2014 Podcasts

1

The Network Doesn't Stop at the Door": Intentional Practices and the Everyday Reproduction of Community Organizing Part 1

CHAIR: NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (UIC). 

ABSTRACT: Where organized groups and communities encounter slippages between their daily forms of interaction and their broader oppositional politics, they often attempt to implement widespread deliberate everyday actions that intentionally engage the politics of representation, incorporation, intersectionality, gender work and direct democracy, among others. Such practices (re-)structure motives, spaces,  and methods of communication and interaction in the course of constructing nuanced forms of sociality within and beyond particular “communities.” This panel presents ethnographically grounded and theoretically connected accounts of deliberate transformations of everyday practices among organized groups.

Panel Participants:

NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (UIC) “Our Arms Are Lengthening”: Disrupting Everyday Reproductions of Gender-Based Violence

COOK, Jennifer A. (UConn) ”Alguien quien te invite”: An Ethnography of Transnational Migrant Farmworker Employment Networks

SHANI, Serah (Yale U) The New York City Ghanaian Network Village

The Network Doesn't Stop at the Door": Intentional Practices and the Everyday Reproduction of Community Organizing Part 2

CHAIR: NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (UIC)

DISCUSSANT: DOANE, Molly (UIC)

SCANLAN LYONS, Colleen Mary (UC) Using “Tools of Citizenship” to Build a New Bahia

RIOS, Aisha Angelyn (Temple U) Shelter Staff  “Appreciation Days”: Intentional Conversations about Intersectionality and LGBTQI Intimate Partner Violence

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

2

Advanced Applied Research: Calls for Interdisciplinary Sophistication and Mixed Methodologies

CHAIR: PREISTER, Kevin (Ctr for Soc Ecology & Public Policy)

Session Participants:

CUSTRED, Glynn (CSUEB) Anthropology as an Integrated Science

VAN DOLAH, Elizabeth (UMD) Enhancing Anthropology’s Relevance: New Opportunities to Engage in Multi-Disciplinary Research

PREISTER, Kevin (Ctr for Soc Ecology & Public Policy) Social Ecology as Social Action Theory: A Model of Empowerment

QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

3

Anthropologists Developing Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: The Challenges of Rapidly Expanding Roles for Anthropology

CHAIRS: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn, World Food Forum), HOFFMAN, Susanna M. (Hoffman Consulting), and BRENTON, Barrett P. (St. John’s U). 

ABSTRACT: An emerging consensus is that small, indigenous farmers have enormous potential to improve local food systems to alleviate hunger/poverty, more than "big-industrial-agriculture." However, realizing this consensus requires a degree of experience and sophistication in working with small peasant farmers that current global institutional agencies need. This indigenous focus fits the strengths of the anthropological model, which can provide paradigmatic and experiential bridges to facilitate knowledge exchange between traditional food producers and processors and outside agencies dedicated to help with technologically and economically sophisticated resources. This panel clarifies the causes and consequences of hunger/ malnutrition in light of new roles anthropologists can serve in creating sustainable solutions.

Session Participants:

KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn, World Food Forum) Mapping Our Future Options - Creating Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: A 50 Year Anthropological Perspective on Avoiding Food Disasters

RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ, M. Guadalupe (CIESAS) Supporting Small Scale Farmers on Behalf of the World Food and Agricultural Systems Future: The Case of Mexico and FAO (read by Lois Stanford)

BRENTON, Barrett and GADHOKE, Preety (St. John’s U) The Biocultural Paradox of Childhood Hunger and Obesity: Implications for Food Security and Public Health Policy and Applied Community-Based Interventions

DISCUSSANTS: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY) and STANFORD, Lois M. (NMSU)

QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

4

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health Part 1 (SMA)

CHAIRS: HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and HAMILTON, Alison B. (VA, UCLA)

ABSTRACT: A broad gap exists betweenhealth research findings and their real world implementation, which the interdisciplinary and still emerging field of implementation science (I.S.)seeks to bridge. Applied anthropology has a strong role to play in the development of implementation science as both strive to solve human problems in dynamic, complex, real-world settings, in real time. This panel presents several anthropologists’ work in implementation science as examples of what applied anthropology can offer. We will discuss how anthropology can and does clearly strengthen the implementation of health innovations. We will also consider some of the challenges met by implementation science as it matures.

