Ben Mcmahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 750986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Mcmahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahan |
| SIGNATURE | BEN MCMAHAN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute on Governance |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0506-7541 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dearth and Deluge: Sustaining Lives and Livelihoods under Threat
sustainability, risk environment, landscape, rural anthropology, Altar Valley, Southern Louisiana, identity
Sustainable University-Community Partnerships: Balancing Teaching, Research and Action
Introduction: The Anthropology-Map Merger
The potential of merging anthropology and mapping became clear to us (guest editors Namino Glantz & Ben McMahan) as we sought novel means of improving health among the elderly in Mexico. To share our own experiences and hear about others, we organized a session—The medical anthropology-map merger: Harnessing GIS for participatory health research—at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting, held in March 2007 in Tampa, Florida. P…
Participatory Mapping for Community Health Assessment on the US-Mexico Border
In this paper, we present partial results and discussion of a community environmental health project in Nogales to illustrate how participatory mapping was applied to an existing project that had been participatory and community-based since it was initiated over six years ago. The GIS portion of the project was arranged via a partnership with the University of Arizona's Center for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA) and was initially conceived as a m…
Formative Research and Participatory GIS Mapping: Elder Well-Being in Chiapas, Mexico
This article grows out of my (NG) ongoing research on well-being among older adults in Comitán, a small city in Chiapas, Mexico. This work has aimed at jumpstarting two interwoven processes: (1) obtaining, analyzing, and applying information on elder demographics, lifestyles, health, and care, and (2) engaging local stakeholders (elders, care providers, policymakers, social scientists, the media) in the process. The research has assumed a formati…
Introduction: The Anthropology-Map Merger
The potential of merging anthropology and mapping became clear to us (guest editors Namino Glantz & Ben McMahan) as we sought novel means of improving health among the elderly in Mexico. To share our own experiences and hear about others, we organized a session—The medical anthropology-map merger: Harnessing GIS for participatory health research—at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting, held in March 2007 in Tampa, Florida. P…
Participatory Mapping for Community Health Assessment on the US-Mexico Border
In this paper, we present partial results and discussion of a community environmental health project in Nogales to illustrate how participatory mapping was applied to an existing project that had been participatory and community-based since it was initiated over six years ago. The GIS portion of the project was arranged via a partnership with the University of Arizona's Center for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA) and was initially conceived as a m…
Formative Research and Participatory GIS Mapping: Elder Well-Being in Chiapas, Mexico
This article grows out of my (NG) ongoing research on well-being among older adults in Comitán, a small city in Chiapas, Mexico. This work has aimed at jumpstarting two interwoven processes: (1) obtaining, analyzing, and applying information on elder demographics, lifestyles, health, and care, and (2) engaging local stakeholders (elders, care providers, policymakers, social scientists, the media) in the process. The research has assumed a formati…
Sustainable University-Community Partnerships: Balancing Teaching, Research and Action
Dearth and Deluge: Sustaining Lives and Livelihoods under Threat
sustainability, risk environment, landscape, rural anthropology, Altar Valley, Southern Louisiana, identity
Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Participatory action research (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Environmental planning (2 works) · Environmental resource management (2 works)