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Papers by David Fazzino
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development
Anthropology and Humanism
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022
This commentary is the result of an imperfect fit of much of the content below for a collection o... more This commentary is the result of an imperfect fit of much of the content below for a collection on sustainability and food. Ultimately I choose to remove this as it went through the review process, realizing it was a likely a round-(w)hole–square-peg type of situation. It was perhaps a bit tongue in cheek or “obtuse” for a more “scientific” way of considering the issue of food systems sustainability. In one of the disciplines from which I write, anthropology, the reflexive turn—refuting the outright positivism of neutral and objective studies, which make claims to a knowable and absolute truth—has become a part of the intellectual landscape for generations. This has led to more scientific studies wherein anthropologists are generally more honest about the extent and limitations of their research and writing. The ethnographic texts that implied omniscient and omnipresent accounts of the cultural group have generally faded from favor toward more partial accounts that are (1) reflexive...
The Routledge handbook of comparative rural policy, 2019
Transdisciplinarity for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance, 2018
Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and small-scale fisheries... more Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and small-scale fisheries provide food, jobs, and life satisfaction to billions of people worldwide. Yet, they are rarely recognized for these facts in global-level discussions about food systems and security. In this chapter, we argue that any discussion of food security, global or local, is incomplete if fisheries, and small-scale fisheries specifically, are not included. In this chapter, we discuss the many ways that small-scale fisheries contribute to local and global food security and to sustainable livelihoods in coastal communities. These include fish as an object of exchange and a marker of culture identity, and fisheries as a context in which people can connect their own health and well-being to the health of marine and freshwater ecosystems. The chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts of food systems and food security, the latter entailing more than just whether food is available, but also whether people have access to foods that are nutritious and culturally preferred. We conclude by discussing how a rights-based approach to food systems effectively brings these various ways that people engage with fisheries to the fore.
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](Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Law & Society Review, 2014
The marketing team at Stanford University Press could not have picked a more grimly appropriate r... more The marketing team at Stanford University Press could not have picked a more grimly appropriate release date for Austin Sarat's latest book, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty. In April of 2014, on the eve of the book's publication, the state of Oklahoma botched the execution by lethal injection of Clayton D. Lockett. After being declared unconscious, Lockett began writhing and attempted to sit up. Forty-three minutes after the execution began and seven minutes after officials tried to abort it, he died of a heart attack. On editorial pages across the world, writers decried the horror of what appeared to be a torturous, lingering death. But such deaths, Sarat shows in his history of executions gone wrong, have been anything but anomalous in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Working with four collaborators-Katherine Blumstein, Aubrey Jones, Heather Richard, and Madeline Sprung-Keyser-Sarat used newspapers to survey 8,776 executions from 1900 to 2010. His sobering finding: 3 percent of all executions since 1900 have been botched. Over 8.5 percent have been botched since 1980: Americans have gotten worse, not better, at executing offenders. The book is sure to become an essential resource for scholars wishing to pursue the important theoretical and empirical questions botched executions raise about the practice of capital punishment in the United States. Beyond giving us an unprecedented understanding of the frequency and nature of botched executions (an appendix provides short summaries of each of the 276 botched executions Sarat and his collaborators found), Gruesome Spectacles compellingly situates them in a larger history of the American death penalty. In four chapters dedicated to each mode of execution (hanging, electricity, lethal gas, and lethal injection), Sarat charts bs_bs_banner 979
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Sociology and Anthropology, 2016
This paper discusses the integration of applied and community-based anthropological fieldwork int... more This paper discusses the integration of applied and community-based anthropological fieldwork into programs that do not specifically address applied work. While there has been an increased interest in applied work, it is also the case that not all programs and departments are moving to an applied approach. Instructors who attempt to add these as essential components into advanced level classes may face a multitude of daunting challenges, amongst them the ability to balance this with substantive in-class content delivery, meeting regulatory requirements with the institutional review board, varying levels of student knowledge in methods and theory, and attaining and maintaining student interest. This paper discusses a variety of approaches to meet these challenges and suggests a timeline for a 15-week course that achieves a balancing act of substantive course delivery and hands-on experiences, offering students the best of "both worlds".
