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Sheng Long about her new book, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics
in an African Research World </div>
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255, 255); display: inline !important;">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.</span></div>
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