Megan A Carney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 87891 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Megan A Carney |
| NOMBRES | Megan A |
| APELLIDO | Carney |
| FIRMA | CARNEY M A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9540-7118 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Fieldwork in transition
Drawing on preliminary research in Italy in the months following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the gradual lifting of pandemic‐related public health measures, this essay explores the widespread economic, political, and environmental anxieties as well as calls for solidarity that were circulating at this time and their implications for ethnographers in attempting to “make sense” of sociocultural phenomena in a world that feels “unhinged.” From …
"Il gioco" as collaborative method
What transformative potential might reside in play as a collaborative method, particularly in contexts of migration and with populations of marginalized youth? In this paper, we explore play "in anthropology and as anthropology" while drawing from our collective experiences with collaborative research through a Palermo-based participatory film and storytelling lab that foregrounds "il gioco" (play). We discuss the lab's approach to play as a coll…
Black-Led Community Health Initiatives
A million other factors killing us
Duo-ethnographic Methods
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used to explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender in academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution to be articulating duo-ethnography as …
Whiteness and settler colonial logics in the Pacific Northwest hops and craft beer industries
The rapidly expanding Pacific Northwest (PNW) craft beer industry and the heralding of Seattle as an epicenter of “hoppy beer” has benefited from geographic proximity to the Yakima Valley, revered by many as the “hops capital of world.” In this article, I center theory from Black studies, Native studies, and critical whiteness studies to examine the intersectional violences of settler colonialism and whiteness as structuring logics of the PNW hop…
There Would Be More Black Spaces
Black geographies, Black feminist anthropology, and related fields have provided substantial evidence attesting to the effects of racially violent spatial practices such as dispossession, racial segregation, mass incarceration, and redlining for the health outcomes and life chances of Black communities and other racialized groups, and conversely, the political and healing potential of placemaking projects. We foreground theory from Black geograph…
Island of Hope
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous, maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergen…
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being
Anthropological approaches to "immigrant mental health" as an object of ethnographic inquiry can illuminate how psychosocial well-being - or decline - and the therapeutic realm of mental health is always enacted by a variety of institutions and social actors. The ways that mental health is understood and approached across different geographical and social settings are constitutive of a range of cultural meanings, norms, and social relations. The …
Centering Black Food Cultures in Anthropology and Beyond
Immigration/migration and healthy publics
Global climate change and the continued neoliberalization of food systems have exacerbated levels of food insecurity and hunger, producing an ever-expanding population of displaced persons who are also nutritionally vulnerable. Restrictive immigration policies in post-arrival and resettlement contexts compound with other cultural, social, political, and economic conditions to negatively affect the food security and health of displaced persons. Th…
Life on the Other Border
Reviewed by: Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont by Teresa M. Mares Megan A. Carney Teresa M. Mares, Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 240 pp. Anthropologists are increasingly studying the ways that food systems intersect with patterns of human migration. Across sub-fields, such as the anthropology of food and nutrition and medical anthro…
Critical Perspectives on the Microbiome
Chronic Disaster
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Refugee and Migration Studies
We reflect on the experience of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between scholars in the fields of geography, anthropology, communication, and information studies, and suggest paths for future research on sanctuary and migration studies that are based on interdisciplinary approaches. After situating sanctuary in a wider theoretical, historical, and global context, we discuss the origins and contemporary expressions of sanctuary both within and …
Back There We Had Nothing to Eat”
This article discusses migrant food insecurity in the United States from the perspective of Mexican and Central American migrant women. Many describe migrating because they had nothing to eat in their countries of origin. Migration is thus framed as a necessary strategy for overcoming food insecurity. I argue that these women's perspectives are unique in the migration literature because food security comprises a gendered labour from which men are…
Improving Policy to Address Migrant Health
Sharing One's Destiny
Ten years after the financial crisis
Demedicalizing Health
Attention to culinary care can enrich the framing of health within medical anthropology. We focus on care practices in six Latin American kitchens to illuminate forms of health not located within a singular human subject. In these kitchens, women cared not for individuals but for meals, targeting the health of families and landscapes. Many medical anthropologists have critiqued health for its associations with biomedicine/biocapitalism, some even…
Latino Im/migrants, “Dietary Health” and Social Exclusion
In this article, we highlight findings from ethnographic research on dietary health interventions with low-income Latino im/migrant populations in the Central Coast of California. We discuss the assumptions underpinning different models of nutrition intervention and education, as well as what these assumptions suggest about common perceptions of Latino im/migrant dietary health and knowledge. We demonstrate how interventions contribute to further…
Eating and Feeding at the Margins of the State
In this article, I examine the various meanings of Mexican and Central American migrant women's utilization of private food assistance programs. I present findings from 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2011 with migrant women, public health workers, and staff and volunteers of food assistance programs in Santa Barbara County, California. I discuss the barriers undocumented women face in accessing formal health care a…
Bad Biocitizens
