TY - JOUR
T1 - Scaling health and healthcare
T2 - Re-presenting Thailand's HIV/AIDS epidemic with world regional geography students
AU - Del Casino, Vincent J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author would like to thank Mary Gilmartin for organizing this symposium and Yvonne Underhill-Sem for her comments on an earlier draft. He would also like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation (SBR-9802091), the University of Kentucky, and California State University, Long Beach for their financial support for the research on which this comment is based as well as the Department of Human Geography at The Australian National University for providing him with time and space to complete these ideas as a Visiting Research Fellow. Most importantly, he would like to thank the people in Thailand who opened their homes and lives to him and to the students he has taught since completing this research who have shared their honest observations and opinions about the current healthcare crisis in Thailand. This work would not have been possible without the intellectual support of Drs Anchalee Sing-hanetra-Renard and Sanay Yanarsan at Chiang Mai University. Excerpts from this paper were originally presented as part of a larger unpublished dissertation entitled ‘HIV/AIDS and the Spaces of Health Care in Thailand’.
PY - 2004/7
Y1 - 2004/7
N2 - Authors of world regional geography textbooks have recently become more interested in the broader theoretical changes that have emerged in human geography. Relying on feminist and other critical perspectives, concepts such as space, place and scale are being re-imagined in this 'new world regional geography'. This paper intervenes on behalf of a more critical world regional geography by suggesting how world regional geography teachers can educate students about scale as a social construction through the use of empirical data. Relying on fieldwork conducted in Thailand, this paper lays out a lesson on the HIV/AIDS crisis and how different representations of that crisis, from the national to the individual, offer different 'ways of knowing' the epidemic. Furthermore, this paper examines how we can push students to consider the ways in which scales of analysis are constructed and constituted through our own geographic practices.
AB - Authors of world regional geography textbooks have recently become more interested in the broader theoretical changes that have emerged in human geography. Relying on feminist and other critical perspectives, concepts such as space, place and scale are being re-imagined in this 'new world regional geography'. This paper intervenes on behalf of a more critical world regional geography by suggesting how world regional geography teachers can educate students about scale as a social construction through the use of empirical data. Relying on fieldwork conducted in Thailand, this paper lays out a lesson on the HIV/AIDS crisis and how different representations of that crisis, from the national to the individual, offer different 'ways of knowing' the epidemic. Furthermore, this paper examines how we can push students to consider the ways in which scales of analysis are constructed and constituted through our own geographic practices.
KW - HIV/AIDS
KW - Scale
KW - Thailand
KW - World regional geography
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U2 - 10.1080/0309826042000242549
DO - 10.1080/0309826042000242549
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3943077975
SN - 0309-8265
VL - 28
SP - 333
EP - 346
JO - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
JF - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
IS - 2
ER -