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2013
This commentary highlights how participation and investment in local food systems vary between di... more This commentary highlights how participation and investment in local food systems vary between differently situated actors in Alaska, with an emphasis on communities in the interior of the state. Our experiences with various food system research projects over the last five years have revealed several exclusionary and inclusionary practices and policies that call into question shared notions of community among local food producers and consumers. We note the different motivations and discourses that producers and consumers
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific
A review of Neoliberal Health Organizing: Communication, Meaning, and Politics by Mohan J. Dutta ... more A review of Neoliberal Health Organizing: Communication, Meaning, and Politics by Mohan J. Dutta (Left Coast Press, 2015)
Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to Present utilizes a variety o... more Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to Present utilizes a variety of case studies to explore the various techniques and meanings behind graffiti and opens up spaces to further explore this phenomenon, in essence building a theoretical case against Glazer’s “broken windows” theory. Understanding Graffiti resonates with my own work on development and dispossession of property and place in the context of towns taken through government action in the Ukraine (Chernobyl, Pripyat) and the United States (Pennsylvania: Centralia, and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (DWGNRA)). In each of these sites, graffiti is ubiquitous although the way I interpret its impacts and meanings varies depending upon the context.
Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and smallscale fisheries ... more Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and smallscale fisheries provide food, jobs, and life satisfaction to billions of people worldwide. Yet, they are rarely recognized for these facts in global-level discussions about food systems and security. In this chapter, we argue that any discussion of food security, global or local, is incomplete if fisheries, and small-scale fisheries specifically, are not included. In this chapter, we discuss the many ways that small-scale fisheries contribute to local and global food security and to sustainable livelihoods in coastal communities. These include fish as an object of exchange and a marker of culture identity, and fisheries as a context in which people can connect their own health and wellbeing to the health of marine and freshwater ecosystems. The chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts of food systems and food security, the latter entailing more than just whether food is available, but also wh...
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development
Anthropology and Humanism
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022
This commentary is the result of an imperfect fit of much of the content below for a collection o... more This commentary is the result of an imperfect fit of much of the content below for a collection on sustainability and food. Ultimately I choose to remove this as it went through the review process, realizing it was a likely a round-(w)hole–square-peg type of situation. It was perhaps a bit tongue in cheek or “obtuse” for a more “scientific” way of considering the issue of food systems sustainability. In one of the disciplines from which I write, anthropology, the reflexive turn—refuting the outright positivism of neutral and objective studies, which make claims to a knowable and absolute truth—has become a part of the intellectual landscape for generations. This has led to more scientific studies wherein anthropologists are generally more honest about the extent and limitations of their research and writing. The ethnographic texts that implied omniscient and omnipresent accounts of the cultural group have generally faded from favor toward more partial accounts that are (1) reflexive...
The Routledge handbook of comparative rural policy, 2019
Transdisciplinarity for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance, 2018
Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and small-scale fisheries... more Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and small-scale fisheries provide food, jobs, and life satisfaction to billions of people worldwide. Yet, they are rarely recognized for these facts in global-level discussions about food systems and security. In this chapter, we argue that any discussion of food security, global or local, is incomplete if fisheries, and small-scale fisheries specifically, are not included. In this chapter, we discuss the many ways that small-scale fisheries contribute to local and global food security and to sustainable livelihoods in coastal communities. These include fish as an object of exchange and a marker of culture identity, and fisheries as a context in which people can connect their own health and well-being to the health of marine and freshwater ecosystems. The chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts of food systems and food security, the latter entailing more than just whether food is available, but also whether people have access to foods that are nutritious and culturally preferred. We conclude by discussing how a rights-based approach to food systems effectively brings these various ways that people engage with fisheries to the fore.
