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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Benton, Adia
• Sangaramoorthy, Thurka
• Kalofonos, Ippolytos
• Bolten, Catherine E
• Marcelin, Louis Herns
• McKay, Ramah
• Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi
• Nguyen, Vinh-Kim
• Prince, Ruth J.
• Whyte, Susan Reynolds

Titel

Temporality and Positive Living in the Age of HIV/AIDS: A Multisited Ethnography

Ist Teil von

• Current anthropology, 2017-08, Vol.58 (4), p.454-476

Ort / Verlag

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Drawing on comparative ethnographic fieldwork conducted in urban Mozambique, the United States, and Sierra Leone, the article is broadly concerned with the globalization of temporal logics and how specific ideologies of time and temporality accompany health interventions, such as those for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS (HIV/AIDS). More specifically, we explore how HIV-positive individuals have been increasingly encouraged to pursue healthier and more fulfilling lives through a set of moral, physical, and social practices called “positive living” since the advent of antiretroviral therapies. We describe how positive living, a feature of HIV/AIDS programs throughout the world, has taken root across varied political, social, and economic contexts and how temporal rationalities, which have largely been underexamined in the HIV/AIDS literature, shape communities’ responses and interpretations of positive living. Our approach is ethnographic and comparative, with implications for how anthropologists might think about collaboration and its analytical possibilities.