Hiv In World Cultures

Author : Gustavo Subero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317121534

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HIV in World Cultures by Gustavo Subero Pdf

This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies of remembrance deployed by different (sub)cultural groups affected by the illness. Through a close study of a variety of cultural texts; including cinema, literature, theatre, art and photography amongst others, it demonstrates the trajectory that such narratives and representations have undergone since the advent of the ’discovery’ of the disease in the 1980s. Acknowledging the central - yet often overlooked - role that cultural products have played in the construction of public opinion towards the condition itself and those who suffer it, this ground-breaking volume focuses on a variety of narratives, as well as strategies of coping with HIV/AIDS that have emerged across the globe. Bringing together research on the UK, North and South America, Africa and China, it provides rich textual analyses of the ways in which the HIV positive body has been portrayed in contemporary culture, with attention to the differences between specific national contexts, whilst keeping in view a space of commonality amongst the different experiences reflected in such texts. As such, it will be of interest to social scientists and scholars of cultural and media studies, concerned with cultural production and representations of the body and sickness.

Author : Gustavo Subero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 1315586932

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HIV in World Cultures by Gustavo Subero Pdf

Author : Gregory Barz,Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199780037

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The Culture of AIDS in Africa by Gregory Barz,Judah M. Cohen Pdf

The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS. Africans and non-Africans, physicians and social scientists, journalists and documentarians share here a common and essential interest in understanding creative expression in crushing and uncertain times. They investigate and engage the social networks, power relationships, and cultural structures that enable the arts to convey messages of hope and healing, and of knowledge and good counsel to the wider community. And from Africa to the wider world, they bring intimate, inspiring portraits of the performers, artists, communities, and organizations that have shared with them their insights and the sense they have made of their lives and actions from deep within this devastating epidemic. Covering the wide expanse of the African continent, the 30 chapters include explorations of, for example, the use of music to cope with AIDS; the relationship between music, HIV/AIDS, and social change; visual approaches to HIV literacy; radio and television as tools for "edutainment;" several individual artists' confrontations with HIV/AIDS; various performance groups' response to the epidemic; combating HIV/AIDS with local cultural performance; and more. Source material, such as song lyrics and interviews, weaves throughout the collection, and contributions by editors Gregory Barz and Judah M. Cohen bookend the whole, to bring together a vast array of perspectives and sources into a nuanced and profoundly affective portrayal of the intricate relationship between HIV/AIDS and the arts in Africa.

Author : Gustavo Subero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317066002

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Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture by Gustavo Subero Pdf

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/AIDS, re-interpreting the condition in the light of advances in treatment. With attention to both the temporality and spatiality of production, this book examines whether heterosexual and homosexual, and masculine and feminine bodies are narrativised in the same manner, considering the question of whether representations foster discrimination of any kind. The book also asks whether representations across Latin America are homogenous or varied according to national, social or cultural context, and explores the commonalities between the representations of HIV/AIDS in Hispano-America and the Caribbean and other global narratives. A detailed study of the various representations of HIV/AIDS and the construction of public opinion, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural, media and film studies, the sociology of health, the body and illness, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Author : Ida Susser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444359107

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AIDS, Sex, and Culture by Ida Susser Pdf

AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author's own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the impact of social conservatism in the US on AIDS prevention programs discussion of the experiences of women in areas ranging from Durban in KwaZulu Natal to rural settlements in Namibia and Botswana includes a chapter written by Sibongile Mkhize at the University of KwaZulu Natal who tells the story of her own family’s struggle with AIDS

Author : Carol Jenkins
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789715616188

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Cultures and Contexts Matter by Carol Jenkins Pdf

Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400763241

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Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS by Pranee Liamputtong Pdf

Up until now, many articles have been written to portray stigma and discrimination which occur with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in many parts of the world. But this is the first book which attempts to put together results from empirical research relating to stigma, discrimination and living with HIV/AIDS. The focus of this book is on issues relevant to stigma and discrimination which have occurred to individuals and groups in different parts of the globe, as well as how these individuals and groups attempt to deal with HIV/AIDS. The book comprises chapters written by researchers who carry out their projects in different parts of the world and each chapter contains empirical information based on real life situations. This can be used as an evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies. The book is of interest to health care providers who have their interests in working with individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS from a cross-cultural perspective. It will be useful for students and lecturers in courses such as anthropology, sociology, social work, nursing, public health and medicine. In particular, it will assist health workers in community health centres and hospitals in understanding issues related to HIV/AIDS and hence provide culturally sensitive health care to people living with HIV/AIDS from different social and cultural backgrounds. The book is useful for anyone who is interested in HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in diverse social and cultural settings.

