The campaign will be constituted from the research and development done over the course of the 8 weeks in Assignments 1-3, with different stages of feedback from both your professor and fellow students. The Campaign can be in the form of a brochure, white paper (research data and analysis), poster, a Power Point (with notes or audio), a blog, or a video. Explain/show us what’s going on for the country or region and case that you chose, what kind of evidence you have, the background to the situation, how anthropological perspectives contribute to understanding the situation. Please incorporate feedback from me and from your classmates. Convince us why we should care! And provide us a way of acting! This can be resources for follow-up, a petition or another action. If you’d like, you may also link to a larger campaign, collect signatures, ask people to get involved by visiting a website, etc.
Formats:
I’ve listed some possibilities for your HR campaign, but feel free to be creative with format insofar as we can appreciate it on Brightspace.
• Brochure (four or more) columns with different kinds of information from your research, photos, graphics)
• white paper – a report with research data and analysis; youcould put your research assignments together into one coherent document that is tied together and has different sections that are clearly marked with headings. You could include data visualization, photos, etc,
• poster – laying out all of your information on one “page” with a “discussion” – in the form of taped audio or notes to guide us through
• Power Point (with notes or audio) to guide as through
• Blog – discussion of your research
• Video
What can people do?
Provide resources for follow-up, a petition or another way of acting on the situation.
Rubric:
1. Have you incorporated data from all three of your research assignments?
a. Background & Context
b. Use of anthropological concepts for advancing analysis
c. Delving into case studies, examples?
d. Discussion of anthropological perspectives and their contribution
e. Use different kinds of resources (beyond writing and the written) to make your case
2. Make it visual! Add something for us to see!
a. Use graphics, data visualization, photos or video clips
b. Add audio clips of yourself and/or others
3. Why should we care? Make your points clearly!
a. You’ve already made these points, but now make them in the form of a campaign.
4. Now that people care, what next?
a. Do you provide information for people to act on the situation you present?
TEACHER FEEDBACK PLEASE READ AND USE THIS INFORMATION I HAVE PROVIDED THE PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENT ASWELL
You did very good research for your case studies and you wrote a solid introduction! A small thing – For the anthro section, though, you’re citing an HRW report and you use Hynd (anthro) to put together the intro! (But given how good the rest of it is, I’m giving you the 10.)
You might want to look at Kamari Clarke’s work on the #Bring Back Our Girls Campaign https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/oa_monograph/chapter/2474161
For child soldier’s there’s the account of Ishmael Beah, including some great videos. He was adopted and brought to the US. Not Nigeria, but gets you into the topic. He did some stories on the storytelling radio program called the Moth. But there’s plenty of stuff if you google him,
There’s also the really interesting case of Dominic Ongwen, who was tried before the ICC International Criminal Court. He was part of the Lord’s Resistance Army and a child soldier — really interesting arguments about how to judge him fairly.
These might serve for your HR Campaign?
