The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society / Edition 1

The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0230554024
ISBN-13:
9780230554023
Pub. Date:
04/01/2008
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN-10:
0230554024
ISBN-13:
9780230554023
Pub. Date:
04/01/2008
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society / Edition 1

The Politics of AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society / Edition 1

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Overview

HIV/AIDS is the major political challenge of our time. Based on empirical observations from all over the world, this book examines how HIV/AIDS has become increasingly transnational, as nation states have extended their programmes across borders, and transnational networks have increased their activities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230554023
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Edition description: 2008
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

MAJ-LIS FOLLÉR is Associate Professor in Latin American Studies. She is at present director at the Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, Göteborg University, Sweden. She has spent many years in the Peruvian Amazon working with indigenous health. She is currently working on AIDS-related research in Brazil, and has published several articles on HIV/AIDS in Brazil and was the co-editor of the anthology No Name Fever: AIDS in the Age of Globalization (2005, with Håkan Thörn).

HÅKAN THÖRN is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Göteborg University, Sweden. He has mainly been working on issues related to globalization and social movements, and he has written and co-edited several books on these topics, most recently Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society (2006), and No Name Fever: AIDS in the Age of Globalization (2005, co-edited with Maj-Lis Follér). He was the co-curator of an exhibition on HIV/AIDS and globalization, produced by the Museum of World Culture (inaugurated in December 2004), Göteborg and is currently involved in a research project titled 'Aid and AIDS Governance: Global Influences on Local Strategies in the Context of South African Civil Society'.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION The Politics of AIDS; M.Follér & H.Thörn PART ONE: AIDS, SECURITY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE State Fragility, Human Security and HIV; D.Altman A Long Wave Event: HIV/AIDS, Politics, Governance and 'Security': Sundering the Intergenerational Bond?; T.Barnett PART TWO: AIDS AND THE AFRICAN STATE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION The AIDS Epidemic and the Fragility of the African State; N.Poku The Unattended Dimension: AIDS and Governability in Africa; B.Egerö & M.Hammarskjöld Multi-Sectoral Response to HIV/AIDS in the Context of Global Funding: Experiences from Uganda; E.K.Kirumira Governance Matters for AIDS: But What About the Politics? Lessons from South Africa and Uganda; P.Jones & K.Koffeld Male Involvement in Uganda: Challenges and Opportunities; F.H.Bateganya , S.Kyomuhendo , G.Jagwe-Wadda & C.C.Opesen PART THREE: RESPONSES FROM CIVIL SOCIETY: AFRICA Global Struggles, Local Contexts: Prospects for a Southern African AIDS Feminism; S.Leclerc-Madlala 'Brothers are Doing it For Themselves': Remaking Masculinities in South Africa; S.Robins Gender, Sexuality and Global Linkages in the History of South African AIDS Activism; M.Mbali Surviving Politics and the Politics of Surviving: Understanding Community Mobilization in South Africa; M.Chazan PART FOUR: RESPONSES FROM CIVIL SOCIETY: LATIN AMERICA AND ASIA From Global to Local and Back to Global: The Articulation of Politics, Knowledge and Assistance in Brazilian Responses to AIDS; C.Bastos Mechanisms of Representation and Coordinationin the Brazilian AIDS Response: A Perspective From Civil Society; V.Terto Jr & J.Garcia AIDS and Civil Belonging: Converging Currents in Thailand and Laos; C.Lyttleton CONCLUSION Governing AIDS: Globalization, the State and Civil Society; H.Thörn & M.Follér
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