{"title":"Navigating and Engaging Continued Violence and Migration, A Reflection on: “Violence and Migration on the Arizona-Sonora Border”","authors":"Jeremy Slack, Scott Whiteford","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-80.2.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.2.88","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"80 1","pages":"88-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48562785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considering Social Sustainability in Eco-Certification for Small-Scale Fishing—Why and How?","authors":"M. Autzen, A. Delaney","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reflects on the effects of eco-certification on small-scale fisheries and the possibilities for including social sustainability considerations in fisheries certification schemes for small-scale fisheries. The paper reviews existing eco-certification schemes and presents empirical data on Danish small-scale fisheries and a new Danish certification scheme. Our findings suggest the universalism most eco-certification schemes build on needs to be critically examined and that the wage worker-centrism that characterizes most work on social sustainability indicators is not universally applicable in all fisheries. Social sustainability criteria need to be continually revised to take sociocultural contexts into account and avoid the unintentional exclusion of certain segments.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"80 1","pages":"61-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42555562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing Our New Cover","authors":"N. Romero-Daza, D. Himmelgreen","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"80 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47994616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. L. Alexander, E. Wells, Martha Lincoln, B. Davis, P. Little
{"title":"Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom: Teaching Activism, Inspiring Involvement","authors":"W. L. Alexander, E. Wells, Martha Lincoln, B. Davis, P. Little","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.37","url":null,"abstract":"In this era of industry deregulation, gutting of environmental protections, and science denial, environmental justice applied anthropology is more important than ever. There is growing ethnographic research into the ways people organize themselves and take action to protect their families and communities from toxins while demanding accountability from polluting industries and the state. When students encounter this literature in university curricula and when service-learning projects are part of coursework, the experiences they gain can inform their personal lives long after the semester ends. Five anthropologists share experiences teaching environmental justice ethnography courses. Their pedagogy addresses critical questions of ethical research and student positionality.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"80 1","pages":"37-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48865892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Penning Pigs: Pig Rearing Practices, Biosecurity Measures, and Outbreaks of African Swine Fever in Central Uganda","authors":"R. Thompson","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I explore why a number of smallholder pig farmers in central Uganda decided not to implement the biosecurity measures advocated by veterinarians. I focus on the infectious disease, African swine fever, to illustrate how the biosecurity measures intended to limit the risk of disease, inadvertently constrained the future returns on pigs for farmers and their families. I draw on ethnographic research from Mukono, a district in central Uganda, to show how farmers considered pigs to be “quick money”—a type of household wealth that could be rapidly generated and liquidated with ease. I suggest that farmers’ conceptualization of their pigs as a specific type of wealth influenced the ways in which they integrated pigs into their lives and homes. Based on smallholder farmers’ accounts, I conclude this article by calling for a reconsideration of biosecurity measures as a universal solution for controlling diseases on farms. I argue that instead of designing protocols that separate species, disease prevention strategies need to recognize the ways in which different livestock animals become part of farmers’ lives and acknowledge how this influences farmers’ disease management practices.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"80 1","pages":"17-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45115284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania","authors":"Justin Raycraft","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.49","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses how Makonde Muslim villagers living on the Swahili coast of southern Tanzania conceptualize and discuss environmental change. Through narratives elicited during in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, I show that respondents associate various forms of environmental change—ecological, climatic, political, and socioeconomic—with God’s plan. Respondents had a sound grasp of the material workings of their lived realities and evoked religious causality to fill in the residual explanatory gaps and find meaning in events that were otherwise difficult to explain. Such narratives reveal both a culturally engrained belief system that colors people’s understandings of change and uncertainty and a discursive idiom for making sense of social suffering. On an applied note, I submit that social science approaches to studying environmental change must take into account political and economic contexts relative to local cosmologies, worldviews, and religious faiths, which may not disaggregate the environment into distinct representational categories.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"80 1","pages":"49-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48165745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Human OrganizationPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-03-10DOI: 10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.27
