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Pandemic Kinship

Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvKoreen M. Reece,Germany) Reece, Koreen M. (Universitat Bayreuth

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Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana's time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a 'crisis of care' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navigate such crises make them kin. In Setswana, conflict and crisis are glossed as dikgang, and negotiating dikgang is an ethical practice that generates and reorients kin relations over time. Governmental and non-governmental organisations often misread the creativity of crisis, intervening in ways that may prove more harmful than the problems they set out to solve. Moving between family discussions, community events, and the daily work of orphan care projects and social work offices, Pandemic Kinship provides provocative insights into how we manage change in pandemic times.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-30
Mått158 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe International African Library
Antal sidor326
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009150224

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Introduction; Part I. 'Where are you from? Where are you going?': The Geographies of Kinship: 1. Going up and down; 2. 'Ke a Aga': lorato, building; 3. Geographies of intervention; Part II. 'Who is taking care of your things?': Care, Conflict, and the Economies of Kinship: 4. Children of one womb; 5. Taking what belongs to you; 6. Supplementary care; Part III. 'We are seeing things': Recognition, Risk, and reproducing Kinship: 7. Recognising pregnancy; 8. Recognising marriage; 9. Managing recognition in a time of AIDS; Part IV. 'They were far family': Child circulation and the limits of Kinship: 10. Far family; 11. Living outside; 12. Children in need of care; Part V. 'We show people we are together': Making selves, Families, Villages, and Nations: 13. The village in the home: A party; 14. 'Lifting up culture': A homecoming; 15. A global family.