Nancy L Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 130509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy L Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON N L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ideologies of Aid, Practices of Power
The articles in this special issue teach valuable lessons based on what happened in New Mexico with the shift to Medicaid managed care. By reframing these lessons in broader historical and cultural terms with reference to aid programs, we have the opportunity to learn a great deal more about the relationship between poverty, public policy, and ideology. Medicaid as a state and federal aid program in the United States and economic development prog…
Informal Politics
The Thief and the Anthropologist
Hidden Truths and Unresolved Dilemmas
The Thief and the Anthropologist
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN privilege, power, and ethnography is the subject of much critical contemporary anthropology. While this focus is long overdue, it remains extremely narrow. The product of anthropology- our texts-receives close scrutiny, but the process of ethnography-our fieldwork-is rarely examined. Based upon an encounter with a would-be thief, this article makes the case that just as our writing techniques are politicized, our research…
Hidden Truths and Unresolved Dilemmas
INTRODUCING THE ARTICLES on ethics in this volume, this paper identifies one issue common to them all-research ethics in the urban public domain. When one considers the multiple meanings associated with the word "public," a variety of questions surface. To which "public" should the ethnographer respond? What is "public" and what is "private"? What if the people studied have no "private" space, or their lives have been deemed "public"? How should …
Ideologies of Aid, Practices of Power
The articles in this special issue teach valuable lessons based on what happened in New Mexico with the shift to Medicaid managed care. By reframing these lessons in broader historical and cultural terms with reference to aid programs, we have the opportunity to learn a great deal more about the relationship between poverty, public policy, and ideology. Medicaid as a state and federal aid program in the United States and economic development prog…
The Thief and the Anthropologist
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN privilege, power, and ethnography is the subject of much critical contemporary anthropology. While this focus is long overdue, it remains extremely narrow. The product of anthropology- our texts-receives close scrutiny, but the process of ethnography-our fieldwork-is rarely examined. Based upon an encounter with a would-be thief, this article makes the case that just as our writing techniques are politicized, our research…
Hidden Truths and Unresolved Dilemmas
INTRODUCING THE ARTICLES on ethics in this volume, this paper identifies one issue common to them all-research ethics in the urban public domain. When one considers the multiple meanings associated with the word "public," a variety of questions surface. To which "public" should the ethnographer respond? What is "public" and what is "private"? What if the people studied have no "private" space, or their lives have been deemed "public"? How should …
The Thief and the Anthropologist
Hidden Truths and Unresolved Dilemmas
The Thief and the Anthropologist
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN privilege, power, and ethnography is the subject of much critical contemporary anthropology. While this focus is long overdue, it remains extremely narrow. The product of anthropology- our texts-receives close scrutiny, but the process of ethnography-our fieldwork-is rarely examined. Based upon an encounter with a would-be thief, this article makes the case that just as our writing techniques are politicized, our research…
Hidden Truths and Unresolved Dilemmas
INTRODUCING THE ARTICLES on ethics in this volume, this paper identifies one issue common to them all-research ethics in the urban public domain. When one considers the multiple meanings associated with the word "public," a variety of questions surface. To which "public" should the ethnographer respond? What is "public" and what is "private"? What if the people studied have no "private" space, or their lives have been deemed "public"? How should …
Informal Politics
Ideologies of Aid, Practices of Power
The articles in this special issue teach valuable lessons based on what happened in New Mexico with the shift to Medicaid managed care. By reframing these lessons in broader historical and cultural terms with reference to aid programs, we have the opportunity to learn a great deal more about the relationship between poverty, public policy, and ideology. Medicaid as a state and federal aid program in the United States and economic development prog…
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · City-state (1 work) · Cognitive reframing (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Decentralization (1 work)