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Crying for Our Elders - African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS (Paperback)
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Crying for Our Elders - African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS (Paperback)
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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 Cheney argues that these
humanitarian groups have misread the crisis. Moreover, she explains
how the global humanitarian focus on orphanhood often elides the
social and political circumstances that present the greatest
adversity to vulnerable children in effect, actually deepening the
crisis and thereby affecting children's lives as irrevocably as the
disease itself. Through ethnographic fieldwork and collaborative
research with children in Uganda, Cheney traces how the 'best
interest' principle that governs development work targeting
children often does more harm than good, stigmatizing orphans and
leaving 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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