Peter Taber
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 179104 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Taber |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Taber |
| ASSINATURA | TABER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1120-5971 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“Using theories” and “doing theory”
The use of “theory” is a common concern in public health and anthropology. However, the term can have quite distinct meanings. In this piece, we seek to name and characterize some tendencies in anthropological theorizing that contribute to potential misunderstandings when communicating with non-anthropologist colleagues in public health. In particular, we highlight differences between the use of recognizable, named “theories” that often explicitl…
National Media Coverage of the Veterans Affairs Waitlist Scandal
BACKGROUND: On April 23, 2014, US media outlets broadcast reports of excessive wait times and "secret" waitlists at some Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, precipitating legislation to increase Veterans' access to private sector health care. OBJECTIVE: The aims were to assess changes in Veterans' distrust in the VA health care system before and after the media coverage and explore sex and racial/ethnic differences in the temporal patterns. METHODS:…
Environmental consulting as experimental system
Infrastructures of environmental governance
To the extent that environmental governance aspires to be based on positive knowledge of what 'the environment' consists of and how it functions, programmes of environmental management must find ways to study it. This article draws on scholarship on knowledge infrastructures to examine a trajectory of scientific work in Ecuador focused on biodiversity and the recent uptake of this infrastructure for the study of climate change. When combined with…
Taxonomic Government
From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, biodiversity went from being an arcane, technical way of thinking about natural resources, to an important object of political concern and planning in Ecuador. This historically novel relationship to biological resources was catalyzed in large part by Ecuador’s National Herbarium. The Herbarium’s work modif ed existing regimes for managing plant resources during a time of economic crisis, and served as infras…
Infrastructures of environmental governance
To the extent that environmental governance aspires to be based on positive knowledge of what 'the environment' consists of and how it functions, programmes of environmental management must find ways to study it. This article draws on scholarship on knowledge infrastructures to examine a trajectory of scientific work in Ecuador focused on biodiversity and the recent uptake of this infrastructure for the study of climate change. When combined with…
Taxonomic Government
From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, biodiversity went from being an arcane, technical way of thinking about natural resources, to an important object of political concern and planning in Ecuador. This historically novel relationship to biological resources was catalyzed in large part by Ecuador’s National Herbarium. The Herbarium’s work modif ed existing regimes for managing plant resources during a time of economic crisis, and served as infras…
Infrastructures of environmental governance
To the extent that environmental governance aspires to be based on positive knowledge of what 'the environment' consists of and how it functions, programmes of environmental management must find ways to study it. This article draws on scholarship on knowledge infrastructures to examine a trajectory of scientific work in Ecuador focused on biodiversity and the recent uptake of this infrastructure for the study of climate change. When combined with…
Environmental consulting as experimental system
National Media Coverage of the Veterans Affairs Waitlist Scandal
BACKGROUND: On April 23, 2014, US media outlets broadcast reports of excessive wait times and "secret" waitlists at some Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, precipitating legislation to increase Veterans' access to private sector health care. OBJECTIVE: The aims were to assess changes in Veterans' distrust in the VA health care system before and after the media coverage and explore sex and racial/ethnic differences in the temporal patterns. METHODS:…
“Using theories” and “doing theory”
The use of “theory” is a common concern in public health and anthropology. However, the term can have quite distinct meanings. In this piece, we seek to name and characterize some tendencies in anthropological theorizing that contribute to potential misunderstandings when communicating with non-anthropologist colleagues in public health. In particular, we highlight differences between the use of recognizable, named “theories” that often explicitl…
Political science (4 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 obras) · Corporate governance (2 obras) · Economics (2 obras) · Engineering (2 obras) · Environmental planning (2 obras) · Environmental resource management (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras)