2011 Podcasts

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Podcasts were recorded in Seattle, Washington at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

  1. Ethica Dilemmas of Medical Research
  2. Using Culture to Understand Behavior in Organizations
  3. Health Disparities and Social Justice in Guatemala: Medical Anthropology in the NAPA-OT Field School
  4. Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration Parts 1, 2 & 3
  5. Becoming an Applied Anthropologist: Diverse Training Models with a Common Goal
  6. Addressing New Frontiers of Applied Anthropology
  7. Urban Food Systems: Culture and Security
  8. Learning from Sol Tax in 2010 Parts 1 & 2
  9. "We Are All Arizona": Expanding Immigration Enforcement and Political Struggles of Undocumented Immigrants Parts 1 & 2 (SLACA)
  10. Anthropological Insights into the 2011 Uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East
  11. Corporate Ethnography: Issues and Challenges Parts 1 & 2
  12. Environmental Impact on Public Health: Domestic and International
  13. Ethics in Applied Online Research
  14. A Tribute to Franz Boas by Amelica Susma Schultz, His Last Ph.D. Student
  15. 2011 Malinowski Award Lecture: Salomón Nahmad Sittón

2011 Podcast Team

Jen Cardew, Chair
Yumiko Akimoto, Associate Chair
Kelly Alleen-Williams
Tommy Wingo
Shino Endo
Louis Che-Hung Liao
Megan Gorby
Jen Carroll
Fiona Rowles

 

1

Ethical Dilemmas of Medical Research

CHAIR: POAT, Jennifer Therese (Oregon Health and Science U)

Session Participants: 

NEWBURY, Liz, SIMON, Christian, and L'HEUREUX, Jamie (U Iowa) Public Perceptions of Community Advisory Boards in Biobanking: Benefits and Challenges

POAT, Jennifer Therese (Oregon Health and Science U) Genetalk: How Americans Feel About Sharing

CLAIBORNE, Deon (Mich State U) International Research Guideline on the Ground: The Costa Rican Case

KELLY, Kimberly and NICHTER, Mark (U Arizona) The Politics of Local Biology in Transnational Clinical Trials: The Case of Japan

TAIT, Caroline (U Saskatchewan) Resituating the Ethical Gaze: Medical Morality and the Local Worlds of Canadian First Nations and Métis Peoples

Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

2

Using Culture to Understand Behavior in Organizations

CHAIR: NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U)

Session Participants:

NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U) Organizational Thinking and Organizational Change: Why It’s Hard to Speak Truth to Power

HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change) Looking Back: A Long-term View of Some Development Projects

GIULIETTI, Michael (U N Texas) Old Ideas for a New World: Shoe Repair as a Professional Culture

ROTHSTEIN, Rosalynn (U Oregon) Narrative Forms at a 911 Call Center: Constructing Workplace Identity

Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

3

Health Disparities and Social Justice in Guatemala: Medical Anthropology in the NAPA-OT Field School

CHAIR: ROSEN, Danielle (Columbia U)

ABSTRACTS: A place of startling beauty and extreme poverty. Guatemala faces some of the greatest disparities in equitable healthcare provision among its population in the Western hemisphere. This panel addresses current health disparities in Guatemala and explores issues of occupational justice and human rights affecting the adequate. provision of health services in the country. The research presented is based on student pilot research projects conducted during the 2010 NAPA-OT Field. School in Antigua,. Guatemala during which student implemented semi- structures and informal interviews surveys of indigenous woman in the rural highlands and observations of healthcare facilities.

DISCUSSANTS: HALL-CLIFFORD, Rachel (NAPA-OT Field Sch) and FULLILOVE, Robert E. (Columbia U MSPH)

ROSEN, Danielle (Columbia U)
SHETLER, Anya (Boston U)
GUREVITCH, Jacqueline (U Chicago)
DEPRIMO, Adam (U S FL-St. Petersburg) 

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

4

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration Part 1: Key Moments in North American Guest Worker History (SAR Plenary)

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)

ABSTRACT: After decades of negative attention on the high human costs and consequences of undocumented migration from Mexico to the United States and Canada, many scholars. policy makers, immigrant advocates, and others familiar with migration issues have warmed to the idea that managed migration—or a so-called guestworker program—may constitute a more humane, viable alternative to massive unregulated population movements that often settle at the bottom of the North.American labor market. Histories of guestworkers’ experiences and guestworker programs, however, suggest that it remains difficult to believe that a truly socially just guestworker program can be implemented—one that avoids replicating the conditions of indentured servitude that have characterized many past guestworker contracts. As a result, guestworkers have developed ways to circumvent the excessive labor control, recruiting abuses, kickbacks, and other threats to the quality of the their experiences, often drawing on the larger contexts in which they work and live to accomplish this. Assembling together researchers from Mexico, Canada, and the United.States, this session addresses the relationships among the structural dimensions of guestworker programs. (e.g. roles of the sending and receiving governments, family and community ties among guestworkers and others, work. settings), the quality of guestworkers’ experiences, and the sociocultural dimensions of guestworker resistance or submission to the conditions of their contracts.

Session Participants:

MARTIN, Phil (UC-Davis)

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration Part 2: Cases and Communities (SAR Plenary)

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)

Session Participants:

PREIBISCH, Kerry (U Guelph)
GRIFFITH, David and CONTRERAS, Ricardo (E Carolina U)
AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration Part 3: Policy in Perspective (SAR Plenary)

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)

Session Participants:

GRIFFITH, David and CONTRERAS, Ricardo B. (E Carolina U) 
SMART, Josephine (U Calgary)
ROCHA PERALTA, Juvencio (Association of Mexicans in North Carolina), GRIFFITH, David, and CONTRERAS, Ricardo (E Carolina U)

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

5

Becoming an Applied Anthropologist: Diverse Training Models with a Common Goal

CHAIRS: PETTS, Jamie (Oregon State U) and ROMERO-DAZA, Nancy (U S Florida)

ABSTRACT: With the growing recognition for the value of Applied Anthropology in the United States, there has been an increase in the number of training programs with an applied focus. Such programs adopt different models of training to address the specific needs of their student body, including the establishment of interdisciplinary dual degree programs, the provision of on-line curricula, and the requirement for community-based internships, among others.  This panel discussion brings together MA and PhD students from five applied anthropology departments to address the ways in which their individual programs have contributed to their formation as future applied anthropologists.

Roundtable Participants:

CARDEW KERSEY, Jen (Sapient)
BANNON, Megan (Sapient)
GEFLER, Sharon (CSU-Long Beach)
NOBLE, Charlotte (U S Florida)
GOTTIER, Nicole (U Memphis)
PETTS, Jamie (Oregon State U)

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

6

Addressing New Frontiers of Applied Anthropology

CHAIR: HYLAND, Stanley E. (U Memphis)

Session Participants:

BENNETT, Elaine (Saint Vincent Coll) Pedagogy and Service in Promoting Applied Anthropology in the Classroom, Academy and Community

HYLAND, Stanley E. (U Memphis) Building Relationships Past and Future: The Discipline, Practitioners and The Community

SHANNON, Richard (Pusan Nat’l U) Excluded from the Family Table: How Western Anthropology Ignores Non-Western Foreign Aid Donors and Their Development

TOWNSEND, Colin (U S Carolina-Columbia) The Anthropology of Science and Lay Public Knowledge of Science

WILSON, Tamar Diana (U Missouri-St. Louis) Arizona’s 2010 Anti-Immigrant Legislation, Pro-Immigrant Listserves, and the Applied Anthropologist

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

7

Urban Food Systems: Culture and Security

CHAIR: HIMMELFARB, David (U Georgia)

Session Participants:

DOSEMAGEN, Shannon (Independent) and HASSMAN, Monique (UW-Milwaukee) “I Can Get through Anything with Satsumas”: Agriculture, Landscape, and Productions of Knowledge

JEWELL, Benjamin and GARTIN, Meredith (Arizona State U) Classroom and Community Collaborations: Seeking Influence in Urban Food System Research

