Applied, engaged, and public anthropology

Unchosen grounds: cultivating a cross subfield accents for a public voice

by Rena Lederman

Repensar Bonpastor: una intervención multidisciplinaria independiente en un barrio afectado por la transformación urbanística

by Stefano Portelli

Published in Periferia, revista de recerca i formació en antropologia, n.12, june 2010

“Repensar Bonpastor – a Competition of ideas for a participative and zero-eviction urban renewal of a popular... more “Repensar Bonpastor – a Competition of ideas for a participative and zero-eviction urban renewal of a popular neighbourhood in Barcelona”, promoted by the International Alliance of Inhabitants and organized by an independent group of technicians from Barcelona, received 45 proposals from all over the world. The
article explains how the local struggles of the neighbours of the “casas baratas de Bon Pastor” succeeded in gathering applied anthropology, international solidarity, oral history, social architecture, political activism, into a shared attempt to find a new way of “making the city”: where inhabitants are the leading actors of the transformations, and technicians (especially anthropologists) guarantee respect towards the meanings and value that the city represents to its inhabitants.

Keywords: urban renewal, public anthropology, social architecture, community
activism.

Public Anthropology in Greek Crisis

by Alex Argyriadis

www.uop.gr

Médecins diplômés à l'étranger au Québec : une intégration à deux vitesses? Résultats d'une recherche anthropologique.

by Marie-Jeanne Blain

Blain Marie-Jeanne, Sylvie Fortin et Fernando Alvarez (2011). « Médecins diplômés à l’étranger au Québec : une intégration à deux vitesses? Résultats d’une recherche anthropologique ». Communication par affiche, XXVIe congrès annuel des étudiants gradués et post-gradués du Centre de recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, 8 juin, Montréal.

Les enjeux liés à l’intégration professionnelle des médecins diplômés à l’étranger (MDÉ) sont connus et font couler... more Les enjeux liés à l’intégration professionnelle des médecins diplômés à l’étranger (MDÉ) sont connus et font couler beaucoup d’encre. La figure du médecin immigrant chauffeur de taxi fait désormais partie de l’imaginaire populaire. Mais le portrait de l’intégration de ces médecins au marché du travail québécois se doit d’être nuancé. En effet, au Québec, 1641 MDÉ œuvrent dans notre système de santé (10,9 % des effectifs) (CMA, 2007a). Toutefois, pour ceux qui n’ont pas réintégré la profession, nous ne disposons d’aucune donnée quant à leur nombre et leur situation professionnelle.
Résultats. En fait, les parcours professionnels des MDÉ sur le marché du travail au Québec sont hétérogènes. Deux grands scénarios se dessinent. Une part d’entre eux exercent et ont rapidement été reconnus, c’est le cas des professeurs universitaires et des spécialistes sur permis restrictif. Pour ceux-ci, les démarches menant à l’exercice sont relativement rapides (1 à 2 ans). Pour d’autres, les parcours sont plus longs et onéreux, si même ils s’avèrent possibles (4 à 10 ans). C’est le cas des médecins généralistes en particulier – et d’autres spécialités moins en demande ou dont les structures académiques ne sont apparemment pas similaires à celles du Québec. En outre, la réorientation professionnelle peut être décidée d’entrée de jeu ou plus tard, considérant l’ampleur du parcours et son incertitude.
Au Québec, la présence de MDÉ ne peut aller qu’en s’accentuant étant donné que depuis 2002 la médecine n’est plus une profession exclue par le ministère de l’immigration. Or, nous assistons à un paradoxe où les politiques d’immigration visent l’attraction de migrants très qualifiés tandis que la régulation même du marché du travail ne permet qu’à une portion de ceux-ci d’accéder à un poste équivalent. Ce constat, associé à la pénurie grandissante de médecins, particulièrement en médecine familiale, soulève des enjeux sociopolitiques majeurs.
Méthode/conclusion. Dans le cadre d’une recherche qualitative,
près d’une quarantaine de personnes ont été rencontrées : des MDÉ - qui ont réintégré la médecine ou se sont réorientés – ainsi que des acteurs clés du milieu. Ceux-ci ont témoigné de leurs expériences sur la question via des entrevues semi-dirigées. Prenant comme toile de fond l’effet des politiques sur le marché du travail et sa réglementation, l’auteure analysera leurs parcours et exposera les stratégies d’intégration professionnelle qu’ils ont mobilisées.

