Debility And The Moral Imagination In Botswana
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Debility And The Moral Imagination In Botswana
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Author : Julie Livingston
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-20
Debility And The Moral Imagination In Botswana written by Julie Livingston and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-20 with History categories.
In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana documents how transformations wrought by colonialism, independence, industrialization, and development have effected changes in bodily life and perceptions of health, illness, and debility. In this intimate and powerful book, Julie Livingston explores the lives of debilitated persons, their caregivers, the medical and social networks of caring, and methods that communities have adopted for promoting well-being. Livingston traces how Tswana medical thought and practice have become intertwined with Western bio-medical ideas and techniques. By focusing on experiences and meanings of illness and bodily misfortune, Livingston sheds light on the complexities of the current HIV/AIDS epidemic and places it in context with a long and complex history of impairment and debility. This book presents practical and thoughtful responses to physical misfortune and offers an understanding of the complex dynamic between social change and suffering.
Debility And The Moral Imagination In Botswana African Systems Of Thought
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Debility And The Moral Imagination In Botswana African Systems Of Thought written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Disability In Africa
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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Disability In Africa written by Toyin Falola and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Health & Fitness categories.
Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.
Self Devouring Growth
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Author : Julie Livingston
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-20
Self Devouring Growth written by Julie Livingston and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-20 with History categories.
Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
Improvising Medicine
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Author : Julie Livingston
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-29
Improvising Medicine written by Julie Livingston and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-29 with History categories.
Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.
Morality Hope And Grief
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Author : Hansjörg Dilger
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-05-30
Morality Hope And Grief written by Hansjörg Dilger and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-30 with Social Science categories.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS. The contributions describe the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalised in the context of global modernity.
African Futures
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-02-28
African Futures written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-28 with Social Science categories.
The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.
Historical Dictionary Of Botswana
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Author : Barry Morton
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-06-13
Historical Dictionary Of Botswana written by Barry Morton and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-13 with History categories.
This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Botswana contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
After Stories
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Author : Irina Carlota Silber
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-23
After Stories written by Irina Carlota Silber and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-23 with Social Science categories.
This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectories—geographic, temporal, storied—of several extended Salvadoran families. Traveling back and forth in time and across borders, Silber narrates the everyday unfolding of diasporic lives rich with acts of labor, love, and renewed calls for memory, truth, and accountability in El Salvador's long postwar. Through a retrospective and intimate ethnographic method that examines archives of memories and troubles the categories that have come to stand for "El Salvador" such as alarming violent numbers, Silber considers the lives of young Salvadorans who were brought up in an everyday radical politics and then migrated to the United States after more than a decade of peace and democracy. She reflects on this generation of migrants—the 1.5 insurgent generation born to forgotten former rank-and-file militants—as well as their intergenerational, transnational families to unpack the assumptions and typical ways of knowing in postwar ethnography. As the 1.5 generation sustains their radical political project across borders, circulates the products of their migrant labor through remittances, and engages in collective social care for the debilitated bodies of their loved ones, they transform and depart from expectations of the wounded postwar that offer us hope for the making of more just global futures.
Death In A Church Of Life
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Author : Frederick Klaits
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010
Death In A Church Of Life written by Frederick Klaits and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Health & Fitness categories.
"Klaits' work is not only a major contribution to the anthropology of religion and the social scientific literature on AIDS, but also a significant intervention into debates on how Africanists should approach their understandings of sociality and relatedness."--Matthew Engelke, author of A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church "The reader gets the sense of being a welcome party to a close conversation. Klaits sustains a direct, clear, humane, and jargon-free voice, and we come away with a radically challenged understanding of what it means in an African church to be 'born anew'."--Richard Werbner, author of Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family