The SfAA Podcast Archive

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines - Arora

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines 
CHAIRS: MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Doing Front Line Ethnographic Research with Indigenous People in Roraima State, Brazil 
ARORA, Kamal (UBC) Clutching a Pink Can of Pepper Spray: Fieldwork under the Shadow of the Delhi Gangrape  NITSÀN, Tal (UBC) Anthropologists and the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence 
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) Violence, Fissure Lines, and the Unexpected Insight 
MENEZES, Gustavo Hamilton de Sousa (FUNAi) Doing Field Work in Brazilian Prisons
 
ABSTRACT:
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines. This session concerns the experiences of anthropologists engaged in “front line” work in other disciplines—including such topics as work with indigenous peoples on borders, in prisons, and in violent settings. We ask, what features of this work are commonly unreported and yet influence our ability to access sites, raise our concerns about personal safety, and affect our theorizing and even our own sense of the role of the discipline? Examples include the indirect (threats in court to expert witnesses), the directly violent (attempts to kill and discredit an anthropologist working with those in opposition to dam development), among others. 
 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines - Nitsan

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines 
CHAIRS: MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Doing Front Line Ethnographic Research with Indigenous People in Roraima State, Brazil 
ARORA, Kamal (UBC) Clutching a Pink Can of Pepper Spray: Fieldwork under the Shadow of the Delhi Gangrape  NITSÀN, Tal (UBC) Anthropologists and the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence 
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) Violence, Fissure Lines, and the Unexpected Insight 
MENEZES, Gustavo Hamilton de Sousa (FUNAi) Doing Field Work in Brazilian Prisons
 
ABSTRACT:
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines. This session concerns the experiences of anthropologists engaged in “front line” work in other disciplines—including such topics as work with indigenous peoples on borders, in prisons, and in violent settings. We ask, what features of this work are commonly unreported and yet influence our ability to access sites, raise our concerns about personal safety, and affect our theorizing and even our own sense of the role of the discipline? Examples include the indirect (threats in court to expert witnesses), the directly violent (attempts to kill and discredit an anthropologist working with those in opposition to dam development), among others. 
 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines - Menezes

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines 
CHAIRS: MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Doing Front Line Ethnographic Research with Indigenous People in Roraima State, Brazil 
ARORA, Kamal (UBC) Clutching a Pink Can of Pepper Spray: Fieldwork under the Shadow of the Delhi Gangrape  NITSÀN, Tal (UBC) Anthropologists and the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence 
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) Violence, Fissure Lines, and the Unexpected Insight 
MENEZES, Gustavo Hamilton de Sousa (FUNAi) Doing Field Work in Brazilian Prisons
 
ABSTRACT:
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines. This session concerns the experiences of anthropologists engaged in “front line” work in other disciplines—including such topics as work with indigenous peoples on borders, in prisons, and in violent settings. We ask, what features of this work are commonly unreported and yet influence our ability to access sites, raise our concerns about personal safety, and affect our theorizing and even our own sense of the role of the discipline? Examples include the indirect (threats in court to expert witnesses), the directly violent (attempts to kill and discredit an anthropologist working with those in opposition to dam development), among others. 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines - Baines

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines 
CHAIRS: MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Doing Front Line Ethnographic Research with Indigenous People in Roraima State, Brazil 
ARORA, Kamal (UBC) Clutching a Pink Can of Pepper Spray: Fieldwork under the Shadow of the Delhi Gangrape  NITSÀN, Tal (UBC) Anthropologists and the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence 
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) Violence, Fissure Lines, and the Unexpected Insight 
MENEZES, Gustavo Hamilton de Sousa (FUNAi) Doing Field Work in Brazilian Prisons
 
ABSTRACT:
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines. This session concerns the experiences of anthropologists engaged in “front line” work in other disciplines—including such topics as work with indigenous peoples on borders, in prisons, and in violent settings. We ask, what features of this work are commonly unreported and yet influence our ability to access sites, raise our concerns about personal safety, and affect our theorizing and even our own sense of the role of the discipline? Examples include the indirect (threats in court to expert witnesses), the directly violent (attempts to kill and discredit an anthropologist working with those in opposition to dam development), among others. 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines - Miller

Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines 
CHAIRS: MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Doing Front Line Ethnographic Research with Indigenous People in Roraima State, Brazil 
ARORA, Kamal (UBC) Clutching a Pink Can of Pepper Spray: Fieldwork under the Shadow of the Delhi Gangrape  NITSÀN, Tal (UBC) Anthropologists and the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence 
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) Violence, Fissure Lines, and the Unexpected Insight 
MENEZES, Gustavo Hamilton de Sousa (FUNAi) Doing Field Work in Brazilian Prisons
 
ABSTRACT:
MILLER, Bruce (UBC) and BAINES, Stephen (U Brasilia) Anthropology and Violence on the Frontlines. This session concerns the experiences of anthropologists engaged in “front line” work in other disciplines—including such topics as work with indigenous peoples on borders, in prisons, and in violent settings. We ask, what features of this work are commonly unreported and yet influence our ability to access sites, raise our concerns about personal safety, and affect our theorizing and even our own sense of the role of the discipline? Examples include the indirect (threats in court to expert witnesses), the directly violent (attempts to kill and discredit an anthropologist working with those in opposition to dam development), among others. 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Moving Targets: Adapting to New Intersections, Methods, and Mobile Populations in Ethnographic Research - Mosher

Moving Targets: Adapting to New Intersections, Methods, and Mobile Populations in Ethnographic Research
 
CHAIR: FOX, Katherine (SMU)
 
ARCHER, Sarah (SMU) Hunting Ghosts: Using GIS to Track Rapid Population Movement in a Chinese Ghost City FOX, Katherine (SMU) Who Am I Today?: Disparate Intersections of Queer and Immigrant Identities in the San Francisco Bay Area MOSHER, Sara L. (SMU) The Syrians Are Coming!: Media Representation and Local Attitudes toward Refugee Resettlement PERKINS, Carrie (SMU) The Road to Resettlement: Transitions from the Thai-Burma border to Dallas, Texas WONDRACK, Jordan (SMU) Unexpected “Othering”: Ethnopsychiatry and Cultural Expertise
 
MOSHER, Heather, JORDAN, Dan, MORALES, Zulynette, and SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) Youth RxeACTION: A Participatory Video Action Research Project. Facilitated by ICR researchers, high school students in West Hartford, Connecticut, used participatory video (PV) and participatory action research to understand and design a prevention campaign to reduce teen substance use. Youth researchers conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with peers to understand teen alcohol use and prescription drug misuse among peers at their schools. The youth researchers used PV to disseminate findings in scripted stories to increase reach and engage their peers in substance use prevention. Evaluation findings showed a reduction in 30 day alcohol use among West Hartford high school students over the four year period of the campaign.
 
Session took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2016.

Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III: Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action - Kort

Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III: Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action 
CHAIRS: SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) and SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) 
KORT, Beverley (Consultant) Solution Focused Interviewing: Co-creating Possibilities for Change 
STERN, Nancy (Consultant) Designing Cultural Diversity at an International Airport 
WALDRAM, James B. (U Sask) Participatory Ethnographic Film: Video Advocacy on a Budget 
SCHENSUL, Jean and RADDA, Kim (ICR), REISINE, Susan (UConn Dental Sch, ICR), 
FOSTER-BEY, Colleen (ICR) Co-constructing Multilevel Interventions and Health Advocacy with Older Adults in Senior Housing 
TROTTER II, Robert T. (NAU) Creating Fundable Evaluation Designs Using the Ethnographer’s Toolkit DISCUSSANTS: SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) and SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR)
 
ABSTRACT:
SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) and SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action. The five papers in this session presented mainly by Canadian social scientists advance themes fundamental to the Ethnographer’s Toolkit emphasizing participatory methodology. The importance of culture, partnership, co-inquiry, and the co-creation of new environments that encompass user-led approaches to evaluation, social transformation and change are highlighted for use at individual, group, community and environmental levels. Solution focused interviewing builds strengths for individual change; participatory filmmaking emphasizes group cooperation for broader change; buildings are research communities that residents change through knowledge production and organizing strategies; cultural politics frames the creation of inclusive airport environments; Native Americans frame cultural approaches to mixed methods NIH evaluation. 
 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III: Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action - Schensul

Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III: Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action 
CHAIRS: SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) and SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) 
KORT, Beverley (Consultant) Solution Focused Interviewing: Co-creating Possibilities for Change 
STERN, Nancy (Consultant) Designing Cultural Diversity at an International Airport 
WALDRAM, James B. (U Sask) Participatory Ethnographic Film: Video Advocacy on a Budget 
SCHENSUL, Jean and RADDA, Kim (ICR), REISINE, Susan (UConn Dental Sch, ICR), 
FOSTER-BEY, Colleen (ICR) Co-constructing Multilevel Interventions and Health Advocacy with Older Adults in Senior Housing 
TROTTER II, Robert T. (NAU) Creating Fundable Evaluation Designs Using the Ethnographer’s Toolkit DISCUSSANTS: SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) and SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR)
 
