Departamento de Trabajo Social, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Departamento de Trabajo Social, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

agarcia_santesmases@uoc.edu

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Andrea García-Santesmases

Assistant Professor · UNED

Presentation

Andrea García-Santesmases Fernández is graduated in Sociology by the Charles III University of Madrid and in Social and Cultural Anthropology by the Complutense University of Madrid. She holds a Master’s Degree in Sociological Research by the University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD with a distinction “cum laude” in Sociology. Her main lines or research are the intersections between gender studies and disability studies.

She’s also been visiting scholar at the Disability and Human Rights Observatory (ODDH) of the University of Lisbon (ISCSP) and at the Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero- PAGU of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (São Paulo, Brasil). Currently, she is working as a PhD Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work at National Distance Education University (UNED), and she is involved in different projects about independent living activism and as part of the CareNet research group.

Research interests

  • Disability Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Sexuality Studies

PROJECTS

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Infrastructures for an independent living: a participatory research to rethink housing, care and community in times of pandemic

 Ajuntament de Barcelona | Àrea de Cultura, Educació, Ciència i Comunitat de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona
Competitius

Andrea García-Santesmases, Joan Moyà Kohler, Lluvi Farré

Finalitzat
BCONNECT@HOME

BCONNECT@HOME

Being Connected at Home: Making use of digital devices in later life

 Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad 
Competitius

Daniel López Gómez, Andrea García-Santesmases, Roser Beneito Montagut, Israel Rodríguez Giralt

Finalitzat

Collaborative Medication Management: A research and participatory action project in mental health

 Recercaixa
Competitius

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

Finalitzat

PUBLICATIONS

The collaborative management of antipsychotic medication and its challenges: a qualitative study in Catalonia

The collaborative management of antipsychotic medication and its challenges: a qualitative study in Catalonia

2020 Articles

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

Martínez-Hernáez, Á., Pié-Balaguer, A., Serrano-Miguel, M., Morales-Sáez, N., García-Santesmases, A., Bekele, D., Alegre-Agís, E. (2020) The collaborative management of antipsychotic…

The Forgotten: Violence and (Micro)Resistance in Disabled Women’s Lives

The Forgotten: Violence and (Micro)Resistance in Disabled Women’s Lives

2017 Articles

Andrea García-Santesmases, Asun Pié Balaguer

Garcia-Santesmases, A. & Pié, A. (2017). The Forgotten: Violence and (Micro)Resistance in Spanish Disabled Women’s Lives. Affilia, 32(4), 432-445.   

Vídeo-report from the study “Collaborative Medication Management: A research and participatory action project in mental health”

Vídeo-report from the study “Collaborative Medication Management: A research and participatory action project in mental health”

2020 Articles

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

NEWS

Research Seminar: “Connected at Home: digital technologies and aging”

Research Seminar: “Connected at Home: digital technologies and aging”

2021 Activitats

Daniel López Gómez, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Roser Beneito Montagut, Andrea García-Santesmases

El objetivo de este seminario de investigación es compartir con la comunidad científica algunos de los resultados del proyecto “Conectados en casa: los usos de las tecnologías digitales en la…
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Andrea García-Santesmases participa en la charla “La interseccionalidad a debate, cuando las opresiones se encuentran”, organizada por Casal Lambda

Andrea García-Santesmases participa en la charla “La interseccionalidad a debate, cuando las opresiones se encuentran”, organizada por Casal Lambda

2020 Audiovisuals

Andrea García-Santesmases

Charla a cargo de las investigadoras Andrea García-Santesmases y Laura Sanmiquel (Departamento de Psicología Social de la UAB) en la que explican y debaten sobre el marco de la interseccionalidad
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Researcher Andrea García-Santesmases at ‘Feminist Debates around Disability’ Conference (UC3M)

Researcher Andrea García-Santesmases at ‘Feminist Debates around Disability’ Conference (UC3M)

2020 Audiovisuals

Andrea García-Santesmases

Intervention by the researcher Andrea García-Santesmases during the Conference “Feminist debates around disability” held at the Carlos III University of Madrid on November 25 and 26, 2020. The session in…
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Asun Pié and Andrea García-Santesmases participate in the 1st International Conference “Deconstructing and transforming education from an intersectional approach”

Asun Pié and Andrea García-Santesmases participate in the 1st International Conference “Deconstructing and transforming education from an intersectional approach”

