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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... Denial and How It Is Overcome Private Experience and Public Concern Giving Meaning to AIDS 'Normalizing'AIDS Sex and Power Domesticating AIDS – and Its Costs The Media and Overcoming Denial Pavement Radio 19 22 27 32 3 34 AIDS Activists ...
... Denial and How It Is Overcome Private Experience and Public Concern Giving Meaning to AIDS 'Normalizing'AIDS Sex and Power Domesticating AIDS – and Its Costs The Media and Overcoming Denial Pavement Radio 19 22 27 32 3 34 AIDS Activists ...
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... denial, construed first as a simple refusal to recognize reality and then (more interestingly) as the determined effort to reconstruct a 'normal' social and moral order in the midst of the epidemic. Key to overcoming denial is the role ...
... denial, construed first as a simple refusal to recognize reality and then (more interestingly) as the determined effort to reconstruct a 'normal' social and moral order in the midst of the epidemic. Key to overcoming denial is the role ...
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... HIV/AIDS. We are not seriously demanding that our leaders prevent HIV infections, and we should not be surprised that they are failing to do so. 2 Denial and How It Is Overcome Private Experience and 10 AIDS and Power.
... HIV/AIDS. We are not seriously demanding that our leaders prevent HIV infections, and we should not be surprised that they are failing to do so. 2 Denial and How It Is Overcome Private Experience and 10 AIDS and Power.
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... denial. Personal denial is encountered everywhere – individuals denying that they or their partners have HIV in the face of good reason to believe that they might be infected. But very few people dispute the existence of the HIV/AIDS ...
... denial. Personal denial is encountered everywhere – individuals denying that they or their partners have HIV in the face of good reason to believe that they might be infected. But very few people dispute the existence of the HIV/AIDS ...
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... denial, in which people absolve themselves of responsibility for what has happened.6 Cohen also develops a sequence of forms of denial, moving from outright denial to discrediting, renaming and finally justification or 'normalization ...
... denial, in which people absolve themselves of responsibility for what has happened.6 Cohen also develops a sequence of forms of denial, moving from outright denial to discrediting, renaming and finally justification or 'normalization ...
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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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