Robert Gutierrez-Perez

California State University, San Marcos, Communication, Faculty Member

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Robert Gutierrez-Perez (Ph.D., University of Denver) is an Assistant Professor of Critical/Cultural Studies in Communication in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM). As a critical/cultural communication scholar, Gutierrez-Perez studies the intersectional power dynamics of everyday life from a performance studies approach utilizing decolonial and indigenous theories and methodologies that center subaltern, non-Western knowledge systems.

He is the author of Jotería Communication Studies: Narrating Theories of Resistance published as part of the Critical Intercultural Communication Studies series. Jotería is an identity, a community, and an area of study by/to nonheteronormative mestizas/os who perform their sexuality and gender in queer practices and communicative forms. By utilizing multiple methods, this book provides a cultural map or political snapshot that highlights reflexivity, cultural/queer nuances, and decolonial acts of resistance. Specifically, this book locates "theories in the flesh" in the borderlands narratives of Jotería, such as cuentos, pláticas, chismé, testimonio, mitos, and consejos. These theories of power and resistance create knowledge about how Jotería make sense of their own difference, how people interpret their assumed or perceived difference, and ultimately, how difference is managed as an emancipatory tool toward the goal of queer of color world making.

Gutierrez-Perez has been published in several international and national research journals as well as edited collections over the last decade. His research interests include queer of color communication and critique, Latina/o/x communication and culture, performative writing, poetic inquiry, and Anzaldúan studies. He is the award-winning editor of the collection: This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis. He is the editor of the Performance & Pedagogy recurring series in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.

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Jotería Communication Studies: Narrating Theories of Resistance

Peter Lang, 2021

This book articulates Jotería Communication Studies as a subdiscipline and as a praxis for resist... more This book articulates Jotería Communication Studies as a subdiscipline and as a praxis for resisting multiple forms of oppression by focusing on how everyday performances of identity and culture challenge master narratives of power and control. Although this book is for scholars, artists, and practitioners from communication studies, gender and sexuality studies, performance studies, cultural studies, or even, Latinx and Chicanx studies in education, sociology, history, literature, media, arts, and humanities, this book speaks to and with those nonheteronormative mestizas/os who perform their sexuality and gender in queer practices and communicative forms-Jotería. As a methodological intervention into the study of marginalized and subaltern communities, this book provides research on Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (GBTQ) Chicano and Latino communities from specific geographic regions of the U.S. Southwest. Utilizing multiple methods, this book provides a cultural map or political snapshot of a particular time and place from a particular point of view or location and generates knowledge that highlights reflexivity, cultural/queer nuances, and decolonial acts of resistance. Specifically, this book locates "theories in the flesh" in the borderlands narratives of Jotería, such as cuentos, pláticas, chismé, testimonio, mitos, and consejos. These theories of power and resistance create knowledge about how Jotería make sense of their own difference, how people interpret their assumed or perceived difference, and ultimately, how difference is managed as an emancipatory tool toward the goal of queer of color world making.

This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis

by Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Leandra Hernandez

Lexington Books, 2019

This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores co... more This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores contemporary communication research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, methods, and concepts. Utilizing different methodologies and approaches—testimonio, performative writing, and interpretive, rhetorical, and critical methodologies—the contributors provide original research on contexts including healing and pain, woundedness, identity, Chicana and black feminisms, and experiences in academia.

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Jotería-Historias: Theories from the Fringes

By collecting the cultural/historical narratives of gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questi... more By collecting the cultural/historical narratives of gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (GBTQ) Chicanos of Colorado, this research project locates theories in the flesh, or theories of resistance and agency, in the forms of cuentos, pláticas, chismé, mitos, testimonios, and consejos to explicate a queer of color performance of intersectional and decolonial politics. To set the context, several historical and political snapshots of GBTQ Chicano experience over the last 500 years are reviewed to demonstrate how communication about, for, and between GBTQ Chicanos operate in a liminal state (nepantla) where violence, marginalization, and oppression are the cultural norm. To honor the performative, queer, and decolonial approach to this project, the Four Seasons of Oral History Performance was developed and utilized as a cyclical, creationcentered method for collecting and sharing social science research. In the end, GBTQ Chicanos are challenged by inter-and intra-generational divides that make "coming-out" regardless of age in this historical/political moment a traumatic event where ones intersectional cultural identity is under attack from multiple vectors. From these erasures, traumas, and violence, GBTQ Chicanos create theories in the flesh to carve out spaces to survive and thrive from the fringes: this work collects their histories. ! ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work of scholarship, art, and activism could not have come into fruition without the support of many individuals and organizations. First and foremost, I want to thank my husband, Juan Carlos Perez, for supporting and sacrificing for my dream. Everyday I learn more about compassion, generosity, hard work, and love through your example. When I look at you, I see my equal and soulmate, and without you, I could not be where I am today. Next, I want to thank my advisor Bernadette Marie Calafell for your years of mentoring, support, and scholarship. Let's keep the drum beating for our queer of color communities! To my committee, Kate Willink, Roy Wood, and Luis León, this project is populated with the reading lists from each of your classes, and therefore, it would not exist without your scholarship, pedagogy, and friendship. To my family and friends, I am grateful for all the lessons that each of you have taught me about life, the meaning of happiness, and the importance of love. This project could not have been created without the financial support from the DU Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship, the AHSS Divisional Dissertation Fellowship, and the DU Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship. ! iii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE 1 .

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