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Crying For Our Elders: African Orphanhood In The Age Of Hiv And Aids
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- Book Title
- Crying For Our Elders: African Orphanhood In The Age Of Hiv ...
- ISBN
- 9780226437545
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Crying for Our Elders : African Orphanhood in the Age of Hiv and Aids
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in Crying for Our Elders , anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney argues that these humanitarian groups have misread the 'orphan crisis'. She explains how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the social and political circumstances that actually present the greatest adversity to vulnerable children-in effect deepening the crisis and thereby affecting children's lives as irrevocably as HIV/AIDS itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the "best interest" principle that governs children's' rights can stigmatize orphans and leave children in the post-antiretroviral era even more vulnerable to exploitation. She details the dramatic effects this has on traditional family support and child protection and stresses child empowerment over pity. Crying for Our Elders advances current discussions on humanitarianism, children's studies, orphanhood, and kinship. By exploring the unique experience of AIDS orphanhood through the eyes of children, caregivers, and policymakers, Cheney shows that despite the extreme challenges of growing up in the era of HIV/AIDS, the post-ARV generation still holds out hope for the future.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022643754x
ISBN-13
9780226437545
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038306991
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Crying for Our Elders : African Orphanhood in the Age of Hiv and Aids
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv1347.C44 2017
Reviews
A particular strength of Crying for Our Elders is that Cheney does achieve, with great precision, a concise history of the AIDS epidemic and the initial plethora of international and national responses that were employed to various effect in Uganda. Her prose is readable, and her positions are always clearly stated and deeply informed by the particulars of children's rights, with a specific perspective on how AIDS has constructed an orphan-industrial complex. This abundantly researched work is essential to the study of international development and of orphanhood, as well as an enriching contribution to the field of children's studies., Everything you thought you knew about orphans is probably wrong. Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril., Everything you thought you knew about orphans is probably wrong. Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril., Crying for Our Elders is a scholarly book, and the research is impeccable. . . . Truly comes to life when Cheney writes about the Belindas and the Dianas. Their individual stories touch us on a visceral level and bring this particular war home to us., Cheney provides an essential and refreshing narrative about the resilience of family in Uganda. With Crying for Our Elders , she makes a compelling addition to the literature on suffering, childhood, and the status of HIV/AIDS--and the intricate connections between them., Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS has big aims: to foreground collaborative participatory research by and with children as a methodology, to build on Kristen Cheney's previous field research and monograph as a longitudinal study, and to situate ethnographic contributions from the discipline of children's studies more firmly in humanitarian intervention and policymaking. Given their magnitude, these aims are somewhat difficult to seamlessly integrate in a single ethnography, but Cheney makes headway on all three fronts., Through her cautious, insightful, and moving ethnography based on fieldwork in Uganda, Cheney provides a deep understanding of the complex and unexpected forms of life that emerge around orphans. An important contribution to the growing field of critical children's studies, Crying for our Elders is also a remarkable expression of ethically engaged anthropology.
Table of Content
Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Generations of HIV/AIDS, Orphanhood, and Intervention 1 A Generation of HIV/AIDS in Uganda 2 Orphanhood and the Conundrum of Humanitarian Intervention Part 2 Beyond Checking the "Voice" Box: Children's Rights and Participation in Development and Research 3 Children's Rights: Participation, Protectionism, and Citizenship 4 Getting Children's Perspectives: A Child- and Youth-Centered Participatory Approach Part 3 Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS 5 Orphanhood, Poverty, and the Post-ARV Generation 6 Suffering, Silence, and Status: The Lived Experience of Orphanhood Part 4 Blood Binds: The Transformation of Kinship and the Politics of Adoption 7 Orphanhood and the Transformation of Kinship, Fosterage, and Children's Circulation Strategies 8 Orphanhood and the Politics of Adoption in Uganda Part 5 Conclusion 9 HIV/AIDS Policy, "Orphan Addiction," and the Next Generation Acknowledgments Appendix: Children and Household Profiles by Youth Research Assistant Focus Group, 2007-2009 Notes References Index
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Children's Studies, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Aids & Hiv, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Diseases / Aids & Hiv
Lccn
2016-029264
Dewey Decimal
305.23086/945
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science, Political Science
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