The SfAA Podcast Archive

State Promotion and Control of Violence

CHAIR: MARIL, Robert Lee (E Carolina U)
Session Participants:GALLEGOS, Alaina (SDSU) Gendered Reactions to Symbolic Violence among Deportees in Tijuana, B.C., MexicoLUNDGREN, Rebecka (UMD) Safe Passage from Camp to Resettlement: Negotiating the Borders between Childhood and AdulthoodSAVELL, Stephanie (Brown U) Brazilian 'Human Security': Militarized Security Interventions in Poor Urban Neighborhoods
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Applied Anthropologists at the Boundries: Theory and Practical Outcomes (WAPA)

CHAIR: KRIEGER, Laurie (Manoff Grp)
ABSTRACT: Applied anthropologists often practicing outside the academy transcend disciplinary and theoretical boundaries in working with non-anthropologist colleagueswhose theories and models may include predictive paradigms. Trained in a discipline mostly unconcerned with prediction, we nevertheless apply anthropological theories andmethods to "real world" situations to improve the lives of the often marginalized populations with whom we work. This panel of applied anthropologists from the Washington, D.C.area takes a hard look at whether and how anthropological theories and methods have assisted in achieving and predicting "real world" outcomes in our work.
EDBERG, Mark (George Wash U)YODER, Stan (Macro Int'l)ORNDORFF, Sarah (George Wash U)CRISTIAN, Viviana (WAPA)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Applied Anthropology, Poverty Research, and Welfare Policy in the Post-Welfare Reform Era

CHAIR: ROZEN, David. J. (Independent)
ABSTRACT: This roundtable will be a discussion among scholars and practitioners who have worked on poverty issues as to the most appropriate response for appliedanthropology in an era of reduced entitlement programs. As the American social safety net becomes distant memory, poor people will face major survival changes not seensince the Great Depression. These and future reductions in benefits to the aged, disabled, and the unemployed are in addition to the disaster to mothers and children in 1996 whenthe welfare reform movement resulted in the replacement of AFDC by TANF.
Roundtable Participants:CLARK, Sherri Lawson (Wake Forest U)DAVIS. Dana-Ain (Oueens Coll)HENRICI, Jane (IWPR)HYATT, Susan B. (IUPUI)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Involving Communities Through Participatory Research

CHAIR: HYLAND, Stan (U Memphis)
CAIRO, Aminata (SUE) Navigating Territoriality in Applied Research with an African American Drumming CommunityGARBINA, Geoffrey (U N Texas) Negotiating for Success: Using Anthropology to Negotiate a Partnership
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Medical Anthropology and Its View of the Patient (SMA)

CHAIR: PAGE, J. Bryan (U Miami)
ABSTRACT: People who seek attention for illness often must navigate (and often combine) multiple options in order to meet their needs, and after obtaining diagnosis andfinding treatment, they must recall and enact the instructionsof the caregivers) who provided that treatment, facing multiple challenges. These varieties of behavior related toseeking and adhering to care have provided opportunities for investigation and positive intervention by medical anthropologists since the sub-discipline's inception. Panelparticipants will summarize accumulated knowledge based on research and practice related to health problems, commenting on the state of the science as they see it and newdirections.
Session Participants:SINGER, Merrill (UConn)CASTRO, Arachu, HEYMANN, Marilyn, and BETTINI, Anna (Harvard Med Sch)SALAZAR FRAILE, José (Generalitat Valenciana), BROWN, David (Florida Int'l U), and SEMPERE VERDU, Ermengol (Generalitat Valenciana)LUBORSKY, Mark and LICHTENBERG, Peter (Wayne State U)SOLIMEO, Samantha (US Dept of Veterans Affairs)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Story Making, Telling, and Sharing (SMA)

CHAIR: WEINER, Diane (Boston U Grad Sch of Med)
ABSTRACT: Rooted in health education, the creation of digital stories, comics,and graphic narratives have been infiltrated by applied anthropologist andcommunity-basedparticipatory research. Unlike Public Health, the goal of much of this ethnographically produced story creation is not merely to tailor materials but to provide cultural perspectivesand knowledge to develop and implement culturally relevant and comprehensible interventions (Gent 2009; Kagawa-Singer 2009; McMullin et al. 2010). This session examinesthe ways applied anthropologists produce digital stories, graphics, and comics that enable speakers, listeners, and viewers alike to become immersed in historical, economic,political contexts and socio-cultural experiences of health.
Session Participants:MCMULLIN, Juliet (UC-Riverside)OTANEZ, Marty (UC-Denver)WALRATH, Dana (U Vermont)GUBRIUM. Aline (UMass-Amherst)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

NGO Practices and Their Consequences

CHAIR: GRIEB, Suzanne Dolwick (Johns Hopkins SPH)
Session Participants:CHOI, Minhae and PETERS, Rebecca (Syracuse U) Professional Distinctions: The Politics of Human Resources Policies in International NGOsSTIGLICH, Janice (U Central Florida) The Role of Nongovernmental, Private and Community Organizations in the Lives of Female Domestic Workers in Lima, Pert
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Addressing Human Trafficking

CHAIR: SALVI, Cecilia Maria (CSU-Los Angeles)
Session Participants:TORRES, Melissa I.M. (U Houston) and ARANGO, James (U S Florida) You Don't See Them in the Day Time: Perceptions on Sex Trafficking and Sex Work among Mexican-American Johns in Houston, TexasRUSSELL, Rosalie (SMU) The Development of Social, Cultural, and Economic Capital in the DC Human Trafficking Task ForceDOCARMO, Tania (U N Texas, Chab Dai) Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Address Human Trafficking in Cambodia: A Case StudyALBAUGH, Kurt (US Naval Academy) Somali Refugees at Sea: Implications for Theory and Policy
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Space, Place, and Cultural Impacts

Session Participants:WEIDLICH, Stephen and DOWNS, Mike (AECOM) Exploring Community Cohesion: The Boundaries and Traits of Historic Barrio Carlsbad, California.
ABSTRACT: When the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) determined that their latest project would significantly affect the historic community of Barrio Carlsbad,the research team conducted a first-of-its-kind research project to define the level of community cohesion present in the community. This presentation describes the results ofthat research and illustrates the demographic, mathematic, geographic, and ethnographic methods with the potential to describe the boundaries, tangible and intangible traits,and overall level of cohesion present in a community. These characteristics can either be adversely affected or enhanced through thoughtful transportation planning, includingthe protection/creation of "Third Places"
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Digital and Virtual Communities

CHAIR: CHANDLER-EZELL, Karol (Stephen F. Austin State U)
Session Participants:THORN, Mary Katherine (NC State U) The Creation of Transnational Spaces among Latino Youth in North CarolinaVIZENOR, Katie (U Buffalo, American Fdn for the Blind) Gaming (Dis)abled: How Legal Changes in Understanding the Meaning of Space and Place Could Help Make Online VirtualWorlds More Inclusive and AccessibleAPPLIN, Sally A. and FISCHER, Michael D. (U Kent-Canterbury) Blurry Borders and Blended Boundaries: PolySocial Reality in Digitallv Individuated CommunitiesJEMIELNIAK. Dariusz (Kozminski U) Wikipedia: An Effective Anarchv
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.