Pandemic Kinship - Families, Intervention, and Social Change in Botswana's Time of AIDS (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The International African Library
Release date:	June 2022
Authors:	Koreen M. Reece
Dimensions:	236 x 158 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-915022-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-00-915022-7
Barcode:	9781009150224

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