Crying for Our Elders : African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS / Kristen E. Cheney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheney, Kristen E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orphans--Uganda--Social conditions.

Orphans.

Children of AIDS patients--Uganda--Social conditions.

Children of AIDS patients.

Poor children--Uganda--Social conditions.

Poor children.

Child welfare--Uganda.

Child welfare.

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

AIDS (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the 'orphan crisis'. She explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the social and political circumstances that actually present the greatest adversity to vulnerable children-in effect deepening the crisis and thereby affecting children's lives as irrevocably as HIV/AIDS itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the "best interest" principle that governs children's' rights can stigmatize orphans and leave children in the post-antiretroviral era even more vulnerable to exploitation. She details the dramatic effects this has on traditional family support and child protection and stresses child empowerment over pity. Crying for Our Elders advances current discussions on humanitarianism, children's studies, orphanhood, and kinship. By exploring the unique experience of AIDS orphanhood through the eyes of children, caregivers, and policymakers, Cheney shows that despite the extreme challenges of growing up in the era of HIV/AIDS, the post-ARV generation still holds out hope for the future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One. Generations of HIV/AIDS, Orphanhood, and Intervention

Part Two. Beyond Checking the "Voice" Box: Children's Rights and Participation in Development and Research

Part Three. Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS

Part Four. Blood Binds: The Transformation of Kinship and the Politics of Adoption

Part Five. Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Children and Household Profiles by Youth Research Assistant Focus Group, 2007-2009

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226437682

022643768X

OCLC:

968731413