An edition of Cooking data (2018)

Cooking data

culture and politics in an African research world

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An edition of Cooking data (2018)

Cooking data

culture and politics in an African research world

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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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Language
English
Pages
277

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Table of Contents

The office in the field: building survey infrastructures
Living project to project: brokering local knowledge in the field
Clean data, messy gifts: soap-for-information transactions in the field
Materializing clean data in the field
When numbers travel: the politics of making evidence-based policy
Conclusion: Anthropology in and of (critical) global health.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography, Critical global health
Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/61096897
Library of Congress
GN296.5.M42 B57 2018, GN296.5.M42B57 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 277 pages :
Number of pages
277

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26467922M
Internet Archive
cookingdata00biru
ISBN 10
0822370743, 0822370891
ISBN 13
9780822370741, 9780822370895
LCCN
2017039419
OCLC/WorldCat
985874213

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