Lisa Markowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Markowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Markowitz |
| SIGNATURE | MARKOWITZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Healthicization and Lay Knowledge About Eating Practices in Two African American Communities
In this manuscript, we expand upon sociological research in lay knowledge about health and healthicization by examining socially mediated ways in which 40 African American adults in two communities acquired information about eating practices. Participants employed a variety of socially informed information-seeking strategies. Many, but not all, used socially prescribed sources exhorting them to maximize their own health and reported an amalgam of…
Exploring Media’s Impact on African American Women’s Healthy Food Habits in Kentucky
This qualitative study employs the uses and gratifications framework to explore the perspective of African American women in Kentucky, specifically urban Louisville and rural Hopkinsville, to understand their use of media as potential sources for gathering information about healthy food habits. Key findings include how the participants used media for instrumental purposes to educate themselves about healthy food habits, and that the specific medi…
Expanding Access and Alternatives: Building Farmers' Markets in Low-Income Communities
Although farmers' markets are the most widespread and visible of the diverse alternative agrifood institutions that have emerged over the past three decades, inequalities of class and geography limit their accessibility and availability to economically vulnerable populations. In this article, I examine the problems and prospects of establishing farmers' markets that serve low-income customers. Creating such markets is complicated, requiring inter…
Introduction: The Public Interest and the American Food Enterprise: Anthropological Policy Insights
Inequality in the control over agri-food systems is widely recognized and much discussed as a particularly insidious form of injustice (Albritton 2009; Patel 2008; People's Food Sovereignty 2009). ...
Guest Editors' Comments: Living with Livestock: Contentments and Contentions
Paradoxes of Professionalization: Parallel Dilemmas in Women's Organizations in the Americas
During the past two decades, opportunities for women's social movement organizations to expand their scope of engagement have often been accompanied by greater vulnerability to donor discipline and scrutiny. Efforts by activists to accommodate the demands for accountability and institutional sustainability by professionalizing their organizations have been instrumental in moving feminist concerns into the political mainstream. However, such insti…
NGOs, Local Government, and Agrarian Civil Society: A Case of Evolving Collaboration from Southern Peru
Finding the Field: Notes on the Ethnography of NGOs
Studying globalization challenges disciplinary traditions that implicitly privilege a geographically demarcated field and classic models of ethnographic fieldwork. Understanding transnational processes calls for innovative, multilocal research strategies that both capture people's perceptions of change and analyze the interconnecting systems. Although the study of large, NGOs that link international donors and community-based groups offers one su…
Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives
Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. R. D. GRILLO and R. L. STIRRAT. eds. Oxford: Berg, 1997. viil. 299 pp., tables, references, index
Transnational Capitalism and Hydropolitics in Argentina: The Yacyretá High Dam. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru. Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus , and Robert G. Reynolds
Paradoxes of Professionalization: Parallel Dilemmas in Women's Organizations in the Americas
During the past two decades, opportunities for women's social movement organizations to expand their scope of engagement have often been accompanied by greater vulnerability to donor discipline and scrutiny. Efforts by activists to accommodate the demands for accountability and institutional sustainability by professionalizing their organizations have been instrumental in moving feminist concerns into the political mainstream. However, such insti…
Finding the Field: Notes on the Ethnography of NGOs
Studying globalization challenges disciplinary traditions that implicitly privilege a geographically demarcated field and classic models of ethnographic fieldwork. Understanding transnational processes calls for innovative, multilocal research strategies that both capture people's perceptions of change and analyze the interconnecting systems. Although the study of large, NGOs that link international donors and community-based groups offers one su…
Expanding Access and Alternatives: Building Farmers' Markets in Low-Income Communities
Although farmers' markets are the most widespread and visible of the diverse alternative agrifood institutions that have emerged over the past three decades, inequalities of class and geography limit their accessibility and availability to economically vulnerable populations. In this article, I examine the problems and prospects of establishing farmers' markets that serve low-income customers. Creating such markets is complicated, requiring inter…
Healthicization and Lay Knowledge About Eating Practices in Two African American Communities
In this manuscript, we expand upon sociological research in lay knowledge about health and healthicization by examining socially mediated ways in which 40 African American adults in two communities acquired information about eating practices. Participants employed a variety of socially informed information-seeking strategies. Many, but not all, used socially prescribed sources exhorting them to maximize their own health and reported an amalgam of…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru. Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus , and Robert G. Reynolds
Transnational Capitalism and Hydropolitics in Argentina: The Yacyretá High Dam. Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives
Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. R. D. GRILLO and R. L. STIRRAT. eds. Oxford: Berg, 1997. viil. 299 pp., tables, references, index
NGOs, Local Government, and Agrarian Civil Society: A Case of Evolving Collaboration from Southern Peru
Finding the Field: Notes on the Ethnography of NGOs
Studying globalization challenges disciplinary traditions that implicitly privilege a geographically demarcated field and classic models of ethnographic fieldwork. Understanding transnational processes calls for innovative, multilocal research strategies that both capture people's perceptions of change and analyze the interconnecting systems. Although the study of large, NGOs that link international donors and community-based groups offers one su…
Paradoxes of Professionalization: Parallel Dilemmas in Women's Organizations in the Americas
During the past two decades, opportunities for women's social movement organizations to expand their scope of engagement have often been accompanied by greater vulnerability to donor discipline and scrutiny. Efforts by activists to accommodate the demands for accountability and institutional sustainability by professionalizing their organizations have been instrumental in moving feminist concerns into the political mainstream. However, such insti…
Guest Editors' Comments: Living with Livestock: Contentments and Contentions
Expanding Access and Alternatives: Building Farmers' Markets in Low-Income Communities
Although farmers' markets are the most widespread and visible of the diverse alternative agrifood institutions that have emerged over the past three decades, inequalities of class and geography limit their accessibility and availability to economically vulnerable populations. In this article, I examine the problems and prospects of establishing farmers' markets that serve low-income customers. Creating such markets is complicated, requiring inter…
Introduction: The Public Interest and the American Food Enterprise: Anthropological Policy Insights
Inequality in the control over agri-food systems is widely recognized and much discussed as a particularly insidious form of injustice (Albritton 2009; Patel 2008; People's Food Sovereignty 2009). ...
Exploring Media’s Impact on African American Women’s Healthy Food Habits in Kentucky
This qualitative study employs the uses and gratifications framework to explore the perspective of African American women in Kentucky, specifically urban Louisville and rural Hopkinsville, to understand their use of media as potential sources for gathering information about healthy food habits. Key findings include how the participants used media for instrumental purposes to educate themselves about healthy food habits, and that the specific medi…
Healthicization and Lay Knowledge About Eating Practices in Two African American Communities
In this manuscript, we expand upon sociological research in lay knowledge about health and healthicization by examining socially mediated ways in which 40 African American adults in two communities acquired information about eating practices. Participants employed a variety of socially informed information-seeking strategies. Many, but not all, used socially prescribed sources exhorting them to maximize their own health and reported an amalgam of…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · History (2 works)