Anais Roque
Biographic Data
| ID | 906643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anais Roque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anais |
| FAMILY NAME | Roque |
| SIGNATURE | ROQUE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4686-9652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching and Learning Participatory Methods in Anthropology
Participatory methods in cultural anthropology continue to gain popularity. These methods respect community values and promote empowerment and co-creation, enhancing the ethicality and relevance of research findings. Despite their advantages, formal training in participatory methods is limited in anthropology programs, often leaving anthropologists to learn through trial and error with community partners. This article provides an overview of comm…
Power outages and social vulnerability in the U.S. Gulf Coast
Extreme weather events and disasters, coupled with aging and underfunded infrastructure, threaten critical systems like energy grids. Disruptions in these systems following disasters have cascading impacts on population health and well-being. By combining power outage, disaster, and social vulnerability information (2017–2022) at the county level in one of the most disaster-prone regions of the United States, the Gulf Coast, we created hierarchic…
Comparing methods for research mentorship
Recent research finds that a classic approach to research mentorship – the Socratic method – where faculty foster learning by posing probing questions, can also create gender and racial disparities in learning gains. A newer research mentorship method, the Critical Response Process (CRP), may address these shortcomings by giving students control over the flow and quality of feedback they receive. We test and compare the efficacy of these two meth…
Adapting and Preparing for Disasters
Recurring climatic and non-climatic hazards, combined with state negligence, challenge resource security for communities already burdened by environmental injustices. Grounded in community-based participatory research (CBPR) and action research (AR) traditions, this article reports results from a 3-year partnership with local leaders in Corcovada, Puerto Rico, to understand the relationships between food, energy, and water (FEW) security and comm…
Mitigating compounding hazard impacts on public health through a community co-created toolkit on food-energy-water (FEW) insecurity
Purpose Climatic- and non-climatic hazards pose increasingly complex risks with and across food, energy and water (FEW) systems. These risks create significant public health challenges, given the centrality of FEW in everyday life. One, evolving hazard-risk context includes the prevalence of “compounding” hazards, such as concurrent hurricanes, heatwaves and droughts. Puerto Rico already experiences concurrent hazards that warrant greater prepare…
Value Propositions Provide a Roadmap for Teaching Doctoral Students How to Develop Research Proposals
Writing winning proposals for funding research is an essential skill for doctoral students in the social sciences. Still, most anthropology programs lack formal instruction on this, relying instead on informal mentorship. To advance this, we evaluated the Value Proposition framework in teaching anthropology Ph.D. students to write proposals. Our findings from the feedback from students and faculty in the NSF-funded Cultural Anthropology Methods P…
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities
Ethical challenges of managed retreat from centralized water systems
Water Governance in the Wake of Disasters
When a disaster strikes, water supply systems can get impacted and amplify water security risk. This study examines community water governance after Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. We draw from the experience of 12 community-managed aqueducts and 36 interviews with community aqueduct managers, nonprofit organizations, and state actors. Our findings highlight the role of the social dimensions of community water governance in alleviating the techni…
Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures
An increasing number of studies find that water sharing-the non-market transfer of privately held water between households-is a ubiquitous informal practice around the world and a primary way that households respond to water insecurity. Yet, a key question about household water sharing remains: is water sharing a viable path that can help advance household water security? Or should water sharing be understood as a symptom of water in security in …
The New NSF Camp Feedback Method for Research Mentorship
The National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) aims to cultivate students' ability to craft competitive research proposals. Over three years of CAMP, we tested and iterated different feedback models: the Socratic method, the Value Proposition approach, and the Critical Response Process (CRP). We ultimately designed the NSF CAMP Feedback Method that integrates successful elements from these three models for the pres…
New Teaching in Participatory Methods for Practicing Anthropology
Anthropologists are moving away from viewing anthropology as a solitary affair towards collaborative research, which values knowledge co-production with community members from research design to data analysis and write-up. By including the people who know most about the field site, participatory research seeks to confront power imbalances and advance social change. Building the capacity of students to fully engage with community partners is criti…
Participatory Convergence
This paper introduces the concept of “Participatory Convergence” as a framework to meet grand social-ecological challenges. Participatory Convergence combines the principles of Convergence Research with Participatory Action Research (PAR), offering a novel approach to tackling complex societal problems. Convergence Research seeks to foster high-level integration between diverse disciplines to address multifaceted issues, emphasizing systems think…
Symbolic Appropriation of the U.S. Flag
Based on photovoice and interview data from 144 Arizona young adults collected as part of the Arizona Youth Identity Project, this article builds on the concept of collective effervescence and symbolic violence through an analysis of U.S. flag images submitted by our respondents during the 2020 presidential election. Drawing on the literature on identity, belonging, and national symbols, this article highlights three main themes. First, our data …
