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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... moral order in the midst of the epidemic. Key to overcoming denial is the role of the media – not as a purveyor of messages about AIDS but as a news source that provokes discussion. Chapter 3 examines the nature of civil society and ...
... moral order in the midst of the epidemic. Key to overcoming denial is the role of the media – not as a purveyor of messages about AIDS but as a news source that provokes discussion. Chapter 3 examines the nature of civil society and ...
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... while maintaining a façade of social and moral normality. Cohen's framework can help guide us through social responses to epidemic HIV/AIDS. Giving Meaning to AIDS From the very first days of Denial and How It Is Overcome 13.
... while maintaining a façade of social and moral normality. Cohen's framework can help guide us through social responses to epidemic HIV/AIDS. Giving Meaning to AIDS From the very first days of Denial and How It Is Overcome 13.
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... moral agency in an epidemic.Yet we may be at fault for neglecting what AIDS means for the moral universe and the power relations embedded therein. Perhaps the most famous American exponent of AIDS as sin and punishment for sin was the ...
... moral agency in an epidemic.Yet we may be at fault for neglecting what AIDS means for the moral universe and the power relations embedded therein. Perhaps the most famous American exponent of AIDS as sin and punishment for sin was the ...
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... moral cosmology of political Islam and the place that AIDS occupies within it. Neo-fundamentalist preachers across the Muslim world are rather little preoccupied with AIDS – they have more tangible and immediate enemies to rail against ...
... moral cosmology of political Islam and the place that AIDS occupies within it. Neo-fundamentalist preachers across the Muslim world are rather little preoccupied with AIDS – they have more tangible and immediate enemies to rail against ...
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... moral positions too complex to be examined here. The apocalyptic language of some religious moralizers might seem to dramatize AIDS's exceptional implications – the very reverse of denial. But closer examination suggests that the ...
... moral positions too complex to be examined here. The apocalyptic language of some religious moralizers might seem to dramatize AIDS's exceptional implications – the very reverse of denial. But closer examination suggests that the ...
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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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