Anthropology #

Supermarket Redlining

The practice of food corporations avoiding Black neighborhoods due to high insurance rates, crime, and low sales.

Middle Class Flight

The phenomenon where middle-class residents leave urban areas, impacting local economies and food access.

Hucksters

Vendors who sell food in neightborhoods, often unable to compete with supermarkets

Deficit-based Framing

A perspective that focuses on what is missing in communities, ignoring residents’ agency and resilience.

Individualized Blame

The practice of attributing the lack of healthy food options to residents’ personal choices rather than systemic issues.

The UnSafeway

A term used by residents to describe the local Safeway store, reflecting dissatisfaction with its quality.

Internalized Critique

The belief among some residents that the lack of food access is due to the community’s failure to advocate for itself.

Quiet Refusal

Everyday acts of resistance that aren’t loud but signify a rejection of systemic neglect.

Vincent’s Parents

An example of a family that moved to Washington, D.C for better economic opportunities.

Residents Cheated Out of Money

The perception that local residents were ufnairly treated by store owners, impacting community trust.

Historical Continuity

The Community Market’s legacy of Black ownership dating back to 1944 amidst the devline of neighborhood grocers.

Moral Authority

Mr. Jones models a moral economy prioritizing local youth’s well-being over profit.

Third Space Function

The store acts as a safe environment for local youth, distinct from other commercial settings.

Systemic Invisibility

Residence experience lack of support from officials, leading to self-sufficiency in addressing food insecurity.

Micro-Level Processes

These include how individuals decide where to shop and what to purchase, connecting local actions to larger power structures.

Agency in Context

Residents possess the capacity to shape their surroundings, whether through community gardening or deliberate navigation of grocery options.

Fluidity of Place

Viewing neighborhoods as dynamic spaces rather than fixed areas allows for a more accrate understanding of how people define their own access and needs.

Geographies of self-reliance

Describes the community of Deanwood as a community where they grow their own food and own their own grocery stores.

Culinary triangle

Idea from Claude Levi-Strauss about the binary of inedible to edible, consisting of raw, cooked, and rotted states.

Matter Out of Place

Dirt is considered mater of of place, as societies are organized through what they consider to be clean and dirty. Coined by Mary Douglass in her 1966 book Purity and Danger to define “dirt” as anything that violates established social order and classification. It highlights the filth is not just physical, but a subjective violation of boundaries and cultural expectations.

Racism as a relational concept

Racism is a process and race is relational, transforming perceived differences into inequality. Leith Mullings “interrogating racism: toward an antiracist anthropology.”

Moral Economy

An economic system based on shared social norms, fairness, and community welfare rather than solely on market forces. Popularized by historian E.P. Thompson, it emphasizes that economic activities are “embedded” within social relationships, prioritizing subsistence and equity over individual profit maximization.

In Versus of the City

The focus of study is not the object of study; anthropologists study in villages rather than studying villages. Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Culture.

Spatial Practices

Practices like skateboarding or mural painting outside, also describing urban segregation. City of Walls by Teresa Caldeira. The book focuses on Sāo Paulo and presents a comprehensive analysis of the way in which crime, fear of violence, and disrespect of citizenship rights intertwine with urban transformations to produce a new pattern of urban segregation during the period of democratic consolidation (1980s-90s).

Fortified Enclaves

Privatized, enclosed, and monitored spaces for residence, work, and leisure that proliferate due to fear of crime and urban inequality.

Walled Communities

Gated residential developments, shopping malls, and office parks that create new patterns of spatial segregation.

Partition

The concept of nationals as discrete spatial partitionings of territory. Imagining Other Worlds at the India-Pakistan Border by Rashma Sadana talking about the partitioning of India in 1947.

Imagined Communities

Residents use stories of the past to highlight the loss of local grovery stores and social anchors.

Invented Traditions

Symbolic practices that mark who is in or out of a community. Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land (filmed in the 90s). Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger were prominent historians who co-edited the influential 1983 book The Invention of Tradition. Like the olympic torch or myth of American cowboys.

Sect

A way of talking about social difference in Lebanon, often used to control marriage choices. Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land (filmed in the 90s) not the same geo-political space. Invented traditions are symbolic and meant to mark people are in or out. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger were prominent historians who co-edited the influential 1983 book The Invention of Tradition.

Use Wear

Analysis of how contemporary artifacts are modified to meet extreme demands. Undocumented Immigrants by De Leon

Borderlands

"Networks and fields that stretch across borders of the nation state" (Glick Schiller 2005) Hybridity. Nodes in a moving network of relationships.. Creole, texmex, etc

Transnationalism

The process where people, ideas, and goods traverse national borders, creating ongoing connections.

De facto state

A political entity with effective territorial control but lacking formal diplomatic recognition.

Continent homes

A complex, subjective space that anchors people within the world, beyond just physical shelter.

Denial

A coordinated network that publishes false information to distort the truth. lecture by sarah wagner

Objects of Absence

Markers of continuity that preserve identity and history despite efforts at displacement. Ilana Feldman, "Murmurs of Presence in Objects of Absence." Abu Khalil and his identification card

Circulation

Items passed down through generations, symbolizing identity despite their traditional use being lost.

Refugeedom

The state of being a refugee, often associated with loss and survival. There are important distinctions even within refugeedom. asylum seekers (awaiting status approval), internally displaced persons (IDPs) who stay within their home country, stateless persons, and those fleeing disaster or hunger

Humanitarianism

A discourse that emerged from the Enlightenment, focusing on human responsibility and suffering. Language of compassion which is sometimes different from an obligation . Picture of who are the victims of who is worthy of compassion. Humanitarianism used to have someone in need, a donator, and then a big institution in the middle, but now it can be more direct.

Inhospitable Zone

Areas that are extremely uncomfortable or unlivable due to environmental conditions. Juliette Duclos-Galois about the heat in Baghdad.

Fragility of infrastructure

The vulnerability of essential services during peak demand periods, especially in Baghdad in her book "Under the Baghdad Sun"

Ecologies of War

Diana Pardo Pedraza material, affective, and social manifestations of power produce ecologies, which are, in turn, inextricable from the violence, toxicity, affects, and domination of war - co-constitution.

Military Environmentalism

The Intersection of military practices and environmental concerns.

More-Then Human Relations

Ethnographic practices that consider the interconnectedness of humans and non-human entities in Columba Gonzalez-Duarte's book Border of Care

Good-To-Live-With

The concept of cultivating relationships with other species for multispecies justice.

Companion Species

Entities that share a close relationship with humans, often in ecological contexts.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Culinary Triangle

Mary Douglas

Matter out of place - anything that violates established social order and classification.

Leith Mullings

Racism as a relational concept.

E.P. Thompson

Moral Economy

Clifford Geertz

In Versus of the City

Teresa Caldeira

Spatial Practices - City of Wall

Rashma Sadana

Partition

Imaging Other Worls at the India-Pakistan Border

Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger

Invented Traditions

The Invention of Tradition

Sect

Jason De Leon

Use Wear

Glick Schiller

Borderlands

Ilana Feldman

Objects of Absence

Juliette Duclos-Galois

Inhospitable Zone

Fragility of Infrastructure

Under the Baghdad Sun

Diana Pardo Pedraza

Ecologies of War

Military environemntalism

Columba Gonzalez-Duarte

Border of Care

More-Then Human Relations

Sarah Wagner

Denial