Author : Jennifer Klot,Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789231041587

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The Fourth Wave by Jennifer Klot,Vinh-Kim Nguyen Pdf

Author : Leslie Butt,Richard Eves
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780824863470

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Making Sense of AIDS by Leslie Butt,Richard Eves Pdf

In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV transmission. This collection, the first book on HIV and AIDS in the Pacific region, gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia. The volume addresses substantive issues concerning AIDS and contemporary sexualities, relations of power, and moralities—themes that provide a powerful backdrop for twenty-first century understandings of the tensions between sexuality, religion, and politics in many parts of the world.

Author : Loïc Bourdeau,V. Hunter Capps
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793650092

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Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture by Loïc Bourdeau,V. Hunter Capps Pdf

This edited collection brings together scholarship from established and emerging scholars in HIV/AIDS studies, French studies, Visual Arts, and Dance. As French writers and artists from the past five to ten years have been revisiting the AIDS crisis and its attendant cultural amnesia, their work has brought about the necessity of foregrounding vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma when considering disease. By way of probing “rawness” and its varying iterations, this volume gathers analyses of HIV/AIDS productions from the 1980s to today in the service of excavating lessons learned by those living in proximity to disease. These lessons provide important tools to understand and discuss both the ongoing HIV and SARS-CoV-2 pandemics. The volume thus highlights the specificities of the former while offering solutions on how to discuss and mitigate the latter.

Author : Nicola Bulled
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781315421964

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Prescribing HIV Prevention by Nicola Bulled Pdf

Critical health communication scholars point out that the acceptance of HIV risk prevention methods are bound inside inequitable structures of power and knowledge. Nicola Bulled’s in-depth ethnographic account of how these messages are selected, transmitted and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho in southern Africa provides a crucial example of the importance of a culture-centered approach to health communication. She shows the clash between traditional western perceptions of how increased knowledge will increase compliance with western ideas of prevention, and mixed messages offered by local religious, educational, and media institutions. Bulled also demonstrates how structural and geographical forces prevent the delivery and acceptance of health messages, and how local communities shape their own knowledge of health, disease and illness. This volume will be of interest to medical anthropologists and sociologists, to those in health communication, and to researchers working on issues related to HIV.

Author : Raymond A. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135457549

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Encyclopedia of AIDS by Raymond A. Smith Pdf

The Encyclopedia of AIDS covers all major aspects of the first 15 years of the AIDS epidemic, including the breakthroughs in treatment announced at the International AIDS Conference in July 1996.

Author : Jean Baxen,Anders Breidlid
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1919895183

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HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa by Jean Baxen,Anders Breidlid Pdf

Explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars, religious leaders and traditional healers

Author : Edward C Green,Allison Herling Ruark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315435152

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AIDS, Behavior, and Culture by Edward C Green,Allison Herling Ruark Pdf

AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of “the global AIDS industry” and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV prevention. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark make the case that the most effective programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay of sex, faithfulness, and cessation of injection drug use. Successful programs are locally based, low cost, low tech, innovative, and built on existing cultural structures. In contrast, they argue that anthropologists and public health practitioners focus on counseling, testing, condoms, and treatment, and impose their Western values, culture, and political ideologies in an attempt to “liberate” non-Western people from sexual repression and homophobia. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone working in HIV/AIDS prevention, and a stimulating introduction to the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical anthropology for students and general readers.

Author : Samantha Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030041199

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Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa by Samantha Page Pdf

This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during fieldwork. Finally, it assesses the implications of the findings for the conceptualization and provision of current and future HIV/AIDS policies and programs in Africa. This monograph will appeal to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of HIV/AIDS in the Global South as well as academics and students.