Situated Knowledge on Dementia Care Practices: Comparing Israel and Canada

The research project will look at modes and types of localized knowledge on the span of diseases under the umbrella of dementia. The project will try to detect and compare modes of knowledge transition, dispersion, and production about dementia prevention and early detection within and across two different cultural and social settings: the Canadian and the Israeli. Drawing on the anthropological assumption that knowledge is never a pure sphere disconnected from context and local cultures, we will set out to detect and analyze points on the surface of international knowledge (like international health programs, medicine markets, and more) along with cultural specificities of dementia prevention and early detection. We will show how these interactions are reflected in the local enactments of these knowledge types, as they emerge in localities while intersecting with norms, beliefs, and ways of life that are local. We expect to find frictions of the global phenomenon of knowledge dispersion about dementia prevention and early detection within specific locales and enlighten a new side of global health endeavors.

Faculty Supervisor:

Annette Leibing

Student:

Partner:

Tel Aviv University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education; Other

University:

Université de Montréal

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