A Fraught Embrace (eBook)

The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa

Ann Swidler, Susan Cotts Watkins (Autoren)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8498-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Ann Swidler is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Organization Without Authority and Talk of Love, and the coauthor of Habits of the Heart and Inequality by Design. Susan Cotts Watkins is professor emerita of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Scholar at UCLA. She is the author of From Provinces into Nations and the coeditor of The Decline of Fertility in Europe.

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The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in AfricaIn the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives. A Fraught Embrace shows how the dreams of these altruists became entangled with complex institutional and human relationships. Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins vividly describe the often mismatched expectations and fantasies of those who seek to help, of the villagers who desperately seek help, and of the brokers on whom both Western altruists and impoverished villagers must rely.Based on years of fieldwork in the heavily AIDS-affected country of Malawi, this powerful book digs into the sprawling AIDS enterprise and unravels the paradoxes of AIDS policy and practice. All who want to do good-from idealistic volunteers to world-weary development professionals-depend on brokers as guides, fixers, and cultural translators. These irreplaceable but frequently unseen local middlemen are the human connection between altruists' dreams and the realities of global philanthropy.The mutual misunderstandings among donors, brokers, and villagers-each with their own desires and moral imaginations-create all the drama of a romance: longing, exhilaration, disappointment, heartache, and sometimes an enduring connection. Personal stories, public scandals, and intersecting, sometimes clashing fantasies bring the lofty intentions of AIDS altruism firmly down to earth.Swidler and Watkins ultimately argue that altruists could accomplish more good, not by seeking to transform African lives but by helping Africans achieve their own goals. A Fraught Embrace unveils the tangled relations of those involved in the collective struggle to contain an epidemic.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones. 7 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: ActionAid • Advertising • Africa • African aid • africans • Agriculture • Aid • aid chain • AIDS • AIDS altruism • AIDS enterprise • AIDS money • AIDS organizations • AIDS Orphan • AIDS pandemic • AIDS policy • Altruism • altruists • beneficiary • Bilateral donors • brokers • buzzword • Career • career aspirations • caregiver • civil service • Classroom • condom • Corruption • Counseling • credential • cultural practice • cultural practices • Decision-Making • developed country • development aid • Disease • Donor • donors • Economic mobility • Education • Employment • Empowerment • Entrepreneurship • Epidemic • Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS • Evaluation • Extended family • Facilitator • Family planning • famine • female condom • fighting stigma • foreign altruists • funders • Funding • Gender equality • Gender Role • global AIDS system • Global Fund • global philanthropy • Governance • Grant (money) • Guides • harmful practices • HIV • HIV/Aids • HIV/AIDS in Africa • HIV virus • Household • Humanitarian aid • Incentive • income • injunction • Institution • institutional altruists • International non-governmental organization • International Organization • Journalists • Kenya • Life Skills • Lilongwe • Livelihood • Local community • lock donors • Malaria • Malawi • Malawian brokers • malawians • malice • meal • merit • middlemen • Millennium Development Goals • miracles • Modernity • Monitoring and Evaluation • mutual aid • newspaper • NGOs • Non-governmental organization • Opportunism • organization • Orphans • Peace Corps • PEPFAR • Per diem • Pornography • Poverty • Prevalence • prevention of HIV/AIDS • project evaluation • Public Health • Respondent • routinized activities • Rural Area • salary • Save the Children • Self-reliance • sexual intercourse • Sexually Transmitted Infection • Sexual practices • Sex Worker • sibling • Slum • Social Movement • Society • Subcontractor • Sub-Saharan Africa • Subsistence Agriculture • Supervisor • sustainability • Sympathy • Technology • Testimonial • Testimonials • Trainee • Training • Tuberculosis • Uganda • UNICEF • United States Agency for International Development • Unites States • USAID • Villagers • Violence Against Women • Voluntary counseling and testing • Volunteering • vulnerability • vulnerable women • World Bank Group • World Vision International • year • Youth club
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8498-5 / 1400884985
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8498-8 / 9781400884988