Amy S Patterson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104859 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy S Patterson |
| NOMBRES | Amy S |
| APELLIDO | Patterson |
| FIRMA | PATTERSON A S |
| AFILIACIONES | Sewanee: The University of the South |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2891-3162 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Stigmatized Issues, Divergent Meanings
This article uses Liberia’s national mental health program to explore how stakeholders make meaning of their work and how those meanings intertwine with various powers to shape program outcomes. We use interview data to analyze how the Carter Center (an INGO), Liberian government, and local mental health practitioners understood the program to address this stigmatized, often-ignored health issue. INGO officials emphasized personal connections, vi…
Network power and mental health policy in post-war Liberia
This article traces the influence of network power on mental health policy in Liberia, a low-income, post-conflict West African country. Based on key informant interviews, focus group discussions and document analysis, the work uses an inductive approach to uncover how a network of civil society groups, government officials, diasporans and international NGOs shaped the passage, implementation and revision of the country’s 2009 and 2016 mental hea…
Biomedical and Spiritual Approaches to Mental Health in Tanzania
The power-trust cycle in global health
Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Mal…
African Responses to Covid-19
Although the COVID-19 pandemic had claimed over one million lives globally by late 2020, Africa had avoided a massive outbreak. Patterson and Balogun analyze pandemic responses by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and various states collaborating with civil society. They argue that responses display forms of agency rooted in contextually relevant expertise, pan-African solidarity, and lessons learned about health messaging and…
Investigating global mental health
This article outlines an agenda for political science engagement with global mental health. Other social sciences have tackled the topic, investigating such questions as the link between poverty and mental health disorders. Political science is noticeably absent from these explorations. This is striking because mental health disorders affect one billion people globally, governments spend only about 2% of their health budgets on these disorders, a…
What Motivates Young African Leaders for Public Engagement? Lessons from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda
Up in smoke? Global tobacco control advocacy and local mobilization in Africa
Even though most African states have signed and ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), a global treaty to limit tobacco use, African states have been slow to pass and implement tobacco control policies like regulations on sales, smoke-free environments and taxes. This article examines how the ineffectiveness of local tobacco-control advocacy contributes to this suboptimal outcome. It asserts that the disconnect between the g…
When to Speak? Church Advocacy onGalamseyand Mental Health in Ghana
During 2017, two issues that gained significant media attention in Ghana generated different responses from mainline Protestant churches like the Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Methodists, and parti
Instrumentalizing Aids empowerment discourses in Malawi and Zambia
Based on 16 months of fieldwork conducted in Malawi and Zambia between 2005 and 2014, this article advances debates on North-South relations by providing an actor-oriented view of donor politics. Drawing upon 152 interviews, 104 focus group discussions and a series of observations, it demonstrates how local people instrumentalize the fuzziness of 'empowerment
Mobilizing the faithful
Many studies have examined the significant involvement of Christian organizations in national-level politics since the revitalization of democracy in Africa in the 1990s, but few have focused on local faith-based organizations engaged in grassroots citizen mobilization. This article compares two such organizations rooted in local communities in Zambia and South Africa in order to elucidate their role. On the basis of interviews, document analysis…
Engaging therapeutic citizenship and clientship
This article explores the reasons for therapeutic pacifism among people living with HIV (PLHIVs) in urban Zambia. It contributes to a growing ethnography on global health, biosociality, and patient-provider dynamics. Therapeutic citizenship is a biopolitical citizenship that includes claims and ethical projects that emerge from techniques to control and manage bodies. In some contexts, therapeutic citizenship has included activism and claims-maki…
African Christianity rising
Using vivid scenes from a variety of churches in Ghana and Zimbabwe, filmmaker and sociologist James Ault presents a complex picture of the massive growth in Christianity on the African continent i
The republic of therapy
HIV/Aids activism, framing and identity formation in Mozambique'sEquipas de Vida
This article ethnographically explores faith-based mobilization around HIV and AIDS in Mozambique. It explains mobilization strategies and their outcomes in the case of the community-based HIV response teams of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Niassa in Northern Mozambique. Engaging constructivist perspectives from social movement theory, especially those focusing on framing processes and collective identities, this article illustrates how s…
Pastors as leaders in Africa's religious Aids mobilisation
This article examines the ways that pastors have mobilised their religious followers to address the issue of HIV and AIDS in Ghana and Zambia. The work argues that successful pastors have utilised church organisational structures to support and empower their activities, they have framed HIV and AIDS mobilisation messages in a way that is acceptable to their congregants and to their broader societies, and they have capitalised on changing politica…
Religious ideas and institutions
