The Task of the HIV Translator: Transforming Global AIDS Knowledge in an Awareness Workshop

Wardlow, Holly

doi:10.1080/01459740.2012.661002

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“…Such approaches are often combined with other theories, not least related post‐structuralist perspectives, in deconstructing the workings of power via knowledge. Feminist (Nissen, ), post‐colonial (Darroch & Giles, ), and actor–network theory (Wardlow, ) influences are apparent here.…”

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confidence: 77%

Towards a sociology of risk work: A narrative review and synthesis

et al. 2016

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In this article, we define the concept of "risk work," which aims to make visible working practices to assess or manage risk, in order to subject these practices to sociological critique. This article reviews and synthesizes existing published literature to identify components of risk work: (a) translating risk into different contexts, (b) minimizing risks in practice, and (c) caring in the context of risk. We argue that these three components of risk work raise important tensions for workers that have been inadequately explored in the literature to date. We propose that future research should additionally focus on practitioner subjectivity and identity in risk work. In addition, we argue that comparative research-across type of risk and different contexts-and methodological and theoretical diversity would enhance this emerging field of research.

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Section: Overview Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 77%

Towards a sociology of risk work: A narrative review and synthesis

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“…In recent years, medical anthropologists have created nuanced ethnographies of global health institutions. From medical schools in Malawi to AIDS awareness workshops in Papua New Guinea, this work shows how the ideas and practices of global health play out in particular local contexts (Wardlow ; Wendland ).…”

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The Global Context of Vaccine Refusal: Insights from a Systematic Comparative Ethnography of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Closser¹,

Rosenthal

Maes

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Med Anthropol Q

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Many of medical anthropology's most pressing research questions require an understanding how infections, money, and ideas move around the globe. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is a $9 billion project that has delivered 20 billion doses of oral polio vaccine in campaigns across the world. With its array of global activities, it cannot be comprehensively explored by the traditional anthropological method of research at one field site. This article describes an ethnographic study of the GPEI, a collaborative effort between researchers at eight sites in seven countries. We developed a methodology grounded in nuanced understandings of local context but structured to allow analysis of global trends. Here, we examine polio vaccine acceptance and refusal to understand how global phenomena-in this case, policy decisions by donors and global health organizations to support vaccination campaigns rather than building health systems-shape local behavior.

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“…In the context of the African AIDS epidemic, he continues, “children become victims not just of disease but also of their parents … thus justifying the intervention of private aid or public authority” (Fassin :119; cf. Wardlow ). Given children's attractiveness as targets of HIV‐related interventions and the strong association in Botswana between HIV‐positive children and foreign nongovernmental assistance (Brada ; Dahl ), it is hardly surprising that many people, both Batswana and visitors, assumed the Superlative Clinic was “humanitarian.”…”

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The Contingency of Humanitarianism: Moral Authority in an African HIV Clinic

Brada

2016

American Anthropologist

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One consequence of the recent expansion of anthropological interest in humanitarianism is the seeming obviousness and conceptual stability of "humanitarianism" itself. In this article, I argue that, rather than being a stable concept and easily recognizable phenomenon, humanitarianism only becomes apparent in relation to other categories. In short, humanitarianism is contingent: it depends on circumstance and varies from one context to another. Furthermore, its perceptibility rests on individuals' capacity to mobilize categorical similarities and distinctions. One cannot call a thing or person "humanitarian" without denying the humanitarian character of someone or something else. Drawing on research conducted in clinical spaces where Botswana's national HIV treatment program and private US institutions overlapped, I examine the processes by which individuals claimed people, spaces, and practices as humanitarian, the contrasts they drew to make these claims, and the moral positions they attempted to occupy in the process. More than questions of mere terminology, these processes of categorization and contradistinction serve as crucibles for the larger struggles over sovereignty, inequality, and the legacies of colonialism that haunt US-driven global health interventions. [humanitarianism, global health, expertise, semiotics, Botswana, HIV/AIDS] RÉSUMÉ Une des conséquences du récent progrès de l'intérêt des anthropologues pour l'humanitarisme est l'apparenteévidence et stabilité conceptuelle de «l'humanitarisme» lui-même. Dans cet article, je soutiens que l'humanitarisme n'est pas un concept stable et un phénomène aisément identifiable mais ne devient apparent que mis en relation avec d'autres catégories. En somme, l'humanitarisme est contingent: il dépend des circonstances et varie d'un contexte a l'autre. Par surcroît, sa perceptibilité repose sur la capacité des individusà faire valoir des similarités et distinctions catégorielles. Une personne ou un objet ne peuventêtre appelés «humanitaire» sans que ne soit nié le caractère humanitaire d'un autre objet ou personne. En me fondant sur des recherches menées dans des espaces cliniques où se chevauchent le programme national botswanais de traitement du VIH et les institutions privéesétasuniennes, j'examine les processus par lesquels les individus déclarent «humanitaires» des personnes, des espaces et des pratiques, les contrastes qu'ils constituent pour soutenir leurs déclarations et les positions morales qu'ils tentent ce faisant de prendre. Davantage que des questions simplement terminologiques, ces processus de catégorisations et d'oppositions servent de creuset aux luttes sur des questions de souveraineté, d'inégalité et d'héritages coloniaux qui hantent les interventions de santé globale définies par lesÉtats-Unis.[humanitarisme, santé mondial, compétence, sémiotique, Botswana, VIH/SIDA] RESUMEN Una consecuencia de la expansión reciente del interés antropológico en el humanitarismo es la aparente obviedad y estabilidad conceptual del "humanitarismo" en sí mismo...

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The Task of the HIV Translator: Transforming Global AIDS Knowledge in an Awareness Workshop

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Towards a sociology of risk work: A narrative review and synthesis

Towards a sociology of risk work: A narrative review and synthesis

The Global Context of Vaccine Refusal: Insights from a Systematic Comparative Ethnography of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

The Contingency of Humanitarianism: Moral Authority in an African HIV Clinic

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