Politics of Hate in Southern California
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EthnoSketch: Peopling a Project
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EthnoSketch: Historicizing a Project
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EthnoSketch: Mapping Subject Positions
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joerene.avilesResearch came from newspaper articles, surviving letters, and other texts were used to produce the argument in the report regarding disaster investigation.
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joerene.avilesThe article describes the situation in post-Katrina New Orleans as one where trauma is constantly happening and more work is going into emergency response than recovery. Instead of construction workers, social workers and the like, the military was sent by the government for aid after Katrina.
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joerene.avilesThe main findings in this article is the phenomenon of "biological citizenship" that occurred in the Ukraine after the Chernobyl disaster, how "scientific cooperation and political management" developed, and how sociopolitical factors affect the course of health and disease in a country.
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joerene.avilesThe parts of the film that I found most persuasive and compelling were Atul Gawande's personal experience. As both a surgeon and son, he has the unique viewpoint of being the one to be the bearer of bad news and be the one to accept his father's mortality as his cancer progressed. Gawande gives rational and emotional parts of end-of-life care, and is able to learn new ways of handling mortality as a healthcare provider and a human.
Ethnography, at its best, provides a powerful and efficient way to read historical conditions.