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AIDS and power : why there is no political crisis--yet / Alex de Waal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Waal, Alex, author.
- Series:
- African arguments.
- African arguments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--South Africa.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology--Africa South of the Sahara.
- HIV Infections--epidemiology--Africa South of the Sahara.
- Politics--Africa South of the Sahara.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--epidemiology--Africa South of the Sahara.
- HIV Infections--epidemiology--Africa South of the Sahara.
- Politics--Africa South of the Sahara.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 p.)
- Edition:
- ebook edition.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- AIDS and Power explains why social and political life in Africa goes on in a remarkably normal way, and how political leaders have successfully managed the AIDS epidemic so as to overcome any threats to their power.
- Contents:
- A manageable catastrophe
- Life expectancy and public opinion
- Structure of this book
- Denial and how it is overcome
- Private experience and public concern
- Giving meaning to AIDS
- 'Normalizing' AIDS
- Sex and power
- Domesticating AIDS, and its costs
- The media and overcoming denial
- Pavement radio
- AIDS activists : reformers and revolutionaries
- Confrontation and its limits
- 'Positive positive women'
- AIDS and elections
- Activist networks, local and global
- Transformations in governance
- New solidarities
- How African democracies withstand AIDS
- The issue of a lifetime
- 'Weber in reverse'
- How do African states 'really' function?
- Democratic demographics
- The economics of democracy
- 'New variant famine'
- The political benefits of AIDS
- Ugandan myths
- ABC : carefully mixed messages
- 'Fighting' AIDS
- On the difficulties of showing success
- Treatment regimes
- Power, choices and survival
- Lutaaya, 'alone'
- Democracies can manage AIDS
- Democracies do not prevent HIV.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611215583
- 9781350218376
- 1350218375
- 9781848136090
- 1848136099
- 9781281215581
- 1281215589
- 9781780345208
- 1780345208
- 9781848130548
- 1848130546
- OCLC:
- 647816290
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