Louise Mubanda Rasmussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 339379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Mubanda Rasmussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise Mubanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Rasmussen |
| SIGNATURE | RASMUSSEN L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5851-8588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Celebrity-led development organisations
The past decade has seen a frontier open up in international development engagement with the entrance of new actors such as celebrity-led organisations. We explore how such organisations earn legitimacy with a focus on Madonna’s Raising Malawi and Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative. The study draws from organisational materials, interviews, mainstream news coverage, and the texts of the celebrities themselves to investigate the construction o…
Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements
In the Name of Sustainability
Celebrity Humanitarianism
Ilan Kapoor’s new book comes at a time when the role of celebrities in humanitarian and development assistance is debated more than ever before. There is now a growing body of literature critically
Counselling clients to follow 'the rules' of safe sex and ARV treatment
Ideas of 'responsible sexuality' are located at the centre of counselling in current antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes. This paper analyses counselling practices in three HIV/AIDS clinics in Uganda on the basis of participant observation of counselling sessions and interviews with counsellors. The paper illustrates how counsellors concentrate on giving general behavioural instructions, while clients tend to demonstrate their compliance to…
To donors, it's a program, but to us it's a ministry
Combining social movement approaches to resource mobilization and collective identity, this article investigates the role of external material resources in shaping the direction of collective action against HIV/AIDS within the Kamwokya Christian Caring Community (KCCC), a Catholic community-based initiative in Kampala. From its origins in the late 1980s as a community of Christians providing "holistic care" to people living with HIV/AIDS, the KCC…
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 Lazarus Effect of Aids Treatment
During the treatment decade of rolling out antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in African clinics, new social meanings have been created, and they link local people living with HIV/AIDS to Western communities in new ways. The health of African “others” has taken a central, new, and perhaps quasi-religious role in Western societies. Working on behalf of humanitarian organizations to combat modern emergencies is the contemporary embodiment of an ideal, pur…
Celebrity-led development organisations
The past decade has seen a frontier open up in international development engagement with the entrance of new actors such as celebrity-led organisations. We explore how such organisations earn legitimacy with a focus on Madonna’s Raising Malawi and Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative. The study draws from organisational materials, interviews, mainstream news coverage, and the texts of the celebrities themselves to investigate the construction o…
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 Lazarus Effect of Aids Treatment
During the treatment decade of rolling out antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in African clinics, new social meanings have been created, and they link local people living with HIV/AIDS to Western communities in new ways. The health of African “others” has taken a central, new, and perhaps quasi-religious role in Western societies. Working on behalf of humanitarian organizations to combat modern emergencies is the contemporary embodiment of an ideal, pur…
Counselling clients to follow 'the rules' of safe sex and ARV treatment
Ideas of 'responsible sexuality' are located at the centre of counselling in current antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes. This paper analyses counselling practices in three HIV/AIDS clinics in Uganda on the basis of participant observation of counselling sessions and interviews with counsellors. The paper illustrates how counsellors concentrate on giving general behavioural instructions, while clients tend to demonstrate their compliance to…
Celebrity Humanitarianism
Ilan Kapoor’s new book comes at a time when the role of celebrities in humanitarian and development assistance is debated more than ever before. There is now a growing body of literature critically
The Lazarus Effect of Aids Treatment
During the treatment decade of rolling out antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in African clinics, new social meanings have been created, and they link local people living with HIV/AIDS to Western communities in new ways. The health of African “others” has taken a central, new, and perhaps quasi-religious role in Western societies. Working on behalf of humanitarian organizations to combat modern emergencies is the contemporary embodiment of an ideal, pur…
Celebrity Humanitarianism
Ilan Kapoor’s new book comes at a time when the role of celebrities in humanitarian and development assistance is debated more than ever before. There is now a growing body of literature critically
Counselling clients to follow 'the rules' of safe sex and ARV treatment
Ideas of 'responsible sexuality' are located at the centre of counselling in current antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes. This paper analyses counselling practices in three HIV/AIDS clinics in Uganda on the basis of participant observation of counselling sessions and interviews with counsellors. The paper illustrates how counsellors concentrate on giving general behavioural instructions, while clients tend to demonstrate their compliance to…
To donors, it's a program, but to us it's a ministry
Combining social movement approaches to resource mobilization and collective identity, this article investigates the role of external material resources in shaping the direction of collective action against HIV/AIDS within the Kamwokya Christian Caring Community (KCCC), a Catholic community-based initiative in Kampala. From its origins in the late 1980s as a community of Christians providing "holistic care" to people living with HIV/AIDS, the KCC…
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…
In the Name of Sustainability
Celebrity-led development organisations
The past decade has seen a frontier open up in international development engagement with the entrance of new actors such as celebrity-led organisations. We explore how such organisations earn legitimacy with a focus on Madonna’s Raising Malawi and Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative. The study draws from organisational materials, interviews, mainstream news coverage, and the texts of the celebrities themselves to investigate the construction o…
Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (2 works) · International Development and Aid (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)