Reworking the social determinants of health: Responding to material‐semiotic indeterminacy in public health interventions

E Yates‐Doerr - Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Both public health experts and medical anthropologists are concerned with how health is
shaped by environmental forces. This creates an important cross‐disciplinary alliance, yet …

Introducing the microbes and social equity working group: considering the microbial components of social, environmental, and health justice

SL Ishaq, FJ Parada, PG Wolf, CY Bonilla, MA Carney… - …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Humans are inextricably linked to each other and our natural world, and microorganisms lie
at the nexus of those interactions. Microorganisms form genetically flexible, taxonomically …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptation at whose expense? Explicating the maladaptive potential of water storage and climate-resilient growth for Māori women in northern Aotearoa

D Johnson, M Parsons, K Fisher - Global Environmental Change, 2023 - Elsevier
Drawing on ethnographic research with Indigenous Māori women in northern Aotearoa
(New Zealand) we challenge the presumed benefits of neoliberal, infrastructural-focussed …

Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research

J Hardin, A Saldaña-Tejeda, A Gálvez… - Field …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their
experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions …

In mourning: sociocultural anthropology in 2020

MJ Berry - American Anthropologist, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This year‐in‐review article places 2020 sociocultural works within the portal formed by
pandemic loss. Moving in the mode of Black feminist praxis, the article stays with wake work …

Teaching with microbes: lessons from fermentation during a pandemic

MA Carney - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic introduced unique
challenges to teaching at the university level, while also heightening awareness of existing …

Toward Adequate Food Systems: Collaboration and “Nonsovereign” Food Futures

H Garth - Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since at least the end of World War II, there have been efforts on a global scale to reduce
food insecurity through neoliberal, industrial, and technocratic solutions often led by …

Regenerative Farming Practices as Nature-Based Solutions: Potential Actions for Municipalities in Massachusetts

H Harrison - 2024 - scholarworks.umass.edu
This paper explores potential opportunities for municipalities to engage with farmers to
promote and support the adoption of regenerative farming practices. With agriculture …

SLIMMING DOWN IN DURHAM: WEIGHT LOSS AND CONTROL IN THE “DIET CAPITAL OF THE WORLD”

AM Elledge - 2022 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
This thesis combines work in feminist geography, critical geographies of fatness, and fat
studies to analyze the temporal and spatial dimensions of anti-fat disciplining as it manifests …

Food-as-Medicine: An Everyday Strategy of Health

RR Bogan - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Using food-as-medicine, a valuable strategy of health, as its focus, this dissertation
examines why and how New Yorkers use food to negotiate their health. I argue that while …