Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Global Health. 2011 Aug 23;7:29. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-7-29.
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.
全球化学者在如何概念化全球化的含义以及关于我们如何理解这些过程最终如何运作、交叉和改变我们的生活的认识论和方法论问题上仍然存在相当大的不满。本文认为，为了更好地理解全球化是什么以及它如何影响全球健康等问题，我们必须采取一种区分的方法，重点关注全球化的多个过程是如何被不同的社会群体遇到和影响的，以及这些遭遇是如何在特定背景下体验的。本文考察了定性实地研究的启发式特性，作为一种帮助更好地理解全球化在特定地点的交叉点是如何表现出来的方法。为此，本文重点关注了最近关于全球化和艾滋病病毒/艾滋病的三个案例研究，并探讨了这些案例如何帮助我们理解全球化过程中涉及的上下文变化。
