Democratisation In The Age Of Aids

Author : Kondwani Chirambo
Publisher : Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015074279889

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Democratisation in the Age of AIDS by Kondwani Chirambo Pdf

This publication presents the results of the three principal, and complimentary, research projects: the findings of the pilot project in Zambia in 2003; the key findings of the South African study (2005); and the preliminary findings of the multi-country study of six African countries - Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Senegal. The study emphasises that HIV/AIDS is - beyond a health crisis - a pandemic that encompasses all spheres of life, with devastating implications for political legitimacy, stability and development in the new democracies in Africa today.

Author : Sophie Harman,Franklyn Lisk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134012008

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Governance of HIV/AIDS by Sophie Harman,Franklyn Lisk Pdf

Nearly thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified, confusion over effective mechanisms of controlling and eradicating the illness remain prevalent. This book highlights the need for comprehensive approaches to governance, as responses to HIV/AIDS become increasingly focused upon the health aspect of the epidemic, and financial commitments become subject to aid fatigue. This book examines the roles and influence of multiple actors and initiatives that have come to constitute the global response to the epidemic. It considers how these actors and structures of governance enhance, or limit, participation and accountability; and the impact this is having upon effective HIV/AIDS responses across the world. The book addresses participation and accountability as key elements of governance in four thematic areas: the role of the state and democratic governance; non-state actors and mechanisms of political governance; public-private partnerships and economic governance; and multilateral institutions and global governance. Drawing on the insights of public health specialists; political scientists; economists; lawyers; those working with community groups, and within international organisations, it offers valuable perspectives on the governance of HIV/AIDS. Aimed at both academics and practitioners throughout the world, this book contributes to the academic debate surrounding global governance, health and development economics, and the work of multiple international organisations and civil society organisations.

Author : Joelien Pretorius
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0702177369

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African Politics by Joelien Pretorius Pdf

In 1991 Samuel Huntington published "The Third Wave: Democratisation in the Late Twentieth Century". The book informed much of the scholarly work on democratisation in Africa. Although comprehensive in classifying the causes and limitations of transitions to democracy, "The Third Wave" was also limited in its definition of democracy and expectations of a new democracy. This volume engages with the topics of democracy and democratisation in contemporary African politics at the local, national and continental level. It acknowledges a conceptual debt to Huntington when discussing elections, party systems, leadership and the development of continental norms of liberal democracy, but also highlights new conversations (eg: about participatory spaces) that go beyond the Third Wave.

Author : Kent Buse,Dennis Altman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134919826

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Thinking Politically about HIV by Kent Buse,Dennis Altman Pdf

AIDS has a unique political history. As fears grew of a global pandemic on the scale of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS was briefly treated as an issue of high politics in the international arena and generated significant resources for country programmes. That initial commitment is now declining, and if AIDS is to maintain its visibility and contribution to global solidarity, human rights and dignity, its politics will have to evolve to reflect the profound geo-political, economic and social transformations underway today. This volume brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines who work at the intersection of politics and HIV. They reflect on the lessons learned from the past thirty years of the politics of AIDS and how political science, writ large, can further contribute to the understanding and practice of political mobilization around AIDS. Through case studies and analysis, new insights into identity politics and social movements in countries as diverse as Brazil, Switzerland, Vietnam and Zambia are offered alongside new approaches to understanding the determinants and incentives which generate political will and commitment. This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Politics.

Author : Richard A. McKay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226064000

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay Pdf

Now an award-winning documentary feature film The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay interprets a wealth of archival sources and interviews to demonstrate how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas—and fears—about contagion and social disorder. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaétan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed—and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control inadvertently created the term amid their early research into the emerging health crisis; how an ambitious journalist dramatically amplified the idea in his determination to reframe national debates about AIDS; and how many individuals grappled with the notion of patient zero—adopting, challenging and redirecting its powerful meanings—as they tried to make sense of and respond to the first fifteen years of an unfolding epidemic. With important insights for our interconnected age, Patient Zero untangles the complex process by which individuals and groups create meaning and allocate blame when faced with new disease threats. What McKay gives us here is myth-smashing revisionist history at its best.

Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226815626

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Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus by Danielle Allen Pdf

Democracy in crisis -- Pandemic resilience -- Federalism is an asset -- A transformed peace: an agenda for healing our social contract.

Author : Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,Robyn Pharoah
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015079356690

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HIV/AIDS and Society in South Africa by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,Robyn Pharoah Pdf

Do we know how HIV/AIDS may affect different sectors of society, possibly altering the course set for development? This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of the discourse on HIV/AIDS and explores the concept of human security and the global development agenda.

