Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.169
G. Fix, A. Seaman, Linda Nichols, Sarah Ono, Nicholas A. Rattray, S. Solimeo, H. Reisinger, Traci Abraham
The disciplinary contribution of anthropologists employed outside traditional anthropology departments has been a topic of discussion and debate in the field for nearly a century. Alongside industry, nongovernmental, and nonprofit career paths, an increasing number of anthropologists have developed productive research careers outside of academic anthropology departments. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which provides health care services to more than 9 million United States military veterans annually, is one federal employer that has become a professional home to many anthropologists. Anthropologists working in VA represent all four fields, have established roots in health services research, and have grown a national network of ethnographically-informed colleagues. These anthropologists constitute a Community of Practice that collaborates and contributes to scholarly discourse, health care operations, and policy. In this article, eight anthropologists with over 120 years of collective experience share insights into how our community of anthropological practice came into being, the organizational culture that sustains it, and the potential opportunities in health research for emerging scholars. Working at the intersection of multiple disciplines, this geographically dispersed community offers a viable model for anthropologists embedded within health care systems, in clinical academic settings, and learners seeking to broaden their understanding of anthropological praxis beyond anthropology departments.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.142
S. Renkert, Rachel Filippone
Diapering requires carework, or the physical and emotional labor needed to care for others. Caregivers who are responsible for diapering their children must make decisions about how to best care for their children’s needs. Poverty presents a barrier to providing ideal carework for caregivers unable to afford an adequate diaper supply. To consider whether cloth diapers could help caregivers overcome diaper need, or a lack of sufficient diapers to keep a child clean and healthy, the Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona (DBSA) partnered with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona to evaluate whether cloth diapers could help caregivers mitigate the financial stress of purchasing diapers. In this article, we review the findings of the DBSA-BARA Cloth Diaper Kit Project by exploring the benefits and challenges caregivers encountered when they used cloth diapers. Economic need ultimately drove the majority of these caregivers to use cloth diapers, even while encountering challenges, such as an increased time commitment, a lack of social support, and some discomfort for their children. Caregivers also found that cloth diapers provided important benefits, such as reducing the stress of not having a sufficient diaper supply.
{"title":"The Carework of Cloth Diapering: Opportunities and Challenges for Mitigating Diaper Need","authors":"S. Renkert, Rachel Filippone","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.142","url":null,"abstract":"Diapering requires carework, or the physical and emotional labor needed to care for others. Caregivers who are responsible for diapering their children must make decisions about how to best care for their children’s needs. Poverty presents a barrier to providing ideal carework for caregivers unable to afford an adequate diaper supply. To consider whether cloth diapers could help caregivers overcome diaper need, or a lack of sufficient diapers to keep a child clean and healthy, the Diaper Bank of Southern Arizona (DBSA) partnered with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona to evaluate whether cloth diapers could help caregivers mitigate the financial stress of purchasing diapers. In this article, we review the findings of the DBSA-BARA Cloth Diaper Kit Project by exploring the benefits and challenges caregivers encountered when they used cloth diapers. Economic need ultimately drove the majority of these caregivers to use cloth diapers, even while encountering challenges, such as an increased time commitment, a lack of social support, and some discomfort for their children. Caregivers also found that cloth diapers provided important benefits, such as reducing the stress of not having a sufficient diaper supply.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47422824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.153
G. Pruss
Although vehicles are among the most common shelters used by people across North America, there are few studies on vehicle residency as primary housing; most of these have focused on vehicle residency in oppositional contexts of either temporary vacationing or abject homelessness. This article draws on ethnographic and archaeological research conducted from 2010 to 2020 to document intersecting personal, systemic, and structural dimensions of long-term vehicle residency in public parking throughout Seattle (Washington State, United States). It illustrates how settlement bias and structural violence constrain people’s decisions of vehicle residency in publicly accessible parking. The implications and recommendations from this research support the inclusion of vehicle residency in community services, policies, and affordable housing.
