Arthur D Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 85022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur D Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur D |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Types of Water Conflicts in an Irrigation System in Northern Mexico: Conflict as a Negative Link in Social Network Analysis
We used social network analysis (SNA) to identify the types of water-related conflicts between the users and members of the institutional arena of the Rio Mayo Irrigation District (RMID) within the ancestral territory of the Yoreme Mayo indigenous group in Sonora, northeastern Mexico. We combined ethnography with an analysis and visualization of bimodal networks that consisted of 118 users and their connections to the institutional arena’s 30 ide…
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology is published by the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) to make available research that is innovative and interdisciplinary
Progressive Contextualization: Thinking about Extreme Events
This essay reviews the following works:Side Effects: Mexican Governance under NAFTA’s Labor and Environmental Agreements. By Mark Aspinwall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 209. $45.00 paper. ISBN: 9781607814337
The social grammar along the rio Sonora revealed by the Cananea mine spill
This paper deals with the “worst environmental mining disaster in the history of Mexico”. The 40,000 m3 of copper sulfate dumped into the río Sonora by a breach in a tailing dam at the Buenavista del Cobre, copper mine in Cananea, Sonora. The mine is owned by Grupo Mexico. The paper analyses the social grammar revealed by the event and the degree to which the social order conserves the statu quo under the new administration.
Recovering Impunity
In the state of Sonora, the 2009 Hermosillo ABC Day Care Center fire and the 2014 Cananea copper mine spill highlighted how deregulation and divestiture of state services by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Action Party (PAN) served the interests of a few elites, who maintained rule through mechanisms of impunity: in other words, through actions undertaken without concern about the law or repercussions. Although impuni…
Critical aspects of social networks in a resettlement setting
Each year, more than 30 million people worldwide are displaced by disaster, development, and conflict. The sheer magnitude of displacement points to a need for wider application of social science theories and methodologies to the special problems posed by these crises. We are convinced that social network analysis of the structure and development of social relations can help to identify variables and patterns essential to maintaining or fostering…
Postdisaster reciprocity and the development of inequality in personal networks
Within the context of major changes in economics, population distribution, and lifestyles around the world, people continue to rely on personal relationships for support. People also often create or find themselves in relationships that are alternatively asymmetrical or balanced. In this study, we are interested in how people face acute or chronic hazards and how asymmetrical or balanced exchange relationships are associated with different types …
The Urban System in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca
In this article, we explore the nature of the urban system in the Valley of Oaxaca as it has developed in the late 20th century, when Mexico joined the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (1986) and negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Canada (1994, with final aspects of the agreement going into effect in 2008). Both the events exposed Mexico and, by extension, Oaxaca to powerful external…
Gendered Access to Formal and Informal Resources in Postdisaster Development in the Ecuadorian Andes
The devastating eruptions of Mount Tungurahua in the Ecuadorian highlands in 1999 and 2006 left many communities struggling to rebuild their homes and others permanently displaced to settlements built by state and nongovernmental organizations. For several years afterward, households diversified their economic strategies to compensate for losses, communities organized to promote local development, and the state and nongovernmental organizations s…
Cross-Cultural and Site-Based Influences on Demographic, Well-being, and Social Network Predictors of Risk Perception in Hazard and Disaster Settings in Ecuador and Mexico: Predictors of Risk Percepti…
Inequality, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Support in Post-Disaster Mental Health in Mexico
Disasters highlight the vulnerability of people who have limited access to resources. However, based on research from Mexico, we seek—in the context of disasters—to qualify the generalization that mental health is associated with social inequality and individual socioeconomic status. We collected data on socioeconomic status, social support, and depression in two stormimpacted cities (n=581) and four control cities (n=2,509) in Mexico. Two years …
Selling Hope and Health: Marketing Clean Water and Perceptions of Health in Rural Bolivia
Chronic Disasters and Social Networks: Exposure, Evacuation and Resettlement
Keywords: natural hazard,social network,evacuation,resettlement,disaster,ecology and environment
Design for Data Quality in a Multisite Cross-Sectional and Panel Study
The authors address the issues faced while collecting survey data as part of a large multisite, multidisciplinary long-term project using interviewers rather than self-administered questionnaires in a country in which the researchers are not native. The issues pertain to the collection of high-quality data that accurately measure the variables of interest from which generalizations can be made. Three issues were prominent: potential cross-cultura…
Social Support Mobilization and Deterioration after Mexico's 1999 Flood: Effects of Context, Gender, and Time
