Moving Targets: Adapting to New Intersections, Methods, and Mobile Populations in Ethnographic Research - Mosher

Moving Targets: Adapting to New Intersections, Methods, and Mobile Populations in Ethnographic Research

 

CHAIR: FOX, Katherine (SMU)

 

ARCHER, Sarah (SMU) Hunting Ghosts: Using GIS to Track Rapid Population Movement in a Chinese Ghost City FOX, Katherine (SMU) Who Am I Today?: Disparate Intersections of Queer and Immigrant Identities in the San Francisco Bay Area MOSHER, Sara L. (SMU) The Syrians Are Coming!: Media Representation and Local Attitudes toward Refugee Resettlement PERKINS, Carrie (SMU) The Road to Resettlement: Transitions from the Thai-Burma border to Dallas, Texas WONDRACK, Jordan (SMU) Unexpected “Othering”: Ethnopsychiatry and Cultural Expertise

 

MOSHER, Heather, JORDAN, Dan, MORALES, Zulynette, and SCHENSUL, Jean (ICR) Youth RxeACTION: A Participatory Video Action Research Project. Facilitated by ICR researchers, high school students in West Hartford, Connecticut, used participatory video (PV) and participatory action research to understand and design a prevention campaign to reduce teen substance use. Youth researchers conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with peers to understand teen alcohol use and prescription drug misuse among peers at their schools. The youth researchers used PV to disseminate findings in scripted stories to increase reach and engage their peers in substance use prevention. Evaluation findings showed a reduction in 30 day alcohol use among West Hartford high school students over the four year period of the campaign.

 

Session took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2016.