E S Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 18963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E S Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | E S |
| FAMILY NAME | Carr |
| SIGNATURE | CARR E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7015-0758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 336 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice
Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an American behavioral health intervention that has spread dramatically across professional fields, including counseling psychology, corrections, dentistry, nursing, nutrition, primary-care medicine, safe-water interventions, and social work. This article explores how the central methodological principles of American pragmatism-if understood and learned as MI-take root among a group of contemporary American helpi…
Introduction: Pragmatics of Scale
No abstract
The Work of 'Crisis' in the 'Opioid Crisis
This commentary is an edited version of discussant comments to the Executive Session panel 'Anthropological Interventions in the US Opioid Crisis' organized by Jennifer Carroll at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Diego, CA, November 14-18, 2018
Occupation Bedbug: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism
This essay draws on fieldwork with American social workers, whose primary charge is to engage what they view as particularly recalcitrant human problems and populations. All the while, these workers find themselves in intensive engagements with bedbugs, which have recently infested the American imaginary, as well as the destitute sites of American social work. As every professional effort at elimination is met with bedbugs' seeming multiplication…
The Poetics of Therapeutic Practice: Motivational Interviewing and the Powers of Pause
Signs of the times: Confession and the Semiotic Production of Inner Truth
How is it that confession - a highly ritualized, dialogically structured speech act - appears to transparently reflect and reveal the inner states of confessants? This article explores this question by closely engaging select post-VaticanIIdefences of the Sacrament of Penance, which lay out the requirements of 'modern' confession in striking detail. A close reading of these theological texts demonstrates that felicitous confession is the product …
Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselv…
Enactments of Expertise
Every society recognizes expertise, and anthropologists have long documented the culturally and historically specific practices that constitute it. The anthropology of expertise focuses on what people do rather than what people possess, even in the many circumstances where the former is naturalized as the latter. Across its many domains, expertise is both inherently interactional, involving the participation of objects, producers, and consumers o…
Secrets keep you sick: Metalinguistic labor in a drug treatment program for homeless women
This article demonstrates how cultural ideologies of language, and the semiotic processes that mobilize them, manifest in contemporary American drug treatment. Drawing from an ethnographic study of an outpatient program in the Midwestern United States, it focuses on therapists' claims about what constitutes “healthy language.” It is argued that these claims both stem from and actively reproduce an “ideology of inner reference,” which presumes tha…
Rethinking Empowerment Theory Using a Feminist Lens: The Importance of Process
This article highlights the importance of social, historical, and political context when theorizing empowerment and “maps” empowerment as a cyclical, rather than a linear, process. Synthesizing important perspectives in feminist thought and empowerment theory, it proposes understandings of positionality, conscientization, and social transformation that are meant to inform empowerment-oriented, feminist social work practice
Community Participation Reconsidered: Feminist Participatory Action Research with Hmong Women
This paper describes the process of planning, developing, and implementing a community-based project with Hmong women in a large Midwestern city. Combining action and research to forge relationships, identify common goals and garner resources, the Hmong Women's Project applied principles of both feminist and participatory action research (PAR). In light of the successes and challenges of this ongoing project, we critically evaluate the oft-encour…
Enactments of Expertise
Every society recognizes expertise, and anthropologists have long documented the culturally and historically specific practices that constitute it. The anthropology of expertise focuses on what people do rather than what people possess, even in the many circumstances where the former is naturalized as the latter. Across its many domains, expertise is both inherently interactional, involving the participation of objects, producers, and consumers o…
Rethinking Empowerment Theory Using a Feminist Lens: The Importance of Process
This article highlights the importance of social, historical, and political context when theorizing empowerment and “maps” empowerment as a cyclical, rather than a linear, process. Synthesizing important perspectives in feminist thought and empowerment theory, it proposes understandings of positionality, conscientization, and social transformation that are meant to inform empowerment-oriented, feminist social work practice
Community Participation Reconsidered: Feminist Participatory Action Research with Hmong Women
This paper describes the process of planning, developing, and implementing a community-based project with Hmong women in a large Midwestern city. Combining action and research to forge relationships, identify common goals and garner resources, the Hmong Women's Project applied principles of both feminist and participatory action research (PAR). In light of the successes and challenges of this ongoing project, we critically evaluate the oft-encour…
Secrets keep you sick: Metalinguistic labor in a drug treatment program for homeless women
This article demonstrates how cultural ideologies of language, and the semiotic processes that mobilize them, manifest in contemporary American drug treatment. Drawing from an ethnographic study of an outpatient program in the Midwestern United States, it focuses on therapists' claims about what constitutes “healthy language.” It is argued that these claims both stem from and actively reproduce an “ideology of inner reference,” which presumes tha…
Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselv…
Occupation Bedbug: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism
This essay draws on fieldwork with American social workers, whose primary charge is to engage what they view as particularly recalcitrant human problems and populations. All the while, these workers find themselves in intensive engagements with bedbugs, which have recently infested the American imaginary, as well as the destitute sites of American social work. As every professional effort at elimination is met with bedbugs' seeming multiplication…
Signs of the times: Confession and the Semiotic Production of Inner Truth
How is it that confession - a highly ritualized, dialogically structured speech act - appears to transparently reflect and reveal the inner states of confessants? This article explores this question by closely engaging select post-VaticanIIdefences of the Sacrament of Penance, which lay out the requirements of 'modern' confession in striking detail. A close reading of these theological texts demonstrates that felicitous confession is the product …
Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an American behavioral health intervention that has spread dramatically across professional fields, including counseling psychology, corrections, dentistry, nursing, nutrition, primary-care medicine, safe-water interventions, and social work. This article explores how the central methodological principles of American pragmatism-if understood and learned as MI-take root among a group of contemporary American helpi…
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice
The Work of 'Crisis' in the 'Opioid Crisis
This commentary is an edited version of discussant comments to the Executive Session panel 'Anthropological Interventions in the US Opioid Crisis' organized by Jennifer Carroll at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Diego, CA, November 14-18, 2018
Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing
Community Participation Reconsidered: Feminist Participatory Action Research with Hmong Women
This paper describes the process of planning, developing, and implementing a community-based project with Hmong women in a large Midwestern city. Combining action and research to forge relationships, identify common goals and garner resources, the Hmong Women's Project applied principles of both feminist and participatory action research (PAR). In light of the successes and challenges of this ongoing project, we critically evaluate the oft-encour…
Rethinking Empowerment Theory Using a Feminist Lens: The Importance of Process
This article highlights the importance of social, historical, and political context when theorizing empowerment and “maps” empowerment as a cyclical, rather than a linear, process. Synthesizing important perspectives in feminist thought and empowerment theory, it proposes understandings of positionality, conscientization, and social transformation that are meant to inform empowerment-oriented, feminist social work practice
Secrets keep you sick: Metalinguistic labor in a drug treatment program for homeless women
This article demonstrates how cultural ideologies of language, and the semiotic processes that mobilize them, manifest in contemporary American drug treatment. Drawing from an ethnographic study of an outpatient program in the Midwestern United States, it focuses on therapists' claims about what constitutes “healthy language.” It is argued that these claims both stem from and actively reproduce an “ideology of inner reference,” which presumes tha…
Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselv…
Enactments of Expertise
Every society recognizes expertise, and anthropologists have long documented the culturally and historically specific practices that constitute it. The anthropology of expertise focuses on what people do rather than what people possess, even in the many circumstances where the former is naturalized as the latter. Across its many domains, expertise is both inherently interactional, involving the participation of objects, producers, and consumers o…
Signs of the times: Confession and the Semiotic Production of Inner Truth
How is it that confession - a highly ritualized, dialogically structured speech act - appears to transparently reflect and reveal the inner states of confessants? This article explores this question by closely engaging select post-VaticanIIdefences of the Sacrament of Penance, which lay out the requirements of 'modern' confession in striking detail. A close reading of these theological texts demonstrates that felicitous confession is the product …
The Poetics of Therapeutic Practice: Motivational Interviewing and the Powers of Pause
Occupation Bedbug: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism
This essay draws on fieldwork with American social workers, whose primary charge is to engage what they view as particularly recalcitrant human problems and populations. All the while, these workers find themselves in intensive engagements with bedbugs, which have recently infested the American imaginary, as well as the destitute sites of American social work. As every professional effort at elimination is met with bedbugs' seeming multiplication…
Introduction: Pragmatics of Scale
No abstract
The Work of 'Crisis' in the 'Opioid Crisis
This commentary is an edited version of discussant comments to the Executive Session panel 'Anthropological Interventions in the US Opioid Crisis' organized by Jennifer Carroll at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Diego, CA, November 14-18, 2018
Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an American behavioral health intervention that has spread dramatically across professional fields, including counseling psychology, corrections, dentistry, nursing, nutrition, primary-care medicine, safe-water interventions, and social work. This article explores how the central methodological principles of American pragmatism-if understood and learned as MI-take root among a group of contemporary American helpi…
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice
Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing
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