HIMMELFARB, David and FLY, Jessie (U Georgia) Making Culture Count: Measuring Food Security in Vietnam and Uganda

HERNANDEZ PRUHS, Krisha J. (Cal Poly U-Pomona) Emergence of a Community in the City: Milagro Allegro Garden

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

8

Learning from Sol Tax in 2010 Part 1

CHAIR: STAPP, Darby (NW Anth LLC)

ABSTRACT: Sol Tax contributed in many ways to anthropology and its application to society from the 1930s through the 1960s.  His organization of international conferences and publications, his attention to American Indian issues, and his development of “action anthropology” created a discipline more sensitive to the people. Times have changed, however.  American anthropology has become less international, most applied anthropologists work outside the university, and most applied research is never published or incorporated into method and theory.  Reflecting upon Sol Tax’s vision for anthropology and his accomplishments, session participants will explore ways that applied anthropology might change to be more effective in the future.

PANELISTS: RUBINSTEIN, Robert (Syracuse U); FOLEY, Douglas (UT-Austin) SMITH, Joshua James (U W Ontario) WAHRHAFTIG, Albert L. (Sonoma State U) ABLON, Joan (UC-San Francisco, Emerita)

Learning from Sol Tax in 2010 Part 2

CHAIR: STAPP, Darby (NW Anth LLC)

PANELISTS: RUBINSTEIN, Robert (Syracuse U), FOLEY, Douglas (UT-Austin), SMITH, Joshua James (U W Ontario), STAPP, Darby (NW Anth LLC)

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011

9

"We Are All Arizona": Expanding Immigration Enforcement and Political Struggles of Undocumented Immigrants Part 1 (SLACA)

CHAIRS: GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth and NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (U IL- Chicago)

ABSTRACT: Enforcement-oriented immigration programs, the most well-known of which is Arizona’s S.B. 1070, have spread rapidly throughout the U.S. interior in recent years. Accelerated immigration enforcement brings serious hardships to undocumented communities and simultaneously galvanizes campaigns for immigrants’ rights. In this panel, participants draw on their ethnographic research with undocumented workers and activists to explore the development of two parallel trends: 1) the amplification of punitive immigration policies across the United States, and 2) the strategies of political mobilization that undocumented organizers develop in response to accelerated enforcement and the ongoing struggle for immigration reform legislation.

DISCUSSANT: HEYMAN, Josiah (UT-El Paso)

Session Participants:

GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth and NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (U IL-Chicago)
UNTERBERGER, Alayne (FL Inst for Community Studies)
CORRUNKER, Laura (Wayne State U)
MARTINEZ, Konane (CSU-San Marcos)

"We Are All Arizona": Expanding Immigration Enforcement and Political Struggles of Undocumented Immigrants Part 2 (SLACA)

CHAIRS: GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth and NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (U IL- Chicago)

DISCUSSANT: HEYMAN, Josiah (UT-El Paso)

Session Participants:

QUESADA, James (San Francisco State U)
KOVIC, Christine (U Houston-Clear Lake)
SHARP, Ethan (UT-Pan American)

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

10

Anthropological Insights into the 2011 Uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East

CHAIR: KING, Diane and SCHULLER, Mark

PANELISTS: GARDNER, Andrew; ILAHIANE, Hsain; KING, Diane; RIGNALL, Karen

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

11

Corporate Ethnography: Issues and Challenges Part 1

CHAIRS: JORDAN, Brigitte (PARC) and HEPSO, Vidar (Norwegian Tech U)

ABSTRACT: Ethnography in Corporations is a hot topic that we propose to explore in two Panels followed by a Roundtable. In the Panel, expert practitioners discuss some of the fundamental issues they confront in their work on a daily basis. The format consists of spirited exchanges where two interlocutors take on a particular issue from a different point of view, each taking ten minutes for their statement. This will be followed by 10 minutes of audience participatory discussion. These encounters are specifically NOT meant to be confrontations, but are presented in the spirit of positioning complementary approaches within a broader universe of ethnographic methodology and theory. Part I starts with Gluesing juxtaposing Conventional Ethnographic Methods, the kind that are grounded in participant observation, withTechnology-Supported Methods as discussed by Riopelle. This is followed by a dialogue between Rijsberman who takes on Ethnography Writ Small, specifically in support of product design, paired with Ensworth who focuses on Ethnography Writ Large ,as in understanding whole systems. Finally Solomon will tackle Rapid Ethnographic Techniques, engaging with Cefkin who will provide a complementary viewpoint with The Limits to Speed in Ethnography.

