The SfAA Podcast Archive

Rethinking Risk and Preparedness (Risk & Disaster TIG)

Rethinking Risk and Preparedness (Risk & Disaster
TIG)
 
CHAIR: CANNON, Terry (IDS UK)
BALAGNA, Jay (Pardee RAND Grad Sch) Stuck in
the Smokey Bear Era: Examining the Ways Cultural
Processes Contribute to Disaster Policy and Wildland Fire
DYER, Christopher (UNM) Building Disaster Resilience:
Application of the CART Model in Rural North Carolina
DOERING, Zach (Butler U) Building Community
Resiliency against Disasters
CANNON, Terry (IDS UK) Is Disaster Risk Creation
More Significant Than Risk Reduction?
JINKA, Malavika and BARO, Mamadou (U Arizona)
Rethinking Resilience in Senegalese Communities:
Insights from the COVID-19 Crisis
 
CANNON, Terry (IDS UK) Is Disaster Risk Creation More Significant Than Risk
Reduction? Most research and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) is based
on the assumption that it reduces vulnerability or mitigate hazards. Research
is supposedly ‘taken up’ by governments and relevant institutions and used to
inform DRR policy. Donors, NGOs and other actors supposedly engage in activities
that reduce disaster risk. This session upsets these comforting assumptions. It
argues that government and the private sector are much more likely to create
disasters than to reduce them. Understanding that Disaster Risk Creation (DRC)
is more significant than the efforts of academics and organizations to reduce
disasters is essential.
 
Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Not Doing Anthropology Like an Anthropologist Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists Reskilling Themselves

Not Doing Anthropology Like an Anthropologist
Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists
Reskilling Themselves
 
CHAIR: BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst)
FLYNN, Michael A. (NIOSH) Creating Space for a
Social Perspective in a Technical Field: Integrating
Anthropology into Occupational Safety and Health
RISSING, Andrea (ASU) Hybridizing Anthropology:
Early Career Reflections on Evolving towards
Interdisciplinarity
RODRIGUEZ-MEJIA, Fredy (Purdue U & NW State
CC) Learning to Work in Multidisciplinary Teams:
Anthropologists, Engineers, and Short-Term
Ethnographic Research
 
BENDIXSEN, Casper (Marshfield Clinic Rsch Inst) Not Doing Anthropology Like
an Anthropologist Would: Professionally Trained Anthropologists Reskilling
Themselves. This invited panel invites colleagues with anthropological
pedigree to reflect on how they’ve established themselves in other fields of
research, service, or education. Of particular interest is how anthropological
training created the ability, perhaps even desire, to reskill and become some
new form of professional. What are motivations and techniques to reskill?
What skills and ways of thinking remain? What has been augmented or lost?
It’s valuable for students to witness how careers form outside of the traditional
academic framework. There is value in codifying the process, making “studying
anthropology to not be become an anthropologist” track accessible and
acceptable.
 
Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Rethinking Student Training and Preparation for Diverse Career Pathways (Higher Ed TIG)

Rethinking Student Training and Preparation for
Diverse Career Pathways (Higher Ed TIG)
 
CHAIRS: MURPHY, Daniel (U Cincinnati) and BRUNO,
Jasmine (CO State U)
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: KAHN, Linda (U
Buffalo), ROMERO-DAZA, Nancy (USF), CADZOW,
Renee (D’Youville U), MATTER, Scott (U Tech-
Sydney), MAXWELL, Keely (EPA), MOECKLI, Jane (VA)
 
MURPHY, Daniel (U Cincinnati) and BRUNO, Jasmine (CO State U) Rethinking Student Training and Preparation for Diverse Career Pathways. Applied anthropologists use anthropological knowledge and skills to address real-world challenges; yet, preparing students for employment outside of academia continues to challenge college faculty. Likewise, students struggle to translate and package their skills and training for careers where they might best apply them. In this roundtable, we bring together representatives from a diverse array of agencies, institutions, and private industry to address the variety of ways academic institutions might improve student preparation and bridge the gap between academic training and employment. We will also discuss how applied anthropology students can effectively frame their expertise as they move into non-academic careers.
 
Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.
 
 
 

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.

The Coal Transition in the Ohio River Valley: Using Social Science and Fine Arts to Understand Community Impacts and Pathways for Resilience An SfAA Critical Conversation

The Coal Transition in the Ohio River Valley:
Using Social Science and Fine Arts to Understand
Community Impacts and Pathways for Resilience
An SfAA Critical Conversation
 
CHAIR: JACQUET, Jeffrey (OH State U)
CAPOBIANCO, Brian and BIELICKI, Jeff (OH State U)
Energy Transitions in the Ohio River Valley
STEWART, Gwynn and JACQUET, Jeffrey (OH State
U) Community Development and Arts in the Coal
Transition
FINNERAN, Kathryn Jane (OH State U) Trauma
Informed Approaches to Coal Transitions
DUGDALE, Tom (OH State U) and CORNELL,
Anne (Pomerene Ctr for the Arts)‘Calling Hours’
Documentary Theatre Project
 
JACQUET, Jeffrey and FINNERAN, Kathryn (OH State U) The Coal Transition
in the Ohio River Valley: Using Social Science and Fine Arts to Understand
Community Impacts and Pathways for Resilience. This paper reviews the
trans-disciplinary Ohio Coal Transitions Project, which seeks to combine social
science with theatrical performance, fine arts photography, and archival library
science to the tell the story of three Ohio case study communities in the midst
of their transition away from coal. Over 50 key informant interviews with coal
industry workers, elected officials, community leaders and residents produce
scholarly articles, community toolkits and transition guides, a curated archival
and fine arts photography exhibition and a community-theatre-produced
theatrical production that uses the interview transcripts as the basis of a two-
hour play centered on the experiences of plant workers.
 
Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.

Part Four: 2019 SfAA Awards Ceremony, Section Two

SfAA Awards Ceremony
 
The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Briller will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award. 
 
Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.

Part Four: 2019 SfAA Awards Ceremony, Section One

SfAA Awards Ceremony
 
The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Briller will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award. 
 
Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.

Part Three: 2019 SfAA Awards Ceremony

SfAA Awards Ceremony
 
The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Briller will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award. 
 
Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.

Part Two: 2019 SfAA Awards Ceremony

SfAA Awards Ceremony
 
The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Briller will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award. 
 
Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.

Part One: 2019 SfAA Awards Ceremony

SfAA Awards Ceremony
 
The Awards Ceremony is the high point of the annual meeting. President Briller will preside. The Program will recognize and feature the winners of the Margaret Mead Award, Sol Tax Award, and the Bronislaw Malinowski Award. 
 
Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.