What is it about?
It is often argued that research conducted in the global South or by researchers based in the global South doesn't have the same impact as that conducted by researchers in the global North. In this article we review contributions by South African researchers (or researchers working in or on South Africa) to global AIDS research by using Google Scholar. We show that there are many very well cited articles in the field that originate in the global South and argue that these have made an important contribution to global AIDS research.
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Why is it important?
Our article is important because it answers questions about the significance of Southern Theory and shows that South African researchers operating in under-resourced settings have leveraged their local advantage to contribute to the AIDS research agenda. The particular contribution has been to inject social science perspectives into AIDS research. These perspectives have primarily been generated by local conditions in South Africa where AIDS denialism generated activism (including TAC) which in turn energised local research and sparked heightened interest and new perspectives.
Perspectives
The hard work of this article was done by Rebecca Hodes (Thank you, Rebecca). Her experience of AIDS activism and her training as a medical historian were a powerful combination and contributed to a Reading Group at the University of Cape Town from which this article emerged. The Reading Group was devoted to a contemplation of Southern Theory and included Vanessa Watson, Ralph Borland, Mignonne Breier, Lesley Green, Laura Czerniewicz and Lindsay Clowes.
Dr Robert Graham Morrell
University of Cape Town
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This page is a summary of: Incursions from the epicentre: Southern theory, social science, and the global HIV research domain, African Journal of AIDS Research, January 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2989/16085906.2017.1377267.
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