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Brouwer, Daniel and Adela C. Licona (forthcoming).“Trans(affective)mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines.” Spec. issue on Queer Technologies.Eds. Katherine Sender and Adrienne Shaw. Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Maldonado, Marta, Licona, Adela C. and Sarah Hendricks (2016). “Latin@ Immobilities and Altermobilities within the US Deportability Regime," Special Issue on the Geographies of Mobility. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Mei-Po Kwan and Tim Schwanen, Eds.

Licona, A.C., & Chávez, K. (2015). "Relational Literacies and their Coalitional Possibilities," Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

Licona, A.C., & Chávez, K. (2015). "A Swarm of Vitalities / A Swarm of Affinities (experimental video)," Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

Licona, Adela C., and Chávez, Karma. (2015). “Queer and Now.” Queer and Now Special Issue of The Writing Instructor.

Fields, A., Martin, L., Licona, A.C., & the Crossroads Collaborative. (2015). “Performing Urgency: Slamming & Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Licona, Adela C., & Maldonado, Marta M., (2014).  "The Social Production of Latin@ Im/migrant Visibilities and Invisibilities: Geographies of Power in Small Town America" Antipode 46 (2). Print.

Licona, Adela C., and Hayward, Eva S., (2014). “Trans~Waters~ Coalitional Thinking on Art + Environment: A Photo Essay in Two Parts.” Proximities and Terrain.org

Licona, Adela C., & Russell, Stephen T. (2013). eds. "Transdisciplinary & Community Literacies: Shifting Discourses & Practices Through New Paradigms of Public Scholarship & Action-Oriented Research," Special Issue, Community Literacy Journal, 8.1.

Cover Design: Adela C. Licona

Licona, Adela C., & Gonzales, J. Sarah. (2013). "Education/Connection/Action: Community Literacies and Shared Knowledges as Creative Productions for Social Justice" in "Transdisciplinary & Community Literacies: Shifting Discourses & Practices Through New Paradigms of Public Scholarship & Action-Oriented Research," (Licona & Russell, eds) Community Literacy Journal, 8.1.

Licona, Adela C., & Soto, Sandra K., (Forthcoming, 2013). "HB 2281: Key Points, Political Implications, and Local Mobilizations,," in Volume 2 Encyclopedia of Latino/as in Politics, Social Movements, and Law, edited by Suzanne Obler and Deena González. Oxford University Press.

Licona, Adela C., (2012)  Zines In Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric. SUNY Press: New York.

Hardcover - 224 pages • Release Date: October 2012

Summary

Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.

Zines in Third Space develops third-space theory with a practical engagement in the subcultural space of zines as alternative media produced specifically by feminists and queers of color. Adela C. Licona explores how borderlands’ rhetorics function in feminist, and queer of-color zines to challenge dominant knowledges as well as normativitizing mis/representations. Licona characterizes these zines as third-space sites of borderlands rhetorics revealing dissident performances, disruptive rhetorical acts, and coalitions that effect new cultural, political, economic, and sexual configurations.

“Zines in Third Space throws light upon an important and often neglected space of alternative culture by looking at the media generated by people of color, who both use the subcultural media to explore and articulate their ideas and lives in a way they feel cannot be done through more mainstream channels, yet also understand (and articulate) the ways in which the white, middle-class dominated subcultures create new sets of constraints and limitations. Within subcultural studies, and media studies in general, this is a critical area of study. The author knows the world of which she speaks.”

— Stephen Duncombe, author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture

 

Gutíerrez, Laura, Joseph, Miranda, Licona, Adela C., and Soto, Sandra K., (2011). "Nativism, Normativity, and Neoliberalism in Arizona: Challenges Inside and Outside the Classroom," With Christina Hanhardt, Transformations, special issue edited by Hiram Perez.

Licona, Adela C., (2010).  Solicited Review of Argentina: Stories for a Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky, 2008, and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory, by Catherine S. Ramírez, 2009.  Feminist Formations.

 

 

 

 

Crabtree, Robbin D., Sapp, David A., & Licona, Adela C. (Eds.), (2009).  Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

 

Licona, Adela C., (2008).  Solicited Review of Latina Activists across Borders: Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas by Milagros Peña.  Latino Studies.

Maldonado, Marta, & Licona, Adela C. (2008).  “Re-thinking Integration as Reciprocal Process: Implications for Research and Practice.” Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies.

Licona, Adela C., (2007).  “Borderlands Peregrinations.” Nóesis: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 16 (32).

Herndl, Carl, & Licona, Adela C. (2007).  “Shifting Agency: Agency, Kairos, and the Possibilities of Social Action.” In M. Zachery & C. Thralls, (Eds.), Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations. New York: Baywood Publishing.

Licona, Adela C. (Summer, 2005).  “(B)orderlands’ Rhetorics and Representations: The Transformative Potential of Third-Space Feminist Scholarship and Zines.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 17(2).

Carrillo-Rowe, Aimee, & Licona, Adela C. (Eds.), (Summer 2005). Special Issue: “Moving Locations: The Politics of Identity in Motion.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 17(2).

Licona, Adela C., & Carrillo-Rowe, Aimee. (Eds.), (Summer 2005). Special Issue: “After Words: Feminist Praxis as a Bridge Between Theory and Practice.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 17(2).

 

Poetry, Dialogues, & Public Performance

Licona, Adela C. and Lee, Jamie A. (2008) Circles of White as part of the Invisible City Project in Tucson, AZ.

Dernier, Ann, Lee, Jamie A., and Licona, Adela C. (2008) On The Plaza Between ~ for Joseph as part of the Invisible City Project in Tucson, AZ.

Licona, Adela C. (2007). “La Migra.” Reprinted in Cafe Revolucion Productions.

Licona, Adela C. (2007).  “Borderlands’ Lullaby: The Song of the Entremundista.” TRIVIA: VOICES OF FEMINISM, Resurrection Issue.

Jacob, Krista, & Licona, Adela C. (Spring, 2005). “Writing the Waves: A Dialogue on the Tools, Tactics, and Tensions of Feminisms and Feminist Practices over Time and Place.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 17(1).

Licona, Adela C. (2004). “La Migra.” Sexing the Political: A Journal of Third Wave Feminism on
Sexuality, 3(1).

 

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