For years now, the United States has faced an “obesity epidemic” that, according to the dominant narrative, is harming the nation by worsening the health burden, raising health costs, and undermining productivity. Much of the responsibility is laid at the foot of Blacks and Latinos, who have higher levels of obesity. Latinos have provoked particular concern because of their rising numbers. Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign is now targeting La…
The biopolitics of 'food insecurity
In this article, I utilize a political ecology of the body (PEB) approach to analyze women's transnational migration and their experiences with 'food insecurity.' I situate this analysis within a tradition of feminist political ecology, seeking to advance a 'postcolonial intersectionality' that is attentive to gender, race, and class as axes of power and difference, and also to markers of citizenship or lack thereof, including 'illegality.' I arg…
Compounding crises of economic recession and food insecurity
Demedicalizing Health
Attention to culinary care can enrich the framing of health within medical anthropology. We focus on care practices in six Latin American kitchens to illuminate forms of health not located within a singular human subject. In these kitchens, women cared not for individuals but for meals, targeting the health of families and landscapes. Many medical anthropologists have critiqued health for its associations with biomedicine/biocapitalism, some even…
Chronic Disaster
The biopolitics of 'food insecurity
In this article, I utilize a political ecology of the body (PEB) approach to analyze women's transnational migration and their experiences with 'food insecurity.' I situate this analysis within a tradition of feminist political ecology, seeking to advance a 'postcolonial intersectionality' that is attentive to gender, race, and class as axes of power and difference, and also to markers of citizenship or lack thereof, including 'illegality.' I arg…
Compounding crises of economic recession and food insecurity
Ten years after the financial crisis
Eating and Feeding at the Margins of the State
In this article, I examine the various meanings of Mexican and Central American migrant women's utilization of private food assistance programs. I present findings from 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2011 with migrant women, public health workers, and staff and volunteers of food assistance programs in Santa Barbara County, California. I discuss the barriers undocumented women face in accessing formal health care a…
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Refugee and Migration Studies
We reflect on the experience of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between scholars in the fields of geography, anthropology, communication, and information studies, and suggest paths for future research on sanctuary and migration studies that are based on interdisciplinary approaches. After situating sanctuary in a wider theoretical, historical, and global context, we discuss the origins and contemporary expressions of sanctuary both within and …
Latino Im/migrants, “Dietary Health” and Social Exclusion
In this article, we highlight findings from ethnographic research on dietary health interventions with low-income Latino im/migrant populations in the Central Coast of California. We discuss the assumptions underpinning different models of nutrition intervention and education, as well as what these assumptions suggest about common perceptions of Latino im/migrant dietary health and knowledge. We demonstrate how interventions contribute to further…
There Would Be More Black Spaces
Black geographies, Black feminist anthropology, and related fields have provided substantial evidence attesting to the effects of racially violent spatial practices such as dispossession, racial segregation, mass incarceration, and redlining for the health outcomes and life chances of Black communities and other racialized groups, and conversely, the political and healing potential of placemaking projects. We foreground theory from Black geograph…
Sharing One's Destiny
A million other factors killing us
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being
Anthropological approaches to "immigrant mental health" as an object of ethnographic inquiry can illuminate how psychosocial well-being - or decline - and the therapeutic realm of mental health is always enacted by a variety of institutions and social actors. The ways that mental health is understood and approached across different geographical and social settings are constitutive of a range of cultural meanings, norms, and social relations. The …
Back There We Had Nothing to Eat”
This article discusses migrant food insecurity in the United States from the perspective of Mexican and Central American migrant women. Many describe migrating because they had nothing to eat in their countries of origin. Migration is thus framed as a necessary strategy for overcoming food insecurity. I argue that these women's perspectives are unique in the migration literature because food security comprises a gendered labour from which men are…
"Il gioco" as collaborative method
What transformative potential might reside in play as a collaborative method, particularly in contexts of migration and with populations of marginalized youth? In this paper, we explore play "in anthropology and as anthropology" while drawing from our collective experiences with collaborative research through a Palermo-based participatory film and storytelling lab that foregrounds "il gioco" (play). We discuss the lab's approach to play as a coll…
Whiteness and settler colonial logics in the Pacific Northwest hops and craft beer industries
The rapidly expanding Pacific Northwest (PNW) craft beer industry and the heralding of Seattle as an epicenter of “hoppy beer” has benefited from geographic proximity to the Yakima Valley, revered by many as the “hops capital of world.” In this article, I center theory from Black studies, Native studies, and critical whiteness studies to examine the intersectional violences of settler colonialism and whiteness as structuring logics of the PNW hop…
Critical Perspectives on the Microbiome
La política exterior de una revolución
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine the COVID era. As a group of diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior feminist scholars, we developed a methodology to critically reflect on our positions in our institutions and social worlds. As a method, duoethnography emphasizes the dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws on individual daily lives to make sense o…
Creating a Forum
A few years ago, I was trying to find a contemporary function for the patuas ’ skill bank. The patuas of West Bengal are unique multimedia artists who paint narrative scrolls accompanied by sung poetry. Many of the patuas (pronounced poh-to-ah) live in Naya, a small village about 150 kilometers from Kolkata, India. As a folk arts curator based in Kolkata, I had a long working relationship with them, but in the year 2000 I could see signs that the…
Compounding crises of economic recession and food insecurity
