{"title":"Reflections on Video Games, Virtual Communication, and Our Pandemic Lives","authors":"Sally Darling, J. Keller","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6614","url":null,"abstract":"Remote work and social isolation required by the Covid-19 pandemic increased the need for communication technology that allows collaboration in business and social contexts. This essay is our reflection on research on communication technology used by online gamers and the impact the research had on our personal and work lives as we adapted to the conditions of the last two years of pandemic living.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124349023","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}
{"title":"What is Our Sense of Place in the Time of the Pandemic?","authors":"T. Malefyt","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6615","url":null,"abstract":"In the last year and a half, since the pandemic struck, our places have radically changed from whence we conduct business, teach, and socialize with others. Most of us have been zoom-bound in our homes, affecting how we interact with others in business negotiations, teaching students, classroom materials, and even socializing. How has our displacement in moving from live classrooms, boardrooms, and conference rooms to home screen interactions on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other video-communication platforms affected our relations with students and business clients through changed notions of place? This change of place, moreover, was not just a one-off week of distance, as we might experience traveling to remote locations but occurred over an extended time of 18 months. I’ve since learned about the profound effects of place on interactions of perception, thought and emotions, and the ways it influences how we relate, perform, engage, and succeed in our social relations with others.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116342684","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}
{"title":"Creative or Coercive?: Cities, Workspaces, and Business Anthropology in the Near Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Eitan Wilf","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6616","url":null,"abstract":"Discourses and practices that situate creativity as a recipe for success in different domains and at different levels of social reality have had an increasingly global reach in the last few decades. Creativity has become the focus of managerial theories, self-help books, and experts whose goal is to help individuals, firms, cities, and nation-states all over the world harness creativity as a resource for boosting productivity and for creating value.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114366953","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}
{"title":"Can Somebody Please Reinstall 2020? It Seems To Have a Virus!","authors":"I. Pașca, A. Sinha","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6618","url":null,"abstract":"In December 2019, news of another virus, a SARS variant was streaming out of China. The previous SARS-CoV-1 2002-2004 had infected less than 9,000 individuals with an 11% mortality, the virus stopped as quickly as it had started. Epidemiologists were reporting a highly contagious novel SARS-CoV-2 variant with high R0 ‘R naught’ that represents how quickly a disease is spreading, or how many people one sick individual would infect. COVID019 had an initial R0 of 2 to 3; with the Omicron variant R0 nearly 7. This meant that each person infected with the original strain of COVID-19 would infect 2 to 3 more people. Patients would present with symptoms ranging from fever, chills, cough, and fatigue on the low end of the spectrum, all the way to difficulty breathing with profound hypoxia and overwhelming multi-organ failure with a mortality rate upwards of 4%.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133836010","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}
{"title":"Starting-Up During COVID-19","authors":"D. Peluso","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6613","url":null,"abstract":"The global impact of COVID-19 has rippled into all areas of social, economic, political and business lives no matter what one’s line of work or livelihood. Considerable focus has been directed at understanding some of the challenges presented by the current pandemic on primary research, including the negative impacts of a technology-dependent or technology-mediated field site, the lack of material shared spaces during covid-19, interrupted fieldwork, transformed field sites, mental wellbeing, the weakness of online communications in comparison to faceto face contact and other concrete and adverse repercussions of the current pandemic on primary research. While the negative disruptive effects on organizations have been addressed elsewhere (Bartik et al. 2020, Meyer et al. 2020), here I wish to reflect upon my positive experiences of meeting and working with a small start-up. From my home office, I was able to meet and connect to new colleagues, build a research team, and design and conduct a research project at a new field site– all transpiring without having previously worked together. These circumstances led me to make decisions that I would not have made sans pandemic but which contributed toward positive project decisions. Feeling encouraged about what we accomplished together without ever having met my research team colleagues in person, I focus on how covid19 has created new possibilities for connection and for conducting research within and across borders. Rather than to focus on disruption, Page 1 of 7","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116820150","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}
{"title":"Cultural Systems of the Food Supply Chain","authors":"Ernest Baskin, Michelle F. Weinberger","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6625","url":null,"abstract":"psychological to explore questions of judgment and decision making primarily in the retailing context. marketing. Dr. Baskin's research the Journal of Consumer Research , Journal of Marketing Research, European Journal of Marketing and Journal of Retailing. Her research uses a socio-cultural lens to understand the relationship between consumption activities, marketplace institutions, social relations, and inequality, examining substantive contexts such as collective rituals, gift giving, experiential consumption, and market intermediaries. Dr. Weinberger’s research is published in the Journal of Consumer Research, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Macromarketing, International Journal of Advertising, and Journal of Advertising Research . She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117164705","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}
{"title":"Can the Pandemic-Prompted Shift to Remote Work Solve Belongingness Challenges for Lower Social Class Background White-Collar Employees? Some Preliminary Thoughts","authors":"Erica Jaffe Redner","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6612","url":null,"abstract":"Lower social class background college graduates often navigate social belongingness challenges in white-collar workplaces. The pervasiveness of remote work during the pandemic, and the conversations now underway between employers and employees about the proper place of remote work in a post-pandemic world, invite us to consider how less time performing one’s job on -site might moderate those challenges. The following paper identifies four perennial belongingness challenges that lower social class background college graduates face in white-collar workplaces, and evaluates the extent to which remote work could be expected to mitigate them.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132697063","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}
{"title":"Re-Imagining Futures in Business Anthropology","authors":"Michael G. Powell","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6619","url":null,"abstract":"Here I want to point to ways the pandemic has created some unique opportunities for business anthropology, as I’ve experienced it. I’ll briefly document some broader work trends I’ve taken note of and heard about from colleagues, and then share my personal experiences, before and during the pandemic. I’m coming from the perspective of an independent ethnographic consultant with a background in cultural anthropology, who has worked in recent years on my own projects, partnership projects with other consulting groups, some in-house work, and also startup teams. I’ll explain how I’ve navigated challenging career decisions in the last few years, while also studying the evolving culture of work.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134071040","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}
{"title":"Pushed Over the Edge","authors":"A. Batteau","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6622","url":null,"abstract":"In her 1979 book, States and Social Revolutions, Theda Skocpol observed that social revolutions occur when a corrupt ancien régime experiences an economic downturn, setting in motion widespread popular discontent. The Russian Revolution of 1917, like the French Revolution of 1789, was abetted by the breakdown of the imperial order, in both cases leading to a reign of terror. Other social revolutions, such as Roosevelt’s New Deal, have been less terrifying although similarly leading to a gnashing of teeth among those who lost power, status, and influence.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131271000","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}
{"title":"Just In Time","authors":"G. McCracken","doi":"10.22439/jba.v11i1.6617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v11i1.6617","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124699253","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}