Cooking data
culture and politics in an African research world
by Crystal Biruk
Offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, the author shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always "cooked" during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce them. Examining how the relationship among fieldworkers, supervisors, respondents, and foreign demographers shape data, the author examines the ways in which unites of information - such as survey questions and numbers written onto questionnaires by fieldworkers - acquire value as statistics that go on to shape national AIDS policy. Her approach illustrates how on-the-ground dynamics and research cultures mediate the production of global health statistics in ways that impact local economies and formulations of power and expertise.
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Medical anthropology, HIV-Infektion, Glaubwürdigkeit, Ethnomethodologie, Methodology, Aids, Quantitative Methode, Research, Datenverarbeitung, Gesundheitswesen, AIDS (Disease), Längsschnittuntersuchung, Anthropologische Medizin, Feldforschung, Datenerhebung, HIV infections, Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Africa, politics and government, Africa, social life and customsPlaces
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Cooking data: culture and politics in an African research world
2018
in English
0822370743 9780822370741
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