Pandemic kinship : families, intervention, and social change in Botswana's time of AIDS / Koreen M. Reece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reece, Koreen M., 1977- author.

Series:

International African library ; 67.

The international African library ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Botswana.

Families.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Botswana.

AIDS (Disease).

Epidemics--Social aspects--Botswana.

Epidemics.

Crisis management--Botswana.

Crisis management.

Community life--Botswana.

Community life.

Kinship--Botswana.

Kinship.

Botswana--Social conditions--21st century.

Botswana.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navigate such crises make them kinches In Setswana, conflict and crisis are glossed as dikgang, and negotiating dikgang is an ethical practice that generates and reorients kin relations over time. Governmental and non-governmental organisations often misread the creativity of crisis, intervening in ways that may prove more harmful than the problems they set out to solve. Moving between family discussions, community events, and the daily work of orphan care projects and social work offices, Pandemic Kinship provides provocative insights into how we manage change in pandemic times.

Contents:

Going up and down

'Ke a aga' : Lorato, building

Geographies of intervention

Children of one womb

Taking what belongs to you

Supplementary care

Recognising pregnancy

Recognising marriage

Managing recognition in a time of AIDS

Far family

Living outside

Children in need of care

The village in the home : a party

'Lifting up culture' : a homecoming

A global family

Conclusion: 'We have a problem at home' : the ordinary crisis of kinship

An epidemic epilogue.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Jun 2022).

Open Access.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009150200 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.