A5015626241- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Latin American history and culture
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
- Water resources management and optimization
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Community Health and Development
- Art Education and Development
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education
- Seed Germination and Physiology
- Adult and Continuing Education Topics
Northern Arizona University
2023-2025
Michigan State University
2015-2023
University of Arizona
2009-2014
This piece illustrates ways in which anthropologists can directly engage with water policy and management by offering two short examples from my research the semi-arid Southwestern United States water-rich Chilean Patagonia. It also reflects on some of skills that during career have made such engagement most productive offers insights for student training.
Water-related struggles worldwide may not involve armed conflict or direct bodily harm, but they are still violent in nature. Over the past century Yaqui Tribe has continually contested water development plans and challenged distribution schemes, seeking to regain control over its livelihoods production of space ancestral homeland. In Mexican state Sonora we currently witnessing a new chapter saga around access River valley. fighting proposed construction Independencia Aqueduct, intended...
This article contributes to the urban political ecology of water through applied anthropological research methods and praxis. Drawing on two case studies in Sonora, Mexico, we contribute critical infrastructure by focusing large infrastructural systems decentralized alternatives sanitation provisioning. We reflect engaging with residents living marginal hillsides rapidly urbanizing desert cities using ethnographic methods. In capital city Hermosillo, Radonic emphasizes how collaborative...
Across the world, desalinization, wastewater recycling, and rainwater collection are just a few of new technological social processes transforming human–water relations in urban areas. Although is an ancient technology, I argue that its formalization as water conservation technology American cities brings into being novel resources subjectivities. By analyzing implementation systems Tucson, Arizona, explore how precipitation residents become internally related through their situated...
Academic calendars and university timelines set an urgent pace for researchers, which can hinder the establishment of long-term community partnerships. Given community-based participatory research’s (CBPR) emphasis on community-led research, time constraints inhibit academic researchers’ commitments to collaborative methodologies research. This article considers how CBPR be adapted shorter-term engagements while still producing mutually beneficial In doing so, we contribute existing corpus...
Urban agriculture is an important neighborhood revitalization strategy in the U.S. Rust Belt, where deindustrialization has left blighted and vacant land urban core. Immigrants refugees represent a growing stakeholder group agriculture, including community gardens across Belt Midwest. Community provide host of social economic benefits to landscapes, increased access culturally appropriate food medicinal plants for refugee immigrant growers. Our work Lansing, Michigan was part collaboration...
Municipalities, their utilities and resource managers are designing implementing policies programs toward climate adaptation, which means governing urban water resources differently. Urban thus expanding roles responsibilities through the installation maintenance of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) systems. This system expansion is perhaps more striking for administering GSI-related because they acquire a role that has an impact on how residents neighborhoods will differentially...
Implementation and formalization of green infrastructure across the United States is growing. While anthropological research on water expanding, to date, little this work emphasizes development methods for analyzing uptake decentralized infrastructures management. This article has two objectives. First, I outline a cultural model rainwater harvesting account more nuanced aspects leading in policy practice Tucson, Arizona. Second, expand repertoire available anthropologists by offering some...
Water utilities are incentivizing residential water conservation and incorporating alternative sources, such as rainwater. How do past relationships with state institutions their infrastructures impact present engagements state-sponsored rainwater collection? does the formalization of harvesting a strategy account for or discount practices values low-income Hispanic residents? Mixed methods data from southern Arizona show that collectively, participants had collection expertise often born...
Anthropologists are moving away from viewing anthropology as a solitary affair towards collaborative research, which values knowledge co-production with community members research design to data analysis and write-up. By including the people who know most about field site, participatory seeks confront power imbalances advance social change. Building capacity of students fully engage partners is critical requires hands-on training methods that promote participation. Yet, issues such time...
It is imperative for anthropology Ph.D. programs to equip students with essential research skills applicable both academic and non-academic careers. Here we highlight the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP), a 3-week intensive training initiative aimed at enhancing students' preparedness as professionals. The program integrates methodological instruction personalized mentorship guide in refining their proposals. Through systematic 4-step approach, learn identify project goals,...
Over the past decade, floods have increased in frequency and intensity, a trend that is expected to intensify over next twenty-five years. This article addresses an underexamined tension floodplain governance: how policy instrument designed mitigate flood hazards urban neighborhoods also has potential drive changes may lead environmental gentrification. Through survey interview data concentrated economically depressed neighborhood Lansing, Michigan, we explore residents perceive their own...
A critical interest of applied anthropology is to educate students be theoretically grounded and capable assuming a level social responsibility that extends beyond academia. In this paper, we reflect on the issue student preparation for work in policy arena by focusing experiences five-year research project examines agricultural cooperatives as situated agents change grassroots development. The has completed three field seasons Brazil Paraguay which researchers, including graduate from...
This article explores how teaching Urban Anthropology can engender new relationships between cities, students, and classrooms. We discuss the generative connections these actors as processes of becoming, which connect students with practices theories for understanding urban life. Serving also an introduction to a Special Issue on "Teaching City," this introduces issue's pieces, learning across three continents. It reflects their collective contributions opportunity think anew about city...
The Mototícachi Massacre:Authorized Pimas and the Specter of Insurrectionary Indian Lucero Radonic (bio) On July 29, 1688, Pima ranchería went up in flames. All its residents—without regard to age or gender—were seized shackled by a group soldiers from Sinaloa presidio. prisoners were taken nearby Bacoachi, where forty-two men killed rest transferred as war. burning, imprisonment, subsequent executions all ordered Nicolás de Higuera, young corporal presidio charged with protecting Teuricachi...
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