Dr. Dvera Saxton, associate professor of anthropology, recently published "The Devil's Fruit", a book that describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores Saxton’s activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with devilish — as in deadly, depressing, disabling and toxic — problems requires intersecting ecosocial, emotional, ethnographic and activist labors. Through her work as an activist medical anthropologist, she found the caring labors of engaged ethnography take on many forms that go in many different directions.
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