Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.4.32
Susan Andreatta, Mia Hoskins, Kalyn Milot, Liliana Vitale
Abstract This paper describes social science professionals acquiring skill sets in co-curricular environments. Understanding the agro-food system while growing fresh produce with students, faculty, and staff in a campus garden raises issues on the environment, food security, culture, and time management and broadens people's skills in gardening. Authors draw from their experience working on a campus garden, at a farmers market, at a local food pantry, in their home community, and during research conducted in France on food and among food providers and others from North Carolina.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.4.39
Kamila Kinyon, Alejandro Cerón
Abstract We discuss our work as members of the interdisciplinary University of Denver Ethnography Lab (DUEL) in creating communities of practice through which students, faculty, and community partners engage in anthropology in action aimed at contributing to social justice and public good efforts. We highlight our work supporting socially engaged ethnographies by students in Writing Program courses. We also explain DUEL's outreach work with community partners, including collaboration with Project Protect Food System Workers (PPFSW), a coalition promoting farmworkers' rights, and with a group of epidemiologists at the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) in examining misrepresentation of minoritized groups in public health data. We showcase ways in which this ethnographic research has been presented not only in scholarly publications but also in articles aimed at public audiences, along with films, websites, podcasts, and digital exhibits. DUEL's experience may be relevant to other similar communities of practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.4
Sarah Hitchner, J. Schelhas, J. Peter Brosius
Bioenergy companies have proposed and constructed numerous industrial plants for wood-based bioenergy production; while they envision and plan these facilities in distant locales, they build the plants at a commercial scale in specific communities in the southeastern United States. Ethnographic research can improve understanding of how people in these communities, often rural, heavily forested, and economically impoverished Southern towns, view and experience bioenergy initiatives. It can also elucidate various, often competing, worldviews and ways of discussing an interconnected web of social issues related to bioenergy development. Further, ethnography in these local communities sheds light on ways that some actors strategically deploy certain narratives to promote their own objectives. Through multi-sited fieldwork in Georgia and Mississippi and event ethnography at regional conferences and national webinars, we have found that four main issues are intertwined on a local level in communities where bioenergy facilities are located: energy, landscape, climate, and race. These rural, forested communities grappling with deep racial divides, socioeconomic vulnerabilities, and skepticism about climate change will continue to be sought as sites for wood-based bioenergy, making understanding the cultural context a paramount concern.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.17
Salvador Zárate
This article is a reflection on doing wildfire research aimed at shaping public policy in Orange County, California, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its focus is on the little-known efforts of fire mitigation by Latinx migrant workers. In this article, I discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic made me shift research focus from seeking to understand how workers’ ecological knowledge might shape fire mitigation policy to a prioritization of workers’ precarious “essential labor” on the “front” front lines of fire prevention. I discuss how the temporalities of the pandemic, wildfire, and research played out across the labor terrain of the Southern California wildfire mitigation efforts and within my own applied research. Specifically, I discuss how COVID-19 university research “ramped down,” and stay-at-home orders prevented me from being embedded with workers in the county’s canyons, as I had planned, and how I had to learn to adjust my funded research. The outcome required doing applied research by letting go of continuity, by dwelling in disjointed COVID-19 temporalities that settled over the county’s flammable chaparral where essential labor serves as an extension of a failing settler colonial fire management practice that requires worker vulnerability to inoculate the lives of those living in the county’s wildfire risk regions.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.41
Edher A. Zamudio
This account reflects my partnership with the Undocumented Student Resource Center (USRC) at San Jose State University. As an applied anthropology graduate student, my collaboration with USRC focused on developing a student-driven mentoring program to foster a sense of belonging for undocumented students and a pathway for future success. I interviewed a small number of self-identified undocumented students and mentored four USRC interns during Spring 2021. In this article, I present students’ perceptions of USRC, their understandings of mentoring, and their ideas regarding the programming that the center should provide. I conclude by sharing some of the outcomes of my internship with USRC and the current state of the mentoring program.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.24
Jennifer Schneider
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jennifer Schneider; I PRAY THAT CONSUMPTION RECONCILES WITH CAUTIONS, BUT THE REALITY OF LIFE ISN’T IN THE TUNE OF THE TAP OR THE TASTE OF THE PASTE BUT IN THE RECONCILIATION OF A BOWL TO CAPTURE (NOT CONSPIRE) THE CURIOSITIES OF DAY-TO-DAY WASTE. Practicing Anthropology 1 June 2023; 45 (3): 24–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.24 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest Search
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.11
W. Webb, Daniel Delgado
In 2019, interdisciplinary teams of anthropology and environmental engineering PhD students went to Placencia Village, Belize to study stakeholder-driven issues related to coastal resilience. Our team explored wastewater management on a few of the more than 400 small cayes peppering the Belize Barrier Reef. These islands have transitioned from temporary sites for overnight fishers to crowded tourism destinations. Wastewater management has struggled to keep pace with these changes, spurring concerns about the health of the reef. Our task was to construct contextualized system dynamic models which would be useful to those concerned. Along the way however, we ran into tensions related to the underlying logic, and representations of people, in mathematical descriptions of social and technical configurations. This article lays out the context and lessons learned from our encounter with interdisciplinary systems modeling.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.58
K. Bletzer
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{"title":"VACATION FROM REALITY: THE INFLUENCE OF TOURIST PRIVILEGE ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON ISLA MUJERES","authors":"Dominique Stringer, Eleanor Schmalz, Lindsay Douglass","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.63","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73034996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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