Aids Intimacy And Care In Rural Kwazulu Natal

Author : Patricia C. Henderson
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089643599

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AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal by Patricia C. Henderson Pdf

This book describes how HIV/AIDS became part of the lives of the people of the mountainous Okhahlamba in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Based on extensive research in the area between 2003 and 2006, the author shows what impact the disease had - and still does - for adults and children, and the different ways people tried to find answers to the devastating presence of HIV / AIDS. Henderson focuses on informal care by family members and volunteers at a time when anti-retroviral drugs were not yet available. She also shows what it meant to the community once the drugs became available.

Author : Patricia C. Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090051945

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AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal by Patricia C. Henderson Pdf

Author : Patricia C. Henderson
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 1869142462

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A Kinship of Bones by Patricia C. Henderson Pdf

Author : Stephen Clift,Paul M. Camic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191511943

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Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing by Stephen Clift,Paul M. Camic Pdf

There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health in both healthcare and community settings. A timely addition to the field, the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing is the first work of its kind to discuss the role the creative arts have in addressing some of the most pressing public health challenges faced today. Providing an evidence-base and recommendations for a wide audience, this is an essential resource for anyone involved with this increasingly important component of public health practice. The textbook offers key insights for developing new creative arts-based approaches to health and wellbeing, and shows how these can augment established practices within a variety of social settings. Theoretically grounded and with a strong evidence base, this book brings together contributions from both practitioners and researches to provide a comprehensive account of the field. Using international examples, the textbook elucidates the various approaches that have successfully led to improvements in public health, whilst case studies in healthcare practices evaluate the impact of arts-based initiatives in a multitude of international settings, life-course stages, and social milieus. The Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing is a comprehensive resource that will be essential to anyone with an interest in this increasingly important component of public health practice.

Author : Chirisa, Innocent
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789956550456

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The Sustainability Ethic in the Management of the Physical, Infrastructural and Natural Resources of Zimbabwe by Chirisa, Innocent Pdf

Humanity has extensively exploited natural and physical resources, since the Industrial Revolution in Europe. A geological era, now called the Anthropocene, has been coined in environmental and developmental circles, to mark the increased domination of humanity on Earth and its resources. Today, the ecological footprint on the fragile planet continues to increase. Mass industrialisation, like what China is doing and pushing for, is one of the drivers for increased urbanisation that results in increased demand for land. It is also the stimulus behind increased deforestation, overfishing, and pollution. As the fragility of the Earth increases, global bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are pushing to reduce the Earth’s temperature. Human efforts to manage the problem cascade from a global to a regional, to a national, as well as to much localised scales. Missing though are nuanced contributions at national and community levels, which this book is an attempt to bridge. The nagging sense of responsibility is what this book explores under the label of “sustainability ethic”. As a case study, the book examines the use of sustainability ethic in the management of the physical, infrastructural and natural resources of Zimbabwe. This ethic is built on pillars that include participation of people (households) in their pursuit for sustainable livelihoods, appropriate technology, tools and techniques for environmental protection. It also hinges on stewardship and structures, institutions, policies and processes of governance and sustainability. There are also the aspects of ethics, laws and indigenous technical knowledge for sustainability, capacity building and education plans and programmes for sustainability and population and demographic determinants, processes and outcomes for sustainability. The book is a timely contribution to an urgent global concern and climate change debate.

Author : Ellen Block,Will McGrath
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978804760

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Infected Kin by Ellen Block,Will McGrath Pdf

AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care. Supplementary instructor resources (https://www.csbsju.edu/sociology/faculty/anthropology-teaching-resources/infected-kin-teaching-resources)

Author : Karl Hanson,Olga Nieuwenhuys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107031517

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Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development by Karl Hanson,Olga Nieuwenhuys Pdf

Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children's rights.

Author : Anna Versfeld
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978822498

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Making Uncertainty by Anna Versfeld Pdf

In Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior that makes successful treatment of people affected by tuberculosis extremely difficult. People affected don’t get healthy, healthcare providers are frustrated, and families seek to balance love and care for those who are ill with self-protection. How are we to understand this? Where does the responsibility for poor health and healing lie? What are the possibilities for an effective healthcare response? Through a close look at lives and care, Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health shows how patterns of substance use, tuberculosis disease, and their interaction are shaped by history, social context, and political economy. This, in turn, generates new perspectives on what makes poor health, and what good care might look like.