ABSTRACT:
SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) and SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action. The five papers in this session presented mainly by Canadian social scientists advance themes fundamental to the Ethnographer’s Toolkit emphasizing participatory methodology. The importance of culture, partnership, co-inquiry, and the co-creation of new environments that encompass user-led approaches to evaluation, social transformation and change are highlighted for use at individual, group, community and environmental levels. Solution focused interviewing builds strengths for individual change; participatory filmmaking emphasizes group cooperation for broader change; buildings are research communities that residents change through knowledge production and organizing strategies; cultural politics frames the creation of inclusive airport environments; Native Americans frame cultural approaches to mixed methods NIH evaluation. 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III: Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action - Waldram

Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III: Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action 
CHAIRS: SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) and SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) 
KORT, Beverley (Consultant) Solution Focused Interviewing: Co-creating Possibilities for Change 
STERN, Nancy (Consultant) Designing Cultural Diversity at an International Airport 
WALDRAM, James B. (U Sask) Participatory Ethnographic Film: Video Advocacy on a Budget 
SCHENSUL, Jean and RADDA, Kim (ICR), REISINE, Susan (UConn Dental Sch, ICR), 
FOSTER-BEY, Colleen (ICR) Co-constructing Multilevel Interventions and Health Advocacy with Older Adults in Senior Housing 
TROTTER II, Robert T. (NAU) Creating Fundable Evaluation Designs Using the Ethnographer’s Toolkit DISCUSSANTS: SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) and SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR)
 
ABSTRACT:
SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) and SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn Med Sch) Celebrating the Ethnographer’s Toolkit III Innovations in Participatory Research Methods for Social Action. The five papers in this session presented mainly by Canadian social scientists advance themes fundamental to the Ethnographer’s Toolkit emphasizing participatory methodology. The importance of culture, partnership, co-inquiry, and the co-creation of new environments that encompass user-led approaches to evaluation, social transformation and change are highlighted for use at individual, group, community and environmental levels. Solution focused interviewing builds strengths for individual change; participatory filmmaking emphasizes group cooperation for broader change; buildings are research communities that residents change through knowledge production and organizing strategies; cultural politics frames the creation of inclusive airport environments; Native Americans frame cultural approaches to mixed methods NIH evaluation. 
 
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.

Celebrating the Toolkit II: Community-Based Culturally Informed Collaborative Research Projects in Education - Q&A

Celebrating the Toolkit II: Community-Based Culturally Informed Collaborative Research Projects in Education 
CHAIRS: LECOMPTE, Margaret D. (UC-Boulder) and LUDWIG, Sheryl A. (Denver U) 
JUDD, Joel (SUU) Teacher Research: Empowering Social and Academic Change 
AGUILERA-BLACK BEAR, Dorothy (Independent), JUDD, Joel (SUU), VAN DER WEY, Dolores (SFU), MARTINEZ, Clara A. (Naco Rsch Inst), and YAZZIE-MINTZ, Tarajean (American Indian Coll Fund) Youth-PAR and Community Change for Native American Youth and School Leaders 
VAN DER WEY, Dolores (SFU) Building Success for First Nations Female Graduate Students: A Community-Embedded Indigenous Education M.ED Program 
MARTINEZ, Clara A. (Naco Rsch Inst) Native American Educational Self-Determination and Food Sovereignty  YAZZIE-MINTZ, Tarajean (American Indian Coll Fund) From Places of Strength: Cultivating Early Learning Opportunities from within Native Communities
 
ABSTRACT:
LECOMPTE, Margaret D. (UC-Boulder) and LUDWIG, Sheryl A. (Denver U) Celebrating the Toolkit II Community-Based Culturally Informed Collaborative Research Projects in Education. While schools quintessentially are located in communities, they often reflect White, middle class mainstream culture, rather than the diverse and non-European-American populations they serve. The Ethnographer’s Toolkit outlines strategies for building multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral partnerships among public schools, marginalized communities, funding agencies, and community agencies to improve the success of students who otherwise would struggle educationally.  These papers highlight such partnerships, as implemented by ethnographically-informed teachers together with community activists, institutional leaders, local elders, and key informants. They can be implemented in any community; these projects were initiated by educators and others in language minority and Native American communities.
Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.