AMAA on Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World

Cal Biruk

Author: Cal Biruk

AMAA on Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World

Post author Cal Biruk
Post date December 8, 2021

This article is part of the following series: Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs

Questions developed by the members of CU Denver’s ANTH4600/5600, S2021: Kaylynn Aiona, Delilah Chavarria, Darcy Copeland, Keaton Green, Ari Jones, Caitlin Konchan, Chris Kuelling, Kuba Kwiecinski, Rosa Lawrence, Destinee Murray, Alexa Powell, Benin Rahma, George Sanchez, Emma Vittetoe, Renee Watson, and Abby Welch

Instructor’s note: In our era of “alternative facts,” and given the critical roles that data collection and …

Tags Africa, Demography, Knowledge Production, Malawi, Positionality, Science & Technology Studies (STS)

Books

Author Discussion

Post author Cal Biruk, Ramah McKay and Noémi Tousignant
Post date May 2, 2019

Editor’s note: in the following author discussion, the authors of the books reviewed in this forum respond to a series of questions and, in the indented text, to one another’s responses as well.

1. One of the themes that emerges across these three books is the importance of labor within global health orders in Africa. The forms that work takes …

Tags Africa, big data, Fieldwork/ethnography, Global health, Global South, Infrastructure, Labor, NGOs, Political economy of health care, Public health, Race, STS

Features

Ebola and emergency anthropology: The view from the “global health slot”

Post author Cal Biruk
Post date October 3, 2014
4 Comments on Ebola and emergency anthropology: The view from the “global health slot”

This article is part of the following series: Ebola fieldnotes

Hoses spraying disinfectant, white spacesuits, and police roadblocks: these are the tangible technologies of expertise in West Africa. Amid images of ongoing efforts to contain Ebola, I find myself asking: What is the role of the medical anthropologist in a global health emergency? What expertise can we contribute? As of 1 October 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) counts 7178 …

Tags Africa, Concepts, Ebola, Global health, Infectious disease, Temporality