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Cooking Data - Culture and Politics in an African Research World (Paperback)
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Cooking Data - Culture and Politics in an African Research World (Paperback)
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
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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.
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