The politics and anti-politics of social movements
In 2012, roughly 23 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Religious responses to the disease have ranged from condemnation of people with HIV to the development of innovative AIDS-related services. This article utilises insights from the social movement literature about collective identity, framing, resources, and opportunity structures to interrogate religious mobilisation against HIV/AIDS. It d…
Aids mobilisation in Zambia and Vietnam
This article compares AIDS mobilisation in Zambia and Vietnam. It looks specifically at the goals of AIDS movements in the two countries, arguing that the Vietnamese movement has been more singular in its focus with its major objective being to achieve representation of people living with HIV (PLHIVs) in AIDS decision-making. In Zambia, the movement has had multiple agendas: human rights protection, biomedical interventions, and economic developm…
The Church and Aids in Africa
Situating her analysis squarely within the context of debates about the role of religion in African politics and society, Amy Patterson systematically analyzes the efforts (and sometimes lack of effort) of Christian churches in shaping HIV/AIDS policy. Patterson considers how theological worldviews, material resources, historical interactions with the state, and global networks influence church advocacy on AIDS. She is particularly interested in …
Church mobilisation and HIV/Aids treatment in Ghana and Zambia
This article compares Ghanaian and Zambian church mobilisation on HIV and AIDS. It analyses why long-term interest in HIV and AIDS has declined in Ghana but increased in Zambia, and why church involvement in promoting access to HIV/AIDS treatment has been less apparent in Ghana than in Zambia. The article uses three levels of analysis - society, state, and international - to explicate these different patterns. The analysis finds that continued HI…
The Myth of the Non‐political Church
Timothy Longman, Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). 352pp. $90.00. During the spring of 1994, approximately 800,000 people perished in the Rwandan gen
Democracy in Senegal
Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. By Sheldon Gellar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 256p. $79.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. What can Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of democracy in America and France contribute to our understanding of African democratic transitions? For Sheldon Gellar, the answer is “much.” In this book, Gellar uses Tocqueville's methods of inquiry to analyze Senegal's democratic experience. To do this, he …
Black Death
Book Review| May 01 2005 Black Death: AIDS in Africa; Waiting to Happen: HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The Bigger Picture Susan S. Hunter New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 vii + 247 pp.,$29.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper)Liz Walker, Graeme Reid, and Morna Cornell Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004 143 pp., $25.00 (paper) Amy S. Patterson Amy S. Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa an…
Power Inequalities and the Institutions of Senegalese Development Organizations
The focus on decentralization and civil society in Africa demands that scholars examine the factors that affect the institutions (i.e., rules and procedures) of local development organizations. Using two case studies from rural Senegal, this article investigates how the preferences of group participants, the authority positions of group actors, and the alternatives that individuals have shape the institutions of local organizations. The article t…
It's a Small World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
African Responses to Covid-19
Although the COVID-19 pandemic had claimed over one million lives globally by late 2020, Africa had avoided a massive outbreak. Patterson and Balogun analyze pandemic responses by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and various states collaborating with civil society. They argue that responses display forms of agency rooted in contextually relevant expertise, pan-African solidarity, and lessons learned about health messaging and…
Power Inequalities and the Institutions of Senegalese Development Organizations
The focus on decentralization and civil society in Africa demands that scholars examine the factors that affect the institutions (i.e., rules and procedures) of local development organizations. Using two case studies from rural Senegal, this article investigates how the preferences of group participants, the authority positions of group actors, and the alternatives that individuals have shape the institutions of local organizations. The article t…
The Dynamic Nature of Citizenship and Participation
This article uses three case studies from rural Senegalese communal organizations to examine the dynamic nature of citizenship and participation. Citizenship reflects a set of expectations about rights and responsibilities that a par-ticular community and its members have for one another. The work illustrates two conditions under which those expectations can change. First, when the community does not incorporate inclusive decision-making institut…
A reappraisal of democracy in civil society
Civil society is the space of uncoerced human association and relational networks formed for the sake of family, faith, interests and ideology. Supporters of civil society have argued that this conglomeration of networks and organisations has helped to fuel democratic aspirations and channel democratic demands in Africa. Proponents maintain that civil society serves as a counter to the actions of the predatory African state, which seeks to limit …
Mobilizing the faithful
Many studies have examined the significant involvement of Christian organizations in national-level politics since the revitalization of democracy in Africa in the 1990s, but few have focused on local faith-based organizations engaged in grassroots citizen mobilization. This article compares two such organizations rooted in local communities in Zambia and South Africa in order to elucidate their role. On the basis of interviews, document analysis…
