Brown, GW orcid.org/0000-0002-6557-5353 and Labonté, R (2011) Globalization and its methodological discontents: Contextualizing globalization through the study of HIV/AIDS. Globalization and Health, 7 (1). 29. ISSN 1744-8603
Abstract
There remains considerable discontent between globalization scholars about how to conceptualize its meaning and in regards to epistemological and methodological questions concerning how we can come to understand how these processes ultimately operate, intersect and transform our lives. This article argues that to better understand what globalization is and how it affects issues such as global health, we must take a differentiating approach, which focuses on how the multiple processes of globalization are encountered and informed by different social groups and with how these encounters are experienced within particular contexts. The article examines the heuristic properties of qualitative field research as a means to help better understand how the intersections of globalization are manifested within particular locations. To do so, the article focuses on three recent case studies conducted on globalization and HIV/AIDS and explores how these cases can help us to understand the contextual permutations involved within the processes of globalization.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2011, Brown and Labonté; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Free Trade Agreement; Contextual Approach; Globalization Scholar; Recent Case Study; Global Health Governance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2019 15:45 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:37 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Biomed Central |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/1744-8603-7-29 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122372 |