Photovoice
Photovoice involves respondents taking photographs of their environment to promote critical discussions and reflect on their experiences. Photovoice empowers marginalized communities and serves to reach policymakers. The Arizona Youth Identity Project (AZYIP) used photovoice with an innovative approach in a multisite research design with a large sample size and completely online research implementation using video conferencing, mobile phones, and…
Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO)
Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align researchers' and communities' agendas through focused collaboration. Participant-observation and community…
Applying machine learning to understand water security and water access inequality in underserved colonia communities
Blue Food Sovereignty Benefits Social-Ecological Resilience
“Blue” (aquatic) food systems have a vital role in providing nutrition, livelihoods, and food security for coastal communities, but addressing and evaluating issues of equity and social resilience continue to challenge small-scale fisheries management. We examine how marine aquaculture and co-management approaches that integrate traditional institutions can support food sovereignty for more equitable blue food systems. Interviews with stakeholder…
Using Media Framing to Explore the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Addressing the call for qualitative and empirical approaches to the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus studies, this research examined newspapers to explore public discussion framing the understanding of the FEW systems interconnections. We conducted a media content analysis on news articles in Spanish between January 2015 and December 2020 for the main river basin in Uruguay to explore the impacts of increased agriculture productivity on the FE…
Water Sharing as Disaster Response
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
The Role of Social Capital in Resiliency
The disasters that occurred during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season not only became an economic burden for federal and local governments but also for those who had their houses damaged and lived without electricity, water, and related necessities 1 year after. In the case of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, ineffective oversight of the large‐scale humanitarian crisis also contributed to long‐term delays in recovery efforts. This paper explores h…
Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO)
Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align researchers' and communities' agendas through focused collaboration. Participant-observation and community…
Photovoice
Photovoice involves respondents taking photographs of their environment to promote critical discussions and reflect on their experiences. Photovoice empowers marginalized communities and serves to reach policymakers. The Arizona Youth Identity Project (AZYIP) used photovoice with an innovative approach in a multisite research design with a large sample size and completely online research implementation using video conferencing, mobile phones, and…
Water Sharing as Disaster Response
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
Participatory Convergence
This paper introduces the concept of “Participatory Convergence” as a framework to meet grand social-ecological challenges. Participatory Convergence combines the principles of Convergence Research with Participatory Action Research (PAR), offering a novel approach to tackling complex societal problems. Convergence Research seeks to foster high-level integration between diverse disciplines to address multifaceted issues, emphasizing systems think…
The Role of Social Capital in Resiliency
The disasters that occurred during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season not only became an economic burden for federal and local governments but also for those who had their houses damaged and lived without electricity, water, and related necessities 1 year after. In the case of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, ineffective oversight of the large‐scale humanitarian crisis also contributed to long‐term delays in recovery efforts. This paper explores h…
Applying machine learning to understand water security and water access inequality in underserved colonia communities
Blue Food Sovereignty Benefits Social-Ecological Resilience
“Blue” (aquatic) food systems have a vital role in providing nutrition, livelihoods, and food security for coastal communities, but addressing and evaluating issues of equity and social resilience continue to challenge small-scale fisheries management. We examine how marine aquaculture and co-management approaches that integrate traditional institutions can support food sovereignty for more equitable blue food systems. Interviews with stakeholder…
Using Media Framing to Explore the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Addressing the call for qualitative and empirical approaches to the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus studies, this research examined newspapers to explore public discussion framing the understanding of the FEW systems interconnections. We conducted a media content analysis on news articles in Spanish between January 2015 and December 2020 for the main river basin in Uruguay to explore the impacts of increased agriculture productivity on the FE…
Water Sharing as Disaster Response
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
Water Governance in the Wake of Disasters
When a disaster strikes, water supply systems can get impacted and amplify water security risk. This study examines community water governance after Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. We draw from the experience of 12 community-managed aqueducts and 36 interviews with community aqueduct managers, nonprofit organizations, and state actors. Our findings highlight the role of the social dimensions of community water governance in alleviating the techni…
Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures
