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Doing Cross-Cultural ResearchThe Ethics and Politics of Researching HIV/AIDS Within the School Context in South Africa

Doing Cross-Cultural Research: The Ethics and Politics of Researching HIV/AIDS Within the School... [This chapter presents the author’s experience and thoughts on ethical and political issues associated with researching HIV/AIDS in South Africa. These thoughts and experiences have been derived from the author’s engagement in research activities, supervision of postgraduate students’ research work and project work. The chapter presents a contextual landscape of the issues emerging from researching HIV/AIDS within South Africa. This contextual landscape then raises issues of ethics and politics associated with the pandemic leading to a conception of data as agency as a theoretical tool to understanding the complexity and competing agendas for researching HIV/AIDS within South Africa.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Doing Cross-Cultural ResearchThe Ethics and Politics of Researching HIV/AIDS Within the School Context in South Africa

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 34)
Editors: Liamputtong, Pranee

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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
ISBN
978-1-4020-8566-6
Pages
103 –118
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-8567-3_8
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter presents the author’s experience and thoughts on ethical and political issues associated with researching HIV/AIDS in South Africa. These thoughts and experiences have been derived from the author’s engagement in research activities, supervision of postgraduate students’ research work and project work. The chapter presents a contextual landscape of the issues emerging from researching HIV/AIDS within South Africa. This contextual landscape then raises issues of ethics and politics associated with the pandemic leading to a conception of data as agency as a theoretical tool to understanding the complexity and competing agendas for researching HIV/AIDS within South Africa.]

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: Ethical issue; Political issue; HIV/AIDS research; South Africa; Data as agency; Researcher as activist; Researcher as agency; Researcher as mediator; Critical discourse analysis

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