Podcasts from the SfAA

This is the second part of a double session.  Part I can be found here.

CHAIR: HOFFMAN, Susanna (Hoffman Consulting)

BROWNE, Katherine E. (CSU) Wounded Culture/Rescue Culture: Struggles for Recognition and Recovery after Katrina

SCHULLER, Mark (NIU, U d’Etat d’Haiti) “Haitians Need To Be Patient”: Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington following Haiti’s Earthquake

CASAGRANDE, David (Lehigh U), MCILVAINE-NEWSAD, Heather (WIU), and PINTER, Nicholas (SIU) Wet and Wild: Gaps between Policy and Socio-ecological Reality in Mississippi River Flood Mitigation

BECKER, Per (Lund U) Forgetting Anticipation: The Double Gap between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice in Botswana and Tanzania

DISCUSSANT: JEGGLE, Terry (U Pitt)

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

This is the first part of a double session.  Part II can be found here.

CHAIR: HOFFMAN, Susanna (Hoffman Consulting)

HOFFMAN, Susanna (Hoffman Consulting) Introduction to the Issue

BENDER, Stephen (OAS, retired) The Gap between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice that Result in Natural Hazard Events Becoming Disasters: A View from Looking at Four Groups of Stakeholders

KOONS, Adam (IRD) Humanitarian Response: Ideals Meet Reality

TIERNEY, Kathleen (U Colorado) A Frayed Safety Net: Community-Based Organizations and Disaster Vulnerability

COMFORT, Louise K. (U Pitt) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disaster Risk: Designing Metrics for Community Resilience

DISCUSSANT: OLIVER-SMITH, Anthony (UF)

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

This is the first part of a double session.  Part II is coming soon!

CHAIR: GIBSON, Jane W. (U Kansas)

˜SHERIDAN, Thomas E. (U Arizona) Aggregation and Abandonment?: The “Sun Corridor” and Arizona’s Water Game in the 21st Century

GROENFELDT, David (Water-Culture Inst) The Western US Water Ethic as a Cultural System

SIMMS, Jason L. and YELVINGTON, Kevin A. (USF) Water Politics and Wine Capitalism: Sacrificing Sustainability in the Neoliberal Agenda

GIBSON, Jane W. and GRAY, B.J. (U Kansas) Hot and Dry: Kansas Farmers, Climate Change, and Water

DISCUSSANT: WUTICH, Amber (ASU)

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIR: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn)

STANFORD, Lois (NMSU) The U.S. Drought and Rising Food Prices: Examining Local Impacts, Challenges and Responses along the U.S.-Mexico Border

MENCHER, Joan (CUNY) Disasterous Food Security Policies in India

BRENTON, Barrett (St. John’s) and MAZZEO, John (DePaul) Reevaluating Accountability for Humanitarian Actions during Food System Disasters

DISCUSSANT: BUTTON, Gregory (UTK)

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

Margaret Mead Award Winner: Erin P. Finley (for her book, Fields of Combat: Understanding PTSD Among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan)

Bronislaw Malinowski Award Winner: Anthony Oliver-Smith,  introduced by Paul Doughty. Click here for more information on Dr. Oliver-Smith.

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIR: ORTIZ, Cristina (U Iowa)

ORTIZ, Cristina (U Iowa) Get a Life: The Personal Life of Applied Anthropologists

GONZALEZ, Elias (U Iowa) (Anthropo)logical Activist?: The Intersections of Applied Anthropology and Activism


SCOTT, Jill E. (U Iowa) Teaching the Applied Science of Forensic Anthropology as a Public Resource


DAVIS, Jill (U Iowa) Performance and the Refracted Gaze


DONALDSON, Susanna (U Iowa) “Sharing” the “Resource” of Anthropology: Doing and Applying Anthropology among Farmers and Farmworkers 

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIRS: ROLSTON, Jessica Smith and SCHNEIDER, Jennifer (CO Sch of Mines)

KNAAK, Allison (CO Sch of Mines) Fractured Rock, Public Ruptures: The Debate over Hydraulic Fracturing and Gasland

ROLSTON, Jessica Smith (CO Sch of Mines) Ghost Mines: Experiences of Energy Market Downturns in Wyoming

TIDWELL, Abraham (CO Sch of Mines) The New Nuclear West: Communication and Nuclear Technology in the 21st Century

KIRKLAND, Tracy M. (UC-Boulder) Renewable Energy Development and Symbolic Landscapes of the American West

SCHNEIDER, Jen (CO Sch of Mines) Response to “Energy and the American West”