Samples of adults representative of Teziutlán, Puebla, and Villahermosa, Tobasco, were interviewed 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after the devastating 1999 flood and mudslides. The interview contained multiple measures of social support that had been normed for Mexico. Comparisons between sample data and population norms suggested minimal mobilization of received support and substantial deterioration of perceived support and social embeddedness. Socia…
Ecological and Ethical Perspectives on Filial Responsibility: Implications for Primary Prevention with Immigrant Latino Adolescents
Workfare States . Jamie Peck; Geographies of Disability . Brendan Gleason; From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border . Lawrence A. Herzog; Regions, Glo…
Postdisaster Social Support in the United States and Mexico: Conceptual and Contextual Considerations
A measure of the social support received from family, friends, and outsiders was administered 6 months after Hurricanes Andrew (non-Hispanic n = 270, Hispanic n = 134) and Paulina (Mexican n = 200) and to a normative sample (n = 1,289) representative of urban Mexico. Pilot work with bilingual participants established that equivalent scores were yielded by Spanish and English versions of the instrument. Exemplars of helping showed similar rank-ord…
Household Adaptations to Government Housing Designs in Oaxaca, Mexico
The effectiveness of government public housing in providing usable living space for low-middle income households in Oaxaca, Mexico, is assessed in this study through analyses of survey data, ethnographic interviews, and observations conducted in 1987 and 1992 at three different government-sponsored housing developments. The use of household space, and the modifications made by residents of the housing units to achieve a satisfactory allocation of…
Families in Multicultural Perspective . BRON B. INGOLDSBY and Suzanna SMITH
Cultural Capital: Mountain Zapotee Migrant Associations in Mexico City. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Adaptación de las unidades domésticas en un sistema urbano regional: El caso de los valles centrales de Oaxaca, México
En este trabajo investigamos una parte del sistema regional en los valles centrales de Oaxaca. Pretendemos mostrar las relaciones entre las unidades domésticas que existen en el sistema regional así como su articulación con el sistema nacional y el internacional. También observamos cómo los cambios en el sistema mundial afectan a la organización de la unidad doméstica. Encontramos que la unidad doméstica en Oaxaca se está recuperando en el aspect…
Peasant Differentiation and Development: The Case of a Mexican Ejido. Lasse KRANTZ
The health status of women in Oaxaca: Determinants and consequences
Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change
Illustrations and Tables Foreword Henry A. Introduction 2. A Social History of Oaxaca 3. People and Places: Oaxaca's Social Geography 4. Contemporary Economics 5. Community-Level Adaptation 6. Family and Household: Oaxaca's Social Firmament 7. Four Households 8. Conclusion Notes Further Reading References Index
Social Support Mobilization and Deterioration after Mexico's 1999 Flood: Effects of Context, Gender, and Time
Samples of adults representative of Teziutlán, Puebla, and Villahermosa, Tobasco, were interviewed 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after the devastating 1999 flood and mudslides. The interview contained multiple measures of social support that had been normed for Mexico. Comparisons between sample data and population norms suggested minimal mobilization of received support and substantial deterioration of perceived support and social embeddedness. Socia…
Cross-Cultural and Site-Based Influences on Demographic, Well-being, and Social Network Predictors of Risk Perception in Hazard and Disaster Settings in Ecuador and Mexico: Predictors of Risk Percepti…
Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change
Illustrations and Tables Foreword Henry A. Introduction 2. A Social History of Oaxaca 3. People and Places: Oaxaca's Social Geography 4. Contemporary Economics 5. Community-Level Adaptation 6. Family and Household: Oaxaca's Social Firmament 7. Four Households 8. Conclusion Notes Further Reading References Index
Postdisaster Social Support in the United States and Mexico: Conceptual and Contextual Considerations
A measure of the social support received from family, friends, and outsiders was administered 6 months after Hurricanes Andrew (non-Hispanic n = 270, Hispanic n = 134) and Paulina (Mexican n = 200) and to a normative sample (n = 1,289) representative of urban Mexico. Pilot work with bilingual participants established that equivalent scores were yielded by Spanish and English versions of the instrument. Exemplars of helping showed similar rank-ord…
Postdisaster reciprocity and the development of inequality in personal networks
Within the context of major changes in economics, population distribution, and lifestyles around the world, people continue to rely on personal relationships for support. People also often create or find themselves in relationships that are alternatively asymmetrical or balanced. In this study, we are interested in how people face acute or chronic hazards and how asymmetrical or balanced exchange relationships are associated with different types …
The health status of women in Oaxaca: Determinants and consequences
Critical aspects of social networks in a resettlement setting
Each year, more than 30 million people worldwide are displaced by disaster, development, and conflict. The sheer magnitude of displacement points to a need for wider application of social science theories and methodologies to the special problems posed by these crises. We are convinced that social network analysis of the structure and development of social relations can help to identify variables and patterns essential to maintaining or fostering…
Design for Data Quality in a Multisite Cross-Sectional and Panel Study
The authors address the issues faced while collecting survey data as part of a large multisite, multidisciplinary long-term project using interviewers rather than self-administered questionnaires in a country in which the researchers are not native. The issues pertain to the collection of high-quality data that accurately measure the variables of interest from which generalizations can be made. Three issues were prominent: potential cross-cultura…