Are They Katrina's Kids or Ours?: The Experience of Displaced New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communities

by Kevin Michael Foster

Through the Perfect Storm: Contextual Responses, Structural Solutions, and the Challenges of Black Education

by Kevin Michael Foster

Community Engaged Scholarship on the Tenure track

by Kevin Michael Foster

Serial Closure: Generative reflexivity and restoring confidence in/of anthroplogists

by Caroline Gatt

“Just Coping: A new perspective on low-income families”

by Tamara Tatem-Hale

Co-authored with Robin Pharoah and Sophia Parker. 2008. Social Innovation
Lab Kent (SILK), Kent County Council.

“Behind the numbers: Migrant living patterns in Westminster”

by Tamara Tatem-Hale

Co-authored with Robin Pharoah. 2007. Westminster City Council.

"Doubting Darwin: Creationism and Evolution scepticism in Britain today"

by Tamara Tatem-Hale

Co-authored with Robin Pharoah and Becky Rowe. 2009. Theos.

‘The Contribution of Anthropology to the Nusa Tenggara Timur Pilot Livestock Development Project’

by E Douglas Lewis

1997
‘The Contribution of Anthropology to the Nusa Tenggara Timur Pilot Livestock Development Project’
Anthropological Forum, Volume 7 (3): 403 – 418.

Photojournalism in Crises: Re/presenting Reality where Anthropology Could

by Jessalyn Ballerano

Final Synthesis and Appendix of Independent Study: Photojournalism in Crises, under the professorship of Eleana Kim, PhD.

A comparison of media narratives surrounding oil spills in 1989 and 2010, the study aims to reveal the relationships... more A comparison of media narratives surrounding oil spills in 1989 and 2010, the study aims to reveal the relationships between environmentalism, media and active (or "public") anthropology. A final discussion based on anthropological treatments of news/media processes and environmental disaster, as well as original news/journalistic texts, is followed by individual analytic works considering various steps and sources in the research process.

The Political Thought of Sol Tax: the Principles of non-assimilation and self-government in action anthropology.

by Joshua Smith

A Potential Archaeology of Rosewood, Florida: The Process of Remembering a Community and a Tragedy

by Edward Gonzalez-Tennant

Co-authored with James M. Davidson

Community Centered Praxis in Conflict Archaeology: Creating an Archaeology of Redress with the 1923 Race Riot in Rosewood, Florida

by Edward Gonzalez-Tennant

Modern Slavery and Student Activism

by Edward Gonzalez-Tennant

Conservation biology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Integrating academic disciplines for better conservation practice.

by Adam Henne

w/Joshua Drew, 2006. Ecology and Society 11(2)

Conservation biology and environmental anthropology are disciplines that are both concerned with the identification... more Conservation biology and environmental anthropology are disciplines that are both concerned with the identification and preservation of diversity, in one case biological and in the other cultural. Both conservation biology and the study of traditional ecoloigcal knowledge function at the nexus of the social and natural worlds, yet historically there have been major impediments to integrating the two. Here we identify linguistic, cultural, and epistemological barriers between the two disciplines. We argue that the two disciplines are uniquely positioned to inform each other and to provide critical insights and new perspectives on the way these sciences are practiced. We conclude by synthesizing common themes found in conservation success stories, and by making several suggestions on integration. These include cross-disciplinary publication, expanding memberships in professional societies and conducting multidisciplinary research based on similar interests in ecological process, taxonomy, or geography. Finally, we argue that extinction threats, be they biological or cultural/linguistic are imminent, and that by bringing these disciplines together we may be able to forge synergistic conservation programs capable of protecting the vivid splendor of life on Earth.

"Public interest anthropology, political market squares, and re-scripting dominance: from swallows to ‘race’ in San Juan Capistrano, CA"

by Kathleen Adams

Author Posting. (c) Taylor and Francis, 2011.
This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor and Francis for personal use, not for redistribution.
The definitive version was published in Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, Volume 3 Issue 2, July 2011.
doi:10.1080/19407963.2011.555457

This article explores a disturbing irony of certain touristic festivals and heritage sites: although these festivals... more This article explores a disturbing irony of certain touristic festivals and heritage sites: although these festivals and sites tend to draw heavily on the language of shared heritage and community, the dominant narratives and cultural symbols
embodied in these venues sometimes celebrate more traditional and problematic‘racial,’ ethnic, and gender hierarchies. Via a case study of the annual swallows festival held in the California Mission town of San Juan Capistrano, this article offers an illustration of the value of embracing a public interest anthropology (PIA) framework for identifying and addressing the hidden racisms underlying some heritage tourism sites. Moreover, the article suggests that the political market square metaphor for conceptualizing tourism festival management could
be productively reframed and paired with a PIA approach to facilitate more inclusive, color-blind approaches to developing tourism policy.

Anthropological Pre-implementation Impact Assessment of Proposed Thermal Power Plant in Allahabad

by Nishant Saxena