Christina Getrich
{"title":"\"People Show Up In Different Ways\": DACA Recipients' Everyday Activism in a Time of Heightened Immigration-Related Insecurity.","authors":"Christina Getrich","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Undocumented young adults have emerged as a coherent political group, forging a large-scale social movement and helping push forward 19 state-level tuition equity laws and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2012. Yet DACA recipients' status became endangered when President Trump rescinded DACA in September 2017, necessitating even more innovative strategies for contesting their exclusion. Drawing from research conducted in Maryland since 2016, I chronicle DACA recipients' trajectories of political engagement. Though some have participated consistently in public forms of collective action, many never have or have declined in participation due to political apathy, the intense need to protect their identities, and very-real fears about being exposed or deported. Yet these young adults have cultivated complementary forms of <i>everyday</i> activism, operating outside traditional modalities and spaces of political engagement through acts of resistance carried out in everyday life. I contend that against the backdrop of the repressive state in the Trump era, the everyday activism of DACA recipients complements more normative and overt forms of collective action. Everyday activism raises interesting questions about the nature of activism itself, including the extent to which it must be collective, organized, and public, and its place in social justice movements more broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"80 1","pages":"27-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9380869/pdf/nihms-1827974.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40718303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthropological Engagement with COVID-19","authors":"Deven Gray, D. Himmelgreen, N. Romero-Daza","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.247","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses on anthropoligists' engagement with so-called \"novel\" epidmeics and pandemics arguing for some time that diseases do not respect geopolitical borders. Anthropologist also are keen to point out that it is not just an issue of trade and travel, as political economic and social disparity shape the spread of the viruses and determine who is most affected by potential health burdens.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43896869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Garcia, Silvia A. Zimmermann, A. Eleutério
{"title":"Food Supply Chains, Family Farming, and Food Policies under the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Brazilian City","authors":"Antonio Garcia, Silvia A. Zimmermann, A. Eleutério","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.323","url":null,"abstract":"The food system in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, experienced changes that reflected the uncertainties and restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study describes urban and periurban family farmers’ ongoing strategies to adapt to changes in the local food supply chains (FSCs) after the temporary suspension of farmers’ markets and government programs directed to small-scale agriculture. Their disruption proved problematic for the farmers and the vulnerable populations served by them. As a result, some farmers redirected their products’ commercialization to delivery or pickup services. Based on observations and conversations with producers and retail intermediaries, we show that farmers’ delivery and pickup-based sales increased dramatically with the pandemic. The sustainability of these practices is unknown, although they have strengthened forms of cooperation and commercialization amongst farmers, mainly through online marketing. Based on the results, the study provides a series of research questions to explore food systems and FSCs under severe social disruption.","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45934778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Rapid Qualitative Appraisal of the Impact of COVID-19 on Long-term Care Communities in the United States: Perspectives from Area Aging Staff and Advocates","authors":"Andrea Freidus, D. Shenk, Christin Wolf","doi":"10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-79.4.313","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 epidemic has hit residents and staff of congregate long-term care communities particularly hard In North Carolina, the site of this research, over half of registered mortality has been associated with congregate living communities This article reports on phase one of a rapid qualitative assessment of long-term care professionals and regional aging staff navigating care during this epidemic Our purpose is twofold We demonstrate both the value of rapid qualitative appraisals to capture the perspectives and concerns of COVID-19's long-term care workers and area aging staff, in this case, the staff and advocates that care for and protect the rights of long-term care community residents as well as present data collected in this phase Key points raised focus on safety, including access and use of personal protective equipment, infection control, limited testing, and staffing issues In addition, participants expressed concerns about the physical and mental health of residents because they have been isolated from family and friends since the executive order closed these communities to all non-essential people We will utilize these data, in collaboration with staff and advocates, to inform policy and programming to better address the needs of both residents and staff of long-term care communities","PeriodicalId":47620,"journal":{"name":"Human Organization","volume":"79 1","pages":"313-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45422013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}