090630 ethnographic research in search of the truth (martha chinouya)
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Presentation by Martha Chinouya, entitled Ethnographic research in search of the truth, was made to the IKM Emergent "Whose truth?" meeting.TRANSCRIPT
Martha Chinouya London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine
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To share my work as an ethnographer To demonstrate that knowledges and
realities/truths from research = +context +researched + researcher +time +cultures
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Culture the prism for refracting and knowledge/truths
What and how you ‘see’, ‘hear’ ‘talk’ and ‘act’ is shaped by culture
Observations, interviews, conversations, participating
The field work and co-production of knowledge
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Example:◦ Manicaland ◦ Eastern Zimbabwe
Hyperinflation Food shortages High rates of HIV Collapsing health and economic sectors
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Educated in Zimbabwe and London More years spent in London Speaks Ndebele and Shona language Complex identity Hybrid culture Cannot claim total participation,
observation Reflexivity
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Doing research ‘with’ rather than ‘on’ Time (since 2003) Researched: identified priorities for
research and how they wish to be researched
language Ethics (e.g. Confidentiality, informed
consent)◦ Researcher guided by western ethics
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105 participants Men and women living with HIV (n-75)
◦ Informal traders with lower levels of formal education
Nuns, monks, priests (n-35) Christians + syncretism Recruited through the Diocese Church
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Name the project ‘Taurai’ Taurai ethnographies Rules of engagement (e.g. Entry into
Taurai house) Define how and where they wish to be
spoke to about HIV (under the tree interviews)
Confidentiality, stigma and class
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Disclosure of HIV within the Church HIV experience of faith leaders and
congregation Meaning of sin and healing
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Documented in a report Disseminated internationally and in
Zimbabwe Participants ‘we cannot see ourselves in the
report. We don’t know if you told the truth about us. We cannot read’
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