Landscapes of Activism : Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique / Joel Christian Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Joel Christian, Author.

Series:

Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Medical Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. At first, the group has everything it needs, a thriving membership, and support from major donors. Soon, the group undergoes an identity crisis over money and power, eventually fading from the scene. As government and development institutions embraced activist demands-decentralizing AIDS care through policies of health systems strengthening-civil society was increasingly rendered obsolete. Charting this transition-from subjects, to citizens, and back again-reveals the inefficacy of protest, and the importance of community resilience. The product of in-depth ethnography and focused anthropological inquiry, this is the first book on AIDS activists in Mozambique. AIDS activism's strange decline in southern Africa, rather than a reflection of citizen apathy, is the direct result of targeted state and donor intervention.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Manderson, Lenore

Introduction: The Eye of Fátima

List of Abbreviations, Foreign Words, and Other Terms

Studying HIV and HIV-Positive Persons

"Movements" of the Past: Mozambique, Caridade, and Treatment in Africa

AIDS Associations in Cabo Delgado Province

Challenges to HIV/AIDS Activism in the "Subuniverse" of Cabo Delgado

The (Dis)integration of the Day Hospitals

Biosocial Governmentality

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813596716

0813596718

9780813596730

0813596734

OCLC:

1040669800