Description
| Product ID: | 9780822370895 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography |
| Title: | Cooking Data |
| Subtitle: | Culture and Politics in an African Research World |
| Authors: | Author: Cal Biruk |
| Page Count: | 296 |
| Subjects: | Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, HIV / AIDS: social aspects, Social research and statistics, Social and cultural anthropology, Corruption in politics, government and society, Social research & statistics, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political corruption, Malawi |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi in which she rethinks how quantitative health data is produced by showing how data production is inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce it. In Cooking Data 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, 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-04 |
