The SfAA Podcast Archive

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.

Ethical Dilemmas of Medical Research

CHAIR: POAT, Jennifer Therese (Oregon Health and Science U)
Session Participants:NEWBURY, Liz, SIMON, Christian, and L'HEUREUX, Jamie (U lowa) Public Perceptions of Community Advisory Boards in Biobanking: Benefits and ChallengesPOAT, Jennifer Therese (Oregon Health and Science U) Genetalk: How Americans Feel About SharingCLAIBORNE, Deon (Mich State U) International Research Guideline on the Ground: The Costa Rican CaseKELLY, Kimberly and NICHTER, Mark (U Arizona) The Politics of Local Biology in Transnational Clinical Trials: The Case of JapanTAIT, Caroline (U Saskatchewan) Resituating the Ethical Gaze: Medical Morality and the Local Worlds of Canadian First Nations and Métis Peoples
Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

2010 SfAA Awards Ceremony: The Malinowski Award

Malinowski Award Recipient: Jean Schensul
Introduced by: Margaret Weeks
Engaged Universities, Community Based Research Organizations and Third Sector Science in a Global System
Over the past three decades, since the civil rights era of the late 1960s and 70s, public science funding has shifted to support for military and industrial purposes and the healthsciences. Most universities are now heavily subsidized through private sources, shifting the emphasis in research away from civic society engagement. Engaged scholarship andresearch conducted by, with and for communities are approaches that together have the potential to reinstate an emphasis on public scholarship that addresses structuralinequities and social, health and cultural disparities. This paper argues that among various approaches to engaged social science, Action Research, endorsed by four generationsof anthropologists in the United States, Canada and Latin America has the greatest potential to create knowledge that can be used to address social injustices at the local,national and international levels. Subsuming Action Research conducted by university centers, community based research organizations and other community partners under therubric of Third Sector Science, the paper links third sector anthropologists with other national and global movements promoting action research to transform the nature ofscience and scientific knowledge production. It concludes with suggestions for new science and communication technology that can link people in communities with globalsocial movements and the construction of new knowledge "from the ground up."
Lecture took place on Friday, March 25, 2010 in Merida, Mexico at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

The Role of Anthropology in Post-Earthquake Haiti: A Roundtable

CHAIR: TARTER, Andrew (U Florida)
ABSTRACT: Post-earthquake Haiti will continue to experience rapid changes over the months and years to come. In addition to receiving large amounts of foreign aid, Haitiansare coming into contact with a variety of other cultures via the influx of aid and development workers, the U.S. military, missionary groups, members of the Haitian diasporaabroad, and others. Public debates and private conversations are taking place that may shape many different aspects of Haitian's futures. What can anthropology contribute tothese conversations and efforts to assist the Haitian people? In this round-table on post-earthquake Haiti, we will hear perspectives from a variety of sub-disciplines withinanthropology, as we seek to adress this important question.
Roundable Participants:PROSPER, Mamyrah (Florida Int'lU)KOONS, Adam (International Relief and Development, Inc.)WOLFSON, Amy (Florida Int'l U)PAGE, Bryan (U Miami)BROWN, Peter (Emory U)
Session took place on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 in Merida, Mexico at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Travel, Infection, and Syndemology (SMA)

CHAIR: WILSON, Susan
Session Participants:GINSBURG, Ellen S. (Mass Coll of Pharmacy) Dental Tourists Will Travel. Turistas Dentales ViajaránDICKSON-GOMEZ, Julia (CAIR, Med Coll Wisc) The Relationship between Macro and Micro-Social Factors on HIV Risk Behaviors and Prevalence in San Salvador, El Salvador. LasRelaciones entre los Factors Marcosociales y Microsociales en los Comportamientos de Riesgo para Contraer HIV y su Prevalencia en San Salvador, El SalvadorWILSON, Susan L. and HUTTLINGER, Kathleen (New Mexico State U) Pandemic Flu Knowledge and Behaviors among Dormitory Housed University Students. Conocimiento de laPandemia de Gripe y Comportamientos entre Estudiantes de Dormitorios Universitarios
Session took place on Thursday, March 25, 2010 in Merida, Mexico at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Innovations in Applied Anthropology (Part 2)

CHAIR: FREIDENBERG, Judith (U Maryland)
Session Participants:TAMIR, Orit (NM Highlands U) From Relocation to Life History: Twists and Turns of Long-Term Research in a Community. De la Relocalización a la Historia de Vida: Recovecos dela Investigación de Largo Plazo en una ComunidadCASTRO, Pedro, CASTILLO, Teresa, and DICKINSON, Federico (Cinvestav-Merida), and GARCIA, Carmen (UADY) Participatory Research (PR) and Housing Building in a VulnerableCommunity.Investigación Participativa (IP) v Construcción de Viviendas en una Comunidad VulnerableWILLEMS, Roos (Catholic U-Leuven) Putting into Question the Global Applicability of Participatory Approaches to Include Vulnerable Groups. Cuestionando la Aplicabilidad Globalde Enfoques Participativos para Incluir a Grupos Vulnerables
Session took place on Fridav. March 26. 2010 in Merida. Mexico at the 70th Annual Meetina of the Societv for Applied Anthropologv

Innovations in Applied Anthropology (Part 1)

CHAIR: FREIDENBERG, Judith (U Maryland)Hello mjf2184@columt
Session Participants:GREENAWALT, David (SmartRevenue Inc) Pile Sorts to Planograms: Applying Anthropology in Shopper Research. Del Apilamiento al Planograma: Aplicando la Antropología a laInvestigación de los CompradoresTOLEDO ORTIZ, Francisco (U Montréal) Social Exclusion in Leisure: Sport Habitus of the Elites in a Globalized World. Exclusión Social y Deporte: Hábitos Deportivos de las Élitesen un Mundo GlobalizadoFREIDENBERG, Judith (U Maryland) Researching Global Spaces Ethnographically: Queries on Methods for the Study of Virtual Populations. Investigando EtnográficamenteEspacios Globales: Cuestionamientos sobre Métodos para el studio de Poblaciones VirtualesO'DONNELL, Deborah A. and ROBERTS, Bill (St. Mary's Coll-MD) Weaving Transnational Solidarity from the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond. Tejiendo Solidaridad Transnacionaldesde las Catskills hasta Chiapas y Más Allá
Session took place on Friday, March 26, 2010 in Merida, Mexico at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.