Perspectives on youth, HIV/AIDS and indigenous knowledges /
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Imprint: | Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2015. ©2015 |
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Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 184 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Youth, Media, & Culture Series Youth, media, & culture series. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12482166 |
Summary: | This volume is the result of academic cooperation between scholars in Norway, Sudan, Zambia, and South Africa linked to a master's program in international education and development. It draws upon studies carried out in Sudan, Zambia, Namibia, and South Africa.<br> <br> Most of the chapters deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in various ways. Because youth are the group most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, the various chapters discuss the complex discursive spaces that youth inhabit and navigate, and where the interlocking concepts of social identity, power, inequality, sexuality, vulnerability, and resilience are brought together.<br> <br> Many of the chapters discuss the HIV/AIDS pandemic in relation to indigenous knowledges and argue for including indigenous knowledges in the fight against the pandemic. The suggestion to include indigenous knowledges opens space for a more varied, holistic, and comprehensive approach to the pandemic.<br> <br> The book invites readers to explore the oppressive and often dangerous socioeconomic situation that many youth in sub-Saharan Africa experience, also beyond the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Chapters on street youth in Namibia and youth in a township in Cape Town discuss the often creative coping mechanisms employed by youth to escape or mitigate the oppressive situations they find themselves in. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 184 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
ISBN: | 9789463001960 9463001964 9789463001946 9789463001953 9463001948 9463001956 |