Anthropological Insights on Effective Community–Based Coalition Practice

The team coalition has become an increasingly common part of the practicing anthropologist’s lexicon. Today, anthropologists frequently utilize coalition formation as a tool for achieving positive, sustainable community change and conducting commonly–based research. In this issue of Annals of Anthropological Practice , authors critically examine factors influencing coalition participation, dispelling the notion that the coalition process itself ensures diversity, while offering concrete examples of how participatory diversity might be achieved. Anthropologists examine the complex intersection of roles they and others find themselves assuming as academic researchers, educators, concerned community members, advocates for marginalized populations, and representatives of the scientific community in community–based coalition practice. Also woven into this volume is a clear depiction of contemporary methods and theories in anthropological community coalition and partnership research. Throughout the volume contains examples of coalition program and strategies that will be of use to coalition practitioners across locations and disciplines.

Anthropological Insights on Effective Community–Based Coalition Practice: An Introduction 1 Chad T. Morris and John S. Luque Practicing Anthropology on a Community–Based Public Health Coalition: Lessons from HEAL 10 Margaret Everett Lessons Learned from a Community Coalition with Diverse Stakeholders: The Partnership for Citrus Worker Health 27 Paul Managhan Assessing and Achieving Diversity of Participation in the Grant–Inspired Community–Based Public Health Coalition 43 Chad T. Morris Anti–Domestic Violence Coalition Practice: Theorizing Collaboration and Participation 66 Jennifer R. Wies Food for Thought: Coalition Process and a Community–Based Research and Service–Learning Project 79 Carolyn Behrman Building a Latino–Engaged Action–Research Collaborative: A Challenging University–Community Encounter 96 Ricardo Contreras and David Griffith A Social Network Analysis Approach to Understand Changes in a Cancer Disparities Community Partnership Network 112 John S. Luque, Dinorah Martinez Tyson, Shalanda A. Bynum, Shalewa Noeil–Thomas. Kristen J. Wells, Susan T. Vadaparampil, Clement K. Gwede, and Cathy D. Meade An Academic in an Activist Coalition: Recognizing and Bridging Role Conflicts 136 Josiah Heyman Building Living Alliances: Community Engagement and Community–Based Partnership to Address the Health of Community Elders 154 Kim E. Radda and Jean J. Schensul Concluding Remarks: Anthropology’s Role in Building and Sustaining Community Coalitions 174 Frances Dunn Butterfoss Biosketches 183