Jennifer Jo Thompson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 630585 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jennifer Jo Thompson |
| NOMBRES | Jennifer Jo |
| APELLIDO | Thompson |
| FIRMA | THOMPSON J J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1785-9877 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Join Us for a Feast
This special issue raises a glass to 50 years of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). Founded in 1974 as the Committee for Nutritional Anthropology within the Society for Medical Anthropology, SAFN is today a Mid‐Size section of the American Anthropological Association. SAFN has long been a place where scholars from across the discipline come together around the shared recognition of the central importance of food and nu…
Sustainable futures
Purpose Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 aims to “ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.” Addressing the need for effective sustainability learning in higher education, this study explores the impact of an interdisciplinary, team-taught sustainability seminar at the University of Georgia (UGA). We examine its effect on students’ understanding of sustainability concepts and systems thinking acro…
We live in an agricultural death zone
Since their peak in 1986, water levels in Great Salt Lake have steadily declined due to human consumptive overuse combined with increased evapotranspiration from rising temperatures associated with anthropogenic climate change. Agricultural activities, accounting for 67% of total water withdrawals, are central to any solutions aimed at restoring the lake. However, proposed solutions are often generated outside of agricultural circles, resulting i…
Layering” Co-Production for Authentic and Respectful Community Engagement
International audience
From awareness to action
In the United States, food system inequities are the result of generations of systematic disparities in social, political, and economic opportunity and are disproportionately borne by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The Food Scholars Project aims to expand equity in food systems education and leadership by building a resilient cross-institutional partnership between faculty and students at the University of Georgia (UGA, a predominantly W…
Designing research collaboratively
International audience
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)
From program to classroom
Garden-based learning, a key component of Farm to School (FTS), continues to grow in popularity as a tool for engaging students in hands-on learning. Recent literature calls for professional development to help educators overcome barriers—including a lack of horticulture skills, curricular connections, and time—that often hinder program success and sustainability. This study sought to understand the role of professional development and its abilit…
Embracing Disconcertment
The digitisation of agriculture is underway-with advocates highlighting its potential to improve resource efficiency and reduce environmental impacts of agriculture, and critics suggesting that emerging technology will exacerbate inequalities in the food system. Drawing on five years of collaboration within an interdisciplinary sustainable agriculture project, I critically consider the limitations of on-farm research as a strategy for rendering '…
Goats in Schools
Animal interactions can provide numerous benefits for child development and education. In the United States, goats are increasingly used in urban farm to school (FTS) programs to enhance children's learning and outdoor experiences. This study examined parents' attitudes toward the presence of goats in a middle school FTS program and in their residential community, and the perceived effects of goat experiences for their children. Parents' observat…
How the collaborative work of farm to school can disrupt neoliberalism in public schools
An Extension Specialist's Reflections from the Field
Although consumer demand for local and organic food continues to grow, some direct market outlets have tightened. In response, small and mid‐acreage farmers are beginning to consider the value of shifting from the direct marketing of hundreds of varieties for farmers markets or community supported agriculture to growing fewer crops for sale in a wholesale market. We report on one field study of a simplified crop rotation indicating that regionall…
Confronting the Goldilocks Problem
Globally, and in the U.S., agricultural and food systems are increasingly bifurcated into large and small-scale operations. Our ethnographic work indicates that there is a great deal of creativity and innovation between these poles, but this is largely being overlooked in agricultural research and policy where "the middle" is largely subject to erasure. Although constructs of scale are ideological in nature, they have material impacts across acto…
An Introduction
You can’t manage with your heart”
Critical Anthropology of Global Health “Takes a Stand” Statement
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010—the U.S.'s first major health care reform in over half a century—has sparked new debates in the United States about individual responsibility, the collective good, and the social contract. Although the ACA aims to reduce the number of the uninsured through the simultaneous expansion of the private insurance industry and government‐funded Medicaid, critics charge it merely expands rather than reforms the exist…
Is There a Role for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Preventive and Promotive Health? An Anthropological Assessment in the Context of U.S. Health Reform
Chronic conditions associated with lifestyle and modifiable behaviors are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act offers an historic opportunity to consider novel approaches to addressing the nation's public health concerns. We adopt an anticipatory anthropological perspective to consider lifestyle behavior change as common ground shared by practitioners of both biomedicine…
Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
For my wellness, not just my illness
Critical Anthropology of Global Health “Takes a Stand” Statement
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010—the U.S.'s first major health care reform in over half a century—has sparked new debates in the United States about individual responsibility, the collective good, and the social contract. Although the ACA aims to reduce the number of the uninsured through the simultaneous expansion of the private insurance industry and government‐funded Medicaid, critics charge it merely expands rather than reforms the exist…
Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
Confronting the Goldilocks Problem
Globally, and in the U.S., agricultural and food systems are increasingly bifurcated into large and small-scale operations. Our ethnographic work indicates that there is a great deal of creativity and innovation between these poles, but this is largely being overlooked in agricultural research and policy where "the middle" is largely subject to erasure. Although constructs of scale are ideological in nature, they have material impacts across acto…
You can’t manage with your heart”
An Extension Specialist's Reflections from the Field
