Resilience and contagion : invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy / Kristi Heather Kenyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenyon, Kristi, author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Global South ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

AIDS (Disease).

Human rights--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston, [Quebec] ; London, [England] ; Chicago, [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

HIV represents not only an unprecedented pandemic but also a site of civil society innovation. In the midst of devastation, activists in sub-Saharan Africa are progressing from traditional forms of health advocacy to strategies that engage human rights principles, techniques, and language. Employing a comparative case-study approach, Resilience and Contagion considers the efforts of nine local civil society organizations in Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, and Botswana. Kristi Heather Kenyon examines who adopts rights-based discourse and why, arguing that leadership, individual beliefs, and structure all play a critical role in framing advocacy. Beyond changing laws or policies, the most important impact of promoting the rights of people living with HIV, she attests, is that it enables individuals to interact with health services from a position of resilience, strength, and empowerment. This book delves into discourse at the juncture of human rights, social theory, and global health, prompting significant and relevant discussion on advocacy’s evolution in the region of the world hit hardest by the HIV pandemic. Drawing on 145 interviews, extensive participant observation, and fascinating document analysis, Resilience and Contagion foregrounds the voices of civil society actors who have conducted the most vocal, widespread, and innovative health advocacy to date.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Contagious Discourse: How Rights Spread to Health

Strength and Resilience: Choosing Rights

Mixed Messages: Using Rights alongside Other Frames

Resisting Rights-ification: Avoiding or Limiting Rights

Drawing Comparisons

Conclusions

Methods

Primary Sources

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed Noverber 18, 2017).

ISBN:

9780773552302

0773552308

9780773552296

0773552294