Landscapes of activism : civil society and HIV and AIDS care in northern Mozambique /

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. Reed shows that in Africa, superimposing a Western idea of what activism should look like actually hamp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reed, Joel Christian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects.
Sida > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 "sub-universe" of Cabo Delgado
  • The (dis)integration of the day hospitals
  • Biosocial governmentality.

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