Although consumer demand for local and organic food continues to grow, some direct market outlets have tightened. In response, small and mid‐acreage farmers are beginning to consider the value of shifting from the direct marketing of hundreds of varieties for farmers markets or community supported agriculture to growing fewer crops for sale in a wholesale market. We report on one field study of a simplified crop rotation indicating that regionall…
Is There a Role for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Preventive and Promotive Health? An Anthropological Assessment in the Context of U.S. Health Reform
Chronic conditions associated with lifestyle and modifiable behaviors are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act offers an historic opportunity to consider novel approaches to addressing the nation's public health concerns. We adopt an anticipatory anthropological perspective to consider lifestyle behavior change as common ground shared by practitioners of both biomedicine…
How the collaborative work of farm to school can disrupt neoliberalism in public schools
An Introduction
Designing research collaboratively
International audience
Goats in Schools
Animal interactions can provide numerous benefits for child development and education. In the United States, goats are increasingly used in urban farm to school (FTS) programs to enhance children's learning and outdoor experiences. This study examined parents' attitudes toward the presence of goats in a middle school FTS program and in their residential community, and the perceived effects of goat experiences for their children. Parents' observat…
For my wellness, not just my illness
Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
Critical Anthropology of Global Health “Takes a Stand” Statement
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010—the U.S.'s first major health care reform in over half a century—has sparked new debates in the United States about individual responsibility, the collective good, and the social contract. Although the ACA aims to reduce the number of the uninsured through the simultaneous expansion of the private insurance industry and government‐funded Medicaid, critics charge it merely expands rather than reforms the exist…
Is There a Role for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Preventive and Promotive Health? An Anthropological Assessment in the Context of U.S. Health Reform
Chronic conditions associated with lifestyle and modifiable behaviors are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act offers an historic opportunity to consider novel approaches to addressing the nation's public health concerns. We adopt an anticipatory anthropological perspective to consider lifestyle behavior change as common ground shared by practitioners of both biomedicine…
You can’t manage with your heart”
An Extension Specialist's Reflections from the Field
Although consumer demand for local and organic food continues to grow, some direct market outlets have tightened. In response, small and mid‐acreage farmers are beginning to consider the value of shifting from the direct marketing of hundreds of varieties for farmers markets or community supported agriculture to growing fewer crops for sale in a wholesale market. We report on one field study of a simplified crop rotation indicating that regionall…
Confronting the Goldilocks Problem
Globally, and in the U.S., agricultural and food systems are increasingly bifurcated into large and small-scale operations. Our ethnographic work indicates that there is a great deal of creativity and innovation between these poles, but this is largely being overlooked in agricultural research and policy where "the middle" is largely subject to erasure. Although constructs of scale are ideological in nature, they have material impacts across acto…
An Introduction
How the collaborative work of farm to school can disrupt neoliberalism in public schools
Goats in Schools
Animal interactions can provide numerous benefits for child development and education. In the United States, goats are increasingly used in urban farm to school (FTS) programs to enhance children's learning and outdoor experiences. This study examined parents' attitudes toward the presence of goats in a middle school FTS program and in their residential community, and the perceived effects of goat experiences for their children. Parents' observat…
Embracing Disconcertment
The digitisation of agriculture is underway-with advocates highlighting its potential to improve resource efficiency and reduce environmental impacts of agriculture, and critics suggesting that emerging technology will exacerbate inequalities in the food system. Drawing on five years of collaboration within an interdisciplinary sustainable agriculture project, I critically consider the limitations of on-farm research as a strategy for rendering '…
Chemical, ecological, other? Identifying weed management typologies within industrialized cropping systems in Georgia (U.S.)
From program to classroom
Garden-based learning, a key component of Farm to School (FTS), continues to grow in popularity as a tool for engaging students in hands-on learning. Recent literature calls for professional development to help educators overcome barriers—including a lack of horticulture skills, curricular connections, and time—that often hinder program success and sustainability. This study sought to understand the role of professional development and its abilit…
Layering” Co-Production for Authentic and Respectful Community Engagement
International audience
From awareness to action
In the United States, food system inequities are the result of generations of systematic disparities in social, political, and economic opportunity and are disproportionately borne by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The Food Scholars Project aims to expand equity in food systems education and leadership by building a resilient cross-institutional partnership between faculty and students at the University of Georgia (UGA, a predominantly W…
Designing research collaboratively
International audience
Join Us for a Feast
This special issue raises a glass to 50 years of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). Founded in 1974 as the Committee for Nutritional Anthropology within the Society for Medical Anthropology, SAFN is today a Mid‐Size section of the American Anthropological Association. SAFN has long been a place where scholars from across the discipline come together around the shared recognition of the central importance of food and nu…
Sustainable futures
Purpose Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 aims to “ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.” Addressing the need for effective sustainability learning in higher education, this study explores the impact of an interdisciplinary, team-taught sustainability seminar at the University of Georgia (UGA). We examine its effect on students’ understanding of sustainability concepts and systems thinking acro…
We live in an agricultural death zone
Since their peak in 1986, water levels in Great Salt Lake have steadily declined due to human consumptive overuse combined with increased evapotranspiration from rising temperatures associated with anthropogenic climate change. Agricultural activities, accounting for 67% of total water withdrawals, are central to any solutions aimed at restoring the lake. However, proposed solutions are often generated outside of agricultural circles, resulting i…
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