Author : Michael Mosher,Anna Plassart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350272842

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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment by Michael Mosher,Anna Plassart Pdf

This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for generations of readers. Yet democracy did not elicit much enthusiasm among contemporaries, while democracy as a political system remained virtually nonexistent through much of the period. If seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ideas did underwrite the democracies of succeeding centuries, they were often inheritances from monarchical governments that had encouraged plural structures of power competition. But in revolutions across France, Britain, and North America, the republican integration of constitutional principle and popular will established rational hope for public happiness. Nevertheless, the tragic clashes of principle and will in fraught revolutionary projects were also democratic legacies. Each chapter focuses on a distinct theme: sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the “common good”; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and the transformations of sovereignty-a synoptic survey of the cultural entanglements of “enlightenment” and “democracy.”

Author : Kondwani Chirambo,Justin Steyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133086269

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AIDS and Local Government in South Africa by Kondwani Chirambo,Justin Steyn Pdf

Aids and Local Government in South Africa studies the impact of HIV/AIDS on the political system of 12 local municipalities in South Africa. This exploratory study by democracy institute Idasa investigates the epidemic's effect on accountability, effectiveness and legitimacy amongst directly elected councillors, against a back-drop of extreme dissatisfaction with local government performance by historically disadvantaged South Africans.

Author : Kondwani Chirambo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015076193997

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The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa by Kondwani Chirambo Pdf

The Political Cost of AIDS in Africa provides comprehensive empirical evidence of the impact HIV/AIDS is having on politics and the electoral process. It reveals that the fledgling multi-party democracies in parts of the continent are being undermined by sickness, incapacity and premature deaths among elected leaders as well as within the electorate. It suggests innovative and holistic responses to address these problems. A culmination of three years of exploratory studies by African researchers working under the auspices of Idasa, it demonstrates how AIDS is interwoven with the continent's ambitions for deepening democracy.

Author : Aim Sinpeng
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472038480

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Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age by Aim Sinpeng Pdf

Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the focus of the book are antidemocratic movements grown out of democratic periods in Thailand, but became the catalyst for the country’s democratic breakdown. Why, when, and how supporters of these movements mobilize offline and online to bring down democracy are some of the key questions that Sinpeng answers. While the book primarily uses a qualitative methodological approach, it also uses several quantitative tools to analyze social media data in the later chapters. This is one of few studies in the field of regime transition that focuses on antidemocratic mobilization and takes the role of social media seriously.

Author : Ben Eklof
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429719387

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Democracy In The Russian School by Ben Eklof Pdf

Framed by an introductory essay by Ben Ekiof, the translated documents in this volume are crucial to understanding Russian educational reform efforts. These primary sources, based on previously unpublished statistical data and public opinion surveys, depict current conditions in Russia's schools. Reflecting the approach of the leading historian of education Edward Dneprov-now the powerful minister of education serving under Boris Yeltsin-the documents describe the radical reform philosophy and program first published in Teachers' Gazette in 1988, which now serve as the operative legislation for all secondary schools. The VNIK (Temporary Scientific Research Collective on the Schools) reform movement is a fascinating microcosm of perestroika in terms of goals, mobilization, and the complicated, painful process of implementation. This unique glimpse into Russian education in a period of turmoil will interest all those who follow Russian politics and society.

Author : Petar Jandrić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463510776

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Learning in the Age of Digital Reason by Petar Jandrić Pdf

Learning in the Age of Digital Reason contains 16 in-depth dialogues between Petar Jandrić and leading scholars and practitioners in diverse fields of history, philosophy, media theory, education, practice, activism, and arts. The book creates a postdisciplinary snapshot of our reality, and the ways we experience that reality, at the moment here and now. It historicises our current views to human learning, and experiments with collective knowledge making and the relationships between theory and practice. It stands firmly at the side of the weak and the oppressed, and aims at critical emancipation. Learning in the Age of Digital Reason is playful and serious. It addresses important issues of our times and avoids the omnipresent (academic) sin of pretentiousness, thus making an important statement: research and education can be sexy. Interlocutors presented in the book (in order of appearance): Larry Cuban, Andrew Feenberg, Michael Adrian Peters, Fred Turner, Richard Barbrook, McKenzie Wark, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Siân Bayne, Howard Rheingold, Astra Taylor, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Ana Kuzmanić, Paul Levinson, Kathy Rae Huffman, Ana Peraica, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?), Christine Sinclair, and Hamish Mcleod.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213189629

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The African Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Trend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136660719

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Radical Democracy by David Trend Pdf

Radical Democracy addresses the loss of faith in conventional party politics and argues for new ways of thinking about diversity, liberty and civic responsibility. The cultural and social theorists in Radical Democracy broaden the discussion beyond the conventional and conservative rhetoric by investigating the applicability of radical democracy in the United States. Issues debated include whether democracy is primarily a form of decision making or an instrument of popular empowerment; and whether democracy constitutes an abstract ideal or an achievable goal.