AIDS and power why there is no political crisis--yet
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.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England :
Zed Books
2006.
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| Edición: | ebook edition |
| Colección: | African arguments.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422404806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A manageable catastrophe
- Life expectancy and public opinion
- Structure of this book
- 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
- AIDS activists : reformers and revolutionaries
- Confrontation and its limits
- 'Positive positive women'
- AIDS and elections
- Activist networks, local and global
- Transformations in governance
- New solidarities
- How African democracies withstand AIDS
- The issue of a lifetime
- 'Weber in reverse'
- How do African states 'really' function?
- Democratic demographics
- The economics of democracy
- 'New variant famine'
- The political benefits of AIDS
- Ugandan myths
- ABC : carefully mixed messages
- 'Fighting' AIDS
- On the difficulties of showing success
- Treatment regimes
- Power, choices and survival
- Lutaaya, 'alone'
- Democracies can manage AIDS
- Democracies do not prevent HIV.
