The SfAA Podcast Archive

The Gap Between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice Concerning Disaster (Part1)

CHAIR: HOFFMAN, Susanna (Hoffman Consulting)
ABSTRACT: A problem confronting every discipline with application to real human problems is the disjunction between knowledge and the policies and practices of agencies.This is particularly true pertaining to the widespread impacts of natural and technological disasters. Much knowledge has been achieved on both disasters and the resettlement.Yet advancing the understandings to the programs of policy-makers has provendifficult with detrimental results. As disasters and resettlement have grown tothe point that allhumanitarian aid is becoming disaster aid, this panel asks why an uneven application of knowledge to disaster mitigation persists and what strategies can overcome the abyss.
DISCUSSANT: OLIVER-SMITH, Anthony (UF)
Session Participants:BENDER, Stephen (OAS, retired)KOONS, Adam (IRD)TIERNEY, Kathleen (U Colorado)COMFORT. Louise K. (U Pitt)
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

Energy and the American West

CHAIRS: ROLSTON, Jessica Smith and SCHNEIDER, Jennifer (CO Sch of Mines)
ABSTRACT: With its abundance of conventional fuels and renewable resources, the American West plays a crucial role in national debates about energy. The papers in this panelexamine public engagement with energy development in the region by taking up industries poised to expand (solar, hydraulic fracturing), contract (coal), and reemerge (uraniummining and milling). In particular, papers focus on how public engagement processes can shape public policy debates around energy. A synthesizing paper examines how thepast is made meaningful in contemporary market shifts and explores the concept of "voice" for understanding the cases and the contestation surrounding them
Session Participants:KNAAK, Allison (CO Sch of Mines)TIDWELL. Abraham (CO Sch of Mines)KIRKLAND. Tracv M. (UC-Boulder)
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

eFieldnotes: Makings of Anthropology in a Digital World

CHAIRS: SANJEK, Roger (Emeritus) and TRATNER, Susan (SUNY ESC)
ABSTRACT: Computers, digital archives, the Internet, and mobile devices are changing anthropology in significant ways, including choice of fieldwork sites, issues addressed, andmethods emploved. Theconsequences for research and thinking are still emerging, and they already affectinteractions with informants, definitions of data, and anthropology'sdisciplinaryfuture. How do these new topics and methods of research result in, evennecessitate, new ways of defining, recording, storing, utilizing, and feeling about bothtraditional and new forms of ethnographic fieldnotes. This panel will begin toaddress these issues from various perspectives.
Session Participants:BURRELL, Jenna (UCB)SLAMA, Martin (Inst for Soc Anth, Austrian Academy of Sci)CLIGGETT, Lisa (UKY)
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Societv for Applied Anthropologv in March 2013.

Climate Change and Disaster

CHAIR: FISKE, Shirley (UMD)
ABSTRACT: This panel explores the nexus and disjunction of two powerful concepts in contemporary globaldiscourse-climate change and disaster. Climate change can be bothsuddenonset and extreme events and can also be creeping and gradual..so in what ways does it intersect with disaster? The panel raises questions about howdisasters andclimate change are being defined, who does the defining, and what the definitions mean to communities and families. The papers examineaspects of community and familydisaster and climate change from the bottom up-from communities seeking relocation, undertaking ecological restorations, and anticipating aquatic disasters, to familiesadapting to drought and extreme events.
DISCUSSANT: BLOUNT, Beniamin (SocioEcological Informatics)
Session Participants:SADLER, Deborah and NELSON, Donald R. (U Georgia)HOPKINS, Arlene (Skye Labs, Arlene Hopkins & Assoc) and MAACK, Stephen C. (Reap Change Consultants)PETERSON. Kristina J. (UNO-CHART)MARINO, Elizabeth (OR State U)KANE, Stephanie C. (Indiana U)
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

Anthropologists’ Perspectives of Corporate Culture

CHAIR: PANT, Dipak R. (LIUC)
Session Participants:SANTEE, Amy (Independent) The Exotic Anthropologist: Reflections on Working in CorporatelandiaMALEFYT, Timothy de Waal (Fordham U) and OLSEN, Barbara (SUNY Old Westbury) Saving Our Backs: Exploring a Century of Mattress Marketing
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

Adequacy of Response to Food System Disasters: Comparisons and Syntheses of U.S., Japanese, and Indian Responses to Real and Threatened Disasters in Light of the Emerging Roles of Anthropologists

CHAIR: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn)
ABSTRACT: This panel integrates our previous work with food disasters with new case histories based on our current inquiries, and demonstrates the potential for more effectiveresponses that include new roles for anthropologists. This is the more critical as food crises of all kinds become more common over the nextforty or fifty years when climatechange, fresh water scarcity, and populationgrowth are expected to continue to strain the sustainability of the ecosystem and give rise to social unrest as food crises destabilizemore societies capacities to provide adequate and safe food resources for their populations.
DISCUSSANT: BUTTON, Gregory (UTK)Session Participants:STANFORD, Lois (NMSU)MENCHER, Joan (CUNY)BRENTON, Barrett (St. John's) and MAZZEO, John (DePaul)
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

Accessing the Resource of Anthropology: Making Anthropology More Public and Making the Public More Anthropological

CHAIR: ORTIZ. Cristina (U lowa)
ABSTRACT: A key component of applied anthropology is how we share it or do it among others. As such, we see anthropology not only as a method or a theoreticallens but alsoas a public resource. Considering anthropology as a resourceproduces questions, which we seek to explore here. Who are anthropology's publics? How do our publics envisionus? How do our publics shape the way we frame our research and engagement? How do people access anthropology and how is this access uneven? In response to unequalaccess, how can we make anthropology more public and the public more anthropological?
GONZALEZ, Elias (U lowa)SCOTT, Jill E. (U lowa)DAVIS, Jill (U lowa)DONALDSON, Susanna (U lowa)
 
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

2012 SfAA Award Ceremony

Malinowski Award Recipient: BARNETT, CliffordIntroduction by KUNSTADTER, PeterHow 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 articlesand 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 percentof his publications include: sociologists, anthropologists, pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, geneticists, economists, political scientists, retired military officers andprofessional 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 ofthe 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 ontheir term projects. Readers may wonder whether every team member contributes significantly to the end product. First, students have the option of working individually or joininga 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 producechange.Lecture took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

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 GorgeFEDERMAN, Amy Schlagel (Independent) Tourism in Israel as a Vehicle for Solidarity with the HomelandJOHNSON, 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.

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 ofcomparative policies and practices that can assist asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in their struggle for human rights; as analysts of the intersection between advocacyand ethnographically-drivenfieldwork among migrant populations in Qatar and neighboring GCC states;as challengers of the System of Sakoku in Japan; as educators of theAmerican public and policy makers to change anti-immigrant public discourse; as media campaigners against the fracturing of immigrant families caused by U.S. immigrationlaws.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.