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  • Morality, Hope and Grief

    Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

    Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Ute Luig ...
    Series Book 7 - Epistemologies of Healing
    The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Connecting Africa and Asia

    Afrasia as a Benign Community

    by Yoichi Mine ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region.The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into ... Read more

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  • Africa

    The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

    by Patrick Chabal ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence.In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa

    Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia

    Edited by Carolyn Baylies, Janet Bujra ...
    Series series Social Aspects of AIDS
    While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world. The book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by a team of researchers from Britain, Zambia and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Curing Their Ills

    Colonial Power and African Illness

    by Megan Vaughan ...
    Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medical discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature, highlights its use in the creation of the colonial subject in Africa, and explores the conflict between its pretensions to scientific neutrality and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face

    Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria

    by Daniel Jordan Smith ...
    AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into a mere vehicle to explain AIDS, and in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face, he offers a powerful reversal, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights: Vulnerability in the Caribbean Context of HIV

    by Christine Barrow (Editor), Marjan de Bruin (Editor), Robert Carr (Editor) ...
    Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean context by exploring risks, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender. It provides a unique perspective and analysis of the Caribbean response and how the inclusion of many different sectors in society and an interdisciplinary, rather than segregated multi-disciplinary approach, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa

    Transnational Health and Healing

    Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, Stacey A. Langwick ...
    Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa—and beyond. Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems such ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HIV in South Africa

    Talking about the big thing

    by Corinne Squire ...
    Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2008Of approximately 37 million HIV positive people in the world, 24.7 million live in sub-Saharan Africa and about 5..5 million in South Africa. Despite its relatively powerful economy and infrastructure, South Africa has been dramatically affected by the HIV pandemic. Using narrative analysis of a three year interview study and textual ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sexual Diversity in Africa

    Politics, Theory, and Citizenship

    by S.N. Nyeck, Marc Epprecht ...
    How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one "Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African scholars?In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors critically engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity, as well as with ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • When Norms Collide

    Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage

    by Karisa Cloward ...
    Many transnational campaigns, and particularly the transnational campaign on violence against women, promote international norms that target the behavior of local nonstate actors. But these international norms are often at odds with local practices. What happens when the international and local norms collide? When does transnational activism lead individuals and communities to abandon local norms ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Impossible Refuge

    The Control and Constraint of Refugee Futures

    by Georgina Ramsay ...
    Series series On Edge: Ethnographies and Theories of Threshold Phenomena
    Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of protracted asylum in Uganda and resettlement in Australia, the book provides a unique comparative ... Read more

    $68.99 USD