Pandemic kinship : families, intervention, and social change in Botswana's time of AIDS

Pandemic kinship families, intervention, and social change in Botswana's time of AIDS

Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Reece, Koreen M., 1977- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2022.
Colección:International African library ; 67.
Materias:
Families > Botswana.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Botswana.
Epidemics > Social aspects > Botswana.
Crisis management > Botswana.
Community life > Botswana.
Kinship > Botswana.
Botswana > Social conditions > 21st century.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009664690806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Going up and down
  • 'Ke a aga' : Lorato, building
  • Geographies of intervention
  • Children of one womb
  • Taking what belongs to you
  • Supplementary care
  • Recognising pregnancy
  • Recognising marriage
  • Managing recognition in a time of AIDS
  • Far family
  • Living outside
  • Children in need of care
  • The village in the home : a party
  • 'Lifting up culture' : a homecoming
  • A global family
  • Conclusion: 'We have a problem at home' : the ordinary crisis of kinship
  • An epidemic epilogue.

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