PAPER ABSTRACTS and misrecognition mechanisms that marginalize disabled people. chris-mike. [email protected] (TH-21) ✵ ___________________________ Paper AHMED, Khadara, RAHRICK, Anna, SWENSON, Riley, and DAGGETT, Alexandria (CSBSJU) Language Matters: Interpreter Efficacy through Abstracts Technology in the Clinical Setting. This study explores the use of interpreters with Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients in a small midwestern city. It ABBAS, Chelsea (Widener U) State Failure, Migrant Others and the Formation examines the efficacy of the current interpreter system and explores potential of Community Vigilante Groups in Rural Costa Rica. Recent political violence differences in interpreter use by profession and by diverse patient groups. in Nicaragua has sent waves of migrants south to Costa Rica in numbers There were three primary barriers to in-person interpreters: time, availability, not seen since the Nicaraguan Revolution. At the same time, proposed fiscal and patient anonymity. Surprisingly, technological solutions, such as video reforms in Costa Rica have led to massive protests and strikes straining the and audio interpreters, increased flexibility, availability, and language choice nation’s response both in terms of resources and attitudes. Rising xenophobia for LEP patients. This research reveals a need for improvements in interpreter and perceived failings of the Costa Rican state have led to the formation of formats, including increased access to technological solutions, in order to better armed community vigilante groups that are taking direct action in some regions. provide care for diverse groups of LEP patients. [email protected] (W-35) This research explores this tense reality, drawing upon interviews with vigilante ___________________________ members in the San Carlos region. (F-130) ___________________________ AHMED, Saleh (U Arizona) Data Collection in Data Poor Regions: Understanding the Demands for Climate Information in Coastal Bangladesh. ACEVEDO, Sara (Bellevue Coll) Naming Silences: Reclaiming Disability Data collection is sometimes a challenge in many developing countries, largely Narratives through Curricular Intervention. This paper documents my because of lack of available human resources and poor accessibility. This experiences as Diversity and Disability Advocacy Fellow, a PhD candidate in presentation focuses on a research that has been conducted to understand the Anthropology and Social Change, and adjunct faculty at the California Institute local demands of weather and climate information in coastal Bangladesh. Using of Integral Studies. I discuss my role in the implementation of disability-specific the theoretical arguments of social vulnerability to climate change, it highlights curricula through the punctual delivery of a three-installment lecture series agrarian societies are not homogeneous, which also determines by capturing the entitled “Disability as Diversity.” In so doing, I call attention to the overall local social and cultural nuances that shapes differentiated power and access barriers that disabled constituents face as they contest the absence of disability to opportunities as well as capacities to use and needs of weather and climate representation in the curricula. Second, I argue that the systematic neglect of information for local disaster preparedness and adaptation decisions. ahmeds@ disability-specific materials magnifies existing inequalities and effectively email.arizona.edu (F-128) erases disability identity. (F-98) ___________________________ ___________________________ AJIBADE, Idowu (Portland State U) The Double-Edged Nature of Patronage ACOSTA-MUNOZ, Felipe (NCSU) Ko’ox T’aano’on ich Maaya: Yucatec Politics, Capital Accumulation, and Transformative Adaptation in the Maya Language Revitalization Efforts among Professional Educators in the Philippines. This paper explores the relationship between power politics and State of Yucatan, Mexico. Indigenous languages throughout the Americas are socio-ecological patterns of vulnerability and adaptation in Quezon City, endangered. In Mexico 14 million people spoke an indigenous language in Philippines. The paper discusses how patronage politics and a culture of 1930; today that number has declined over 60%, even among the Yucatec Maya, indebtedness were mobilized to create transformational change in a certain low- who number around 795, 000 speakers. In the summer of 2018, my research income community but show that these same factors engendered vulnerability in Merida and Valladolid, through interviews and systematic observation, and subverted meaningful engagement on risk reduction and transformative had as its purpose collecting data about efforts among Maya educators to adaptation in an adjacent community. The paper further interrogates the revitalize Maya. I report in this paper that despite lukewarm support for Maya contradictions and dependency relations embedded in patronage politics and revitalization from the government, there is insufficient legislative action and how this creates subjectivities and an alignment with visions of resilience that enforcement to secure the linguistic and cultural rights of Maya speakers in may not be in the long-term interest of low-income communities. jajibade@ Yucatan. [email protected] (S-04) pdx.edu (TH-137) ___________________________ ___________________________ ADAMS, Ryan (Lycoming Coll) The Local Food Movement in San Juan, ALANIZ, Ryan (Cal Poly) “A resettlement is not the same as a community”: Puerto Rico: Challenges and Opportunities. The small and struggling local Evaluating Post-Disaster Social Development Strategies. Mass migration and food movement in San Juan, Puerto Rico could be understood as occupying disaster refugee crises have spurred debates about how non-governmental two distinct settings. The first is among new farmers, environmentalists and organizations should respond to the difficult task of relocation. Research on other activists interested in various counter-culture causes. The second setting seven Honduran resettlements built for survivors of Hurricane Mitch (1998) is among chefs and restauranteurs. The interaction between the two settings is by different organizations evidences the critical need to invest in social not robust, but their shared motives and experiences suggest that they might be development for long-term success including: Sustaining basic resources, able to find common cause if circumstances changed. Based on six months of Accompanying vulnerable residents over time, Guiding the creation of ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the distinctions between these settings and political, economic, and social institutions, and Empowering residents toward the potential for the local food movement in Puerto Rico. adamsr@lycoming. self-reliance (the SAGE strategy). [email protected] (TH-43) edu (TH-13) ___________________________ ___________________________ ALBERTIE, Mariah (U Arizona) Aztec Butte: Sacred or Profane. This paper AGBELIE, Chris-Mike (Stony Brook U) Contestations of Citizenship: evaluates an apparent disconnect between interpretative signage and naming Paradox of Recognition and Redistribution in Cash Transfers for Disabled at Aztec Butte, in Canyonlands National Park, and indigenous interpretations People in Ghana. This paper joins contemporary discourses in anthropological documented in an ethnographic study. Drawing on 38 interviews conducted disability studies about the lived experiences of disabled people in sub-Saharan at this location with tribal and pueblo representatives, I show how Aztec African contexts. I draw on a qualitative study of cash transfers for disabled Butte structures were identified by park signage as “granaries,” whereas people in Volta Region of Ghana to frame disabled people’s claim-makings native interpretations reached a general consensus that the structures were for as contestations of citizenship. I argue that disabled people’s contestations of ceremonial purposes. Traditional meanings of both the structures and the area citizenship in this context constitute a “recognition-redistribution paradox.” as a whole are drastically changed by indigenous interpretations. I argue that This thesis advances new theorizations of citizenship as an institution in flux this case demonstrates the scientific and management significance of applied embedded in current cultural, social and political struggles that constitute it. It research documenting indigenous voices in parks. (S-08) calls for multidimensional strategies to simultaneously curtail maldistributive 1 PAPER ABSTRACTS ___________________________ Exploring Food Insecurity among College Students. Rates of food insecurity are significantly higher among college students than among the general population. ALBRIGHT, Karen (U Denver) and GREENBAUM, Jordan (Int’l Ctr for In this presentation, I share findings from an ethnographic study exploring Missing & Exploited Children) Medical and Mental Health Services for Child how college students experience food insecurity. In particular, I highlight Survivors of Sex Trafficking: Barriers to Access. Globally, approximately 4.5 the challenges students face in living up to expectations of the collegiate million children are victims of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. experience while managing various interconnected demands, including It is critical that child survivors are offered health services, yet little is known feeding themselves, rigorous coursework, employment, socializing, and time