For those of you also attending the AAA meetings, you are welcome to attend our organizational meeting and our roundtable:
Organizational Meeting
Thursday, November 19, 12:15-1:30pm (location: TBD)
Interest Group Roundtable
Thursday, November 19, 1:45-3:30pm (location: TBD)
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Below we’ve provided a list of NGO- and nonprofit-related papers and posters being presented at the AAA:
Date/Time | Title | Event Type |
Sessions related to NGOs and nonprofits:
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Thurs, Nov 19, 8:00-9:45 | 3-0210 “TO PROMOTE THE WELL-BEING OF HUMANITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD”: ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE LEGACY OF THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION IN LATIN AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND AFRICA. | Session |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:15-12:00 | 3-0355 ABANDONED HOPE? ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF NGO CONSTRUCTION SITES AND RUINS | Interest Group on NGOs and Nonprofits Sponsored Session |
Thurs, Nov 19, 12:15-1:30 | 3-0645 INTEREST GROUP ON NGOS AND NONPROFITS (NGOS) ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING | Interest Group on NGOs and Nonprofits Organizational Meeting |
Thurs, Nov 19, 1:45-3:30 | 3-0920 “NGO-GRAPHIES”: A ROUNDTABLE FACILITATED BY THE INTEREST GROUP ON NGOS AND NONPROFITS | Interest Group on NGOs and Nonprofits Reviewed Session |
Fri, Nov 20, 10:15-12:00 | 4-0350 THE ASYLUM INDUSTRY: TRUTH-MAKING, EXPERTISE, PROFIT AND PRIVATIZATION | Session |
Fri, Nov 20, 4:00-5:45 | 4-1425 21st CENTURY SHORT-TERM MEDICAL MISSIONS: STRANGE RETELLINGS OF FAMILIAR STORIES | Session |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:00-9:45 | 5-0050 MORAL CONTROVERSIES AND NGOs IN TAIWAN AND CHINA | Session |
Sat, Nov 21, 4:00-5:45 | 5-1150 ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON MOVEMENT CYCLES IN CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISM (PART II) | Session |
Sun, Nov 22, 8:00-9:45 | 6-0105 IS FEMALE TO MALE AS NGO IS TO STATE? | Session |
Sun, Nov 22, 10:15-12:00 | 6-0305 FEELINGS OF FAMILIARITY AND ESTRANGEMENT: EXPLORING THE WORK OF AFFECT IN NGOs AND NONPROFITS | Session |
Papers/posters that listed “NGO” as a keyword:
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Wed, Nov 18, 12:30pm | The “Six Blind Men” Can Talk about the Elephant: Partnering with the World Bank and the UN for Ethnographically Grounded Humanitarian Relief | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 1:00pm | Mobile Clinics, Mobile Persons: Non-Governmental Organizations, Migrants and the Politics of Refugee Healthcare in Siracusa, Italy | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 2:45pm | Fear or Survival?: NGOs and Silencing in South Central Somalia | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:15am | From Mobilization to Activism – Mediation to Alienation: NGO Intermediaries and “Seed Custodians” in Maharashtra (India) | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:15am | Negotiating Development Priorities: Politics of Islamic Charity in Uttar Pradesh, India | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:30am | Shifting Identities, Multiple Moralities: Transnational Islam and the Establishment of Faith-Based NGOs in the Bangladeshi Diaspora | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:30am | The Companies Act: Implications for NGOs and People | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 2:45pm | Reinventing Working Class: “Dignity Politics” and Social Entrepreneurship in a Chinese Migrant Workers’ Community in Beijing | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 4:30pm | The “Ngoization” of Islamic Activism in Malaysia and Its Impact on Understandings of Sharia | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 4:45pm | Photographing Those in Need: Exploitation Vs. Empowerment | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 5:00pm | Collaboration Between Hospitals and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) on Implementing Programs to Increase Sexual Health Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention in China | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 5:00pm | Producing Nicaraguan Migrant Feminisms: NGOs, Residual Revolutionary Practice and Transnational Marginality | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 10:15am | Unacceptably Queer? Regulating LGBT Asylum Seekers in the Nonprofit Sector | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 10:30am | Queer Bedfellows: Community, Corporation, and Conflict in L.G.B.T.Q. Bishkek | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20 | Saving Face: The Recreation and Destruction of Noma through Images | Poster |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:00am | Educational Voluntourism and Global Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism and Disillusion | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:30am | Precarious Progress: The Politics of Risk in Afghan Women’s Empowerment Programs | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:45am | Producing Precarity in Transnational LGBT Activism | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:45am | The Strange Journey of Development Data: How Knowledge about Local Lives Is Changed and Reframed As It Moves from People to NGOs to Funders | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 9:00am | the Least I Can Do’: A Progressive Modality of Agency in Nonprofit-Corporate Partnership | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 10:30am | Racial Tension and Student Resistance in a Faith-Based Afterschool Program | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 4:45pm | Cohering a Cultural Nature?: NGO Training Workshops and Environmental Governance in Andean Peru | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 4:45pm | Crossover Programmatic Collaboration Between HIV/AIDS Key Population NGOs: A Case Study of the Netherlands Funded “Bridging the Gaps – Health and Rights for Key Populations” Global Alliance | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 8:00am | Accounting for the Everyday | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 11:15am | Role of Development in Familiarizing the Strange: Excogitating the Sustainability through Capacity Building Initiatives | Paper |
Papers/posters that have “NGO” in the title or abstract (but not listed as a keyword):
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Wed, Nov 18, 12:00pm | Museums, Sans-Papiers and Social Justice: The Case of the Occupation of the Cité Nationale De L’histoire De L’immigration (Museum of Immigration History, Paris, France) | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 1:00pm | Marital Sexual Violence and the Challenge of Care in Northern Vietnam | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 1:30pm | “Are They Guilty?” Moral Dilemmas, Responsibility Conceptualizations, and Personhood Puzzlement Surrounding Stray Dog Euthanasia Debates in Romania | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 1:30pm | Rethinking Community Health Workers: Experience of Village Health Teams Program in Rural Uganda | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 2:15pm | Heroes, Victims, and Villains: The Making of Spanish Return Migrants | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 2:15pm | The Developmental Gaze and the Construction of the Rural Youth | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 2:45pm | Rural Hospitals, Specialist Surgeons, and Barefoot Doctors: Re-Nationalizing Citizenship through Health Care in Coastal Ecuador | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 3:00pm | Between Documentation and Representation of Violence: Internal Armed Conflicts and Works of a Native Artist in the Andes | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 4:15pm | Spiritualizing Activism: Healing the Corporeal and Societal Body in South Asia | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 4:15pm | Political Epistemics of the Nation in Berlin’s “Intercultural” Spaces | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 8:00am | Becoming a Professional Refugee: New Subjectivities and New Social Organization in the Neoliberalization of the Syrian Refugee Experience in Jordan | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 8:15am | “the Breast Is Best:” Microcredit Development and the Sexual Division of Labor in Chiapas, Mexico” | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 8:30am | Flood Networking As Learned Culture of Resilience: Responsive Communities Along the Red River of the North | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 8:45am | Humane Education and Wildlife Conservation in the Chinese Animal Welfare Movement | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:30am | From Hot to Cold: The Temperalities of NGOs and Urban Activists on a Land Rights Movement | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:30am | Recordkeeping: Ethnography, Community Studies, and Anthropological Training in the 1990s Ecuadorian Andes | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:45am | Orientado o Beneficiado: Locating Agency and Contesting Constraints in Nicaraguan Development Encounters | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 11:00am | “the Life of Pleasure and Death”: Situating the Sovereign Gesture Along a Contiuum of Life Force | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 11:45am | Alternative Innovation Systems By Fishers: The Role of Mental Modeling and Cultures of Communication | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 4:45pm | “Tutto E’ Legato”: The Knottedness of Austerity Pasts, Presents, and Futures in the Lives of African Migrants in Italy | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 8:00-9:45am | Aging Bodies, Queer Times: Economies of Care in Later Life | Poster |
