The SfAA Podcast Archive

What are NGOs Really Doing?

CHAIR: LEATHERMAN, Tom (UMass-Amherst)
Session Participants:GIBSON, Nancy (Marylhurst U) "Junk for Jesus". The Commodified Gift, Donation in a Global EconomyPARK, Seo Yeon (U S Carolina) Transnational Activism, Humanitarianism and Individual Labor Force in Globalized Civil SocietyPOWERS, Elizabeth V. (Central Mich U) What Are We Sustaining?: A Closer Look at a Sustainable Development Model in Cape CoastLEATHERMAN, Tom (UMass-Amherst) Changing Economies, Social Conditions, and Health in the Southern Peruvian AndesCAPPELLI, Mary Louisa (Indiana U- Penn) Reconceptualizing Gender Boundaries in IgbT Culture
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Who Controls Your Food System?: Local People, Consumers, and Family Farmers vs. Multinational Corporations (Part 2)

CHAIR: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)
DISCUSSANTS: HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change), BURKE, Brian J. (U Arizona)Session Participants:OVIATT. Kate (UC-Denver)MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Who Controls Your Food System?: Local People, Consumers, and Family Farmers vs. Multinational Corporations (Part 1)

CHAIR: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)
ABSTRACT: This panel looks at the process of building strong and vibrant local food systems worldwide, that meet the survival needs of all people and shifting away from andchallenging total dependency on corporate food supplies and towards vibrant new systems. The papers cover a range of situations and public policy concerns including thoughnot limited to "urban agriculture," new agricultural approaches that are passed on from farmer to farmer with some NGO and local government help, etc. It raises the question:"How can beginning fundamental changes in the food system world-wide impact present- day monopoly capitalism."
DISCUSSANTS: HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change), BURKE, Brian J. (U Arizona)Session Participants:SOUTHWORTH, Frank (U Penn)BRETT, John (UC-Denver)CAMPBELL-UNSOELD, Maya (U Pacific)BUSCH, Kyra (Yale U)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Addressing the Impacts of/on Tourism

CHAIR: BRONDO, Keri Vacanti (U Memphis)
Session Participants:SPEARS, Chaya R. (Wake Forest Sch of Med) Re-placing Participatory Tourism Development: Reflections on Context and ConsensusFENG, Xianghong (E Mich U) Women's Work, Men's Work: Gender Dynamics of Cultural Tourism in a Chinese Miao VillagePRAKASH, Preetam (U Arizona) Gulf Coast Tourism Following the BP Oil Spill
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

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.