A5059239424- Cuban History and Society
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
- Global Trade and Competitiveness
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Global trade and economics
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Cancer Risks and Factors
Princeton University
2021-2023
University of California, San Diego
2017-2021
University of San Diego
2020
Rochester Institute of Technology
2019
Kaiser Permanente
2017
University of California System
2017
University of California, Los Angeles
2009-2014
UCLA Health
2014
University of Illinois Chicago
2012
Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture
2004
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine COVID era. As group diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior scholars, we developed methodology critically reflect on our positions in institutions social worlds. method, emphasizes dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws individual daily lives make sense sociopolitical dynamics, relational character research across people practices. Taking aspects knowledge...
Cuba has had a nationalized food rationing system since 1962, and been lauded for exemplary security innovations in the face of national financial hardship. Decreases agricultural related importations after collapse Soviet Union 1990 limited amount provided monthly rations, forcing individuals to acquire increasing amounts their through other means. This article reveals complexities Cubans when attempting access foods Santiago de Cuba. project examines how experience system, struggles...
Resumen A medida que el sistema alimentario cubano contemporáneo cambia, los consumidores domésticos necesitan ajustar sus hábitos diarios de consumo alimentario. En este artículo demuestro las maneras en cubanos usan la categoría “comida decente” para mantener límites alimentos “reales”. Introduzco “dignidad alimentaria” como una estructura entender por qué consideran ciertas prácticas decentes, llamando a otros “no reales”. La noción dignidad alimentaria es forma dar un significado social...
While many Cubans of all racialized identities often insist that there is no race or racism in Cuba, they still experience ongoing forms prejudice and discrimination. This article analyzes the translocal processes through which logics racialization circulate contemporary Cuba. Based on long-term ethnographic research Santiago de known as Cuba’s Blackest City, I analyze local construct level culture central to Santiago. trace Cubans’ experiences from Havana United States, connecting their...
Graduate medical education (GME) programs must develop curriculum to ensure scholarly activity among trainees and faculty meet accreditation requirements support evidence-based medicine.Test whether research-related needs interests varied across four groups: primary care trainees, specialty faculty, faculty.We surveyed a random sample of in Kaiser Permanente Southern California's GME programs. We investigated group differences outcomes using Fisher exact Kruskal-Wallis tests.Research...
ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that the temporal experience of contemporary Cuba must be understood as co‐constituted in both struggles daily life and cycles celebration. As socialist welfare state has tried to maintain quality post‐Soviet Cuba, work acquiring basic goods services increasingly become a struggle ( una lucha ). Yet, while everyday is experienced struggle, Cubans are often seen reveling joyous celebration at parties or annual festivals. Rather than view these events...
The Lancet Commissions are widely known as aspirational pieces, providing the mechanisms for consortia and networks of researchers to organize, collate, interrogate publish around a range subjects. Although predominantly led by biomedical scientists cognate public health professionals, many address social science questions involve expertise. Medical anthropologist David Napier was lead author Commission on Culture Health (2014), example, all commissions global...
This article illustrates the ways communities maintain and adjust boundaries of local cuisine as food systems change. Focusing on contemporary Cuban household cooking practices, I reveal importance cookbooks television in helping cooks to system changes. Through her show, Nitza Villapol, a famous chef, played significant role demonstrating how cook with drastically restricted set ingredients during after economic crisis 1990s. Her work aided Cubans making adaptations without completely...
Using a Black feminist embodied approach, this article analyzes the ways in which people Santiago de Cuba draw on their own practices, sensory experiences, and popular knowledge to determine what forms of ingestion (food, drink, etc.) are good for body. Influenced by historical ideals food consumption colonial entanglements, Cubans use combination gleaned from biomedicine, official nutrition guidelines, humoral medicine, not always agreement, ensure that they taking care bodies...
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution be articulating duo-ethnography an feminist that allows for mutual exploration difference...
Abstract 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 multinational organizations corporations. These programs critiqued for causing environmental degradation, undermining local economies production systems, failing account historically culturally relevant preferences. Food sovereignty has introduced as an alternative approach security; it is focused needs...