Fri, Nov 20, 8:00-9:45am | Debt, Shame and Patriarchy: Why Some Women Fail to Benefit from Microcredit Self-Help Groups in Rural West India | Poster |
Fri, Nov 20, 8:45am | Making Inroads in Fog: Reflecting on Hammoudi’s Theoretical Framing | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 10:15am | Learning English in the Hills of Vietnam: Informal Education Models and Evolving Gender Dynamics in Highland Hmong Society | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 10:15am | “at-Risk and Vulnerable” or “Social Deviants”? Competing Narratives Around LGBT Communities, Sex Workers and Sexually-Active Youth in Cambodia | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 10:45am-12:00pm | Screen and Treat Cervical Cancer Campaign in the Peruvian Andes: Views from Patients and Healthcare Workers | Poster |
Fri, Nov 20, 11:00am | Teachers’ Agency in the Face of an English Language Policy Mandate: a Nicaraguan Story | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 11:15am | Gender, Microfinance, Neoliberalism: Debt and Estrangement in India | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 2:30pm | Awakening to the Arts and Creating Peace through Large-Scale Intercultural Projects That Build Infrastructure | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 2:45pm | The Promise and Futility of Israeli Human Rights Ngos’ “Archive Activism” in the Face of the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 2:45pm | Coping with Touristic Ecologies and Coral Education: Case Studies Across Okinawa and the Caribbean Community | Poster |
Fri, Nov 20, 4:00pm | The Humanitarian Whip of the State: Anti-Trafficking and the Violence of Rescue in India | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 4:15pm | “We Know Who Is Eating the Ebola Money”: Political Effects of Perceived Corruption in the Ebola Response | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 5:00pm | Makings of Imagination and Resistance: A Close-up on Cairo’s Alternative Cultural Sector | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:00-9:45am | Child Socialization in Nicaragua | Poster |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:00am | The Charisma of Nature: Whale and Dolphin Conservation and Claim-Making in Ecuador | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 8:45am | Nostalgic Electoral Observers in Colombia: Longing a Neoliberal Past, Envisioning a Post-Neoliberal Future | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 10:30am | Institutions of Civility, Crowds of Solidarity: Intersectarian Ambivalence in Ankara | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 10:45am | Faith in Bureaucracy: Paper, Labor & Bureaucrats That Care | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 10:45am | Generating Good Consultants: The Ethical Management of Microloans in Paraguay | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 11:00am | Experiments with Money and Sovereignty in Dollarized Ecuador | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 11:00am | Prolific Scripts: How NGOs Are Increasing Socially Scripted Dialogue Surrounding HIV/AIDS in Khayelitsha Township, Western Cape, South Africa | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 11:00am | Relations of Suffering | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 11:15am | Empowered to Leave? NGO Field Workers and Somali Women Negotiate Empowerment and Repatriation in Adult Education Learning Environments | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 1:45-3:30pm | (Trans)formación Docente: Teacher Professional Development and Rights-Based Quality Education for Quechua Communities in Peru | Poster |
Sat, Nov 21, 1:45-3:30pm | What Is “Hope”?: Cultural Models of Hope within a Northern Kentucky Distressed Community | Poster |
Sat, Nov 21, 1:45pm | Navigating and Negotiating Schooling Options in an Urban Slum: Household Selection of NGO Schools or Madrasas in Dhaka, Bangladesh | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 1:45pm | Subjectivities in Transition: Reconfiguring the Past Under the Specter of War | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 2:15pm | Value, Medical Missions and the Guatemala Health System | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 2:45pm | Fixed Categories, Liminal Selves: Becoming “Wsw” in Malawi | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 2:45pm | Enregistering “Empowerment” | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 2:45pm | Enduring in Failure’s Wake: The Work of Reformulating Activism in Beirut, Lebanon | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 4:30pm | Avatars, Algorithms, Anti-Trafficking: Carceral Prosthetics and the Policing of Child Sexual Abuse Images | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 8:45am | Faith in Expertise: Documents and Conditions of Textuality in an International NGO | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 9:00am | Deportation As Arrival – Deported Migrants in Kingston, Jamaica | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 9:00am | Household Sovereignty and Language: What Lies Beyond Claims of Hygiene | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 10:45am | Political Consciousness in El Salvador’s Post-Postwar Generation | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 11:00am | Making Uranium (In)Visible: “Environmental Racism” and Alternative Contamination Limits in the Grants Uranium District | Paper |
Sun, Nov 21, 4:15pm | Reading Medical Anthropology Across Asia with Byron and Mary Jo D. Good: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities | Paper |
Papers/posters that have “nonprofit/non-profit” in the title or abstract (but not listed as a keyword):
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Wed, Nov 18, 12:00pm | Comfort in Discomfort: Grappling with the Familiar Strangeness of Neoliberal Social Justice | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 12:15pm | Teach Them to Eat: Using Language of Empowerment, Self-Help, and Control in the Prevention and Treatment of Diet-Related Chronic Disease | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 2:30pm | It Takes a Village: Aging in Place in a Suburban Community | Paper |
Wed, Nov 18, 4:00pm | Hopping and Soy-like: Developing a Feel for Insects in Nordic Food Lab | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 8:30am | Enforced Invisibility: Migrant Lives in an Era of Prevention through Deterrence | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:15am | Georgia’s Water Policy: A Twenty-First Century Paradox | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 10:30am | Relative Mobility: American Adoption As a Route to “Better Futures” | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 11:30am | “Pakistanis Have Always Been Radio People”: Pakistani Radio and the (un)Making of the South Asian Diasporic Community in Houston, Texas | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 1:45pm | Public Rights, Private Rites: Understanding the Paradoxes & Tensions of Inclusive Education in Guatemala | Paper |
Thurs, Nov 19, 4:30pm | How Do Neoliberal Discourses of Parent Engagement and Advocacy Stall Latino Mothers’ Educational Power? Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Special Education World | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 8:00-9:45am | Stories of Inequality : Experiences of the Near Poor in Linn and Benton County | Poster |
Fri, Nov 20, 8:00-9:45am | Entering the Fray at Jazz Fest: Students, Faculty, and Community Partnerships | Poster |
Fri, Nov 20, 8:15am | The Uses of “Manouche” | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 10:15am | Expectations Fulfilled and Disappointed: Strange and Familiar Landscapes for Somali Refugees, Nairobi to Ohio | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 2:30pm | Bargaining to Belong: US Muslims, Hip Hop and the Limits of Dissent | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 4:30pm | The Makerbus: Mobilizing Community Participation in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 4:45pm | Asylum-Seekers, Spare Couches, and the Politics of Hospitality | Paper |
Fri, Nov 20, 5:15pm | “Toilets Are the New Schools”: Remaking Citizenry and the Developmental Field through India’s Swachh Bharat (‘Clean India’) Campaign | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 9:30am | First Story: Toronto’s Indigenous History As Smart Phone App | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 1:45pm | When Youth Development Programs Disappear: The Kids Will be Alright | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 2:45pm | Unconventional Energy, Unconventional Science: Participatory Air Monitoring and Shale Gas Extraction | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 2:45pm | Four Pathways to Generosity: Evolutionary Mechanisms Differentially Affect Charitable Donations | Paper |
Sat, Nov 21, 3:00pm | Fertile Markets: Market Interactions in Cross-Border Reproductive Care | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 8:45am | On Rhythm and Horses: The Talking Cure Among Alien Familiars | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 8:45am | Designing Corner Store Conversions in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 10:30am | Hawaiian Resilience | Paper |
Sun, Nov 22, 11:00am | Devising Strategies, Managing Needs: A Multi-Perspective Study of Homelessness in Florida | Paper |