August 23-25, 2017
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Conference Announcement and CFP: Contemporary Drug Problems
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SfAA Call for Papers: Drug, Food, Medicine
** CALL FOR PAPERS **
Drug, Food, Medicine: Emerging Topics in the Anthropology of Consumption
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting
Santa Fe, New Mexico (March 28-April 1, 2017)
What we put in our bodies reflects our ideas about not only who we are and where we come from, but also where we are, and where we wish to be. Our choices about what we put into our bodies may be shaped and supported or constrained by traditions (spiritual/religious, kin, culture) and new directions (fads/trends, social movements) as well as trails (how we move through the world). Traditions, trails, and new directions in consumption can be shaped and constrained by public policies, economic conditions, global markets, and our own changing ideas of what is good and appropriate to put in our bodies, or in the bodies of others. Changing ideas about consumable goods may also spur new directions in other domains of public life (public policies, social media). Places of access and consumption may become contested spaces within new ideological or economic regimes (smoke/vapefree spaces, food deserts). Institutions and practitioners may accommodate or resist innovations (medical cannabis). In this session we tap into ideas developed within the anthropology of consumption to consider what we put into our bodies; how we obtain those things; and how these consumption practices are interdependent within current ideas about food, medicine, markets, and bodies. Intersectional approaches are welcome.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
* Cannabis: a plant, a medicine, a drug of abuse
* Food access and disability
* Soda tax, race, and economic justice
* Smoking and vaping in public and private spaces
* Water rights in health and environmental justice
* Corner store & liquor stores in popular discourse and practice
To submit abstracts (rough draft is OK) please REPLY TO Juliet Lee (jlee@prev.org) by Oct. 10; panel will be submitted by Oct. 15. Note that authors will need to register before the panel can be submitted.
Mentoring at 2016 AAA
MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES AT 2016 AAA
A Co-sponsored Event of Society of Medical Anthropology (SMA) and Society of Psychological Anthropology (SPA)
An Evening SMA-SPA Speed-Mentoring Reception
Thursday, November 17, 7:45pm-10:00pm
Hors d’oeuvres provided, drinks available
Pairing faculty with up to 4 mentees
Mid-career and senior faculty as mentors & grad students, postdocs, recent grads, and junior faculty as mentees
Discuss field-specific research and methodology concerns, grant writing and publishing approaches, career trajectories, and more!
Sign up now! Limited spaces available. Any graduate student, recent grad, postdoc, or junior faculty attending the AAA conference may apply to meet with 3-4 mentors. The mentee will meet with each mentor for 15 minutes at an evening networking reception with the hope of benefiting from sage advice regarding their research and career paths. Mentees and mentors may also opt to enter into longer-term mentoring.
For mentees: please submit a short paragraph that includes your name, institution, field specialty/interests, mentoring area of interest (e.g. grant writing, publishing), degree/post-doc program/position and SMA and/or SPA affiliation. Submissions are due to Tawni Tidwell (ttidwel@emory.edu) by October 1, 2016.
We also need mentors – mid-career and senior faculty, and professional members of SMA and/or SPA. Please indicate your willingness to be a mentor in a short paragraph to include your name, department and institution, main focus in medical and/or psychological anthropology, mentoring areas of expertise/interest (if different or in addition to field specialties), affiliation with SMA and/or SPA, and willingness to be contacted for continued mentorship by mentees after the event. Please send your information to Tawni Tidwell (ttidwel@emory.edu) by October 1, 2016. We will do our best to match up mentees and mentors with similar interests.
EXTENDED DEADLINE – ADTSG 2016 Graduate Student Paper Prize
** EXTENDED DEADLINE OF SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 **
The Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) of the Society for Medical Anthropology invites submissions for the best graduate student paper in the anthropology of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, or other psychoactive substance use. A committee of ADTSG members will judge qualifying submissions. The author of the winning paper will receive a cash award of $100, and her or his name will be announced in Anthropology News and at the Society for Medical Anthropology awards ceremony at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November. Submissions from all anthropological sub-disciplines are encouraged.
