Rediscovering Nancy Oestreich Lurie's Activist Anthropology

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-728
Author(s):  
Grant Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Activist Anthropology

Authentic Research, Teaching, Events, and Assessments for Economic Prosperity

2022 ◽  
pp. 289-317
Author(s):  
Cassandra R. Decker ◽  
Merci Decker
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Activist Anthropology ◽  
Research And Education

Responsive research serves as an alternative platform to address issues of human rights violations, ACEs, structural violence, and systemic poverty in particular as it relates to educational opportunities. This chapter identifies four step-by-step processes that can be used when conducting community-led research and education. Activist anthropology, studying up, studying through, and financial implications of debt foreground earlier efforts made by anthropologists to use their research as a way to examine how policy decisions shape cultural practices and impact the livelihood of specific communities. These efforts are expanded upon by examining the controversy, pitfalls, and rewards found within the epistemological paradigms and research methodologies. The second half of the chapter identifies four pathways researchers can use when engaging in activist anthropology: teaching to a goal; responsive mapping to uncover mystical barriers; community building as the goal for focus groups, interviews, and surveys; and responsive programs and events.

scholarly journals From cartonera publishing practices to trans-formal methods for qualitative research

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412091451
Author(s):  
Lucy Bell ◽  
Alex Flynn ◽  
Patrick O’Hare
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Activist Anthropology ◽  
The One

Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and counter-disciplinarity are the hallmark of cultural studies and qualitative research, as scholars over the past three decades have discussed through extensive self-reflexive inquiry into their own unstable and ever-shifting methods (Denzin and Lincoln, 2018; Dicks et al., 2006: 78; Grossberg, 2010). Building on the interdisciplinary thought of Jacques Rancière and Caroline Levine on the one hand and traditions of participatory action research and activist anthropology on the other, we bring the methods conversation forward by shifting the focus from disciplines to forms and by making a case for aesthetic practice as qualitative research process. In this paper, the question of methods is approached through the action-based Cartonera Publishing Project with editoriales cartoneras in Latin America – community publishers who make low-cost books out of materials recovered from the street in the attempt to democratise and decolonise literary/artistic production – and specifically through our process-oriented, collaborative work with four cartonera publishers in Brazil and Mexico. Guided by the multiple forms of cartonera knowledge production, which are rooted not in academic research but rather in aesthetic practice and community relations, we offer an innovative ‘trans-formal’ methodological framework, which opens up new pathways for practitioners and researchers to work, think and act across social, cultural and aesthetic forms.

A Vested Interest: Activist Anthropology in the Mountaintop Removal Debate

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Samuel Cook
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Surface Mining ◽  
Vested Interest ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
Removal Method ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Activist Anthropology ◽  
Mountain West

"I want you to think about something that means so much to you—that you love so much—that you would give your life for it," said Larry Gibson as he addressed a group of students from my Appalachian Communities class visiting the remnants of his ancestral farm on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. Most of my students had never given this question much thought. On the other hand, the majority of them (most of whom came from the urban Northeast) had never heard of the mountaintop removal method of surface mining until taking my class.

ICE Offices and Immigration Courts: Accompaniment in Zones of Illegality

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-223
Author(s):  
Kristin Elizabeth Yarris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Field Office ◽  
Ice Field ◽  
Activist Anthropology ◽  
Immigration And Customs Enforcement ◽  
Engaged Ethnography

In this article, I examine two sites of the contemporary illegality industry in the United States: the ICE Field Office and the Immigration Court. Drawing on ongoing ethnographic engagement, including accompaniment and observations in a regional Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office and an Executive Office of Immigration Reform (EOIR) Court, I trace how human interactions and social relations in each of these bureaucratic sites structure and reinforce conditions of precarity, insecurity, and marginality among undocumented and asylum seeking people in the United States. In both sites, the enforcement power of the state is visible through the configurations of bureaucratic processes and the structures of interactions between migrants and federal government officials. Examining these two sites from the vantage point of engaged ethnography, I illustrate how routine, bureaucratic encounters (re)produce illegality and exclusion by enacting violence against migrants through the powers of surveillance and administrative monitoring, and the threat of deportation and family separation. I also reflect on the political potential that emerges through activist anthropology and accompaniment with migrants in sites of state violence.

‘Teaching’ Practicing

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-45
Author(s):  
Jeanne Simonelli ◽  
Bill Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
The Us ◽  
Activist Anthropology ◽  
Action Anthropology ◽  
The U.S

Editing this issue of Practicing about anthropologists working in Brazil has been an enlightening experience for us. We learned the particular ways in which Brazilian anthropologists from all subdisciplines deal with ethical and practical dilemmas in the practice of anthropology, as reflected in the questions below. We note that there is no consensus among Brazilian anthropologists about whether applied anthropology, as defined here in the U.S., even exists there. Some anthropologists noted the distinction in Brazil between a Sol Tax-inspired ‘action’ anthropology and ‘applied’ anthropology. In the former the commitment to engaged and activist anthropology seems to go beyond the bounds of what is generally seen in ‘mainstream’ applied anthropology in the US. Other Brazilian anthropologists stress their strong interest in public policy, and describe their engagement with policy issues in terms of ‘militant citizenship.’ Though we don't formally make an action-applied distinction in this country, the degree of engagement of individual anthropologists in Brazil travels along a continuum from application to advocacy to activism.

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