2012 Podcasts

1

Women, Empowerment, and Health in Urban India (SMA)

CHAIR: SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn)

ABSTRACT: This session will present qualitative and quantitative data on sexual and reproductive health for women in low income communities in Mumbai,India. Specific topics will focus on smokeless tobacco use, marital sexuality,sterilization, gynecological problems, and vaginal discharge in the context of gender norms and practices in the family, health care system and community that serve to contribute to health problems and undermine approaches to addressing these problems. Each paper will discuss the development of interventions and their impact in ameliorating these issues at multiple levels.

Session Participants:

BRAULT, Marie A. (UConn), JADHAV, Kalpita (Topiwala Nat’l Med Coll), and VERMA, Ravi K. (Int’l Ctr for Rsch on Women) 
KOSTICK, Kristin (Inst for Community Rsch)
SCHENSUL, Stephen L. and SINGH, Rajendra (UConn)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

2

Digital and Virtual Communities

CHAIR: CHANDLER-EZELL, Karol (Stephen F. Austin State U)

Session Participants:

THORN, Mary Katherine (NC State U) The Creation of Transnational Spaces among Latino Youth in North Carolina

VIZENOR, Katie (U Buffalo, American Fdn for the Blind) Gaming (Dis)abled: How Legal Changes in Understanding the Meaning of Space and Place Could Help Make Online Virtual Worlds More Inclusive and Accessible

APPLIN, Sally A. and FISCHER, Michael D. (U Kent-Canterbury) Blurry Borders and Blended Boundaries: PolySocial Reality in Digitally Individuated Communities

JEMIELNIAK, Dariusz (Kozminski U) Wikipedia: An Effective Anarchy

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

3

Space, Place, and Cultural Impacts

Session Participants:

WEIDLICH, Stephen and DOWNS, Mike (AECOM) Exploring Community Cohesion: The Boundaries and Traits of Historic Barrio Carlsbad, California. 

ABSTRACT: When the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) determined that their latest project would significantly affect the historic community of Barrio Carlsbad, the research team conducted a first-of-its-kind research project to define the level of community cohesion present in the community. This presentation describes the results of that research and illustrates the demographic, mathematic, geographic, and ethnographic methods with the potential to describe the boundaries, tangible and intangible traits, and overall level of cohesion present in a community. These characteristics can either be adversely affected or enhanced through thoughtful transportation planning, including the protection/creation of “Third Places.” 

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

4

Addressing Human Trafficking

CHAIR: SALVI, Cecilia Maria (CSU-Los Angeles)

Session Participants:

TORRES, Melissa I.M. (U Houston) and ARANGO, James (U S Florida) You Don’t See Them in the Day Time: Perceptions on Sex Trafficking and Sex Work among Mexican-American Johns in Houston, Texas

RUSSELL, Rosalie (SMU) The Development of Social, Cultural, and Economic Capital in the DC Human Trafficking Task Force

DOCARMO, Tania (U N Texas, Chab Dai) Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Address Human Trafficking in Cambodia: A Case Study

ALBAUGH, Kurt (US Naval Academy) Somali Refugees at Sea: Implications for Theory and Policy

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

5

NGO Practices and Their Consequences

CHAIR: GRIEB, Suzanne Dolwick (Johns Hopkins SPH)

Session Participants:

CHOI, Minhae and PETERS, Rebecca (Syracuse U) Professional Distinctions: The Politics of Human Resources Policies in International NGOs

STIGLICH, Janice (U Central Florida) The Role of Nongovernmental, Private and Community Organizations in the Lives of Female Domestic Workers in Lima, Peru

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

6

Story Making, Telling, and Sharing (SMA)

CHAIR: WEINER, Diane (Boston U Grad Sch of Med)

ABSTRACT: Rooted in health education, the creation of digital stories, comics,and graphic narratives have been infiltrated by applied anthropologist andcommunity-based participatory research. Unlike Public Health, the goal of much of this ethnographically produced story creation is not merely to tailor materials but to provide cultural perspectives and knowledge to develop and implement culturally relevant and comprehensible interventions (Genat 2009; Kagawa-Singer 2009; McMullin et al. 2010). This session examines the ways applied anthropologists produce digital stories, graphics, and comics that enable speakers, listeners, and viewers alike to become immersed in historical, economic, political contexts and socio-cultural experiences of health.

Session Participants:

MCMULLIN, Juliet (UC-Riverside)
OTANEZ, Marty (UC-Denver)
WALRATH, Dana (U Vermont)
GUBRIUM, Aline (UMass-Amherst)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

7

Medical Anthropology and Its View of the Patient (SMA)

CHAIR: PAGE, J. Bryan (U Miami)

ABSTRACT: People who seek attention for illness often must navigate (and often combine) multiple options in order to meet their needs, and after obtaining adiagnosis and finding treatment, they must recall and enact the instructionsof the caregiver(s) who provided that treatment, facing multiple challenges. These varieties of behavior related to seeking and adhering to care have provided opportunities for investigation and positive intervention by medical anthropologists since the sub-discipline’s inception. Panel participants will summarize accumulated knowledge based on research and practice related to health problems, commenting on the state of the science as they see it and new directions.

Session Participants:

SINGER, Merrill (UConn)
CASTRO, Arachu, HEYMANN, Marilyn, and BETTINI, Anna (Harvard Med Sch)
SALAZAR FRAILE, José (Generalitat Valenciana), BROWN, David (Florida Int’l U), and SEMPERE VERDU, Ermengol (Generalitat Valenciana)
LUBORSKY, Mark and LICHTENBERG, Peter (Wayne State U)
SOLIMEO, Samantha (US Dept of Veterans Affairs) 

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

8

Involving Communities Through Participatory Research

CHAIR: HYLAND, Stan (U Memphis)

CAIRO, Aminata (SIUE) Navigating Territoriality in Applied Research with an African American Drumming Community

GARBINA, Geoffrey (U N Texas) Negotiating for Success: Using Anthropology to Negotiate a Partnership

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

9

Applied Anthropology, Poverty Research, and Welfare Policy in the Post-Welfare Reform Era

CHAIR: ROZEN, David. J. (Independent)

ABSTRACT: This roundtable will be a discussion among scholars and practitioners who have worked on poverty issues as to the most appropriate response for applied anthropology in an era of reduced entitlement programs. As the American social safety net becomes adistant memory, poor people will face major survival changes not seen since the Great Depression. These and future reductions in benefits to the aged, disabled,and the unemployed are in addition to the disaster to mothers and children in 1996 when the welfare reform movement resulted in the replacement of AFDC by TANF.

 Roundtable Participants:

CLARK, Sherri Lawson (Wake Forest U)
DAVIS, Dana-Ain (Queens Coll)
HENRICI, Jane (IWPR)
HYATT, Susan B. (IUPUI)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

10

Applied Anthropologists at the Boundries: Theory and Practical Outcomes (WAPA)

CHAIR: KRIEGER, Laurie (Manoff Grp)

ABSTRACT: Applied anthropologists often practicing outside the academy transcend disciplinary and theoretical boundaries in working with non-anthropologist colleagues whose theories and models may include predictive paradigms. Trained in a discipline mostly unconcerned with prediction, we nevertheless apply anthropological theories and methods to “real world” situations to improve the lives of the often marginalized populations with whom we work. This panel of applied anthropologists from the Washington, D.C. area takes a hard look at whether and how anthropological theories and methods have assisted in achieving and predicting “real world” outcomes in our work.

EDBERG, Mark (George Wash U)
YODER, Stan (Macro Int’l)
ORNDORFF, Sarah (George Wash U)
CRISTIAN, Viviana (WAPA)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

11

State Promotion and Control of Violence

CHAIR: MARIL, Robert Lee (E Carolina U)

Session Participants:

GALLEGOS, Alaina (SDSU) Gendered Reactions to Symbolic Violence among Deportees in Tijuana, B.C., Mexico

LUNDGREN, Rebecka (UMD) Safe Passage from Camp to Resettlement: Negotiating the Borders between Childhood and Adulthood

SAVELL, Stephanie (Brown U) Brazilian ‘Human Security’: Militarized Security Interventions in Poor Urban Neighborhoods

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

12

Addressing the Impacts of/on Tourism

CHAIR: BRONDO, Keri Vacanti (U Memphis)

Session Participants:

SPEARS, Chaya R. (Wake Forest Sch of Med) Re-placing Participatory Tourism Development: Reflections on Context and Consensus

FENG, Xianghong (E Mich U) Women’s Work, Men’s Work:  Gender Dynamics of Cultural Tourism in a Chinese Miao Village

PRAKASH, Preetam (U Arizona) Gulf Coast Tourism Following the BP Oil Spill

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

13

Who Controls Your Food System?: Local People, Consumers, and Family Farmers vs. Multinational Corporations Part 1

CHAIR: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)

ABSTRACT: This panel looks at the process of building strong and vibrant local food systems worldwide, that meet the survival needs of all people and shifting away from and challenging total dependency on corporate food supplies and towards vibrant new systems. The papers cover a range of situations and public policy concerns including though not limited to “urban agriculture,” new agricultural approaches that are passed on from farmer to farmer with some NGO and local government help, etc. It raises the question: “How can beginning fundamental changes in the food system world-wide impact present- day monopoly capitalism.”

DISCUSSANTS: HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change), BURKE, Brian J. (U Arizona)

Session Participants:

SOUTHWORTH, Frank (U Penn)
BRETT, John (UC-Denver)
CAMPBELL-UNSOELD, Maya (U Pacific)
BUSCH, Kyra (Yale U)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Who Controls Your Food System?: Local People, Consumers, and Family Farmers vs. Multinational Corporations Part 2

CHAIR: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)

DISCUSSANTS: HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change), BURKE, Brian J. (U Arizona)

Session Participants:

OVIATT, Kate (UC-Denver)
MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

14

What are NGOs Really Doing?

CHAIR: LEATHERMAN, Tom (UMass-Amherst)

Session Participants:

GIBSON, Nancy (Marylhurst U) “Junk for Jesus”: The Commodified Gift, Donation in a Global Economy

PARK, Seo Yeon (U S Carolina) Transnational Activism, Humanitarianism and Individual Labor Force in Globalized Civil Society

POWERS, Elizabeth V. (Central Mich U) What Are We Sustaining?: A Closer Look at a Sustainable Development Model in Cape Coast

LEATHERMAN, Tom (UMass-Amherst) Changing Economies, Social Conditions, and Health in the Southern Peruvian Andes

CAPPELLI, Mary Louisa (Indiana U- Penn) Reconceptualizing Gender Boundaries in Igbo Culture

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

15

Anthropologists as Advocates for Immigrants and Refugees

CHAIR: HO, Christine (Fielding Grad U)

ABSTRACT: This session addresses the pivotal role of anthropologists as advocates for the rights of migrants and refugees. Such roles include anthropologists as analysts of comparative policies and practices that can assist asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in their struggle for human rights; as analysts of the intersection between advocacy and ethnographically-drivenfieldwork among migrant populations in Qatar and neighboring GCC states;as challengers of the System of Sakoku in Japan; as educators of the American public and policy makers to change anti-immigrant public discourse; as media campaigners against the fracturing of immigrant families caused by U.S. immigration laws.

DISCUSSANTS: HEYMAN, Josiah (UTEP), LOUCKY, James (W Wash U)

Session Participants:

RABBEN, Linda (Independent)
GARDNER, Andrew M. (U Puget Sound)
WILLIS, David Blake (Fielding Grad U)
FOXEN, Patricia (NCLR, American U)
HO, Christine (Fielding Grad U)

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

16

Images and Impacts of Tourism

CHAIR: NICHOLLS, Heidi (SUNY-Albany)

Session Participants:

BARBERY, Ennis (UMD) Mapping Parks and Mapping Futures: Symbolic Images in Tourism of the New River Gorge

FEDERMAN, Amy Schlagel (Independent) Tourism in Israel as a Vehicle for Solidarity with the Homeland

JOHNSON, Lauren (U S Florida) Dem Nevah Reach: Living in the Periphery of a Jamaican Tourist Destination

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

17

2012 SfAA Award Ceremony

Malinowski Award Recipient: BARNETT, Clifford
Introduction by KUNSTADTER, Peter

How Did I Get Here? What Did I Learn Along the Way?

Clifford R. Barnett is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Stanford University. He notes that all of his professional publications are cited in this presentation. Of the 23 articles and books listed, only five of the citations (including his doctoral dissertation) have only one person named as a single author. The co-authors listed with him for nearly 80 percent of his publications include: sociologists, anthropologists, pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, geneticists, economists, political scientists, retired military officers and professional writers. Given the cultural emphasis we have on the individual, it is understandable that in the social sciences particularly, group projects are not a significant part of the educational experience at the university level. When he had his first university appointment in 1964 at Stanford University he encouraged students to work in small groups on their term projects. Readers may wonder whether every team member contributes significantly to the end product. First, students have the option of working individually or joining a group, Once the choice is made, the group process stimulates participation and provides positive feed-back to its members. People have to work together in order to produce change.

Lecture took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.