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INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL ADAPTATIONS TO HUMAN VULNERABILITY

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RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY

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RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 38

INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL ADAPTATIONS TO HUMAN VULNERABILITY

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DONALD C. WOOD

Department of Medical Education, Akita University School of Medicine, Japan

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Authors

Kari B. Henquinet is a Cultural Anthropologist (PhD, Michigan State University) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University. She has worked on numerous research projects focused on international development, including ethnographic work in Niger, historical work on World Vision, and collaborative, interdisciplinary projects on disaster risk reduction and agriculture. These projects examine vulnerability, women’s rights, gender and development, genealogies of international development, and production of knowledge in international development organizations and among their interlocutors. Henquinet is also the Director of two university-Peace Corps partner programs at Michigan Tech and deeply engaged in a variety of other international education and service-learning initiatives on campus through her joint appointment in the Pavlis Honors College.

Megan B. Hinrichsen is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. She also coordinates Monmouth College’s programs in Global Food Security and Peace Corps Preparation and teaches courses in Latin American Studies and Global Public Health. Her research focuses on the impacts that social and economic life have on health, nutrition, and overall well-being in Latin America, particularly Ecuador, and the United States. She received her PhD in Medical Anthropology from Southern Methodist University in 2015.

Courtney Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, jointly appointed at the Institute for Southern Studies, whose work focuses on Native Nation economic development and issues of economic justice, with a current emphasis on entrepreneurship. She has a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan, an MA in Economics from Wayne State University, and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty (2019, with the support of the National Science Foundation) and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Sarah Lyon is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair Trade Markets (2011), the winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology’s Book Prize, and the co-editor of Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies (2010). Sarah is currently conducting ongoing research on coffee, gender, economic development, and the impact of certification and quality standards in Mexico. At the University of Kentucky, Sarah teaches courses on Economic Anthropology, Business Anthropology, Ethical Consumption, and Globalization. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Human Organization.

Daniel Murphy is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati. He completed his doctoral degree in anthropology at the University of Kentucky and a postdoctoral research fellowship in the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana. His research explores the political ecology of disaster among Mongolian pastoralists and has published in Economic Anthropology, Peasant Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, and Nomadic Peoples as well as chapters in edited volumes. He also conducts collaborative research sponsored by the United States Forest Service on forest planning and community vulnerability to climate change.

Elena Sischarenco is an Associate of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she previously received her PhD in Social Anthropology. She also coordinates the methodological seminars in the course of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bergamo. Her research interests go beyond the anthropology of business, and she previously published on informal relations and trust – It is all a Matter of Trust: Polish Migrant Women in Italy (2011). She has investigated themes such as knowledge, personal and group identity, corruption, media discourses and perceptions, vulnerability, and economic crisis. She is now preparing a monograph on her research on entrepreneurs in the construction business in Northern Italy.

Serge Svizzero is a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Reunion Island (France) since 1998. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (1994). He has published books and articles in academic outlets mainly related to economic globalization, macroeconomic analysis, economic history, and economic anthropology. During the last five years, his research has focused on the economic analysis of prehistoric societies, and more specifically on the neolithization process. He was a Vice Chancellor of the University of Reunion Island (2004–2008) and a Deputy Director of International Affairs in the French National Research Institute for Development (2009–2011).

Raja Swamy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee and a core faculty member of the Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Program. He earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and is presently working on his first book based on his dissertation research. In this work, Swamy investigates the impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on economic development priorities in India’s Tamil Nadu state. Exploring the contradictory outcomes of humanitarian agendas subordinated to the demands of a World Bank-financed and state-led reconstruction project, this work attempts to bridge the gap between political ecology and disaster studies by drawing upon an ethnographic study of displaced and resistant artisanal fisher communities thriving on the margins of India’s globalizing economy. He is currently conducting research for an NSF-funded study of the impacts of Hurricane Harvey on the problems of toxicity and gentrification afflicting marginalized minority populations in Houston, Texas.

Clement Tisdell is a Professor Emeritus in Economics at The University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His diverse interests include the socioeconomic functioning and development of ancient economies. His most recent book is Economics and the Environment: The Challenges We Face (2017). Currently, he is preparing a book manuscript on gender inequality.

Janneke Verheijen works as Postdoctoral Project Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD). She received her PhD degree in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam with an in-depth ethnographic study of the interrelations between extreme poverty and women’s HIV risk-taking in rural Malawi. Prior to undertaking this PhD research, Janneke worked at an agricultural research institute in Malawi that aims to fight food insecurity among smallholder farmers. She furthermore conducted and published about ethnographic fieldwork in Guatemala on the impacts of a village’s recent connection to the electricity network, among others on gender norm perceptions. Janneke is the author of De nieuwkijkers van El Remate: Vrouwen en soaps in de Guatemalteekse jungle (2005) and Balancing men, morals and money: Women’s agency between HIV and security in a Malawi village (2013).

Lai Y. Wo is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She received her MPhil at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on gendered migration, intimacy, and vulnerability.

Donald C. Wood is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan, where he has worked since completing a doctoral degree in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo in 2004. Prior to that, he studied Anthropology under Norbert Dannhaeuser at Texas A&M University. He spent more than 15 years researching social conditions at the Hachirogata reclaimed land area in Akita Prefecture, which culminated in the publication of Ogata-Mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village, by Berghahn Books (NY) in 2012 (released in paperback in October, 2015). He has also investigated tourism and the effects of depopulation in the Akita region and was a contributor to the edited volume, Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century (Cambria, 2011). Recently, he has been conducting ethnohistorical research in northeastern Japan and contributing articles to Kyoto Journal.