“A Test of Governance”: rights-based struggles and the politics of HIV/AIDS policy in South Africa

Jones, Peris Sean

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2004.10.012

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“…Pieterse (2008) argues that second-and third-generation rights e to peace or a clean environment e are as significant because they are tied to larger political concerns about social and ecological sustainability. Jones (2005), for example, describes how the right to health and socio-economic rights may lead to socially enabling environments, critical political spaces, and inclusive forms of governance. He offers a successful case of 'rights-based development' achieved through social mobilization to demand peopledriven institutional access and health rights for individuals with HIV-AIDS in South Africa.…”

Section: A Place-based Ethics Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care

Till

2012

Political Geography

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Section: A Place-based Ethics Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care

Till

2012

Political Geography

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“…Social dimensions of health can include public health promotion campaigns, local discourses on health priorities, advice on decisions between various types of healing, and subjective experiences of illness. In South Africa, the history of AIDS denialism leaves a cultural legacy of silence surrounding HIV (Decoteau 2013;Fassin 2007;Jones 2005). This is in stark contrast to high prevalence rates and other markers of the illness on society.…”

Section: Social Dynamics and Stigmamentioning

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Constructing landscapes

Winchester¹,

King²

2017

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The concept of therapeutic landscapes has been adopted from geography by anthropologists with a similar commitment to addressing the intersections between the construction of place and the multifaceted and symbolic dimensions of health. Drawing from health geography and medical anthropology, we take up the challenge from these fields to approach health broadly in order to understand how health decision making is connected to intersecting political, economic, social, and cultural processes that shape what options are available to people. This article presents findings from an ongoing study of the political ecology of health in northeastern South Africa. We consider how therapeutic landscapes are produced by physical infrastructure, social dynamics, and the use of natural resources for livelihoods and health management. While each of these dimensions is critical in shaping human health, we argue that it is through their interaction that therapeutic landscapes are produced. Landscapes of care are thus complicated and shifting, with rural households making strategic decisions to leverage government support, social support, and resources for health management. We conclude by emphasizing the need for further integration of anthropological and geographic frameworks in studying human health.

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“…Jones, 2004;Campbell, 2007;Ó Tuathail, 2009;Hyndman, 2010). Yet, it would be unjust to propose that political theory has totally evaded children's lived worlds.…”

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Are There Politics in Childhood?

2011

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Abstract:This paper sets out to explore children's worlds as potential fields of political action. Children are approached as competent political agents whose mundane lives are permeated by politics in which they have their own positions and roles. The paper discusses how children can be found to act politically in their everyday lives and, to some extent, also practice their own political geographies. The main objective is to propose a theoretical basis for recognizing the political aspects of children's agency and studying political geographies embedded in children's lived worlds.Keywords: children, politics, politicization, the political, political geography, childhood studies Are there politics in childhood?In the past twenty years interest towards children and young people's geographies has grown steadily in cultural studies and social sciences. Spaces and sites such as the home, the school, urban neighborhoods and virtual communities have been explored as significant contexts of children's everyday agency with and alongside other people. As part of this scholarship also power relations embedded in children's lived worlds have been acknowledged. Dynamics and power struggles maintained and produced by the children themselves, the imbalances and hierarchies concerning child-adult relations, and the society's pressures bearing upon childhood have been explored in various contexts (e.g. Morris-Roberts, 2004;Gallacher, 2005;Forsberg & Strandell, 2007;Gallagher, 2008;Thomas, 2009).However, the political geographies consequential in children's everyday lives are rarely positioned at the centre of these explorations. Children's worlds are typically approached as social and cultural environments, but not as political arenas -i.e. spaces where the presence of human relations is organized by power (Brown 2002:.569). Even studies that explicitly focus on power or empowerment tend to overlook the political dynamisms that direct and transform the power relations embedded in children's lived worlds. The scholarship foregrounding children's involvement or participation in political processes usually deals with issues readily known as belonging to the sphere of 'the political', be that civic activism, urban planning or policy making in schools. Hence, what politics means in each case is not derived from children's experiences and lived worlds but determined on the basis of policies and politics pertinent to adult communities and societies. This sustains the perception of children's mundane lives as not determined by webs of power relations forming around matters of importance to children themselves. Yet, if we accept that children are active members of their communities and societies (beings), and not merely objects of top-down socialization processes (becomings), we should reverse our thinking concerning children's political lives (see Arneil, 2002;Skelton, 2007;Kallio & Häkli, 2010).In this paper we propose that power relations acknowledged and constituted by children themselves form the basis of their political lives. T...

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“A Test of Governance”: rights-based struggles and the politics of HIV/AIDS policy in South Africa

Cited by 29 publications

References 16 publications

Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care

Wounded cities: Memory-work and a place-based ethics of care

Constructing landscapes

Are There Politics in Childhood?

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