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Law & Society Review, 2014
The marketing team at Stanford University Press could not have picked a more grimly appropriate r... more The marketing team at Stanford University Press could not have picked a more grimly appropriate release date for Austin Sarat's latest book, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty. In April of 2014, on the eve of the book's publication, the state of Oklahoma botched the execution by lethal injection of Clayton D. Lockett. After being declared unconscious, Lockett began writhing and attempted to sit up. Forty-three minutes after the execution began and seven minutes after officials tried to abort it, he died of a heart attack. On editorial pages across the world, writers decried the horror of what appeared to be a torturous, lingering death. But such deaths, Sarat shows in his history of executions gone wrong, have been anything but anomalous in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Working with four collaborators-Katherine Blumstein, Aubrey Jones, Heather Richard, and Madeline Sprung-Keyser-Sarat used newspapers to survey 8,776 executions from 1900 to 2010. His sobering finding: 3 percent of all executions since 1900 have been botched. Over 8.5 percent have been botched since 1980: Americans have gotten worse, not better, at executing offenders. The book is sure to become an essential resource for scholars wishing to pursue the important theoretical and empirical questions botched executions raise about the practice of capital punishment in the United States. Beyond giving us an unprecedented understanding of the frequency and nature of botched executions (an appendix provides short summaries of each of the 276 botched executions Sarat and his collaborators found), Gruesome Spectacles compellingly situates them in a larger history of the American death penalty. In four chapters dedicated to each mode of execution (hanging, electricity, lethal gas, and lethal injection), Sarat charts bs_bs_banner 979
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage
Sociology and Anthropology, 2016
This paper discusses the integration of applied and community-based anthropological fieldwork int... more This paper discusses the integration of applied and community-based anthropological fieldwork into programs that do not specifically address applied work. While there has been an increased interest in applied work, it is also the case that not all programs and departments are moving to an applied approach. Instructors who attempt to add these as essential components into advanced level classes may face a multitude of daunting challenges, amongst them the ability to balance this with substantive in-class content delivery, meeting regulatory requirements with the institutional review board, varying levels of student knowledge in methods and theory, and attaining and maintaining student interest. This paper discusses a variety of approaches to meet these challenges and suggests a timeline for a 15-week course that achieves a balancing act of substantive course delivery and hands-on experiences, offering students the best of "both worlds".
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2013
This commentary highlights how participation and investment in local food systems vary between di... more This commentary highlights how participation and investment in local food systems vary between differently situated actors in Alaska, with an emphasis on communities in the interior of the state. Our experiences with various food system research projects over the last five years have revealed several exclusionary and inclusionary practices and policies that call into question shared notions of community among local food producers and consumers. We note the different motivations and discourses that producers and consumers
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific
A review of Neoliberal Health Organizing: Communication, Meaning, and Politics by Mohan J. Dutta ... more A review of Neoliberal Health Organizing: Communication, Meaning, and Politics by Mohan J. Dutta (Left Coast Press, 2015)
Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to Present utilizes a variety o... more Understanding Graffiti: Multidisciplinary Studies from Prehistory to Present utilizes a variety of case studies to explore the various techniques and meanings behind graffiti and opens up spaces to further explore this phenomenon, in essence building a theoretical case against Glazer’s “broken windows” theory. Understanding Graffiti resonates with my own work on development and dispossession of property and place in the context of towns taken through government action in the Ukraine (Chernobyl, Pripyat) and the United States (Pennsylvania: Centralia, and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (DWGNRA)). In each of these sites, graffiti is ubiquitous although the way I interpret its impacts and meanings varies depending upon the context.
Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and smallscale fisheries ... more Fish is among the most eaten foods and traded commodities in the world, and smallscale fisheries provide food, jobs, and life satisfaction to billions of people worldwide. Yet, they are rarely recognized for these facts in global-level discussions about food systems and security. In this chapter, we argue that any discussion of food security, global or local, is incomplete if fisheries, and small-scale fisheries specifically, are not included. In this chapter, we discuss the many ways that small-scale fisheries contribute to local and global food security and to sustainable livelihoods in coastal communities. These include fish as an object of exchange and a marker of culture identity, and fisheries as a context in which people can connect their own health and wellbeing to the health of marine and freshwater ecosystems. The chapter begins with an introduction to the concepts of food systems and food security, the latter entailing more than just whether food is available, but also wh...
Pacific Affairs , 2020
Book review of, "Working with the Ancestors: Mana and place in the Marquesas Islands." Culture, P... more Book review of, "Working with the Ancestors: Mana and place in the Marquesas Islands." Culture, Place, Nature: Studies in Anthropology and Environment. By Emily C Donaldson. In Pacific Affairs.
AAA, Anthropology Book Forum , 2019
Book Review of "Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century" by Katy Ga... more Book Review of "Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century" by Katy Gardner and David Lewis. Published 2015.
Pluto Press
Review of Neoliberal Health Organizing: Communication, Meaning, and Politics by Mohan J. Dutta
Citation: Fazzino, D. V., II. (2016). The possibilities and pitfalls of future food systems [Book... more Citation: Fazzino, D. V., II. (2016). The possibilities and pitfalls of future food systems [Book review]. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Advance online publication. http://dx.
