Andrea García-Santesmases

Departamento de Trabajo Social

Facultad de Derecho

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 holds degrees in Sociology and in Social and Cultural Anthropology. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at UNED. She has extensive and well-recognized experience as a researcher, lecturer, and activist at the intersection of Gender Studies and Disability Studies, with a particular focus on the body and sexuality. She has carried out research stays at prestigious research institutions, the most recent being a six-month stay at Lund University (Sweden). She has also participated in various national and international research projects and is the principal investigator of the most recent one: “INVI – Infraestructuras para una vida independiente: una investigación participativa para repensar la vivienda, los cuidados y la comunidad en tiempos de pandemia” (Scientific Research Awards on Urban Challenges in the City of Barcelona, 2020). She has published scientific articles in indexed journals, as well as book chapters and outreach publications. Her first book was “El cuerpo deseado: la conversación pendiente entre feminismo y anticapacitismo” (Kaótica libros, 2023), and her most recent one is “Un nuevo contrato sexual: placer y poder en la industria del deseo femenino” (Ariel, 2026).

Research interests

  • Disability Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Sexuality Studies

PROJECTS

INVI 

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

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

CMM

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

 Recercaixa
competitius

Asun Pié Balaguer, Andrea García-Santesmases

Finalitzat

PUBLICATIONS

2023 Digital Ageism: How it operates and approaches to tackling it Capítols

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

2022 Revista Articles

Andrea García-Santesmases, Joan Moyà Kohler, Lluvi Farré

2022 Sociology of Health & Illness Articles

Asun Pié Balaguer, Daniel López Gómez, Andrea García-Santesmases

2021 Articles

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

2020 Divulgació

Andrea García-Santesmases

2020 Revista Articles

Míriam Arenas, Andrea García-Santesmases

2019 Articles

Andrea García-Santesmases

2018 Capítols

Míriam Arenas, Andrea García-Santesmases

2017 Articles

Andrea García-Santesmases, Asun Pié Balaguer

2017 Articles

Andrea García-Santesmases

2017 Divulgació

Andrea García-Santesmases

2017 Articles

Andrea García-Santesmases, Míriam Arenas

NEWS

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…