The Food Sovereignty Prize
The rhetoric of "food security" has dominated mainstream approaches to global food insecurity while alternative approaches have received less attention. For decades, the World Food Prize has honored work in the tradition of "food security." More recently, the Food Sovereignty Prize has brought attention to alternative approaches, namely the "food sovereignty" approach. This article explores how the inaugural awarding of the Food Sovereignty Prize…
Bad Biocitizens
For years now, the United States has faced an “obesity epidemic” that, according to the dominant narrative, is harming the nation by worsening the health burden, raising health costs, and undermining productivity. Much of the responsibility is laid at the foot of Blacks and Latinos, who have higher levels of obesity. Latinos have provoked particular concern because of their rising numbers. Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign is now targeting La…
The biopolitics of 'food insecurity
In this article, I utilize a political ecology of the body (PEB) approach to analyze women's transnational migration and their experiences with 'food insecurity.' I situate this analysis within a tradition of feminist political ecology, seeking to advance a 'postcolonial intersectionality' that is attentive to gender, race, and class as axes of power and difference, and also to markers of citizenship or lack thereof, including 'illegality.' I arg…
Latino Im/migrants, “Dietary Health” and Social Exclusion
In this article, we highlight findings from ethnographic research on dietary health interventions with low-income Latino im/migrant populations in the Central Coast of California. We discuss the assumptions underpinning different models of nutrition intervention and education, as well as what these assumptions suggest about common perceptions of Latino im/migrant dietary health and knowledge. We demonstrate how interventions contribute to further…
Eating and Feeding at the Margins of the State
In this article, I examine the various meanings of Mexican and Central American migrant women's utilization of private food assistance programs. I present findings from 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2011 with migrant women, public health workers, and staff and volunteers of food assistance programs in Santa Barbara County, California. I discuss the barriers undocumented women face in accessing formal health care a…
Demedicalizing Health
Attention to culinary care can enrich the framing of health within medical anthropology. We focus on care practices in six Latin American kitchens to illuminate forms of health not located within a singular human subject. In these kitchens, women cared not for individuals but for meals, targeting the health of families and landscapes. Many medical anthropologists have critiqued health for its associations with biomedicine/biocapitalism, some even…
Back There We Had Nothing to Eat”
This article discusses migrant food insecurity in the United States from the perspective of Mexican and Central American migrant women. Many describe migrating because they had nothing to eat in their countries of origin. Migration is thus framed as a necessary strategy for overcoming food insecurity. I argue that these women's perspectives are unique in the migration literature because food security comprises a gendered labour from which men are…
Improving Policy to Address Migrant Health
Sharing One's Destiny
Ten years after the financial crisis
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Refugee and Migration Studies
We reflect on the experience of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between scholars in the fields of geography, anthropology, communication, and information studies, and suggest paths for future research on sanctuary and migration studies that are based on interdisciplinary approaches. After situating sanctuary in a wider theoretical, historical, and global context, we discuss the origins and contemporary expressions of sanctuary both within and …
Immigration/migration and healthy publics
Global climate change and the continued neoliberalization of food systems have exacerbated levels of food insecurity and hunger, producing an ever-expanding population of displaced persons who are also nutritionally vulnerable. Restrictive immigration policies in post-arrival and resettlement contexts compound with other cultural, social, political, and economic conditions to negatively affect the food security and health of displaced persons. Th…
Life on the Other Border
Reviewed by: Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont by Teresa M. Mares Megan A. Carney Teresa M. Mares, Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 240 pp. Anthropologists are increasingly studying the ways that food systems intersect with patterns of human migration. Across sub-fields, such as the anthropology of food and nutrition and medical anthro…
Critical Perspectives on the Microbiome
Chronic Disaster
Island of Hope
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous, maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergen…
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being
Anthropological approaches to "immigrant mental health" as an object of ethnographic inquiry can illuminate how psychosocial well-being - or decline - and the therapeutic realm of mental health is always enacted by a variety of institutions and social actors. The ways that mental health is understood and approached across different geographical and social settings are constitutive of a range of cultural meanings, norms, and social relations. The …
Centering Black Food Cultures in Anthropology and Beyond
Whiteness and settler colonial logics in the Pacific Northwest hops and craft beer industries
The rapidly expanding Pacific Northwest (PNW) craft beer industry and the heralding of Seattle as an epicenter of “hoppy beer” has benefited from geographic proximity to the Yakima Valley, revered by many as the “hops capital of world.” In this article, I center theory from Black studies, Native studies, and critical whiteness studies to examine the intersectional violences of settler colonialism and whiteness as structuring logics of the PNW hop…
There Would Be More Black Spaces
Black geographies, Black feminist anthropology, and related fields have provided substantial evidence attesting to the effects of racially violent spatial practices such as dispossession, racial segregation, mass incarceration, and redlining for the health outcomes and life chances of Black communities and other racialized groups, and conversely, the political and healing potential of placemaking projects. We foreground theory from Black geograph…
A million other factors killing us
Duo-ethnographic Methods
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used to explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender in academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution to be articulating duo-ethnography as …
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