The SfAA Podcast Archive

Big Data Analytics in the Age of Ethnography: A Roundtable

Big Data Analytics in the Age of Ethnography: A Roundtable 
 
CHAIRS: BLOMBERG, Jeanette (IBM) and JORDAN, Brigitte (Lifescapes) 
Big Data Analytics in the Age of Ethnography: A Roundtable. 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.  Sponsored by the TIG on Business Anthropology.
 
Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

Part Two: Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Part II (SMA) 
 
CHAIRS: HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and HAMILTON, Alison B. (VA, UCLA) HARROD, Molly (VA) Who’s at Risk?: Understanding Healthcare Workers‚ Beliefs about the Necessity of Medical Practice Change
 
FIX, Gemmae M., SOLOMON, Jeffrey L., MUELLER, Nora, VANDEUSEN LUKAS, Carol, and BOKHOUR, Barbara G. (VA) Hospital Staff Perceptions of the “Journey” to Patient-centered Care 
 
CHENEY, Ann M., FORTNEY, John, PYNE, Jeffrey, and CURRAN, Geoffrey (CAVHS, UAMS) The Value of Connectedness in Student Veteran’s Models of Screening and Linkage-to-Care Interventions 
 
CADZOW, Renee B. (DYC) Urban LowIncome Adolescent Perceptions of Breastfeeding: Implications for Public Health Promotion
 
ZUCHOWSKI, Jessica (VA) Implementation, Interview, and Investment: Evaluating the VA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation
 
DISCUSSANT: GLASGOW, Russell (UC-Denver) 
Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Parts I-II. A broad gap exists between health 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 took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

Part One: Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Part I (SMA)
 
CHAIRS: HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and HAMILTON, Alison B. (VA, UCLA) 
 
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 
 
DISCUSSANT: GLASGOW, Russell (UC-Denver)
Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Parts I-II. A broad gap exists between health 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 took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

”The Network Doesn’t Stop at the Door”: Intentional Practices and the Everyday Reproduction of Community Organizing Part2

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.
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
DISCUSSANT: DOANE, Molly (UIC)
Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

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

Anthropologists Developing Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: The Challenges of Rapidly Expanding Roles for Anthropology (Part 5/5 - Open Discussion)

CHAIRS: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn, World Food Forum), HOFFMAN, Susanna M. (Hoffman Consulting), and BRENTON, Barrett P. (St. John’s U)
ABSTRACT: Anthropologists Developing Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: The Challenges of Rapidly Expanding Roles for Anthropology. 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. skatz2001@aol.com
Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

Anthropologists Developing Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: The Challenges of Rapidly Expanding Roles for Anthropology (Part 4/5 - Mencher & Stanford)

CHAIRS: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn, World Food Forum), HOFFMAN, Susanna M. (Hoffman Consulting), and BRENTON, Barrett P. (St. John’s U)
DISCUSSANTS: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY) and STANFORD, Lois M. (NMSU)
Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

Anthropologists Developing Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: The Challenges of Rapidly Expanding Roles for Anthropology (Part 3/5 - Brenton)

CHAIRS: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn, World Food Forum), HOFFMAN, Susanna M. (Hoffman Consulting), and BRENTON, Barrett P. (St. John’s U)
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
ABSTRACT: The Biocultural Paradox of Childhood Hunger and Obesity: Implications for Food Security and Public Health Policy and Applied Community-Based Interventions. Long thought to be on opposite ends of the food security spectrum, hunger and obesity are being realized as inextricably linked. The biocultural complexity of food insecure and obesogenic environments has led to a paradoxical impact that can be manifest in the same communities, households, and individuals. This paper will review the connections between such factors as maternal and household nutrition, childhood growth and development, micronutrient deficiencies, health disparities, nutritional epigenetics, and the larger political-economy of global food systems. Specific field-based examples from indigenous populations will highlight challenges the paradox poses for public health nutrition policy and applied community-based interventions. brentonb@stjohns.edu
Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

Anthropologists Developing Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: The Challenges of Rapidly Expanding Roles for Anthropology (Part 2/5 - Rodriguez-Gomez)

CHAIRS: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn, World Food Forum), HOFFMAN, Susanna M. (Hoffman Consulting), and BRENTON, Barrett P. (St. John’s U)
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
ABSTRACT: Supporting Small Scale Farmers on Behalf of the World Food and Agricultural Systems Future: The Case of Mexico and FAO. An unexpected price increase for corn and tortillas led to significant socio-cultural and political processes. It has opened up a space for the overt resistance of thousands of rural and urban Mexicans against state policies, focusing on the call to protect native corn, small-scale farming, domestic agriculture, local food, and food sovereignty in Mexico. They also brought back the issue of Mexico’s food security in relation to both neoliberal policies and, the full opening of the Mexican market to corn, bean, and sugar imports from NAFTA partner. This paper addresses efforts by diverse groups of actors in Mexico and FAO attempts to re-direct public policies supporting domestic agriculture and particularly small-scale farming around the world. con973@prodigy.net.mx
Reading for RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ, M. Guadalupe is STANFORD, Lois M. (NMSU).
Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.

Anthropologists Developing Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: The Challenges of Rapidly Expanding Roles for Anthropology (Part 1/5 - Katz)

CHAIRS: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn, World Food Forum), HOFFMAN, Susanna M. (Hoffman Consulting), and BRENTON, Barrett P. (St. John’s U)
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
ABSTRACT: Mapping Our Future Options - Creating Sustainable Solutions to the World Food Crisis: A 50 Year Anthropological Perspective on Avoiding Food Disasters. Sustainable solutions to the world food crisis remain elusive and potentially disastrous for hundreds of millions. Recently, concerns about continued production capabilities of industrial agriculture have shifted attention toward improving indigenous food systems capacities in regions with great poverty. Available technical knowledge to assist productivity is substantial, but available experience to transfer this knowledge effectively is limited. Anthropology can play a key role, but the needs are massive and future demand for anthropological experts far exceeds the supply. This paper traces this need, develops a 40-50 year model and provides an initial roadmap to help solve the world food crisis. skatz2001@aol.com
Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.