon Morris's The Scholar Denied was a catalyst for scholars to rethink how we teach and understand social theory and a call to recognize the racialized origins of our discipline. How can we incorporate these insights into our teaching beyond a token addition of Du Bois to classical theory courses? Drawing on comments from anonymous student evaluations and comp…
Ethnographic toolkit: Strategic positionality and researchers' visible and invisible tools in field research
For many, reflexivity is a core tenet in qualitative research. Often, scholars focus on how one or two of their socio-demographic traits compare to their participants and how it may influence field dynamics. Research that incorporates an intersectionality perspective, which brings attention to how people's multiple identities are entwined, also has a long history. Yet, researchers tend to pay less attention to how we strategically draw on our mul…
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the Philippines declared independence from Spain. The United States did not acknowledge this declaration, suppressed an insurrection, and imposed colonial rule until 1946. Before and after World War II, the United States maintained a singular military presence in the Philippines, concentrated in Subic Bay. In the early 1990s, the United States closed the military base. Shortly thereafter, the Subic Bay Fr…
Maria Ressa: Cyber Libel
Maria Ressa worked at CNN for nearly twenty years, was the lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for terrorist networks, and she helped found the news website Rappler. In June 2020, Ressa was convicted of “cyber libel” and faces up to six years in prison
For a Du Boisian economic sociology
The discipline is at a crossroads. Will sociology answer ASA past president Aldon Morris' call for an emancipatory sociology? Or will sociology, as Morris puts it, “continue pretending to be an aloof, objective, detached science”? Recently, Hirschman and Garbes issued a call for an economic sociology of race, wherein they contend that race and racism are not central to economic sociology and that economic sociologists don't engage with contempora…
Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders." Tenure-track, published author, recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards —these credentials mark Victoria Reyes as somebody who has achieved the status of insider in the academy. Woman of color, family history of sexual violence, first generation, mother —these qualities place Reyes on the ma…
Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States
Neferti X. M. Tadiar's Remaindered Life
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. It believes the past is illuminated by historians as well as scholars from other disciplines; at the same time, it prefers ethnographic approaches to the history of the present. It welcomes works that are theoret…
Theorizing the Teaching Triad
In this conversation essay, the authors incorporate teaching assistants (TAs) into pedagogical theorizing through what they call the teaching triad, an analytic heuristic to understand faculty-TA-undergraduate interactions. TAs are graduate students who are tasked with running discussion sections, smaller settings where undergraduates interact more directly with the material and one another. Yet, faculty pedagogies enable or constrain the work of…
Transgressing the Academy
Resilience promotion through religiosity among Chilean older adults during the global outbreak of Covid-19
The stressors caused by the pandemic, as well as a lockdown measure generated a greater mental and emotional burden in many individuals, especially among older people. This qualitative study examined from 22 semi-structured interviews how religiosity acted as a psychosocial resource that promoted resilience, positive coping, and social support among older Chilean adults. Religious older adults not only showed a strong capacity for resilience, but…
Love and Gendered Racism in the Academy: A Reply
Persevering during the Pandemic: Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (11 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)