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The Politics of AIDS AlsobyHåkanThörn ANTI-APARTHEIDANDTHEEMERGENCEOFAGLOBALCIVILSOCIETY GLOBALCIVILSOCIETY:MoreorLessDemocracy?(editedwithMikaelLöfgren) HORIZONS:PerspectivesonaGlobalAfrica(editedwithElisabethAbri) AlsobyMaj-LisFollérandHåkanThörn NONAMEFEVER:AidsintheAgeofGlobalization(editors) The Politics of AIDS Globalization, the State and Civil Society Editedby Maj-Lis Follér InstituteofIberoamericanStudies,SchoolofGlobalStudies,GöteborgUniversity,Sweden Håkan Thörn DepartmentofSociology,GöteborgUniversity,Sweden Editorialmatterandselection©Maj-LisFollérandHåkanThörn2008.Individual chapters©theirrespectiveauthors2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-0-230-55402-3 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthispublicationmay bemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmittedsave withwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsoftheCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicencepermitting limitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency,90TottenhamCourt Road,LondonW1T4LP. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublicationmaybe liabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2008by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XSand 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10010 Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld PALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgraveMacmillan divisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd.Macmillan® isa registeredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdomandothercountries. PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropeanUnionandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-36370-4 ISBN 978-0-230-58371-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230583719 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfullymanaged andsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturingprocessesare expectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthecountryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 For our friend and colleague Gabriel Jagwe-Wadda† 14 September 2007 and all the others who have died from AIDS This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix ListofTables,FiguresandIllustrations x AbouttheAuthors xi ListofAbbreviations xv 1 Introduction:ThePoliticsofAIDS 1 Maj-LisFollérandHåkanThörn Part1 AIDS,SecurityandGlobalGovernance 15 2 StateFragility,HumanSecurityandHIV 17 DennisAltman 3 ALongWaveEvent:HIV/AIDS,Politics,Governanceand ‘Security’:SunderingtheIntergenerationalBond? 27 TonyBarnett Part2 AIDSandtheAfricanStateintheContext ofGlobalization 47 4 AIDSandtheFutureoftheAfricanState 49 NanaK.Poku 5 TheUnattendedDimension:AIDSandGovernabilityinAfrica 71 BertilEgeröandMikaelHammarskjöld 6 Multi-SectoralResponsetoHIV/AIDSintheContextof GlobalFunding:ExperiencesfromUganda 87 EdwardK.Kirumira 7 GovernanceMattersforAIDS:ButwhataboutthePolitics? LessonsfromSouthAfricaandUganda 97 PerisJonesandKjerstiKoffeld 8 MaleInvolvementinUganda:ChallengesandOpportunities 123 FredHenryBateganya,SwizenKyomuhendo,GabrielJagwe-Wadda andChrisColumbusOpesen Part3 ResponsesfromCivilSociety:Africa 139 9 GlobalStruggles,LocalContexts:Prospectsfora SouthernAfricanAIDSFeminism 141 SuzanneLeclerc-Madlala vii viii Contents 10 ‘BrothersareDoingitForThemselves’:RemakingMasculinities inSouthAfrica 156 StevenRobins 11 Gender,SexualityandGlobalLinkagesintheHistoryof SouthAfricanAIDSActivism,1982–94 177 MandisaMbali 12 SurvivingPoliticsandthePoliticsofSurviving:Understanding CommunityMobilizationinSouthAfrica 199 MayChazan Part4 ResponsesfromCivilSociety:LatinAmerica andAsia 223 13 FromGlobaltoLocalandBacktoGlobal:TheArticulation ofPolitics,KnowledgeandAssistanceinBrazilian ResponsestoAIDS 225 CristianaBastos 14 MechanismsofRepresentationandCoordinationofthe BrazilianAIDSResponses:APerspectivefromCivilSociety 242 VerianoTertoJrandJonathanGarcía 15 AIDSandCivilBelonging:DiseaseManagementand PoliticalChangeinThailandandLaos 255 ChrisLyttleton Conclusion 275 16 GoverningAIDS:Globalization,theStateandCivilSociety 277 HåkanThörnandMaj-LisFollér Index 297 Acknowledgements ThisbookoriginatesinThePoliticsofAIDS:GlobalizationandCivilSociety, a conference held at the Museum of World Culture in Göteborg, Sweden on 18–19May2006.Duringtheconferenceanumberofdistinguishedscholars provided perspectives on the theme of the conference. We asked them to develop their thoughts further in written form and their contributions can bereadintheanthology.Forthebookwealsoinvitedafewscholarswhodid not participate at the conference, but who have been kind in contributing theirperspectivesonthetheme.Wewishtothankalltheauthors. Bertil Egerö was of great support in the arrangement of the conference, contributing with his contacts in the field of social research on AIDS and withhisvaluablecommentsbothduringtheconferenceandonpartsofthe manuscript. We also want to thank the members of the AIDS-network at Göteborg University and the other colleagues who took part in discussions that were extremely valuable to us, and who also functioned as discus- santsduringtheconference:DickDurevall,MonicaLindbergFalk,Carolina Hjorth,KristinaJönsson,PeterMagnusson,AnnSchlyterandCarinOlesen. Theconferencewhichmadethebookpossiblewasgenerouslyfundedby SIDA/SAREC, the Faculty of Social Science at Göteborg University and the BankofSwedenTercentaryFoundation,whoalsocontributedwithfunding foroureditorialwork. Wehopethatthisbookprovidesacontributiontoabetterunderstanding of the situation of the 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS and how it mightbeimproved. Maj-LisFollérandHåkanThörn ix

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