{"title":"Homes Without Homes: An Ethno-Archaeology of Vehicle Residency in Public Parking","authors":"G. Pruss","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.153","url":null,"abstract":"Although vehicles are among the most common shelters used by people across North America, there are few studies on vehicle residency as primary housing; most of these have focused on vehicle residency in oppositional contexts of either temporary vacationing or abject homelessness. This article draws on ethnographic and archaeological research conducted from 2010 to 2020 to document intersecting personal, systemic, and structural dimensions of long-term vehicle residency in public parking throughout Seattle (Washington State, United States). It illustrates how settlement bias and structural violence constrain people’s decisions of vehicle residency in publicly accessible parking. The implications and recommendations from this research support the inclusion of vehicle residency in community services, policies, and affordable housing.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44047917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.107
Kourtney K. Collum, Samuel P. Hanes, F. Drummond, J. Leahy
In this article, we present a cultural model of lowbush blueberry growers’ pollination management. Through content analysis of semi-structured interviews with growers in Maine, United States, and Prince Edward Island, Canada, we identify a shared, tacit model used by growers to understand crop pollination and management. This cultural model explains growers’ perceptions of and attitudes toward pollination; this informs their management practices. Growers believe that pollination is a crucial component of crop management and design their management strategies with consideration for three distinct sources of pollination—honeybees, other commercially managed bees, and wild bees. On-farm pollinator conservation is a strategy growers use to manage uncertainty rather than a distinct schema in growers’ cultural model. We discuss ways that outreach professionals can consider growers’ cultural models when designing communications and trainings about pollinator conservation. We argue that cultural modeling can improve understanding among groups with shared interests yet different perceptions, such as farmers, researchers, and Cooperative Extension agents.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.95
K. Brondo, Suzanne Kent, Josely Turcios, Kaitlin Robinson, Alveena Nadeem
Researchers of environmental change in island communities increasingly reimagine resilience. Critical theorists ask whether this trend is a net positive for different populations and non-human natures in these fragile spaces. Engaging these critiques in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras, a place known for marine-based tourism, in this article, we consider whether it is possible to talk about resilience given the constraints placed on conservation NGOs by neoliberal capitalism. We draw on lessons learned from a conservation NGO/anthropology collaboration to produce environmental education programming. This aims to explicitly incorporate local experiences, memories, and knowledge to consider the possibilities offered by documenting, elevating, and celebrating local knowledge in order to offer ways of rethinking resilience conceptually and in practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.119
K. Szott
Stigma associated with the use of the medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), methadone and buprenorphine, is widespread and pervasive. I examine local perspectives toward MOUD in a rural Indiana county through 29 qualitative interviews with people with and without opioid use experience. Objections to Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) voiced by interviewees centered on the perceived length of treatment, the continuation of an addict habitus or disposition, and the profit motives of the local MMT clinic. Local understandings of the temporal rationalities associated with methadone and buprenorphine treatment were used by interviewees in determinations of treatment legitimacy, as well as its moral acceptability. In rural contexts, the loss of moral capital known to accompany any association with illicit substance use can threaten economic survival for the poor. MOUD providers may want to carefully consider the meaning and experience of time with regard to treatment duration, as well as the moral landscapes of rural contexts, while creating treatment plans and communicating them to patients.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.131
W. A. Lucas, Heide Castañeda, M. A. Melo
Recent scholarship theorizes temporalities as an important part of the migration experience, with temporal insecurity being a crucial element of (im)mobility and inequality via the phenomenon of waiting. In this article, we examine how temporalities and experiences of waiting influence health status and access to care, using ethnographic data to articulate how temporalities impact resources and how a doxa of waiting is enacted, placing some groups at heightened risk of illness and pain compared to others. Drawing upon a sample of 100 immigrant families with mixed legal status living in United States-Mexico border communities, we focus on an understudied area in anthropology: oral health concerns. We illuminate the precarious social contexts of these families and illustrate how they navigate a variety of temporally available dental care options. By centering temporalities in our analysis, we show that the quest for care is characterized by waiting, a state that is naturalized for migrant populations who may be deemed less deserving of resources. Waiting produces forms of violence that are incremental and cumulative yet ultimately rendered invisible precisely because of its long duration. A focus on temporalities highlights the unique strengths, risks, and needs of communities, which are key to addressing health equity.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.2.182
Nicole D. Peterson, Andrea Freidus
Studies of college student food insecurity emphasize the personal characteristics of students and their individual health outcomes, reflecting trends in public health to encourage individual lifestyle changes. More recent work in public health diverges from this focus to encourage conceptualizing health issues not as individual failings but rather as failures of larger systems that are necessary to support health and well-being, implicating the availability of grocery stores, adequate wages, and other contextual barriers to healthy eating. We argue that college student food insecurity should not be conceptualized in terms of the factors affecting individual students but in terms of how the institutional context of the university both creates the conditions under which some students are more likely to be food insecure and also neglects to address these structural failures. Using the framework of structural violence to examine specific ways that these failures occur and are made invisible in the case of college student hunger, we examine recent changes in universities. Unfortunately, these efforts support the focus on individual efforts and success, which contribute to higher rates of food insecurity for students than the general population.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.1.1
Daniel Lende
This special issue shows that the intersection of software and human systems is necessarily academic and applied. The collected articles make clear that software needs anthropological analyses while demonstrating that understanding the impact of software requires technological expertise. Software and human systems meet in specific programs, institutions, and histories. For anthropologists, this intersection requires confronting the software “as data” dilemma—we gain analytical purchase by treating software as another type of data, yet this approach can also mean losing sight of the algorithmic work that software accomplishes in our everyday lives. Software is not mere data but has a variety to it akin to the diversity that anthropology has long interrogated. This introduction advocates for an approach based in “Human-Computer Assembled Networks”—recognizing how software and human systems work through specific interfaces, assemble technologies and resources and human actors, and function through networks both human and algorithmic. Overall, the collected articles demonstrate an array of ways to do applied anthropology, ranging from ethnographic work on specific projects, the development of specific software informed by anthropology, and critical engagements with histories of software and technology. Finally, this special issue advocates for a translational approach that is specifically positioned to mediate between academic and applied approaches.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-82.1.61
Nathan Fisk
Over the past two decades, Capture the Flag (CTF) style competitions have grown expansively from their origins at early hacker conferences into a persistent feature of the cybersecurity workforce worldwide (Gondree et al., 2016). Today CTFs operate as a gateway into the workforce, operating as a hands-on educational experience, recruitment mechanism for industry and government, and as a marker of legitimacy within the cybersecurity/hacker community. Individual CTF challenges (ideally) interweave often complex software-based puzzles that map contemporary cybersecurity skill sets with hacker and cybersecurity subcultural touchstones, conferring status upon both players who successfully complete the challenges and the developers themselves. Drawing on a genealogy of DEFCON CTF competitions, this paper traces the “growing pains” of cybersecurity as a professional field. Reading these challenges as engines of hacker culture, this analysis will examine the contested cultural values embedded within CTF challenges over time, providing insight into the intertwined and co-constituted elements of hacker culture and cybersecurity skill sets.
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