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Biruk, Cal (Crystal)

 
9780822370895: Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0822370891 ISBN 13 : 9780822370895
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Cooking Data Cal 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, Biruk 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 relationships among fieldworkers, supervisors, respondents, and foreign demographers shape data, Biruk examines the ways in which units 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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À propos de l'auteur

Cal (Crystal) Biruk is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822370891
ISBN 13 
9780822370895
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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