Martha Chinouya London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 21/09/09

To share my work as an ethnographer To demonstrate that knowledges and realities/truths from research = +context +researched + researcher +time +cultures 21/09/09

To share my work as an ethnographer

To demonstrate that knowledges and realities/truths from research =

+context

+researched

+ researcher

+time

+cultures

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 21/09/09

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

Example: Manicaland Eastern Zimbabwe Hyperinflation Food shortages High rates of HIV Collapsing health and economic sectors 21/09/09

Example:

Manicaland

Eastern Zimbabwe

Hyperinflation

Food shortages

High rates of HIV

Collapsing health and economic sectors

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 21/09/09

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

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 21/09/09

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

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 21/09/09

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

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 21/09/09

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

Disclosure of HIV within the Church HIV experience of faith leaders and congregation Meaning of sin and healing 21/09/09

Disclosure of HIV within the Church

HIV experience of faith leaders and congregation

Meaning of sin and healing

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’ 21/09/09

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’