PANELISTS: GLUESING, Julia and RIOPELLE, Kenneth (Wayne St U), RIJSBERMAN, Marijke (Interfacility) and ENSWORTH, Patricia (Harborlight) SOLOMON, Keren (Independent) and CEFKIN, Melissa (IBM)

Corporate Ethnography: Issues and Challenges Part 2

CHAIRS: JORDAN, Brigitte (PARC) and CEFKIN, Melissa (IBM)

PANELISTS: HEPSO, Vidar (Norwegian Tech U) and WALKER, Mary (MarketTools.com), SUNDERLAND, Patricia and DENNY, Rita (Practica Grp) MAXWELL, Chad (Razorfish) and JORDAN, Brigitte (PARC)

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

12

Environmental Impact on Public Health: Domestic and International

CHAIR: SINGER, Merrill (U Conn)

Session Participants:

VANDERLINDEN, Lisa (TX Christian U) Left in the Dust: Environmental Illness after 9/11

SINGER, Merrill (U Conn) Down Cancer Alley: Medical Anthropology and Environmental Crises

METHAPHAT, Chingchai (Burapha U) Organic Discourses in Mitigating Risks of Chemical Pesticides in Eastern Thailand

SHARMA, Satya P. (U Saskatchewan) Ignorance Can Often Work against You: Health Effects of Pesticide Use among the Farm Workers of Yuba and Sutter Counties of Northern California

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

13

Ethics in Applied Online Research

CHAIRS: CARDEW KERSEY, Jen and BANNON, Megan (Sapient)

ABSTRACT: The popularity of conducting research online is growing exponentially in both academia and the practicing world.  While culture is being brought online and created online, anthropologists and researchers are taking their pursuits into the virtual world. There are ethical concerns being expressed through informal discussions and channels but most of the American associates and societies have not included online research in their code of ethics. The purpose of this discussion panel is to continue the conversation about ethics in online research with practitioners and thought leaders. The panel will welcome audience participation. The outcome of the panel will include a set of next steps.

PANELISTS: CARDEW KERSEY, Jen and BANNON, Megan (Sapient), NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U), CAMPBELL, Annicka (Sapient) and Townsend, Colin (University of South Carolina).

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

14

A Tribute to Franz Boas by Amelia Susman Schultz, His Last Ph.D. Student

CHAIR: MILLER, Jay (Lushootseed Rsch)

ABSTRACT: After her undergraduate degree, Amelia Susman entered the Columbia University anthropology graduate program, knowing that Boas was one of the few professors who would accept women students.  Later, he came out of retirement to direct her second PhD dissertation in Linguistics after she was asked by Ruth Benedict to withdraw her first PhD work based an innovative “ethnohistory” of Round Valley, California.  Over a long career, she applied her anthropology in expanded ways and maintains a deep and abiding affection for Boas. 

PRESENTER: Amelia Susman Schultz

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

15

2011 SfAA Awards Ceremony: The Malinowski Award

Malinowski Award Recipient: Salomón Nahmad Sittón​​​​​​​
Introduced by:​​​​​​​ Allan Burns​​​​​​​

The Role of Anthropology with the Changes and Challenges of the 21st Century in Mexico and the World

Anthropology in Mexico has always been applied, and this often puts anthropologists, indigenous peoples, and anthropological principals in direct conflict with state policy and the national project. This paper summarizes the history of anthropology and applied anthropology in Mexico, using my career in the National Indigenist Institute (INI) and the Indigenous Education Office (DGEI) of the Education Secretariat (SEP). It illustrates the risks and challenges anthropologists face when they side with indigenous peoples in favor of their individual and collective self-determination and autonomy.

Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

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