2020 Audiovisuals

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

Interventions made by researchers Asun Pié and Andrea García-Santesmases during the 1st International Conference ‘Deconstruyendo y transformando la educación desde un enfoque interseccional’ Organized by Pedagogías Feministas y Queer on November 17 and…
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¿Disability and sex? Yes, we fuck! | by Andrea García-Santesmases

¿Disability and sex? Yes, we fuck! | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 reflexions i anàlisi

Andrea García-Santesmases

¿Los “discapacitados” follan? Y si así, ¿cómo lo hacen? ¿Y con quién? A todas las personas, en un momento u otro, nos han surgido estas dudas: quizá porque vimos las…
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Me Before You or, rather, “me without sex” | by Andrea García-Santesmases

Me Before You or, rather, “me without sex” | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 reflexions i anàlisi

Andrea García-Santesmases

[Image By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49305990]   Me Before You comienza con la típica escena romántica hollywoodiense: una pareja heterosexual, joven y atractiva, retoza entre las sábanas de la cama…
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Desiring and other fictions | by Andrea García-Santesmases

Desiring and other fictions | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 reflexions i anàlisi

Andrea García-Santesmases

Media and cultural representations of functional diversity (disability) tend to answer to this “thesis of personal tragedy,” to the idea that these people’s lives are necessarily and essentially painful and…
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Coronavirus and lockdown: What does a meat processing plant have in common with a rest home?

Coronavirus and lockdown: What does a meat processing plant have in common with a rest home?

2020 reflexions i anàlisi

Andrea García-Santesmases, Joan Moyà Kohler

Original article published in the blog of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.   _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________   In an interview for the morning programme on Spain’s national radio station on 20 March, Carlos…
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‘I am sexy and I know it!’ Viktoria Modesta y el deseo sexual por los cuerpos amputados | by Andrea García-Santesmases

‘I am sexy and I know it!’ Viktoria Modesta y el deseo sexual por los cuerpos amputados | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 reflexions i anàlisi

Andrea García-Santesmases

Viktoria Modesta es una estrella pop, guapa, rica y famosa, como todas las cantantes que llegan a su nivel. Pero tiene una peculiaridad: a los 20 sufrió la amputación de…
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What would your life be like if you couldn’t masturbate? Sexual assistance, an essential support for people with functional diversity | by Andrea García-Santesmases

What would your life be like if you couldn’t masturbate? Sexual assistance, an essential support for people with functional diversity | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 reflexions i anàlisi

Andrea García-Santesmases

“How beautiful it is to touch myself”, said Sole, a woman with a disease named arthrogryposis multiplex congenital, when her sexual assistant guided her hand through her body, the first…
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“To fuck you must have imagination” Postporn and functional diversity | by Andrea García-Santesmases

“To fuck you must have imagination” Postporn and functional diversity | by Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 reflexions i anàlisi

Andrea García-Santesmases

I am quoting Majo to title this article, one of the protagonists of the first story of the documentary Yes, we fuck! It tells the experience of a group of…
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Asun Pié and Andrea García Santesmases at the Betevé program “Trèvol de 4 fulles”

Asun Pié and Andrea García Santesmases at the Betevé program “Trèvol de 4 fulles”

2019 Audiovisuals

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

The tv show shows the daily reality of people with functional diversity to subvert the paternalistic gaze that has often been directed towards the so-called “disabled” people. The program addresses…
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Andrea García-Santesmases participes in the BETEVÉ debate “Què en podem esperar del Pla Nacional per a les Persones Discapacitades que impulsa el govern?”

Andrea García-Santesmases participes in the BETEVÉ debate “Què en podem esperar del Pla Nacional per a les Persones Discapacitades que impulsa el govern?”

2018 Audiovisuals

Andrea García-Santesmases

Andrea García-Santesmases, postdoctoral researcher of the IN3-UOC has added the need to think about accessibility, which benefits the whole society, and has raised what is the real problem to implement…
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International Workshop: “Unsettling technogenarians: interferences and synergies at the crossroads of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies”

International Workshop: “Unsettling technogenarians: interferences and synergies at the crossroads of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies”

2018 Activitats

Daniel López Gómez, Roser Beneito Montagut, Lluvi Farré, Andrea García-Santesmases

An international workshop exploring the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and Age Studies, to be held in the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3/UOC) in Castelldefels (Barcelona) on the 21st-22nd June…
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