The politics and anti-politics of social movements
In 2012, roughly 23 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Religious responses to the disease have ranged from condemnation of people with HIV to the development of innovative AIDS-related services. This article utilises insights from the social movement literature about collective identity, framing, resources, and opportunity structures to interrogate religious mobilisation against HIV/AIDS. It d…
The Impact of Senegal's Decentralization on Women in Local Governance
RésuméCet article s'intéresse à un vide dans la littérature sur la decentralization africaine en examinant l'impact de la décentralisation sur la participation des femmes dans les collectivités locales. L'article enquête sur la représentation numérique des femmes dans les institutions décentralisées et sur les facteurs qui contribuent à cette représentation. Il utilise les données des élections municipales de 1996 au Sénégal et l'étude du cas d'u…
The power-trust cycle in global health
Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Mal…
What Motivates Young African Leaders for Public Engagement? Lessons from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda
Instrumentalizing Aids empowerment discourses in Malawi and Zambia
Based on 16 months of fieldwork conducted in Malawi and Zambia between 2005 and 2014, this article advances debates on North-South relations by providing an actor-oriented view of donor politics. Drawing upon 152 interviews, 104 focus group discussions and a series of observations, it demonstrates how local people instrumentalize the fuzziness of 'empowerment
Pastors as leaders in Africa's religious Aids mobilisation
This article examines the ways that pastors have mobilised their religious followers to address the issue of HIV and AIDS in Ghana and Zambia. The work argues that successful pastors have utilised church organisational structures to support and empower their activities, they have framed HIV and AIDS mobilisation messages in a way that is acceptable to their congregants and to their broader societies, and they have capitalised on changing politica…
Aids mobilisation in Zambia and Vietnam
This article compares AIDS mobilisation in Zambia and Vietnam. It looks specifically at the goals of AIDS movements in the two countries, arguing that the Vietnamese movement has been more singular in its focus with its major objective being to achieve representation of people living with HIV (PLHIVs) in AIDS decision-making. In Zambia, the movement has had multiple agendas: human rights protection, biomedical interventions, and economic developm…
A reappraisal of democracy in civil society
Civil society is the space of uncoerced human association and relational networks formed for the sake of family, faith, interests and ideology. Supporters of civil society have argued that this conglomeration of networks and organisations has helped to fuel democratic aspirations and channel democratic demands in Africa. Proponents maintain that civil society serves as a counter to the actions of the predatory African state, which seeks to limit …
The Dynamic Nature of Citizenship and Participation
This article uses three case studies from rural Senegalese communal organizations to examine the dynamic nature of citizenship and participation. Citizenship reflects a set of expectations about rights and responsibilities that a par-ticular community and its members have for one another. The work illustrates two conditions under which those expectations can change. First, when the community does not incorporate inclusive decision-making institut…
It's a Small World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Impact of Senegal's Decentralization on Women in Local Governance
RésuméCet article s'intéresse à un vide dans la littérature sur la decentralization africaine en examinant l'impact de la décentralisation sur la participation des femmes dans les collectivités locales. L'article enquête sur la représentation numérique des femmes dans les institutions décentralisées et sur les facteurs qui contribuent à cette représentation. Il utilise les données des élections municipales de 1996 au Sénégal et l'étude du cas d'u…
Power Inequalities and the Institutions of Senegalese Development Organizations
The focus on decentralization and civil society in Africa demands that scholars examine the factors that affect the institutions (i.e., rules and procedures) of local development organizations. Using two case studies from rural Senegal, this article investigates how the preferences of group participants, the authority positions of group actors, and the alternatives that individuals have shape the institutions of local organizations. The article t…
Black Death
Book Review| May 01 2005 Black Death: AIDS in Africa; Waiting to Happen: HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The Bigger Picture Susan S. Hunter New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 vii + 247 pp.,$29.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paper)Liz Walker, Graeme Reid, and Morna Cornell Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004 143 pp., $25.00 (paper) Amy S. Patterson Amy S. Patterson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa an…
Democracy in Senegal
Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. By Sheldon Gellar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 256p. $79.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. What can Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of democracy in America and France contribute to our understanding of African democratic transitions? For Sheldon Gellar, the answer is “much.” In this book, Gellar uses Tocqueville's methods of inquiry to analyze Senegal's democratic experience. To do this, he …
Church mobilisation and HIV/Aids treatment in Ghana and Zambia