Session Participants:

HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and FINLEY, Erin P. (VA) Anthropology and Implementation Science: Possibilities and Challenges

HAMILTON, Alison, ZUCHOWSKI, Jessica, STOCKDALE, Susan, HUYNH, Alexis, and RUBENSTEIN, Lisa (VA, UCLA) Making Sense of VA’s Medical Home Model: Key Stakeholder Perceptions during Early Implementation

MCCULLOUGH, Megan, SOLOMON, Jeffery, PETRAKIS, Beth Ann, and ROSE, Adam (VA) Middle Managers, Micro-Practices and Change: Examining the Dynamics between Implementation and Leadership in an Anticoagulation Care Improvement Initiative

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health Part 2 (SMA)

CHAIRS: HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and HAMILTON, Alison B. (VA, UCLA)

Session Participants:

HARROD, Molly (VA) Who’s at Risk?: Understanding Healthcare Workers‚ Beliefs about the Necessity of Medical Practice Change

CADZOW, Renee B. (DYC) Urban Low-Income Adolescent Perceptions of Breastfeeding: Implications for Public Health Promotion

QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

5

Big Date Analytics in the Age of Ethnography: A Roundtable

CHAIRS: BLOMBERG, Jeanette (IBM) and JORDAN, Brigitte (Lifescapes). 

ABSTRACT: While many worry about the fate of Ethnography in the Age of Analytics, we argue that anthropology offers methodological resources and conceptual perspectives that can help us understand and navigate societal changes and potential threats posed by Big Data analytics. This Roundtable brings together researchers who have been exploring the serious, fateful, and sometimes amusing claims made by and about Big Data, data mining, and algorithmic analytics. In particular the Roundtable will address issues such as the nature and limits of big data, the politics of the algorithm, and the epistemological positioning of data analytics in relation to ethnography.

Part 1

Part 2

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

6

Business Anthropology Roundtable: New Voices, New Destinations, New Futures

CHAIR: SANTEE, Amy (Empirical Rsch & Design)

ABSTRACT: More and more anthropologists are finding employment in the business world. But what is it actually like to work there? This session will feature an open discussion between attendees and five anthropologists who are in the early stages of their professional careers. They have worked as freelancers, researchers, consultants, and interns for Fortune 50 companies, consulting firms, design agencies, and other businesses. Audience questions are welcome, and topics may include the academy-to-business transition, practitioner issues, job roles, the anthropologist identity, and what life is like as a young professional-anthropologist in business

Roundtable Participants:

AIKEN, Jo (UNT)
DORNADIC, Alicia (Independent)
KERSEY, Jen Cardew (SapientNitro)
SCHILL, Elizabeth (Partnership for Public Service)
RIOS, Danyel (UNT)

Roundtable Discussion

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

7

Coming of Age in the Corporate Context: Exploring the Non-Linear Transition from Student to Practitioner and Back Again

CHAIR: RAMER, S. Angela (UNT)

ABSTRACT: The process of taking anthropology from the safety of the classroom into the chaos of the corporate office can be awkward, intimidating, and yet highly rewarding. It involves observing new rituals, learning new languages, and embracing cultural norms in “exotic” industry environments. This session presents a cumulative breadth of experiences from undergraduate studies through graduate theses and first jobs, to a return to academia after a career in industry. These lessons learned provide valuable insights for those considering a career path in business and design anthropology.

Session Participants:

PAHL, Shane (UNT) So You’re Interested in Business Anthropology, Now What?

RAMER, S. Angela (UNT) Design Research for Designer Clients: A Study of an Architecture Firm’s Own Workspace

SANTEE, Amy (Empirical Rsch & Design) What Are You Doing Here?: Making the Academy-to-Business Transition as a Practicing Anthropologist

TAYLOR, E. Gigi (TX State U) On Becoming an Anthropologist: The Transition from a Practicing Qualitative Researcher (“the Other”) to an Academically Trained Anthropologist (“Us”)

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

8

Destination Unknown: How We Found Professions that Want Anthropologists Without Those Professions Actually Knowing It

CHAIR: BEVER, Sandra Weinstein (Walden U)

ABSTRACT: Graduates with an anthropology degree are often faced with the question of how such a degree will help them reach their desired destination. The purpose of this session is to explore the ways to seek or create employment opportunities as anthropologists. We are a panel of working anthropologists whose trajectories, or “destinations,” have landed each of us outside of a traditional academic location. Despite our varied professional settings, we all utilize our anthropological background and training on a daily basis. Further, we argue that our anthropological “stamp” often sets us apart in our chosen professions.

