1st Edition
Anthropology and Activism New Contexts, New Conversations
Introduction: Doing Good Anthropology
Anna J. Willow and Kelly A. Yotebieng
Part One: Anthropology OF Activism
1. Environmental Justice in White Working-Class Communities: A Chemo-Social Perspective
Richard Bargielski
2. GMO-Free Activism in Rural Southern Oregon: Motivations, Ideologies, and Values
Rebecka Daye
3. Social Justice, Trauma-Informed Care, and "Liberation Acupuncture": Exploring the Activism of the Peoples Organization of Community Acupuncture
Suzanne Morrissey and Olivia Hagmann
4. Engaged Ethnography in a Resident-Activist Environmental Justice Community
Michael Still
Comments on Anthropology OF Activism
Dana E. Powell
Part Two: Anthropology AS Activism
5. All I Can Do: Why Activists (and Anthropologists) Act
Anna J. Willow
6. In Our Own Backyard: Navigating Research and Activism in Southeast Florida
Eileen Smith-Cavros and Patricia Widener
7. "I’d Never Thought about This Before": Anthropology of Cross-Disability Activism as Activism
Sarah Elizabeth Morrow, Elizabeth A. Winter, and Jodi A. Allison
8. "You Must Tell Our Stories!": Moving Toward Applied Anthropology and Beyond in the Groningen Gas Field
Elisabeth N. Moolenaar
Comments on Anthropology AS Activism
Barbara Rose Johnston
Part Three: Anthropology AND Activism
9. We are Tired of Telling Our Stories: Finding Our "Situated Usefulness" Through Activism in Anthropology
Kelly A. Yotebieng
10. Anthropology and Conflict Transformation: Promises and Dilemmas of Worldview Translation
Brenda Fitzpatrick
11. Challenges of "Communiversity" Organizing in Trumplandia
Mark Schuller
12. Academic and Activist Collaboration in Turbulent Times: Responding to Immigrant Policing in Central Florida
Nolan Kline, Mary Vickers, Jeannie Economos, and Chris Furino
Comments on Anthropology AND Activism
Shirley J. Fiske
Afterword
Stephen L. Schensul
Biography
Anna J. Willow is a Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University, USA. Her recent books include ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures (2017, co-edited with Kirk Jalbert, David Casagrande, and Stephanie Paladino) and Understanding ExtrACTIVISM: Culture and Power in Natural Resource Disputes (2018).
Kelly A. Yotebieng completed her PhD in the Ohio State University’s Department of Anthropology. She currently consults full-time with the World Bank and various UN agencies.