An increasing number of studies find that water sharing-the non-market transfer of privately held water between households-is a ubiquitous informal practice around the world and a primary way that households respond to water insecurity. Yet, a key question about household water sharing remains: is water sharing a viable path that can help advance household water security? Or should water sharing be understood as a symptom of water in security in …
The New NSF Camp Feedback Method for Research Mentorship
The National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) aims to cultivate students' ability to craft competitive research proposals. Over three years of CAMP, we tested and iterated different feedback models: the Socratic method, the Value Proposition approach, and the Critical Response Process (CRP). We ultimately designed the NSF CAMP Feedback Method that integrates successful elements from these three models for the pres…
New Teaching in Participatory Methods for Practicing Anthropology
Anthropologists are moving away from viewing anthropology as a solitary affair towards collaborative research, which values knowledge co-production with community members from research design to data analysis and write-up. By including the people who know most about the field site, participatory research seeks to confront power imbalances and advance social change. Building the capacity of students to fully engage with community partners is criti…
Participatory Convergence
This paper introduces the concept of “Participatory Convergence” as a framework to meet grand social-ecological challenges. Participatory Convergence combines the principles of Convergence Research with Participatory Action Research (PAR), offering a novel approach to tackling complex societal problems. Convergence Research seeks to foster high-level integration between diverse disciplines to address multifaceted issues, emphasizing systems think…
Symbolic Appropriation of the U.S. Flag
Based on photovoice and interview data from 144 Arizona young adults collected as part of the Arizona Youth Identity Project, this article builds on the concept of collective effervescence and symbolic violence through an analysis of U.S. flag images submitted by our respondents during the 2020 presidential election. Drawing on the literature on identity, belonging, and national symbols, this article highlights three main themes. First, our data …
Photovoice
Photovoice involves respondents taking photographs of their environment to promote critical discussions and reflect on their experiences. Photovoice empowers marginalized communities and serves to reach policymakers. The Arizona Youth Identity Project (AZYIP) used photovoice with an innovative approach in a multisite research design with a large sample size and completely online research implementation using video conferencing, mobile phones, and…
Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO)
Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align researchers' and communities' agendas through focused collaboration. Participant-observation and community…
Power outages and social vulnerability in the U.S. Gulf Coast
Extreme weather events and disasters, coupled with aging and underfunded infrastructure, threaten critical systems like energy grids. Disruptions in these systems following disasters have cascading impacts on population health and well-being. By combining power outage, disaster, and social vulnerability information (2017–2022) at the county level in one of the most disaster-prone regions of the United States, the Gulf Coast, we created hierarchic…
Comparing methods for research mentorship
Recent research finds that a classic approach to research mentorship – the Socratic method – where faculty foster learning by posing probing questions, can also create gender and racial disparities in learning gains. A newer research mentorship method, the Critical Response Process (CRP), may address these shortcomings by giving students control over the flow and quality of feedback they receive. We test and compare the efficacy of these two meth…
Adapting and Preparing for Disasters
Recurring climatic and non-climatic hazards, combined with state negligence, challenge resource security for communities already burdened by environmental injustices. Grounded in community-based participatory research (CBPR) and action research (AR) traditions, this article reports results from a 3-year partnership with local leaders in Corcovada, Puerto Rico, to understand the relationships between food, energy, and water (FEW) security and comm…
Mitigating compounding hazard impacts on public health through a community co-created toolkit on food-energy-water (FEW) insecurity
Purpose Climatic- and non-climatic hazards pose increasingly complex risks with and across food, energy and water (FEW) systems. These risks create significant public health challenges, given the centrality of FEW in everyday life. One, evolving hazard-risk context includes the prevalence of “compounding” hazards, such as concurrent hurricanes, heatwaves and droughts. Puerto Rico already experiences concurrent hazards that warrant greater prepare…
Value Propositions Provide a Roadmap for Teaching Doctoral Students How to Develop Research Proposals
Writing winning proposals for funding research is an essential skill for doctoral students in the social sciences. Still, most anthropology programs lack formal instruction on this, relying instead on informal mentorship. To advance this, we evaluated the Value Proposition framework in teaching anthropology Ph.D. students to write proposals. Our findings from the feedback from students and faculty in the NSF-funded Cultural Anthropology Methods P…
Navigating cascading food-energy-water insecurities
Ethical challenges of managed retreat from centralized water systems
Teaching and Learning Participatory Methods in Anthropology
Participatory methods in cultural anthropology continue to gain popularity. These methods respect community values and promote empowerment and co-creation, enhancing the ethicality and relevance of research findings. Despite their advantages, formal training in participatory methods is limited in anthropology programs, often leaving anthropologists to learn through trial and error with community partners. This article provides an overview of comm…
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