AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – YetBloomsbury Publishing, 29 февр. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 161 One in six adults in sub-Saharan Africa will die in their prime of AIDS. It is a stunning cataclysm, plunging life expectancy to pre-modern levels and orphaning millions of children. Yet political trauma does not grip Africa. People living with AIDS are not rioting in the streets or overthrowing governments. In fact, democratic governance is spreading. Contrary to fearful predictions, the social fabric is not being ripped apart by bands of unsocialized orphan children. AIDS and Power explains why social and political life in Africa goes on in a remarkably normal way, and how political leaders have successfully managed the AIDS epidemic so as to overcome any threats to their power. Partly because of pervasive denial, AIDS is not a political priority for electorates, and therefore not for democratic leaders either. AIDS activists have not directly challenged the political order, instead using international networks to promote a rights-based approach to tackling the epidemic. African political systems have proven resilient in the face of AIDS's stresses, and rulers have learned to co-opt international AIDS efforts to their own political ends. In contrast with these successes, African governments and international agencies have a sorry record of tackling the epidemic itself. AIDS and Power concludes without political incentives for HIV prevention, this failure will persist. |
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... activist on African issues. He is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard; director of the Social Science Research Council program AIDS and social transformation; and a director of Justice Africa in London. In his twenty-year ...
... activist on African issues. He is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard; director of the Social Science Research Council program AIDS and social transformation; and a director of Justice Africa in London. In his twenty-year ...
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... Activists: Reformers and Revolutionaries Confrontation and Its Limits 'Positive Positive Women' AIDS and Elections Activist Networks, Local and Global Transformations in Governance New Solidarities 34 40 42 46 53 61 4 66 66 69 How ...
... Activists: Reformers and Revolutionaries Confrontation and Its Limits 'Positive Positive Women' AIDS and Elections Activist Networks, Local and Global Transformations in Governance New Solidarities 34 40 42 46 53 61 4 66 66 69 How ...
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... activists wanted to call governments and agencies to account for their performance, they do not have the tools to do so. A government's political commitment to preventing HIV/AIDS consists solely in a promise to implement a package of ...
... activists wanted to call governments and agencies to account for their performance, they do not have the tools to do so. A government's political commitment to preventing HIV/AIDS consists solely in a promise to implement a package of ...
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... activism and civil society, threats to social and political functioning, and power relations. Chapter 2 begins with the larger question posed by the Afrobarometer data, 'why a pandemic that has caused such a widespread sense of personal ...
... activism and civil society, threats to social and political functioning, and power relations. Chapter 2 begins with the larger question posed by the Afrobarometer data, 'why a pandemic that has caused such a widespread sense of personal ...
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... activists themselves – have not framed the issue as a challenge to the legitimacy of governments. Since its foundation in 1998, South Africa's TAC has become the continent's most influential AIDS activist organization. Facing a ...
... activists themselves – have not framed the issue as a challenge to the legitimacy of governments. Since its foundation in 1998, South Africa's TAC has become the continent's most influential AIDS activist organization. Facing a ...
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AIDS Activists Reformers and Revolutionaries | 34 |
How African Democracies Withstand AIDS | 66 |
The Political Benefits of AIDS | 94 |
Power Choices and Survival | 117 |
Notes | 124 |
Bibliography | 133 |
Index | 144 |
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