Session Participants:

WILLIAMS, Nathan L. (UNHCR) Heard but Not Seen: Anthropology and Anthropologists in Humanitarian Assistance (given by Sandra Bever)

BENNER, Timothy (Samsung) All I Really Need to Know about Anthropology I Learned Outside of Grad School, Or How I Learned What Employers Really Want

MASON, David (World Bank, UCLA) “Make [Only] Little Plans”: Anthropology and Incrementalism in Urban Planning

BEVER, Sandra Weinstein (Walden U) Administrative Destination: Bringing Anthropology into Academic Assessment

QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

9

International Perspectives on Business and Market Research

CHAIR: STEWART, Alex (Marquette U)

Session Participants: 

STEWART, Alex (Marquette U) Why Do Anthropologists Have So Little Impact on Management Research?

GORBEA, Laura (Altamente) Running to a Standstill: Developing a High Technology Sector in Puerto Rico

ROBERTS, Bruce (MSUM) Plastic Waste Management in Africa

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

10

Interventions: Evaluating NGOs and NPOs

CHAIR: BLATTEL, Carrie (IUPUI)

Session Participants:

BLATTEL, Carrie (IUPUI) Evaluating the Effective Distribution of Services to Latinos: Non-profit Fair at the Liga Latina

FITZPATRICK, John (UNL) Lincoln Literacy: A Case Study in Community-Based Non-Profit English Literacy Programs

SARDIER, Marie (Action Contre La Faim) From Rural to Urban: New Challenges for Humanitarian Actors

SIEBER, Timothy (UMass) Putting Anthropological Skills to Use in Engagement with Grassroots Community Organizations

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

11

Promoting Transdisciplinarity: Linking Anthropology and Engineering on Community

CHAIR: NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U)

ABSTRACT: Most practitioners work across disciplines, but few students are trained to do this. This panel examines how two universities are bringing anthropology and engineering students together on community development projects, and what they learn by working together. Nolan will discuss transdisciplinary work in the context of anthropologicalpractice. Dare and Gattuso will present specific examples from Purdue andMemphis. Briody, as a discussant, will highlight comparisons and contrasts between the two university programs, and will relate lessons learned to contemporary issues of practitioner training. There will be ample time for audience discussion and debate.

Session Participants:

NOLAN, Riall (Purdue U) Working across Disciplines as an Integral Part of Anthropological Practice

DARE, Anne (Purdue U) Facilitating Collaboration between Anthropology and Engineering Students

GATTUSO, Anna (U Memphis) Complementary Styles: Engineering and Anthropology at the University of Memphis

DISCUSSANT: BRIODY, Elizabeth (Cultural Keys LLC)

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

12

Rethinking Poverty in Re/Development Thinking: Anthropological Perspectives

CHAIR: ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Kentucky)

ABSTRACT: Poverty is a social construct specifying prescribed modes in which scholars and practitioners frame the concept of poverty, the ways of measuring it, and the modalities of alleviating it. This panel will critique the economic and capabilistic approaches to poverty by providing anthropological perspectives that focus on providing a historical and social context for understanding poverty as a social and institutional relationship. Ethnographically grounded perspectives from (re)development contexts in the north and in the globalizing south will critique the reductionist approaches of economism and capability to poverty and will provide an enhanced understanding of the categories of poverty and the poor.

Session Participants: 

ILAHIANE, Hsain (U Kentucky) Le Maroc est Très Noir: Al-noir and the Perpetuity of Poverty in Morocco

MCDONALD, Juliana (U Kentucky) It’s Not about the Money: The Real Emic and the Sticky Wicket of Poverty in Davis Bottom, KY

HÅKANSSON, N. Thomas (Swedish U Ag Sci, U Kentucky) Poverty, Development, and the Misunderstanding of Landesque Capital in Northeastern Tanzania

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

13

Strategies for Organizational Research

CHAIR: JORDAN, Ann (UNT)

Session Participants:

WRIGHT, Rachel (Independent) Paid in Different Ways: New Solutions to Nonprofit Employee Compensation

BONNEKESSEN, Barbara (NMT) The Applied Anthropologist at Home: Campus Culture and the Anthropologist as Catalyst

O’STEEN, Brianna (USF) Applying Anthropological Methodology in the Nonprofit Sector in the Neoliberal Age: History, Theory, and a Case Study

SCHUMAN, Andrea F. (Ctr for Sci & Soc Studies) Living Well: A Case Study in the Social and Solidarity Economy

JORDAN, Ann (UNT) Playing with Complexity: Applying the Theory to Organizations

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

14

Technology, Design, and New Media in Ethnographic Engagement

CHAIR: CHIN, Elizabeth (Art Ctr Coll of Design)

ABSTRACT: This session highlights work exploring the ways in which ethnography, technology, process and product might be mixed and remixed in the context of collaboration and community engagement. Making, remaking, and deploying media in a variety of critical modes, the projects here demonstrate some of the ways in which technology and new media themselves mediate and re-design ethnographic work both as a process and as a product. How might cameras become characters moderating relationships? What new possibilities emerge for knowledge production in the ethnographic domain? Projects explore engagements including Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, neighborhoods in Baltimore and Johannesburg.

