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*(N.B. in case of interest please DO NOT REPLY to this email, but contact
the roundtable organizers Fayana Richards and Valoree Gagnon directly!)*
*‘Studying through’ in Anthropology Roundtable: Tips, Tools, and Strategies
for Emerging Policy Scholars*
Originating from the 2014 AAA meeting in Washington, DC, this roundtable
addresses the need for collaboration and discussion among emerging policy
scholars. Specifically, this roundtable will consider the methodological,
practical, and ethical components of conducting anthropological policy
research. Essential to policy investigations, our dialogue will highlight
both the familiar and strange facets of doing multi-sited ethnography.
Within this discipline, scholars have employed concepts, such as ‘studying
through’, which follow the policy and its processes—from actors engaged in
the policy cycle to those in the public for which they intend to influence
(Wright and Reinhold 2011). With particular attention to the dynamics of
(unequal) power and knowledge, this approach gives priority to the
conflicting narratives produced by policy. Anthropologists have explored
the role of policy in multiple contexts: disaster recovery efforts, human
health interventions, immigration and migrants, land use and development,
financial sectors, education and outreach, natural resource management,
environment and energy.
This roundtable invites advanced graduate students and emerging scholars to
share methodological insights with ‘studying through’ the policy process,
including tips, tools, and strategies while engaged in the field. The
objectives of this roundtable are to identify practical recommendations for
emerging scholars, discuss common ethical dilemmas, and to establish an
emerging policy scholar network for future collaborations. In addition to
providing a brief overview of their research, roundtable participants will
address the following questions: How did you make key contacts and
cultivate relationships while in the field? What particular strategies
worked for you and what did not? How did you manage (or muddle through)
with unexpected circumstances and/or events that impacted the nature of
your research? What are common misconceptions students have regarding
conducting research on the policy process? What advice do you have for
students interested in engaging in anthropological policy research? In
addition to engaged dialogue between panelists and the audience, audience
participants will be provided with an anthropology of policy bibliography
assembled by roundtable panelists. As an important conversation needed to
support policy scholars in all stages of their research, this roundtable
seeks to stimulate discussions on policy process research with an emphasis
on conceptualizing diverse research topics across multiple field sites.
We welcome submissions from advanced graduate students and post-docs. If
interested, please submit a proposal title, an abstract up to 250 words,
full name, and affiliation to [log in to unmask]> (Fayana Richards) and
[log in to unmask] (Valoree Gagnon) by Friday, April 10th.
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