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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.
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