Generative and Regulative Organization in Site-and-Services Housing Projects A Case from Oaxaca, Mexico
Housing is a major area where government regulative planning affects the lives of people from every socioeconomic class. This article examines the planning style (regulative) of a government agency organizing a site-and-services project in Oaxaca, Mexico and compares it to the situational response style (generative) of the community's residents. In most cases the style of planning used by community residents puts them at a disadvantage when faced…
Central Place Theory and Housing Programs in Panama's Secondary CitiesA Case of Official Generative Planning
Normative Models from social science are often used to justify regulative plans by governments and other development agencies. In the case of international aid this often leads to a situation where local-level agencies must engage in generative planning in order to modify bilateral agreements and adapt them to the local context. This article demonstrates this process with data from a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) proj…
Planning and Implementation in the Informal SectorEvidence from Oaxaca, Mexico
Case Studies of Women in the informal sector in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, lead to the idea that individuals in the informal sector utilize planning strategies appropriate to their situation. Regulative, goal-centered, or morphostatic planning strategies-strategies focused on maintaining the system in its current state of equilibrium-are appropriate when a market has been developed and the desire is to maintain it under current conditions. Gener…
Battling Urban Poverty from Below: A Profile of the Poor in Two Mexican Cities
Comparing Squatter Settlements and Government Self-Help Projects as Housing Solutions in Oaxaca, Mexico
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alex Stepick, Arthur Murphy; Comparing Squatter Settlements and Government Self-Help Projects as Housing Solutions in Oaxaca, Mexico. Human Organization 1 December 1980; 39 (4): 339–343. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.39.4.01j63022r87…
The social grammar along the rio Sonora revealed by the Cananea mine spill
This paper deals with the “worst environmental mining disaster in the history of Mexico”. The 40,000 m3 of copper sulfate dumped into the río Sonora by a breach in a tailing dam at the Buenavista del Cobre, copper mine in Cananea, Sonora. The mine is owned by Grupo Mexico. The paper analyses the social grammar revealed by the event and the degree to which the social order conserves the statu quo under the new administration.
Chronic Disasters and Social Networks: Exposure, Evacuation and Resettlement
Keywords: natural hazard,social network,evacuation,resettlement,disaster,ecology and environment
Household Adaptations to Government Housing Designs in Oaxaca, Mexico
The effectiveness of government public housing in providing usable living space for low-middle income households in Oaxaca, Mexico, is assessed in this study through analyses of survey data, ethnographic interviews, and observations conducted in 1987 and 1992 at three different government-sponsored housing developments. The use of household space, and the modifications made by residents of the housing units to achieve a satisfactory allocation of…
Generative and Regulative Issues in Urbanizationto Plan or Not to Plan
This Introduces a Set of six articles discussing propositions about two kinds of planning, labeled by Douglas Uzzell "generative planning" and "regulative planning." Governmentally sponsored Third World planners have for years promoted urbanization, and now many developing countries have more urban population than can be absorbed by industrial growth. These people attempt to meet their needs through informal economic activity and generative plann…
Economic and Social Integration Among Urban Peasants
Comparing Squatter Settlements and Government Self-Help Projects as Housing Solutions in Oaxaca, Mexico
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alex Stepick, Arthur Murphy; Comparing Squatter Settlements and Government Self-Help Projects as Housing Solutions in Oaxaca, Mexico. Human Organization 1 December 1980; 39 (4): 339–343. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.39.4.01j63022r87…
Studying Housing Areas in a Developing Nation: Lessons From Oaxaca City, Mexico
This paper explores the usefulness of drawing on conceptual models in archaeology and units of analysis from architecture, urban planning and urban sociology when conducting a socio-economic study of a moderate-sized city in a developing country. The concept of the social area is useful in helping to mesh statistical data with ethnographic open-interview methodology. The example presented in this paper is from the work of the Mexican Urban Househ…
Battling Urban Poverty from Below: A Profile of the Poor in Two Mexican Cities
Can-Running in Huaco: Garbage and the Informal Sector
From our study of can-runners we feel that it is possible to draw some broad conclusions about the rise of homelessness and marginal workers in the U.S. and other advanced capitalistic societies. In an article in Commonweal (111:368-371, 1984), Hope and Young have proposed that there are four major causes of homelessness. The first factor is unemployment. Even though the jobless rate was higher in 1975 (8.5 percent) than it is today (approximatel…
The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self-Defense
The sufferings of "ordinary" people under harsh economic conditions can eventually lead to the fall of governments. Given this fact, it becomes important to know how "ordinary" people live—what privations they suffer and what strategies they use to survive in times of economic crisis. The Mexican Urban Household provides this information for Mexico near the end of the twentieth century. Mexico is now a predominantly urban nation, and this study i…
