She's just like my mother
Measuring motherhood in the context of the HIV epidemic in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naomi Marshak (University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 122-128 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2011.11500016 |
| OpenAlex | W2282923078 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This paper emerges from an ethnographic study conducted in Kwazulu-Natal in 2010 that explored the practices of a humanitarian intervention providing psychosocial support for and strengthening of the bonds between orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV and their non-biological guardians. Examining the interface between the programme and its participants, this paper focuses on the social politics that emerged out of the organisation's bond strengthening vision. Providing a platform for the expression of a diversity of perspectives, I demonstrate the complex ways in which interventionist intention is reworked at ground level and how an essentially humanitarian goal was ‘twisted’ into a tool with which to ‘measure’ motherhood. This paper hopes to move both beyond the limitations of the polarised literature around the impact of the epidemic on African families, and by directly addressing the radical HIV-related reworking of motherhood, open up alternative avenues for the emergence of a ‘new’ and more nuanced anthropology of kinship in Africa
Context (archaeology · Diversity (politics · Ethnography · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Intervention (counseling · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Psychosocial · Sociology · Structural violence · Anthropology · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
Orphanhood and childcare patterns in sub-Saharan Africa
Cultures of Relatedness
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Raw Life, New Hope
Extended family childcare arrangements in a context of Aids
Predicting the social consequences of orphanhood in South Africa
Children Confronting HIV/Aids
Fosterage patterns in the age of Aids
Children, Aids and the politics of orphan care in Ethiopia
Domestic diversity and fluidity among some African households in Greater Cape Town
South African Aids Orphans
Spinning the Epidemic
Another world is possible? A critical exploration of Escobar's 'other worlds/worlds otherwise
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |