Risky Business: Applied Anthropologists in Danger(ous) Research Fields

Risky Business: Applied Anthropologists in

Danger(ous) Research Fields

 

CHAIR: BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch

Inst)

MONAGHAN, Paul (SE Coastal Ctr for Ag Hlth & Safety) Weighing the Risk of Heat Related Illness and

Piece-rate Work in Agriculture

KLATASKE, Ryan (U Nebraska Med Ctr) Beef

Production and Processing: Risk, Work, and Rural Life

in the Great Plains

SORENSEN, Julie (NE Ctr for Occupational Hlth &

Safety: Ag, Forestry & Fishing) Finding the Value:

Reshaping the Concept of Safety to Connect with

Risk-Takers

 

BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst) Risky Business: Applied

Anthropologists in Danger(ous) Research Fields. This invited panel will ask

those colleagues how they work to better understand the human relation

to danger and risk-taking as well as applied anthropologists’ roles and

responsibilities in identifying, analyzing, and characterizing these conditions,

e.g. mitigate human risk, but it may also be in the vein of how to best prescribe

risk, e.g. clinical trial research, pedagogy, or financial investment. Papers may

also highlight the difficulties of working within in multidisciplinary fields where

there is less consensus about what substantiates unacceptable danger or risk

in light of what may result to improve the human condition.

 

Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.