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[caatinga]

I love anthropology, but two years after completing my BA, I find I have no real interest in pursuing a PhD or Masters in it...I feel like I want to do something really applied where my subjectivity will be a nonissue, or even an asset (see those discussions on FGM for more on what I mean

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[kenosis]

I worked, briefly, as a cartographer and statistician for an urban planning task force for cleaning up pollution in an industrially blighted region.

I dunno - it was mostly working with politicians, lobbyists, and developers. Urban planning is about making hard, hard choices that piss people off and force them to open up their pocketbooks. Legal action is always around the corner.

[caatinga]

Yeah...hmmm...less than glamorous.

[silverthief2]

I *plan* to take this path (got my B.A. 2 years ago in culanth and public policy and plan to go to urban planning grad school). In general I don't think there's much overlap between the two if you did the typical ethnography work, but in my case there is some as my advisor is an urban anthropologist, and because I've studied the environmental justice movement and people displaced by cities' large public projects like expressways as part of my public policy studies.

As for master of urban planning programs, I'm looking at North Carolina, UC-Irvine, and New Mexico right now (which are all VERY different), but will probably add more and may remove these before I apply.

[moucho_blasto]

oh my god!

i am just about to finish a sociology degree and thats one of the options im pondering!!!!

(either that or RE teaching... but only for the money)

my friend jay says its an awesome job. hes incharge of the urban regeneration of Blyth(nore east england) town center. he was telling me about having a meeting with local disabled groups to get ther POV.

i say do it, and i say do it at the university of newcastle upon tyne... its super.

[ness_va]

Are there actually any good websites or places to get ideas for this sort of situation? I'm going to be in a very similar one soon enough.