Full Description
The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of culture, community, and identity—so how do applied social scientists use complicated, fluid new ideas such as translocality and ethnoscape to solve pressing human problems? In this book, leading scholar/practitioners survey the development of different subfields over at least two decades, then offer concrete case studies to show how they have incorporated and refined new concepts and methods. After an introduction synthesizing anthropological practice, key theoretical concepts, and ethnographic methods, chapters examine the arenas of public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare. An innovative guide to joining dynamic theoretical concepts with on-the-ground problem solving, this book will be of interest to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines who work on social change, as well as an excellent addition to graduate and undergraduate courses.
Contents
Introduction, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson, Mary Odell Butler, Christina Wasson; Chapter 1 Global Localities and the Management of Infectious Disease, Mary Odell Butler; Chapter 2 Engendering Transport: Mapping Women and Men on the Move, Mari H. Clarke; Chapter 3 Housing Interests: Developing Community in a Globalizing City, Jacqueline Copeland-Carson; Chapter 4 Policy, Applied Feminist Anthropological Practice, and the Traffic in Women, Susan Dewey; Chapter 5 Global Climate Change from the Bottom Up, Shirley J. Fiske; Chapter 6 Aging and Transnational Immigration, Madelyn Iris; Chapter 7 Defining Family: Anthropological Contributions to Practice and Policy in Child Welfare, Susan Racine Passmore; Chapter 8 From Internationalism to Systemic Globalism in Health Leadership Training, Eve C. Pinsker; Chapter 9 Localizing the Global in Technology Design, Christina Wasson, Susan Squires; concl Conclusion, Jean J. Schensul, Mary Odell Butler;
