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The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa
This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious “AIDS industry.”
The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in South Africa deals with the manner in which the HIV and AIDS epidemic has become such a well-known disease with such wide-ranging ramifications. With its focus on the “AIDS industry,” this book examines issues such as the framing of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in a manner that greatly fostered notions of stigmatization and moralization. This book looks at the complexities of dealing with the epidemic in contemporary South Africa, examining the difficulties of addressing the social aspects of a disease in the context of increased focus on technological quick-fix solutions. De Wet explores these issues thoroughly, looking at the social determinants of the spread of the disease as well as the configuration and the nature of the responses to it, and their increasing marginalization as factors to address in an era of increased biomedicalization and concomitant normalization.
This book will intrigue scholars and students of public health, global health care, medical sociology, and African Studies.
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Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
Political conflict in many parts of the world has been shaped by
notions of who rightfully belongs to a place. The concept of
autochthony-that a true, original people are born of a land and
belong to it above all others-has animated struggles across
postcolonial Africa. But is this sense of rootedness from time
immemorial necessary to assertions of original being and thus
political supremacy? Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the
Central African Republic examines how political conflict
unfolds when the language of autochthony is detached from
historical land claims. Focusing on violent struggles in the
Central African Republic between 2012 and 2019, Gino Vlavonou
explores the social practices, discursive strategies, and
government policies that emerged in the relentless project of
African state building. Conflict pitted Christian-animist
communities, loosely organized as vigilante groups under the name
anti-Balaka, against Muslim rebels known as the Séléka. Fighters of
the anti-Balaka claimed that they were autochthonous, the \"true
Central Africans,\" reframing their Muslim neighbors as foreigners
to be expelled. While the country had previously witnessed episodes
of violence, both peoples had lived together relatively peacefully
and intermarried. The speed and ferocity with which identity was
weaponized puzzled many observers. To understand this phenomenon,
Vlavonou probes autochthony as a category of identity that differs
from ethnicity in important ways. He argues that elites and
ordinary citizens alike mobilize the language of original belonging
as \"identity capital,\" a resource to be deployed. The value of that
capital is lodged in what people say and do every day to give
meaning to their identity, and its content changes across time and
space.
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Nostalgia after Apartheid
In this engaging book, Amber Reed provides a new perspective on
South Africa's democracy by exploring Black residents' nostalgia
for life during apartheid in the rural Eastern Cape. Reed looks at
a surprising phenomenon encountered in the post-apartheid nation:
despite the Department of Education mandating curricula meant to
teach values of civic responsibility and liberal democracy, those
who are actually responsible for teaching this material (and the
students taking it) often resist what they see as the imposition of
\"white\" values. These teachers and students do not see South
African democracy as a type of freedom, but rather as destructive
of their own \"African culture\"-whereas apartheid, at least
ostensibly, allowed for cultural expression in the former rural
homelands. In the Eastern Cape, Reed observes, resistance to
democracy occurs alongside nostalgia for apartheid among the very
citizens who were most disenfranchised by the late racist,
authoritarian regime. Examining a rural town in the former Transkei
homeland and the urban offices of the Sonke Gender Justice Network
in Cape Town, Reed argues that nostalgic memories of a time when
African culture was not under attack, combined with the
socioeconomic failures of the post-apartheid state, set the stage
for the current political ambivalence in South Africa. Beyond
simply being a case study, however, Nostalgia after
Apartheid shows how, in a global context in which nationalism
and authoritarianism continue to rise, the threat posed to
democracy in South Africa has far wider implications for thinking
about enactments of democracy.
Nostalgia after Apartheid offers a unique approach to
understanding how the attempted post-apartheid reforms have failed
rural Black South Africans, and how this failure has led to a
nostalgia for the very conditions that once oppressed them. It will
interest scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies,
anthropology, and education, as well as general readers interested
in South African history and politics.
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Growing Wild
Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she spent the rest of her life as a rolling stone, as she lived in and near Grahamstown, the diamond and gold fields, Pietermaritzburg, Malvern near Durban and on various farms in the eastern part of the Cape Colony. She has been perceived as 'the most advanced woman of her time', yet her legacy has attracted relatively little attention. She was the first woman ornithologist in South Africa, one of the first who propagated Darwin's theory of evolution, an early archaeologist, keen botanist and interested lepidopterist. In her scientific writing, she propagated a new gender order; positioned herself as a feminist avant la lettre without relying on difference models and at the same time made use of genuinely racist argumentation. This is the first publication of her edited scientific correspondence. The letters - transcribed by Alan Cohen, who has written a number of biographical articles on Barber and her brothers - are primarily addressed to the entomologist Roland Trimen, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London. Today, the letters are housed at the Royal Entomological Society in St Albans. This book also includes a critical introduction by historian Tanja Hammel who has published a number of articles and is about to publish a monograph on Mary Elizabeth Barber.
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