QUALIFYING CRITERIA
- No more than 9,000 words
- Must be based on original fieldwork and data
- Must have been written in the past 12 months
- Primary or first author must be a graduate student at time of submission
- May be unpublished or submitted for publication at the time of submission
JUDGING CRITERIA
- Originality of fieldwork and data
- Richness of substantive or evidentiary materials
- Clarity of anthropological methods
- Linkage of work to social science literature
- Effective use of theory and data
- Organization, quality of writing, and coherence of argument
SUBMISSION PROCESS
- Please do not include your name or any identifying information in the paper itself
- Papers must be double spaced and in PDF format (please include page numbers)
- References and in-text citations should be formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style
- Please submit via email to Shana Harris, Chair of ADTSG, at shana.harris@ucf.edu
- Submissions must be received by 5:00PM EST on September 15, 2016 for full consideration
Questions may be directed to Shana Harris at the above email address. We look forward to your submissions!
ADTSG 2016 Graduate Student Travel Award
The Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) of the Society for Medical Anthropology invites applications for a travel award to attend the 2016 AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. An award of $200 will be given to a graduate student presenting a paper at the conference that engages questions related to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, or other psychoactive substance use. The ADTSG Graduate Student Travel Award is awarded biennially on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised of ADTSG members.
QUALIFYING CRITERIA
- Applicant must be currently enrolled in a graduate program
- Applicant must be presenting a paper at the 2016 AAA Annual Meeting
- Applicant must be a member of the Society for Medical Anthropology (see http://americananthro.org for instructions on how to join)
SUBMISSION PROCESS
- Submit your paper abstract, university affiliation, graduate program (M.A. or Ph.D.) and contact information (no additional materials are required) to Shana Harris, Chair of ADTSG, at shana.harris@ucf.edu
- Applications must be received by 5:00PM EST on September 15, 2016 for full consideration
Questions may be directed to Shana Harris at the above email address. We look forward to your submissions!
ADTSG 2016 Graduate Student Paper Prize
The Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) of the Society for Medical Anthropology invites submissions for the best graduate student paper in the anthropology of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, or other psychoactive substance use. A committee of ADTSG members will judge qualifying submissions. The author of the winning paper will receive a cash award of $100, and her or his name will be announced in Anthropology News and at the Society for Medical Anthropology awards ceremony at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November. Submissions from all anthropological sub-disciplines are encouraged.
QUALIFYING CRITERIA
- No more than 9,000 words
- Must be based on original fieldwork and data
- Must have been written in the past 12 months
- Primary or first author must be a graduate student at time of submission
- May be unpublished or submitted for publication at the time of submission
JUDGING CRITERIA
- Originality of fieldwork and data
- Richness of substantive or evidentiary materials
- Clarity of anthropological methods
- Linkage of work to social science literature
- Effective use of theory and data
- Organization, quality of writing, and coherence of argument
SUBMISSION PROCESS
- Please do not include your name or any identifying information in the paper itself
- Papers must be double spaced and in PDF format (please include page numbers)
- References and in-text citations should be formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style
- Please submit via email to Shana Harris, Chair of ADTSG, at shana.harris@ucf.edu
- Submissions must be received by 5:00PM EST on September 1, 2016 for full consideration
Questions may be directed to Shana Harris at the above email address. We look forward to your submissions!
Join ADTSG on Facebook and Twitter!
As part of ADTSG’s continuing effort to facilitate conversation and information exchange between members and the general public, we have recently increased our social media presence on Facebook and Twitter. We have revitalized our Twitter account and started a new Facebook group thanks to our new Social Media Coordinator, Hilary Agro. We will continue to share news, announcements, articles, CFPs, and more through both of this venues as well as the group website.
If you are interested in joining us on either or both sites, you can access them at:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/1520777234890158
Twitter handle: @ADTstudygroup
Call for Special Issue Articles
The Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, a well-regarded peer review journal, is looking for contributions to a special issue on the use of ethnography in research related to substance abuse.