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CHAIR: FISKE, Shirley (UMD)

SADLER, Deborah and NELSON, Donald R. (U Georgia) Are All Droughts the Same?: Implications of Current Drought Adaptations for Future Climate Vulnerability

HOPKINS, Arlene (Skye Labs, Arlene Hopkins & Assoc) and MAACK, Stephen C. (Reap Change Consultants) Emerging Solution: Community-Based Strategy for Climate Change Disaster, Ecological Restoration at the Public Commons, School Sites, and Library Sites

PETERSON, Kristina J. (UNO-CHART) Living the Disaster while Changing

MARINO, Elizabeth (OR State U) A Right To Be Rural?: Demographic Implications for Climate Change Mitigation and Disaster Relocations

KANE, Stephanie C. (Indiana U) Transformations in the Hydrosphere: A 21st Century Neighborhood Watch for Rising Waters

DISCUSSANT: BLOUNT, Benjamin (SocioEcological Informatics)

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIR: DRISCOLL, David L. (UAA)

˜LAMM, Rosemarie Santora (Rath Senior ConNEXTions & Ed Ctr) Master Class: Senior Scholars Life Review; Community Culture Brokerage

OTSUKI, Kei (UNU-ISP) Individual Reflexivity, Household Coping, and Community Resilience in Northern Ghana

BLATTEL, Carrie (IUPUI) Delivering Community Resources to Latino Immigrants

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIRS: OSCARSON, Alex and ZACKARY, Burditt (UC-Denver)

KIRNER, Kimberly (CSUN) Same Place, Different Worlds: Class, Knowledge, and the Politics of Land Management


FELDMAN, Lindsey (U Arizona) Strong Men and Good Hands: Identity Formation and Ranch Work in the Altar Valley

ZACKARY, Burditt (UC Denver) Free-Fire Zones: The Western Heritage of Wolf Killing and Border Construction

OSCARSON, Alex (UC-Denver) Debating Space: An Ethnographic Study of the Power of Space 

SIMMS, Crystal and RIEL-SALVATORE, Julien (UC-Denver) Occupy Archaeology!: Towards an Ethnoarchaeology of Occupy Denver


DISCUSSANT: HINES, Dwight J. (Point Park U)

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIR: PANT, Dipak R. (LIUC)

SANTEE, Amy amylaurensantee@gmail.com (Independent) The Exotic Anthropologist: Reflections on Working in Corporatelandia Download Paper; Website: amysantee.com.  Interests in anthropology: applied social research, business anthropology, consumers and consumption, practitioner experience, ethics, urban anthropology

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MALEFYT, Timothy de Waal (Fordham U) and OLSEN, Barbara (SUNY Old Westbury) Saving Our Backs: Exploring a Century of Mattress Marketing Media: Ostermoor ad and Simmons ad.

˜PANT, Dipak R. (LIUC) Helping Italian Entrepreneurs Embrace Sustainability Principles

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIR: CHARNLEY, Susan (USDAFS)

WILLIAMS, Gerald W. (Retired, Chief Historian) Fire as Natural Disasters or Planned Ignitions?: American Indians and Fire Adapted Ecosystems

SPOON, Jeremy and LEFLER, Brian (Portland State U) Mountain Homes and Overgrown Gardens: Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) and Fire Suppression on Southern Nevada Public Lands

CHARNLEY, Susan (USDAFS) and POE, Melissa R. (IFCAE) Burning Issues: The Political Ecology of Fire Management on Federal Lands in the Western United States

WILLIAMS, Daniel R. (USDAFS) Wildfire in Nature/Place-Identity Discourses: Natural Process, Natural Disaster, and/or Something Else?

COUGHLAN, Michael R. (U Georgia) Fire Use and Socioecological Vulnerability in the French Western Pyrenees and Georgia USA

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

CHAIRS: SANJEK, Roger (Emeritus) and TRATNER, Susan (SUNY ESC)

SANJEK, Roger (Emeritus) Introduction: From Fieldnotes to eFieldnotes


BURRELL, Jenna (UCB) Reviving the Armchair Anthropologist (renamed Through a Screen Darkly: On Remote, Collaborative Fieldwork in the Digital Age)


SLAMA, Martin (Inst for Soc Anth, Austrian Academy of Sci) Filesharing in Contemporary Fieldwork: Examples from Indonesia

CLIGGETT, Lisa (UKY) Preservation, Sharing and Technological Challenges of Longitudinal Research in the Digital Age

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Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.