Author : Oliver Pattenden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319698267

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Taking Care of the Future by Oliver Pattenden Pdf

Taking Care of the Future examines the moral dimensions and transformative capacities of education and humanitarianism through an intimate portrayal of learners, volunteers, donors, and educators at a special needs school in South Africa and a partnering UK-based charity. Drawing on his professional experience of “inclusive education” in London, Oliver Pattenden investigates how systems of schooling regularly exclude and mishandle marginalized populations, particularly exploring how “street kids” and poverty-afflicted young South Africans experience these dynamics as they attempt to fashion their futures. By unpacking the ethical terrains of fundraising, voluntourism, Christian benevolence, human rights, colonial legacies, and the post-apartheid transition, Pattenden analyzes how political, economic and social aspects of intervention materialize to transform the lives of all those involved.

Author : Louise Meintjes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822373636

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Dust of the Zulu by Louise Meintjes Pdf

In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV epidemic, and the world music market, Meintjes follows a community ngoma team and its professional subgroup during the twenty years after apartheid's end. She intricately ties aesthetics to politics, embodiment to the voice, and masculine anger to eloquence and virtuosity, relating the visceral experience of ngoma performances as they embody the expanse of South African history. Meintjes also shows how ngoma helps build community, cultivate responsible manhood, and provide its participants with a means to reconcile South Africa's past with its postapartheid future. Dust of the Zulu includes over one hundred photographs of ngoma performances, the majority taken by award-winning photojournalist TJ Lemon.

Author : Mark Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108480529

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Race for Education by Mark Hunter Pdf

An examination of families and schools in South Africa, revealing how the marketisation of schooling works to uphold the privilege of whiteness.

Author : Jennifer J. M. Rogerson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781789204360

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Privileges of Birth by Jennifer J. M. Rogerson Pdf

Focussing ethnographically on private-sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of Birth looks at the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Birth is one of the most medicalised aspects of the lifecycle across all sectors of society, and there is deep division between what the privileged can afford compared with the rest of the population. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author situates the argument in the context of a growing literature on care in anthropological and feminist scholarship, offering a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.

Author : Tracy Morison,Ingrid Lynch,Vasu Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429582196

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Queer Kinship by Tracy Morison,Ingrid Lynch,Vasu Reddy Pdf

What makes kinship queer? This collection from leading and emerging thinkers in gender and sexualities interrogates the politics of belonging, shining a light on the outcasts, rebels, and pioneers. Queer Kinship brings together an array of thought-provoking perspectives on what it means to love and be loved, to ‘do family’ and to belong in the South African context. The collection includes a number of different topic areas, disciplinary approaches, and theoretical lenses on familial relations, reproduction, and citizenship. The text amplifies the voices of those who are bending, breaking, and remaking the rules of being and belonging. Photo-essays and artworks offer moving glimpses into the new life worlds being created in and among the ‘normal’ and the mundane. Taken as a whole, this text offers a critical and intersectional perspective that addresses some important gaps in the scholarship on kinship and families. Queer Kinship makes an innovative contribution to international studies in kinship, gender, and sexualities. It will be a valuable resource to scholars, students, and activists working in these areas.

Author : Casey Golomski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253036483

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Funeral Culture by Casey Golomski Pdf

Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.

Author : Ribeiro, Gustavo Lins,Dwyer, Tom
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956792146

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Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of the BRICS by Ribeiro, Gustavo Lins,Dwyer, Tom Pdf

For the almost 40 years of its existence, ANPOCS has contributed to introducing or consolidating new thematic areas in the academic agenda of debates in the Brazilian social sciences. Commensurate with this history, at the 37th Annual meeting, hosted in Águas de Lindoia, São Paulo, in 2013, we organized a large International Symposium, The BRICS and their social, political and cultural challenges on the national and international levels. There were six sessions of debates, gathered under the umbrella of "Development and public policies," "Social inclusion and social justice," and "Emerging powers and transformations in the international system," followed by a final plenary session. Around 30 anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and researchers in international relations from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, met over three highly productive days. As might be expected at ANPOCS, the encounter was marked not only by the diversity of countries and disciplines, but also by the theoretical and political diversity of the participants, something already apparent in the composition of the Brazilian coordinators of the Symposium. This book is just one tangible outcome of the papers and dialogues emerging from this encounter. Like the Symposium, the volume is divided into three sections. Looking to address an international readership, it is published in Portuguese and English