Alonso R Reyna Rivarola
Biographic Data
| ID | 6555426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alonso R Reyna Rivarola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alonso R Reyna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivarola |
| SIGNATURE | RIVAROLA A R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salt Lake Community College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2275-9355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Moving Beyond Performative Research Methods
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) promises equity but often falls short, reproducing power imbalances and tokenistic engagement. This perspective calls for a transformative CBPR praxis grounded in intersectionality, positionality, and critical consciousness. We critique superficial applications of CBPR and propose actionable commitments: community sovereignty, intersectional accountability, structural reflexivity, critical action prio…
Bearing injustice
Centering Loss and Grief
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, everyday life was fundamentally transformed. Schools and small businesses were forced to shut down. Individuals were encouraged to wear masks in public settings, “shelter-in-place” orders were implemented across several cities and states, and social distancing became a routine practice. Some lost their jobs and livelihood, while others lost the day-to-day physical connection with colleagues and fr…
I’m here to fight along with you”
Moscas, metiches, and methodologies
In this essay, Gerardo R. López, a non-undocumented immigrant scholar, who has done extensive research with undocumented immigrant communities, has a conversation with Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola, an undocumented immigrant scholar with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), who writes and researches issues of how undocumented immigrant students experience schooling from a critical situated stance. Their conversation explores a range of topic…
Caution, we have power’
How might participatory creative praxes make visible a politics of critical care and new imaginaries for resisting the ‘school-to-sweatshop pipeline’? Drawing upon arts-based participatory action research processes led by the urgent concerns of young people of color based in Salt Lake City, Utah, we consider the role of cultural production in providing a social and shared context for rearticulating undocumented students’ everyday experiences nego…
We are not alternative facts
In this article the authors argue that Donald Trump is not simply a presidential figure, but the embodiment of white supremacy, capitalism, racism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, xenophobia, Islamaphobia, homophobia, and more. It is our belief that historically marginalized communities are in a state of constant terror as we try to make sense of how to navigate, live, and merely exist in a world where our livelihood is constantly under threat. In thi…
We are not alternative facts
In this article the authors argue that Donald Trump is not simply a presidential figure, but the embodiment of white supremacy, capitalism, racism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, xenophobia, Islamaphobia, homophobia, and more. It is our belief that historically marginalized communities are in a state of constant terror as we try to make sense of how to navigate, live, and merely exist in a world where our livelihood is constantly under threat. In thi…
Moscas, metiches, and methodologies
In this essay, Gerardo R. López, a non-undocumented immigrant scholar, who has done extensive research with undocumented immigrant communities, has a conversation with Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola, an undocumented immigrant scholar with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), who writes and researches issues of how undocumented immigrant students experience schooling from a critical situated stance. Their conversation explores a range of topic…
Caution, we have power’
How might participatory creative praxes make visible a politics of critical care and new imaginaries for resisting the ‘school-to-sweatshop pipeline’? Drawing upon arts-based participatory action research processes led by the urgent concerns of young people of color based in Salt Lake City, Utah, we consider the role of cultural production in providing a social and shared context for rearticulating undocumented students’ everyday experiences nego…
I’m here to fight along with you”
We are not alternative facts
In this article the authors argue that Donald Trump is not simply a presidential figure, but the embodiment of white supremacy, capitalism, racism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, xenophobia, Islamaphobia, homophobia, and more. It is our belief that historically marginalized communities are in a state of constant terror as we try to make sense of how to navigate, live, and merely exist in a world where our livelihood is constantly under threat. In thi…
Caution, we have power’
How might participatory creative praxes make visible a politics of critical care and new imaginaries for resisting the ‘school-to-sweatshop pipeline’? Drawing upon arts-based participatory action research processes led by the urgent concerns of young people of color based in Salt Lake City, Utah, we consider the role of cultural production in providing a social and shared context for rearticulating undocumented students’ everyday experiences nego…
Centering Loss and Grief
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, everyday life was fundamentally transformed. Schools and small businesses were forced to shut down. Individuals were encouraged to wear masks in public settings, “shelter-in-place” orders were implemented across several cities and states, and social distancing became a routine practice. Some lost their jobs and livelihood, while others lost the day-to-day physical connection with colleagues and fr…
I’m here to fight along with you”
Moscas, metiches, and methodologies
In this essay, Gerardo R. López, a non-undocumented immigrant scholar, who has done extensive research with undocumented immigrant communities, has a conversation with Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola, an undocumented immigrant scholar with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), who writes and researches issues of how undocumented immigrant students experience schooling from a critical situated stance. Their conversation explores a range of topic…
Moving Beyond Performative Research Methods
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) promises equity but often falls short, reproducing power imbalances and tokenistic engagement. This perspective calls for a transformative CBPR praxis grounded in intersectionality, positionality, and critical consciousness. We critique superficial applications of CBPR and propose actionable commitments: community sovereignty, intersectional accountability, structural reflexivity, critical action prio…
Bearing injustice
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Action research (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works)