Workshop: A Southern Engaged Anthropology Network?
Presentation Location
Capital Room
Document Type
Event
Start Date
8-4-2022 3:45 PM
End Date
8-4-2022 5:15 PM
Description
Workshop: John Dempsey Parker (Institute for Emerging Issues (NCSU) / johndempseyparker.org)
A Southern Engaged Anthropology Network? A proposal for a regional network for applied, activist, engaged, and practicing anthropologists, and those on the way.
Since the mid-1990s, I’ve intentionally worked within and across the nonprofit sector, faith communities, activist networks, and the community development field, primarily in North Carolina, as well as in other parts of the US South. I’ve engaged at the intersections of community organizing, economic justice, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, social movements, and public policy. The aim is to be of service and strengthen various efforts, primarily connected to multiracial, intergenerational, and multifaith alliances and networks, guided by African-American and multicultural leadership teams, centering the lives of “everyday people”, people of color, the poor, and working class. For me, over 25 years, this orientation has involved being bi-vocational, or creative in designing employment roles or goals, wrestling with aligning work, family, and community, as well as serving in a variety of capacities beyond paid employment - as a board member, an engaged community member, or informal, no-named roles. After a vocational reflection, orientation, and framing, we’ll ask, “What’s needed right now?” and collectively explore an idea for a regional network for applied, activist, engaged, and practicing anthropologists (among others), as well as those on the way. We’ll reflect on the relevance of issue-oriented and placed-based networks, interest groups, mutual aid, personal and community care, among other emergent ideas.
Recommended Citation
Parker, John Dempsey, "Workshop: A Southern Engaged Anthropology Network?" (2022). Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society. 13.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southernanthro_meeting/2022/schedule/13
Workshop: A Southern Engaged Anthropology Network?
Capital Room
Workshop: John Dempsey Parker (Institute for Emerging Issues (NCSU) / johndempseyparker.org)
A Southern Engaged Anthropology Network? A proposal for a regional network for applied, activist, engaged, and practicing anthropologists, and those on the way.
Since the mid-1990s, I’ve intentionally worked within and across the nonprofit sector, faith communities, activist networks, and the community development field, primarily in North Carolina, as well as in other parts of the US South. I’ve engaged at the intersections of community organizing, economic justice, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, social movements, and public policy. The aim is to be of service and strengthen various efforts, primarily connected to multiracial, intergenerational, and multifaith alliances and networks, guided by African-American and multicultural leadership teams, centering the lives of “everyday people”, people of color, the poor, and working class. For me, over 25 years, this orientation has involved being bi-vocational, or creative in designing employment roles or goals, wrestling with aligning work, family, and community, as well as serving in a variety of capacities beyond paid employment - as a board member, an engaged community member, or informal, no-named roles. After a vocational reflection, orientation, and framing, we’ll ask, “What’s needed right now?” and collectively explore an idea for a regional network for applied, activist, engaged, and practicing anthropologists (among others), as well as those on the way. We’ll reflect on the relevance of issue-oriented and placed-based networks, interest groups, mutual aid, personal and community care, among other emergent ideas.