Submissions are anticipated to be about 5000 words. Please note that submissions should follow APA references, citations, and general style in accordance with the APA Publication Manual, 6th ed with citations in the text using author and date (Smith, 1983); and, as is common, bibliography is to at the end of the article and alphabetized.
If you are interested in submitting an article for this special issue, please contact Andrew J. Gordon at ajgordon@central.uh.edu or 713-524-1002.
CFP AAA 2016: Drugs, Coloniality, and Indigenous People
AAA 2016 Call for Papers
Drugs, Coloniality, and Indigenous People
Organizers: Juliana Willars (Texas State University) and Autumn Zellers León (Temple University)
When Europeans arrived in the New World, they encountered a vast array of psychoactive plants, such as coca, peyote, tobacco, and ayahuasca, which Indigenous people had been using long before colonization. While settler colonialism led to displacement and genocide of Indigenous communities, the integration of some of these plants and their derivatives into the global market created new paradigms of psychoactive use unprecedented in human history. Setting these historical realities alongside each other, we seek to analyze how Indigenous people in the Americas and throughout the world are uniquely impacted by drug markets and drug policy. We ask: How has the drug economy affected Indigenous people, and how have they responded? How are Indigenous people creating new ways of understanding, using, and producing psychoactive substances? How are Indigenous people positioned in the rapidly changing regime of drug policy throughout the world, and how might our analyses help to shape that engagement? We welcome papers that address themes that include, but are not limited to:
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alcohol, tobacco and drug use in Indigenous communities
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addiction, prevention, and treatment in Indigenous communities
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drug production in Indigenous territories
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changing ritual practices
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extraction of Indigenous plant knowledge
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histories of anthropologists studying indigenous psychoactive use
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Indigenous incarceration for drug crimes
If interested, please send inquiries or a 250-word abstract to azellers@temple.edu and illumin8v@gmail.com by Wednesday, March 30, 2016.
AAA CFP: (Re)Discovering Psychedelics in the 21st Century
** CALL FOR PAPERS **
Panel at 2016 AAA Conference — November 16-20 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Re)Discovering Psychedelics in the 21st Century
Organizers: Shana Harris (University of Central Florida) and Hilary Agro (University of Western Ontario)
Contact Information: Shana Harris (shana.harris@ucf.edu) and Hilary Agro (hagro@uwo.ca)
For much of the 20th century, legal and institutional restrictions seriously hindered the study of psychedelic plants and drugs around the world. Some of these controls have eased over the last decade, leading to new and renewed interest in psychedelics within academic, medical, and scientific communities. With a growing number of researchers examining the different dimensions and uses of these substances, we are currently witnessing what many call a “psychedelic renaissance.” This resurgence in psychedelic research has not gone unnoticed within anthropology, as the study of psychedelics within the field has increased in recent years. Whether it is the ceremonial use of peyote in the Native American Church, or ayahuasca tourism in the Peruvian Amazon, or the advancement of psychedelic science in Europe, anthropologists are making important contributions to the understanding of policies, practices, socialities, experiences, and knowledges associated with psychedelics in the 21st century.
The (re)discovery of psychedelics raises interesting questions and poses unique challenges for anthropologists who study such substances. This is particularly the case given the fact that many psychedelics such as peyote, ayahuasca, and LSD have been popularized among Western audiences. As such, this panel explores why psychedelics are worthy of anthropological study, and asks the following questions: Why should we as anthropologists care about psychedelics? Is there a “true” or more “valid” form of psychedelic use that merits our analytical attention? Is the use of psychedelics about pleasure, healing, spirituality, productivity, or illegality? How and by whom are psychedelics and their use “validated” since the frame in which we consider drugs is constantly changing? Panelists will cover such topics as the role of LSD in the Canadian electronic dance music scene, the use of ibogaine to treat drug addiction in Mexico, and the utilization of ayahuasca within Santo Daime ritual contexts in order to address these and related questions and concerns.
We invite abstracts for papers that ethnographically examine psychedelics in clinical, recreational, spiritual/religious, scientific, or other contexts. Please submit an abstract (250 words max.) to both panel organizers, Shana Harris and Hilary Agro, by SUNDAY, APRIL 3, for consideration.