A Global Family: Kinship, Nations, and Transnational Organizations in Botswana’s Time of AIDS

Reece, Koreen M.

doi:10.1017/9781139644938.029

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“…Forging kinship relations sustains people through the privations of social stigma (Weston, 1991), illness and disease (Reece, 2022), structural racism and inequality (Trimbur, 2013), and affords collective political action in in the face of atomizing labour regimes (Lazar, 2018). Such forging does not happen among Accra boxers, who distinguish sharply between ‘real’ kinship and their metaphoric rendering of competitive relationships.…”

Section: Theorizing Competition’s Fraught Intimaciesmentioning

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Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana

Hopkinson

2023

Critique of Anthropology

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Anthropologists have often conceptualized competition by contrasting it with cooperation, even when collective ends are sought and achieved by competing. This approach tells us little about the qualities of the relationships and subjectivities that competition sustains. I explore the qualities of competitive relationships and subjectivities among Accra boxers, many of whom feel a constant, simmering sense of competition with one another. Boxers describe these competitive relationships using kinship idioms, and distinguish keenly between these kinship metaphors and non-metaphoric kin relations. A sustained comparison between competitive relations and kin relations in Accra reveals how competition intertwines subjectivities and futures, rather than producing hyper-individualistic and self-interested ‘neoliberal subjects’. I thus argue that boxers use kinship as a metaphoric resource to help them navigate the fraught intimacies that competition fosters. Their rendering of competition as kinship suggests how anthropologists might theorize the contradictory nature of competitive relationships with more nuance.

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Section: Theorizing Competition’s Fraught Intimaciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana

Hopkinson

2023

Critique of Anthropology

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“…Working on the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, Brown and Marí Sáez (2020) suggest that understanding relationality should not only entail studying “closeness,” and explore the ways that the separations crisis necessitated made and remade forms of relatedness among their interlocutors. Reece (2021, 2022), studying the HIV/AIDS crisis in Botswana, similarly suggests studying crisis through the relations it structures. For Reece (2022), crises dramatize relations, prompting reflection on how subjects relate to one another, and necessitate ongoing negotiation of conflicts.…”

Section: Revivalism and Crisismentioning

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“…Reece (2021, 2022), studying the HIV/AIDS crisis in Botswana, similarly suggests studying crisis through the relations it structures. For Reece (2022), crises dramatize relations, prompting reflection on how subjects relate to one another, and necessitate ongoing negotiation of conflicts. In this way, crises create kinship.…”

Section: Revivalism and Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“The pandemic came to teach us how to eat”: COVID‐19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca

McNamara

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has been a period of inflection in the growth of native corn revivalism in Oaxaca, Mexico. New businesses opened selling food and drinks derived from native corn, events such as seed‐swaps were inaugurated, and farmers who had previously grown hybrid corn began experimenting with native seeds. This revivalism was not merely commercial or gustatory, but entailed a re‐evaluation by revivalists of their relationship to native corn. Such relationships became increasingly framed through mutual vulnerabilities. In this article I argue that native corn revivalism is a direct response to the COVID‐19 crisis. I explore how vulnerability featured in my interlocutors’ tellings of the crisis, demonstrating that it offered an analytic through which they theorized and constructed relationships. This approach builds upon interpretations of crisis as narrative form, but turns its attention away from the power‐effects of crisis narratives to instead look to the relationships that such narratives engender.

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A Global Family: Kinship, Nations, and Transnational Organizations in Botswana’s Time of AIDS

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana

Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana

“The pandemic came to teach us how to eat”: COVID‐19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca

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