Slow Research: Thoughts for a Movement in Global Health

Adams, Vincanne; Burke, Nancy; Whitmarsh, Ian

doi:10.1080/01459740.2013.858335

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“…Herod and Wright (2008, p. 7) astutely note that when scales are used to order geographic space, moving between scales is akin to traversing from "a central point outwards to ever larger scales in which the global scale, being the most distant circle, is seen to enclose all other scales and yet be 'farthest' from the location of the observer". In contrast, a focus on empirical specificity -a woman struggling with changing food supplies, a doctor trying to make WHO recommendations meaningful for patients in his clinic, an expert wondering how to integrate history into his spreadsheet calculations of hungers -makes evident that 'the global' is not far away (see also Adams et al, 2014;Tsuda et al, 2014). It is not (only) something to be figured by technical computer algorithms and interventions that depend on detached, distant observation.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Meanwhile, his institution was accustomed to working in the international language of metrics, where the ambiguities of communication were traded for the certainties of calculation. Given that the FAO was tasked with addressing highly variable health concerns with limited resources, there were practical reasons for prioritizing techniques that allowed for quick cross-cultural comparisons (see also Adams et al, 2014). It remained unclear to him how he could represent context and history, which have no fixed bounds, within a mode of figuration dependent upon solid, stable boundaries.…”

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Intervals of confidence: Uncertain accounts of global hunger

Yates‐Doerr

2015

BioSocieties

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Global health policy experts tend to organize hunger through scales of 'the individual', 'the community' and 'the global'. This organization configures hunger as a discrete, measurable object to be scaled up or down with mathematical certainty. This article offers a counter to this approach, using ethnographic cases to illustrate how the calculated referent of 'hunger' does not hold stable. In the highlands of Guatemala, where obesity has become a matter of concern, many people treated hunger as a sensation connected to family and history. For doctors working in the region, hunger was determined through body mass indices and global risk statistics. For global health experts it was different still, operating as an indicator derived from agricultural and population data. I draw these different, yet connected, versions of hunger together to explore dilemmas of scaling an object that is not solid but is made and unmade variously. This allows me to illustrate that global hunger is not a summation of hunger in the world, but its own version of hunger. I further suggest that 'multi-object ethnography', which allows for the persistence of uncertainty, can help to develop policy responses to hunger(s) that will, in some cases, be more appropriate and effective than scale-based evaluation.

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Intervals of confidence: Uncertain accounts of global hunger

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2015

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“…While the workshops occurred in the context of academic and intellectual relationships that I have cultivated over the past decade and that I intend to maintain for the foreseeable future, these courses and others (some lasting as little as three days), risk falling into a larger trend of rapid assessments, 'helicopter ethnography' and 'voluntourism.' Anthropologists and other social scientists have begun to describe the ethical imperatives and intellectual benefits associated with 'slow research' (Adams, Burke, and Whitmarsh 2014) and 'slow science' (Stengers 2013). Qualitative research, with its rapport-based methods, iterative approaches, and potential for in-depth encounters, offers the possibility of developing prolonged engagements and sustained dialogues over longer periods of time.…”

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Troubling Objectivity: The Promises and Pitfalls of Training Haitian Clinicians in Qualitative Research Methods

Minn

2014

Medical Anthropology

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Building research capacity is a central component of many contemporary global health programs and partnerships. While medical anthropologists have been conducting qualitative research in resource-poor settings for decades, they are increasingly called on to train "local" clinicians, researchers, and students in qualitative research methods. In this article, I describe the process of teaching introductory courses in qualitative research methods to Haitian clinicians, hospital staff, and medical students, who rarely encounter qualitative research in their training or practice. These trainings allow participants to identify and begin to address challenges related to health services delivery, quality of care, and provider-patient relations. However, they also run the risk of perpetuating colonial legacies of objectification and reinforcing hierarchies of knowledge and knowledge production. As these trainings increase in number and scope, they offer the opportunity to reflect critically on new forms of transnational interventions that aim to reduce health disparities.

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“…36. This is a perspective expressed in recent work by anthropologists of global health (Adams et al 2014;Pigg 2013). 37. Among these translation challenges was the translation from Nyanja and Bemba to English.…”

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Children As Caregivers : The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

Hunleth¹

2017

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The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies is dedicated to increasing our understanding of children and childhoods throughout the world, reflecting a perspective that highlights cultural dimensions of the human experience. The books in this series are intended for students, scholars, practitioners, and those who formulate policies that affect children's everyday lives and futures. A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.Copyright © 2017 by Jean Hunleth All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is "fair use" as defined by U.S. copyright law.∞ The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39. 48-1992. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org Contents ixChildren as Caregivers is based on research I carried out in Lusaka during a time that spanned nearly ten years (2005, 2006, 2007 to 2008, and 2014). However, the ideas for the research took root much earlier when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Eastern Province and then Central Province, Zambia (1999Zambia ( -2002. As a water sanitation volunteer in the village of Kapichila, near Lundazi, I was able to witness many things children accomplished for their families, and also the unacknowledged work that children put into global health projects. I thank Maxwell Banda and Anya Gondwe for opening their home to me and for putting their grandchildren in charge of introducing me to village life. Tikali, Regina, Suzgo, and Mattress taught me many lessons about children's creativity and the diversity of childhood experiences. I continue to carry these lessons throughout my career.I have incurred many debts since starting the project that led to this book. I am beyond grateful for my longtime mentor, Karen Tranberg Hansen, whose deep knowledge of Africanist scholarship and her decades of research in Lusaka provided the foundation for my own work. Helen Schwartzman introduced me to the anthropology of childhood and pushed me to think creatively and critically about research with children. I thank both Karen and Helen for their unwavering support and the countless hours they have spent mentoring me through the years. I have benefited from the mentorship of so many other people, particularly Edward Fischer, Bill Leonard, Rebecca Wurtz, Caroline Bledsoe, Virginia Bond, Cathy Zimmerman, Brad Stoner, and Aimee James, who have all encouraged me, in different ways, to weave together my interests in anthropology and public health.I have many people to thank in Zambia. My research affiliation with the Zambia AIDS Related Tuberculosis project (ZAMBART) proved vital, both when I was in Zambia and also back in the ...

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Slow Research: Thoughts for a Movement in Global Health

Cited by 167 publications

References 34 publications

Intervals of confidence: Uncertain accounts of global hunger

Intervals of confidence: Uncertain accounts of global hunger

Troubling Objectivity: The Promises and Pitfalls of Training Haitian Clinicians in Qualitative Research Methods

Children As Caregivers : The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

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