Session Participants:

DURINGTON, Matthew and COLLINS, Sam (Towson U) Creating an Applied Networked Anthropology

MARZEC, Morgan, MCCRAE, Cayla, and ZENG, Tina L. (Art Ctr Coll of Design) Caminemos Juntos: Designers’ Ethnographic Journey with Homeless Youth

KITNER, Kathi R. and DE WET, Thea (Intel Labs) Smart Phones, Dumb Anthropology: Re-thinking Ethnography and Mobility in a South African Urban Landscape

BARBOSA, Erika (U Manchester) Concrete Ecology: Sensing Change along the Los Angeles River

DISCUSSANTS: WALI, Alaka (Field Museum) and CHIN, Elizabeth (Art Ctr Coll of Design)

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

15

We All Eat Rice...? Poi, Potatoes, and Mac and Cheese!: Deconstructing Ethnicity for Cultural Specificity

CHAIR: TASHIMA, Nathaniel (LTG Assoc)

ABSTRACT: Health disparities in the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) populations are increasingly garnering attention, particularly a high prevalence of obesity-related chronic illnesses among some AAPI groups. In this panel, we present some of the environmental, ecological, cultural, social and historical dimensions of AAPI health and childhood obesity to contextualize the disparate situations. With the goal of improving culturally competent health and human services for AAPI peoples, we will highlight the complexities in assessing and understanding the causes and practices that lead to children and adolescents becoming overweight and obese.

Session Participants:

CRAIN, Cathleen, TASHIMA, Nathaniel, ISHIHARA-BRITO, Reiko, and DAO, Lillie (LTG Assoc) Complexities of Specificity and Inclusiveness in Focusing on Health and Human Services for Asian American and Pacific Islanders

ISHIHARA-BRITO, Reiko, CRAIN, Cathleen, TASHIMA, Nathaniel, and DAO, Lillie (LTG Assoc) The Childhood Obesity Epidemic in the US - Says Who?: Asian American and Pacific Islander Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Body Image and Relevant Factors

DAO, Lillie, TASHIMA, Nathaniel, CRAIN, Cathleen, and ISHIHARA-BRITO, Reiko (LTG Assoc) Over Two Million of the United States’ “Model Minority” Living in Poverty: Health Implications and Dispelling Myths

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

16

Wisdom I Didn’t Have: Advice from Practicing and Applied Anthropologists for Students

CHAIR: COLÓN-CABRERA, David (UMD)

ABSTRACT: Students and recent graduates often wonder about intangible knowledge that they did not learn in their academic programs; knowledge that is often tied to “real-world” experience. Anthropology’s holistic perspective is in part due to its ethnographic roots; a perspective that provides the basis of a pedagogical exercise for this session. First, practicing and applied anthropologists share short stories about “what they should’ve known then” in a roundtable discussion, Then, these experienced anthropologists lead small group discussions with students and recent graduates to allow more participation. Finally, panelists contribute to a student led concluding discussion about anthropology degrees and applied/practicing anthropology.

Session Participants: 

MASON, Amanda and BUTLER, Mary Odell (UMD), and BENNER, Timothy (Samsung)

Q&A

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

17

Working in Place: Dimensions of Work and Career

CHAIR: STRUTHERS, Elaine (UTEP)

Session Participants:

WILLIAMS, Ann and ANDREWS, Smaranda (UWM) Re-creating Her Story: The Identity of Women Entrepreneurs in Organic Agriculture

STRUTHERS, Elaine (UTEP) Profession and Diffusion: Occupational Therapy in Bulgaria

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

18

2014 SfAA Awards Ceremony

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida

Life Time Achievement Award: Alvin Wolfe 
Margaret Mead Award: Sera Young
Sol Tax Award: Ted Downing
Bronislaw Malinowski Award: Paul Durrenburger

Recording of Malinowski Award:

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.