Generative and Regulative Organization in Site-and-Services Housing Projects A Case from Oaxaca, Mexico
Housing is a major area where government regulative planning affects the lives of people from every socioeconomic class. This article examines the planning style (regulative) of a government agency organizing a site-and-services project in Oaxaca, Mexico and compares it to the situational response style (generative) of the community's residents. In most cases the style of planning used by community residents puts them at a disadvantage when faced…
Central Place Theory and Housing Programs in Panama's Secondary CitiesA Case of Official Generative Planning
Normative Models from social science are often used to justify regulative plans by governments and other development agencies. In the case of international aid this often leads to a situation where local-level agencies must engage in generative planning in order to modify bilateral agreements and adapt them to the local context. This article demonstrates this process with data from a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) proj…
Planning and Implementation in the Informal SectorEvidence from Oaxaca, Mexico
Case Studies of Women in the informal sector in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, lead to the idea that individuals in the informal sector utilize planning strategies appropriate to their situation. Regulative, goal-centered, or morphostatic planning strategies-strategies focused on maintaining the system in its current state of equilibrium-are appropriate when a market has been developed and the desire is to maintain it under current conditions. Gener…
Generative and Regulative Issues in Urbanizationto Plan or Not to Plan
This Introduces a Set of six articles discussing propositions about two kinds of planning, labeled by Douglas Uzzell "generative planning" and "regulative planning." Governmentally sponsored Third World planners have for years promoted urbanization, and now many developing countries have more urban population than can be absorbed by industrial growth. These people attempt to meet their needs through informal economic activity and generative plann…
Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico
Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of. Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico. Thomas E. Sheridan. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1988. 237 pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8165‐1055‐5
Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico:Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico
Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change
The health status of women in Oaxaca: Determinants and consequences
Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change
Illustrations and Tables Foreword Henry A. Introduction 2. A Social History of Oaxaca 3. People and Places: Oaxaca's Social Geography 4. Contemporary Economics 5. Community-Level Adaptation 6. Family and Household: Oaxaca's Social Firmament 7. Four Households 8. Conclusion Notes Further Reading References Index
Adaptación de las unidades domésticas en un sistema urbano regional: El caso de los valles centrales de Oaxaca, México
En este trabajo investigamos una parte del sistema regional en los valles centrales de Oaxaca. Pretendemos mostrar las relaciones entre las unidades domésticas que existen en el sistema regional así como su articulación con el sistema nacional y el internacional. También observamos cómo los cambios en el sistema mundial afectan a la organización de la unidad doméstica. Encontramos que la unidad doméstica en Oaxaca se está recuperando en el aspect…
Peasant Differentiation and Development: The Case of a Mexican Ejido. Lasse KRANTZ
Cultural Capital: Mountain Zapotee Migrant Associations in Mexico City. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Families in Multicultural Perspective . BRON B. INGOLDSBY and Suzanna SMITH
Household Adaptations to Government Housing Designs in Oaxaca, Mexico
The effectiveness of government public housing in providing usable living space for low-middle income households in Oaxaca, Mexico, is assessed in this study through analyses of survey data, ethnographic interviews, and observations conducted in 1987 and 1992 at three different government-sponsored housing developments. The use of household space, and the modifications made by residents of the housing units to achieve a satisfactory allocation of…
Postdisaster Social Support in the United States and Mexico: Conceptual and Contextual Considerations
A measure of the social support received from family, friends, and outsiders was administered 6 months after Hurricanes Andrew (non-Hispanic n = 270, Hispanic n = 134) and Paulina (Mexican n = 200) and to a normative sample (n = 1,289) representative of urban Mexico. Pilot work with bilingual participants established that equivalent scores were yielded by Spanish and English versions of the instrument. Exemplars of helping showed similar rank-ord…
Workfare States . Jamie Peck; Geographies of Disability . Brendan Gleason; From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border . Lawrence A. Herzog; Regions, Glo…
Ecological and Ethical Perspectives on Filial Responsibility: Implications for Primary Prevention with Immigrant Latino Adolescents
Social Support Mobilization and Deterioration after Mexico's 1999 Flood: Effects of Context, Gender, and Time
Samples of adults representative of Teziutlán, Puebla, and Villahermosa, Tobasco, were interviewed 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after the devastating 1999 flood and mudslides. The interview contained multiple measures of social support that had been normed for Mexico. Comparisons between sample data and population norms suggested minimal mobilization of received support and substantial deterioration of perceived support and social embeddedness. Socia…
Selling Hope and Health: Marketing Clean Water and Perceptions of Health in Rural Bolivia
Sociology (23 works) · Geography (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)