Papers by Nicole I Torres
Anthropology of Consciousness, Mar 2, 2016
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Social Science & Medicine, 2017
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Professor Lorna Rhodes This ethnography documents and explores the social, political, and materia... more Professor Lorna Rhodes This ethnography documents and explores the social, political, and material consequences of militarization in the borderlands of Arizona. Basing my conclusions on two years of fieldwork in Phoenix, Tucson, and along the US-Mexico border, I identify militarization as a social and political phenomenon that gradually reconfigures both individuals and communities. What is most striking about the process of militarization is its instrumentalization. Although fieldwork participants use the tropes of immigration and race as central points for discussion, I observed that these discourses point to a much broader trend of social, psychological, and political transformation connected to the proliferation of vigilantism, gated communities, and detention centers. Most recently, this transformation is embodied and articulated through the experiences of border crossers. Border crossers are migrants who enter the United States without authorization due to multiple factors, in...
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This editorial discusses the function of COVID as what the Indigenous scholar and psychologist, E... more This editorial discusses the function of COVID as what the Indigenous scholar and psychologist, Eduardo Duran, describes as a ?great teacher.? The author engages with the opportunities of learning that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided, especially in the realm of anthropological studies of consciousness. The author encourages both scholars and practitioners to use the current pandemic as an opportunity to practice what Andy Fisher identifies as a ?decolonial praxis,? as a tool for liberation and healing.
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This article is based on a conversation between the President of the Society for the Anthropology... more This article is based on a conversation between the President of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and the Editor-in-Chief of its journal. The aim of this conversation is threefold: (1) to engage a broader audience within the field of the anthropology of consciousness, (2) to discuss the recent history of the organization and its current direction, and (3) to recognize why concrete efforts toward a practice of decolonization is essential to maintaining the relevance of an anthropology of consciousness.
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Complex personhood means that the stories people tell about themselves, about their troubles, abo... more Complex personhood means that the stories people tell about themselves, about their troubles, about their social worlds, and about their society's problems are entangled and weave between what is immediately available as a story and what their imaginations are reaching toward Avery Gordon: Ghostly Matters, (p 4) The past several years have been riddled with what Avery Gordon describes as "hauntings", both on a personal level and on a collective level here in the United States, the country in which I live These are the specters that disturb our waking and sleeping lives and come to us in the form of what students, clients, and colleagues describe to me as "nightmares " [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Anthropology of Consciousness is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )
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Anthropology of Consciousness, 2018
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Personality and mental health, Jan 12, 2017
Social-environmental factors have been found to be an integral part in the recovery process for i... more Social-environmental factors have been found to be an integral part in the recovery process for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. There are few studies that have obtained patient perspectives of how their social and treatment environments help facilitate or impede the recovery process. The following study examined the self-reported interpersonal barriers to recovery among a sample of individuals (N = 31) with borderline personality disorder who were receiving dialectical behaviour therapy. The goal of study was to identify self-reported problematic behaviour that interferes with recovery goals and identify types of family, friend and/or provider behaviours that increased the likelihood of patients engaging in these problematic behaviours. A content analysis yielded three themes of problematic behaviour, and how these behaviours were reinforced by others, including (1) avoidance behaviours, (2) encouragement of negative coping and (3) communication of low behavioural expecta...
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Journal of Community Psychology, 2016
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Addictive Behaviors, 2015
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Anthropology of Consciousness, 2012
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