This article compares Ghanaian and Zambian church mobilisation on HIV and AIDS. It analyses why long-term interest in HIV and AIDS has declined in Ghana but increased in Zambia, and why church involvement in promoting access to HIV/AIDS treatment has been less apparent in Ghana than in Zambia. The article uses three levels of analysis - society, state, and international - to explicate these different patterns. The analysis finds that continued HI…
The Myth of the Non‐political Church
Timothy Longman, Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). 352pp. $90.00. During the spring of 1994, approximately 800,000 people perished in the Rwandan gen
The Church and Aids in Africa
Situating her analysis squarely within the context of debates about the role of religion in African politics and society, Amy Patterson systematically analyzes the efforts (and sometimes lack of effort) of Christian churches in shaping HIV/AIDS policy. Patterson considers how theological worldviews, material resources, historical interactions with the state, and global networks influence church advocacy on AIDS. She is particularly interested in …
Aids mobilisation in Zambia and Vietnam
This article compares AIDS mobilisation in Zambia and Vietnam. It looks specifically at the goals of AIDS movements in the two countries, arguing that the Vietnamese movement has been more singular in its focus with its major objective being to achieve representation of people living with HIV (PLHIVs) in AIDS decision-making. In Zambia, the movement has had multiple agendas: human rights protection, biomedical interventions, and economic developm…
The republic of therapy
HIV/Aids activism, framing and identity formation in Mozambique'sEquipas de Vida
This article ethnographically explores faith-based mobilization around HIV and AIDS in Mozambique. It explains mobilization strategies and their outcomes in the case of the community-based HIV response teams of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Niassa in Northern Mozambique. Engaging constructivist perspectives from social movement theory, especially those focusing on framing processes and collective identities, this article illustrates how s…
Pastors as leaders in Africa's religious Aids mobilisation
This article examines the ways that pastors have mobilised their religious followers to address the issue of HIV and AIDS in Ghana and Zambia. The work argues that successful pastors have utilised church organisational structures to support and empower their activities, they have framed HIV and AIDS mobilisation messages in a way that is acceptable to their congregants and to their broader societies, and they have capitalised on changing politica…
Religious ideas and institutions
The politics and anti-politics of social movements
In 2012, roughly 23 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Religious responses to the disease have ranged from condemnation of people with HIV to the development of innovative AIDS-related services. This article utilises insights from the social movement literature about collective identity, framing, resources, and opportunity structures to interrogate religious mobilisation against HIV/AIDS. It d…
Engaging therapeutic citizenship and clientship
This article explores the reasons for therapeutic pacifism among people living with HIV (PLHIVs) in urban Zambia. It contributes to a growing ethnography on global health, biosociality, and patient-provider dynamics. Therapeutic citizenship is a biopolitical citizenship that includes claims and ethical projects that emerge from techniques to control and manage bodies. In some contexts, therapeutic citizenship has included activism and claims-maki…
African Christianity rising
Using vivid scenes from a variety of churches in Ghana and Zimbabwe, filmmaker and sociologist James Ault presents a complex picture of the massive growth in Christianity on the African continent i
Mobilizing the faithful
Many studies have examined the significant involvement of Christian organizations in national-level politics since the revitalization of democracy in Africa in the 1990s, but few have focused on local faith-based organizations engaged in grassroots citizen mobilization. This article compares two such organizations rooted in local communities in Zambia and South Africa in order to elucidate their role. On the basis of interviews, document analysis…
Instrumentalizing Aids empowerment discourses in Malawi and Zambia
Based on 16 months of fieldwork conducted in Malawi and Zambia between 2005 and 2014, this article advances debates on North-South relations by providing an actor-oriented view of donor politics. Drawing upon 152 interviews, 104 focus group discussions and a series of observations, it demonstrates how local people instrumentalize the fuzziness of 'empowerment
When to Speak? Church Advocacy onGalamseyand Mental Health in Ghana
During 2017, two issues that gained significant media attention in Ghana generated different responses from mainline Protestant churches like the Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Methodists, and parti
Up in smoke? Global tobacco control advocacy and local mobilization in Africa
Even though most African states have signed and ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), a global treaty to limit tobacco use, African states have been slow to pass and implement tobacco control policies like regulations on sales, smoke-free environments and taxes. This article examines how the ineffectiveness of local tobacco-control advocacy contributes to this suboptimal outcome. It asserts that the disconnect between the g…
Investigating global mental health
This article outlines an agenda for political science engagement with global mental health. Other social sciences have tackled the topic, investigating such questions as the link between poverty and mental health disorders. Political science is noticeably absent from these explorations. This is striking because mental health disorders affect one billion people globally, governments spend only about 2% of their health budgets on these disorders, a…
What Motivates Young African Leaders for Public Engagement? Lessons from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda
The power-trust cycle in global health
Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Mal…
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