Anthropology and Policy Analysis

Geilhufe, Nancy

doi:10.1086/202326

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“…2. Some key works in the anthropology of policy informing our analysis include Geilhufe (1979); Cochrane (1980);Hinshaw (1980); Wright and Shore (1995); Wright (1996, 1997 …”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wine Tourism in the Temecula Valley: Neoliberal Development Policies and Their Contradictions

Yelvington¹,

Simms²,

Murray³

2012

Anthropology in Action

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Wine tourism is a growing phenomenon, with tourists enjoying not only wine but a rural lifestyle that is associated with winegrowing areas and the elusive essence of terroir. The Temecula Valley in southern California, a small wine-producing region and wine tourism destination, is experiencing state-led plans for a vast expansion of production and tourism capacity. This article traces the challenges inherent in this development process, and questions the sustainability of such plans regarding the very environment the wine tourists seek out, especially regarding the availability of natural resources, mainly water, needed to fulfi l these plans. The article concludes with a call for an applied anthropology of policy that is centred on the articulations of the state and neoliberal capitalism.

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“…2. Some key works in the anthropology of policy informing our analysis include Geilhufe (1979); Cochrane (1980);Hinshaw (1980); Wright and Shore (1995); Wright (1996, 1997 …”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wine Tourism in the Temecula Valley: Neoliberal Development Policies and Their Contradictions

Yelvington¹,

Simms²,

Murray³

2012

Anthropology in Action

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“…The discipline is seeking greater recognition in the public domain, a response resulting from complaints in the profession that anthropological knowledge rarely finds itself in or is rarely visible in public discourse. The American Anthropological Association has encouraged its members to become significantly more involved in influencing policy, policy analysis, and public policy, and in educating the public, emphasizing op-ed articles and journalism (Geilhufe, 1979;Fikry et al, 1980;Dyck & Waldram, 1993;Shore & Wright, 1997;Wedel et al, 2005;Bird, 2009Bird, , 2010Boyer, 2010;Peterson, 2010;Vesperi, 2010), although critiques of such moves are also heard (McKenna, 2009). One effort by the association produced a traveling award-winning exhibit, Race: Are We So Different?…”

Section: Critical Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Anthropology as Public Pedagogy: An Autobiographical Account

Beck

2011

Policy Futures in Education

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This autobiographical account provides a historical map of landmarks in the author's personal and professional life that led him to his present understanding of public anthropology as public pedagogy and vice versa. He indicates that his experiences led him to study sociocultural anthropology to investigate learning from experience, a foundational method in anthropology that this discipline describes as participant observation. While not completely rejecting participant observation, he asserts that objective and value-free anthropology is not viable, and hence an activist approach may not only support research agendas but also support the needs of the people and communities under study. He explains some of the issues that are related to making this approach work and the ethical elements involved in an approach that is mutually advantageous. As an anthropologist, he became more involved in the political engagement of the people who were the subjects of his investigation. His position is that at this time in human history anthropology must become more activist, given that the vulnerable of the world are subjected to conditions that are increasingly more exploitative and oppressive. Public pedagogy developed out of his research experiences, and as his activist orientation grew, he found that his anthropological engagement was also an in-context and in-process pedagogy. Not only was he teaching, but he was also learning dialogically, as Paulo Freire might do.

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“…Here, we are in dialog with work in the 'anthropology of policy' to consider and evaluate the Plan (e.g. Abram, 2003;Cochrane, 1980;Davis-Floyd, 2011;Geilhufe, 1979;Hinshaw, 1980;Okongwu & Mencher, 2000;Schwegler, 2008;Shore & Wright, 1996, 1997Shore, Wright, & Però, 2011;Wedel, Shore, Feldman, & Lathrop, 2005;Wright & Shore, 1995). We trace competing economic and political interests and differing social and ethical positions entailed in the Plan by placing policy -its evolution and functionas our unit of analysis.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%