Boundaries of Contagion (eBook)

How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS

Evan Lieberman (Autor)

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2009
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3045-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Why have governments responded to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in such different ways? During the past quarter century, international agencies and donors have disseminated vast resources and a set of best practice recommendations to policymakers around the globe. Yet the governments of developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean continue to implement widely varying policies. Boundaries of Contagion is the first systematic, comparative analysis of the politics of HIV/AIDS. The book explores the political challenges of responding to a stigmatized condition, and identifies ethnic boundaries--the formal and informal institutions that divide societies--as a central influence on politics and policymaking. Evan Lieberman examines the ways in which risk and social competition get mapped onto well-institutionalized patterns of ethnic politics. Where strong ethnic boundaries fragment societies into groups, the politics of AIDS are more likely to involve blame and shame-avoidance tactics against segments of the population. In turn, government leaders of such countries respond far less aggressively to the epidemic. Lieberman's case studies of Brazil, South Africa, and India--three developing countries that face significant AIDS epidemics--are complemented by statistical analyses of the policy responses of Indian states and over seventy developing countries. The studies conclude that varied patterns of ethnic competition shape how governments respond to this devastating problem. The author considers the implications for governments and donors, and the increasing tendency to identify social problems in ethnic terms.

Autor

Evan S. Lieberman is associate professor of politics at Princeton University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.3.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 11 line illus. 21 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • activism • Amartya Sen • Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 • Anti-Americanism • Apartheid • Birth Control • Black Economic Empowerment • Central African Republic • Civil disobedience • Civil Society • Conspiracy Theory • culture and society • Dalit • decentralization • democratic consolidation • Demographic and Health Surveys • Denialism • developed country • Disease • Edwin Cameron • Endogamy • Epidemic • epidemiology • Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Erwin Ackerknecht • ethnic group • Externality • extreme poverty • french colonial • Global Governance • Governance • Harm reduction • Health in Brazil • Health Minister • HIV/Aids • HIV/AIDS in India • HIV/AIDS in the United States • HIV-positive people • Human Rights Watch • Immorality Act • imperialism • Institution • International Organization • interracial marriage • Kwame Anthony Appiah • Malaria • Margaret Levi • médecins sans frontières • Millennium Development Goals • miscegenation • Multiculturalism • National AIDS Control Organisation • national security • Needle exchange programme • Nevirapine • Non-governmental organization • Opposition Party • Peter Duesberg • Plagues and Peoples • Policy • Politician • Politics • Population Services International • Premarital sex • President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief • Prevalence • prevention of HIV/AIDS • Promiscuity • Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 2000 • Prostitution • Public Health • Public sphere • Racial democracy • Racial segregation • Racism • racism in the united states • Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh • Red Tape • Risk of infection • safe sex • Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes • Sexually Transmitted Infection • snake oil • social issue • social stigma • state actor • State-Building • State Formation • The Other Hand • third world • Treatment Action Campaign • Underdevelopment • United Nations development programme • Voluntary counseling and testing • white supremacy • World Health Organization • World Trade Organization • World Values Survey
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3045-1 / 1400830451
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3045-9 / 9781400830459