Democracy in a Time of Aids
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3537336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Posel (University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 310-315 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698010500268080 |
| OpenAlex | W1978710732 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In all states, power rests ultimately on the ability to take the life of another. In South Africa, democratization, with its promise of ‘a better life for all’, has been accompanied by an epidemic of AIDS, which has inflicted mass death on the citizens of this democracy. This article urges us to pose questions about the meaning of our democracy – and in particular the democratic right to life, along with the obligations associated with that right – in the light of the experience of AIDS. These questions have a particular urgency in the South African case, but they are pertinent globally, in asking us to think about how the global epidemic of AIDS affects the way we understand the rights and obligations of democratic citizenship
Citizenship · Democracy · Democratization · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychotherapist · Sociology · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Human Rights and Development · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.28 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |