Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.35
C. Richards, K. OoNorasak
During the COVID-19 pandemic, already food insecure populations were plunged further into precarity as shipping and manufacturing interruptions nearly halted the industrialized food system in the U.S., raising interests in alternative food systems. Due to the pandemic, college students attended classes online, further reducing social interaction. Our research investigates the benefits of student involvement with the Campus Kitchen at the University of Kentucky (CKUK), a student-led sustainability-focused organization striving to reduce food waste and improve nutrition equity through meal assistance, resources, and community empowerment. Data were collected via ten semi-structured interviews and participant observation of CKUK student volunteers and leaders. Participants reported that benefits of involvement with CKUK extended beyond free food, including a sense of community and opportunities for social justice. This replicable organization model practices alternative food systems founded on elements of community building and equity, creating a resource for their community that can withstand disasters.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.47
Angie P. Mejia
{"title":"BEYOND “THICK DESCRIPTION”: RACIALLY-MINORITIZED WOMEN AND THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS","authors":"Angie P. Mejia","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.47","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":"81875970","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}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.31
K. Kleszynski, Terence Gipson, K. Reinschmidt
In this paper, we describe insights from a formed Latinx Community Advisory Committee (LCAC) that consisted of 11 Latinx mothers of children with special needs. Three Public Health graduate students, as a part of a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) seminar, joined virtual meetings of the LCAC to hear insights into barriers and challenges of caregiving from these Latinx mothers, and the graduate students were tasked with developing a CBPR research proposal based on these insights.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.26
Riall W. Nolan, Elizabeth K. Briody
Anthropology has never had an organizing framework or template for teaching an agreed-upon set of courses, a sequence in which those courses should be offered, or the knowledge, skills, and experiences that should be acquired in those courses. Instead, teaching has been left up to individual instructors. Significant changes in the job market for graduates, involving a decrease in academic opportunities and the growth of opportunities in industry, non-profits, and government, have led to a reconceptualization of how and what we teach to prepare students for successful careers. With that in mind, we draw on recent work by the Anthropology Career Readiness Network, as well as earlier research, to construct a framework for curriculum change focused on bringing issues of practice and application into our teaching. We believe this framework will improve the career readiness of all students, whether they intend to become academics or practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.52
Manuram K Rajendran
{"title":"TRADING BLAME AND GAINING EXPERTISE: NOTES ON CITIZENSHIP AND DRIVING FROM ROADS IN NORTHERN KERALA","authors":"Manuram K Rajendran","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.3.52","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":"90502151","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}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.2.18
Kathleen N. Skoczen, Natividad Pantaleón, Daniel Abreu
We conducted a formative research study on the peninsula of Samaná, in the northeast corner of the Dominican Republic, focused on how people viewed, categorized, and handled solid waste. With the passage of a new law, a motivated government administration is now addressing the solid waste crisis on the peninsula. Here, we examine some of the pre-existing attitudes about the solid waste of Samaná residents. Results from the study reveal that, contrary to many assumptions, local Dominicans are aware of the waste crisis and, in fact, are often depressed and anxious over it, even as they feel angry and helpless about how to resolve it. On closer examination and drawing on Appadurai’s theoretical framework of “-scapes,” we can understand that the waste crisis is not a local problem, and, as such, sustainable solutions need to include a broader effort to control plastic entering the environment.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.2.53
R. Caceres, John Vincent Gastanes, Shellemai Roa
Worldwide, informal waste collectors (IWCs) experience discrimination, stigma, and sometimes harassment (Bulla et al., 2021). They rely on their own social networks to ply their “trade” and converse well with people with whom they have personal or business relations. Beyond this small network, IWCs do not usually need to talk to other people. Philippine-based social enterprise Project Zacchaeus (PZC) aimed to transform 60 IWCs into “Eco Warriors” in a program equipping IWCs with a variety of skills. The goal was to empower these IWCs to lead their families and communities and serve as role models to adjacent barangays. The authors explore the contrast between the mostly timid informal waste pickers and the grantee’s vision for them as leaders and effective communicators for environmental awareness. We describe the challenges in the ambitious undertaking, Caceres’s training contributions, and the gradual transformation of shy informal waste pickers into more confident, empowered Eco Warriors.
在世界范围内，非正式废物收集者(iwc)受到歧视、羞辱，有时还会受到骚扰(Bulla et al.， 2021)。他们依靠自己的社交网络进行“交易”，并与与他们有私人或商业关系的人进行良好的交谈。在这个小圈子之外，iwc通常不需要与其他人交谈。菲律宾社会企业Zacchaeus项目(PZC)旨在通过一项为iwc成员提供各种技能的计划，将60名iwc成员转变为“生态战士”。目标是赋予这些iwc领导家庭和社区的能力，并为邻近的村庄树立榜样。两位作者探讨了大多数胆小的非正式拾荒者与受助人对他们作为环境意识的领导者和有效传播者的愿景之间的对比。我们描述了这项雄心勃勃的事业所面临的挑战，卡塞雷斯的培训贡献，以及害羞的非正式拾荒者逐渐转变为更自信、更有能力的生态战士。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.17730/0888-4552.45.2.8
G. Caldwell
{"title":"Introduction to the Issue from the United States Agency for International Development","authors":"G. Caldwell","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85865217","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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