The SfAA Podcast Archive

Learning from Sol Tax in 2010 (Part 2)

CHAIR: STAPP, Darby (NW Anth LLC)
PANELISTS: RUBINSTEIN, Robert (Syracuse U), FOLEY, Douglas (UT-Austin), SMITH, Joshua James (U W Ontario), STAPP, Darby (NW Anth LLC)
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011

Learning from Sol Tax in 2010 (Part 1)

CHAIR: STAPP, Darby (NW Anth LLC)
ABSTRACT: Sol Tax contributed in many ways to anthropology and its application to society from the 1930s through the 1960s. His organization of international conferences andpublications, his attention to American Indian issues, and his development of "action anthropology" created a discipline more sensitive to the people. Times have changed,however. American anthropology has become less international, most applied anthropologists work outside the university, and most applied research is never published orincorporated into method and theory. Reflecting upon Sol Tax's vision for anthropology and his accomplishments, session participants will explore ways that appliedanthropology might change to be more effective in the future.
PANELISTS: RUBINSTEIN, Robert (Syracuse U); FOLEY, Douglas (UT-Austin) SMITH, Joshua James (U W Ontario) WAHRHAFTIG, Albert L. (Sonoma State U) ABLON, Joan (UC-SanFrancisco, Emerita)
 
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011

Urban Food Systems: Culture and Security

CHAIR: HIMMELFARB, David (U Georgia)
Session Participants:DOSEMAGEN, Shannon (Independent) and HASSMAN, Monique (UW-Milwaukee) "I Can Get through Anything with Satsumas". Agriculture, Landscape, and Productions ofKnowledgeJEWELL, Benjamin and GARTIN, Meredith (Arizona State U) Classroom and Community Collaborations: Seeking Influence in Urban Food System ResearchHIMMELFARB, David and FLY, Jessie (U Georgia) Making Culture Count: Measuring Food Security in Vietnam and UgandaHERNANDEZ PRUHS, Krisha J. (Cal Poly U-Pomona) Emergence of a Community in the City: Milagro Allegro Garden
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Addressing New Frontiers of Applied Anthropology

CHAIR: HYLAND, Stanley E. (U Memphis)
Session Participants:BENNETT, Elaine (Saint Vincent Coll) Pedagogy and Service in Promoting Applied Anthropology in the Classroom, Academy and CommunityHYLAND, Stanley E. (U Memphis) Building Relationships Past and Future: The Discipline, Practitioners and The CommunitySHANNON, Richard (Pusan Nat'l U) Excluded from the Family Table: How Western Anthropology Ignores Non-Western Foreign Aid Donors and Their DevelopmentTOWNSEND, Colin (U S Carolina-Columbia) The Anthropology of Science and Lay Public Knowledge of ScienceWILSON, Tamar Diana (U Missouri-St. Louis) Arizona's 2010 Anti-Immigrant Legislation, Pro-Immigrant Listserves, and the Applied Anthropologist
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Becoming an Applied Anthropologist: Diverse Training Models with a Common Goal

CHAIRS: PETTS, Jamie (Oregon State U) and ROMERO-DAZA, Nancy (U S Florida)
ABSTRACT: With the growing recognition for the value of Applied Anthropology in the United States, there has been an increase in the number of training programs with anapplied focus. Such programs adopt different models of training to address the specific needs of their student body, including the establishment of interdisciplinary dual degreeprograms, the provision of on-line curricula, and the requirement for community-based internships, among others. This panel discussion brings together MA and PhD studentsfrom five applied anthropology departments to address the ways in which their individual programs have contributed to their formation as future applied anthropologists.
Roundtable Participants:CARDEW KERSEY, Jen (Sapient)BANNON, Megan (Sapient)GEFLER, Sharon (CSU-Long Beach)NOBLE, Charlotte (U S Florida)GOTTIER, Nicole (U Memphis)PETTS, Jamie (Oregon State U)
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration Part 3: Policy in Perspective (SAR Plenary)

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)
Session Participants:GRIFFITH, David and CONTRERAS, Ricardo B. (E Carolina U)SMART, Josephine (U Calgary)ROCHA PERALTA, Juvencio (Association of Mexicans in North Carolina), GRIFFITH, David, and CONTRERAS, Ricardo (E Carolina U)
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration Part 2: Cases and Communities (SAR Plenary)

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)'
Session Participants:PREIBISCH, Kerry (U Guelph)GRIFFITH, David and CONTRERAS, Ricardo (E Carolina U)AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)
 
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration Part 1: Key Moments in North American Guest Worker History (SAR Plenary)

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)
ABSTRACT: After decades of negative attention on the high human costs and consequences of undocumented migration from Mexico to the United States and Canada,many scholars. policy makers, immigrant advocates, and others familiar with migration issues have warmed to the idea that managed migration-or a so-called guestworkerprogram-may constitute a more humane, viable alternative to massive unregulated population movements that often settle at the bottom of the North. American labor market.Histories of guestworkers' experiences and guestworker programs, however, suggest that it remains difficult to believe that a truly socially justguestworker program can be implemented-one that avoids replicating the conditions of indentured servitude that have characterized many past questworker contracts.As a result, guestworkers have developed ways to circumvent the excessive labor control, recruiting abuses, kickbacks, and other threats to the quality of the their experiences,often drawing on the larger contexts in which they work and live to accomplish this. Assembling together researchers from Mexico, Canada, and the United.States, this sessionaddresses the relationships among the structural dimensions of guestworker programs.(e.g. roles of the sending and receiving governments, family and community ties among questworkers and others, work. settings),the quality of guestworkers' experiences, and the sociocultural dimensions of questworker resistance or submission to the conditions of their contracts.
Session Participants:MARTIN. Phil (UC-Davis)
 
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Health Disparities and Social Justice in Guatemala: Medical Anthropology in the NAPA-OT Field School

CHAIR: ROSEN, Danielle (Columbia U)
ABSTRACTS: A place of startling beauty and extreme poverty. Guatemala faces some of the greatest disparities in equitable healthcare provision among its population in theWestern hemisphere. This panel addresses current health disparities in Guatemala and explores issues of occupational justice and human rights affecting the adequate.provision of health services in the country. The research presented is based on student pilot research projects conducted during the 2010 NAPA-OT Field. School in Antigua.Guatemala during which student implemented semi- structures and informal interviews surveys of indigenous woman in the rural highlands andobservations of healthcare facilities.
DISCUSSANTS: HALL-CLIFFORD, Rachel (NAPA-OT Field Sch) and FULLILOVE, Robert E. (Columbia U MSPH)ROSEN, Danielle (Columbia U)SHETLER, Anya (Boston U)GUREVITCH, Jacqueline (U Chicago)DEPRIMO, Adam (U S FL-St. Petersburg)
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Using Culture to Understand Behavior in Organizations

CHAIR: NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U)
Session Participants:NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U) Organizational Thinking and Organizational Change: Why It's Hard to Speak Truth to PowerHANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change) Looking Back: A Long-term View of Some Development ProjectsGIULIETTI, Michael (U N Texas) Old Ideas for a New World: Shoe Repair as a Professional CultureROTHSTEIN, Rosalynn (U Oregon) Narrative Forms at a 911 Call Center: Constructing Workplace Identity
Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.