Archive of Papers

Team members have presented many working papers and reports over the years of the project. These papers are presented as Adobe .PDF files, if you need them in another format please contact J.A. English-Lueck. Topics for these papers include:
                                    Note: New postings are in larger text.

Silicon Valley Cultures

Navigating Silicon Valley’s Contradictions
            English-Lueck, J.A. (2018

Intensifying Work and Chasing Innovation: Incorporating Care in Silicon Valley
          
 English-Lueck, J.A. and Avery, Miriam L. (2017)

Corporate Care Reimagined: Farms to Firms to Families
          
 English-Lueck, J.A. and Avery, Miriam L. (2014)

Prototyping self in Silicon Valley: Deep diversity as a framework for anthropological inquiry
            English-Lueck, J.A. (2011)

Deep Diversity and Global Flows: Silicon Valley and the Asian Pacific Region
           
English-Lueck, J.A. (2009)

Reinventing Therapeutic Expectations in Silicon Valley
            English-Lueck, J.A. (2004)

Silicon Missionaries and Identity Evangelists
            English-Lueck, J.A. and Saveri, A. (Institute for the Future) (2000)

NSF Repot
            English-Lueck, J.A. (2000)

Temping at the Lower End: An Incomplete View from Silicon Valley
            Darrah, C. N. (1999)

Community and Collaboration in a "Value-Added" Community
            Darrah, C. (1996)

Defining a Silicon Valley Worldview: A Retrospective on Tomorrow Land
            English-Lueck, J.A. (1996)

Tactical Ambiguity in a Post-modern Company Town:  The Case of Silicon Valley
            English-Lueck, J.A. (1994)

Global Silicon Places

The BRIC Ten Year Forecast

Number Eight Fencing Wire: New Zealand, Cultural Innovation and the Global Silicon Network with Poster
            J.A. English-Lueck (2003)

Rites of Production: Technopoles and the Theater of Work
            J.A. English-Lueck (2003)

Silicon Work: Tales of Trust from Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Taipei and Dublin
            English-Lueck, J.A., and Darrah, C.N. (1999)

Work and Family

Family Models, Model Families
            Darrah, C.N. (2003)

Anthropology and the Workplace/Workforce Mismatch
            Darrah, C.N. (2003)

Anthropologists and Middle Class Working Families: Framing the Context of Inquiry
            Darrah, C.N., English-Lueck, J.A., and Freeman, J.M. (2002)

Creating Culture in Dual Career Families
            Darrah, C.N., English-Lueck, J.A., and Freeman, J.M. (2002)

Families and Work:  An Ethnography of Dual Career Families
            Darrah, C.N., English-Lueck, J.A., and Freeman, J.M. (2001)

Living in the Eye of the Storm: Controlling the Maelstrom in Silicon Valley
            Darrah, C.N., English-Lueck, J.A., and Freeman, J.M. (2000)

Technology and Social Change The Effects on Family and Community
            English-Lueck, J.A (1998)
                 (This paper translated into Ukrainian by Michail Bogdanov)

Networks

Deep Diversity and Global Flows: Silicon Valley and the Asian Pacific Region
           
Masters Thesis:  Simon Jarrar (2018)

Deep Diversity and Global Flows: Silicon Valley and the Asian Pacific Region
           
Project Report:  Varsha Damle (2017)

The Multi-Movement: An Ethnography of Occupiers and Occupying
           
Project Report:  Hannah Hart (2013)

Tod@s SOMOS Lideres: Cultivating Grassroots Leaders in Mayfair: An Ethnographic-based Evaluation and Curriculum Notes of a Grassroots Leadership Program Serving Spanish-speaking Women in East San Jose
           
Project Report:  Maribel Martinez (2012)

Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship: A Microfinance Project in Santa Clara County
           
Project Report:  Mayra Cerda (2011)

Collective Efficacy as it Relates to Public Safety in the Olinder Neighborhood
           
Project Report:  Michelle Nero (2010)

Success and Survival in Silicon Valley: An Ethnography of Learning Networks
            J.A. English-Lueck, Sabrina Valade, Sheri Swiger
            and Guillermo Narvaez (2002)

Networks in Use, SR-738
            (Institute for the Future) (2001)

Global Innovations Forum, Project Year 2001, SR-764
            (Institute for the Future) (2001)

Health

Equine Assisted Therapy on People with Multiple Sclerosis, A Case Study
          
 Project Report:  Deborah N. Walde-Baughn (2017)

Health Matters Olinder: Health Needs and Practices in Olinder Neighborhood
           
Project Report:  Mercedes Ramans (2014)

The Breast Cancer Journey
           
Project Report:  Jessica Donohue (2012)

Developing Cultural Agility between Emergency Medical Providers and Vietnamese-Americans in Santa Clara County
           
Project Report:  Jason Vega (2012)

The Future of Diversity: A Forecasting Project
           
Project Report:  Jillian Griffith (2011)

Beyond Pink: Living with a Terminal Breast Cancer Diagnosis
           
Project Report:  Mary Koskovich (2011)

A Community Needs Assessment on Mental Health Services Among Native American Indians in Santa Clara, California
           
Project Report:  Auda Velazquez-Rivera 2011

Expanding Meanings of Health, SR-815B
            (Institute for the Future) (2004)

Legacies: transforming memories into memorials
            Bonnie Evens (2002)

Immigration

Street Vendors, Super Bowl 50, and the Spatial Politics of Immigration Control in Silicon Valley
           
Project Report:  Miguel Garcia (2018)

How is the Past Preserved in a Pluralistic Society? A Case Study of the Portuguese in East San José as a Model for Interpreting Immigrant Landscapes
           
Project Report:  Catherine Mistely (2013)

Aging Arab Immigrants: Family Portraits from the San Francisco Bay Area
           
Master’s Thesis:  Kanhong Lin (2012)

Work as Mission in an Immigrant Community and its Homeland
            Freeman, J.M. (2000)

Technology in Everyday Life

Deciphering Cultural Markers of Space: A Study of Understanding Urban Landscapes and Human Behaviors for a Smoother Transition of Autonomous Vehicles in our Ecosystem
           
Project Report:  Bhargavi Pawar (2018)

A Study in Hoomanism: Understanding Meaning in Geek Philanthropy and Cyberanthropology
           
Project Report:  Ailea Merriam-Pigg (2017)

An Analysis of 3D Printer Users and Their Networks in the Silicon Valley
            Project Report:  Armando Ayala (2015)

Learning Non-Violent Social Collaboration: Beyond Entertainment- Developing Video Games with Games with a Purpose
 
           Project Report:  Benjamin Dubois (2015)

Live Journal Loyalty and Melodrama: A Stakeholder Relations in Web 2.0
            Master’s Thesis:  Christine Moellenberndt (2013)

Designing Software to Meet the Needs of International Users
            Project Report:  David Mohr (2013)

Ethnographic Assessment of Quantified Self Meetup Groups
            Project Report:  Adam Butterfield (2012)

Engineering in the Making: An Ethnography of Product Development
            Master’s Thesis:  Armineh Noravian (2008)

The Gaming Geek Culture
            Diana Dinh (2002)

Students, Technology and Everyday Life
            Darrah, C.N. (2001)

Juggling Digital Devices at Work and Home in Silicon Valley
            English-Lueck, J.A. (1997)


 
 
 
 
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