AAA, HIV/AIDS in Global Africa

[Guest guest]

From:     " Rhine " <katierhine@...>

Subject: CFP: AAA, " HIV/AIDS in Global Africa "

Date:    Tue, March 29, 2011 9:55 am

Call for Papers: Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological

Association, Montreal, Canada

November 16th - November 20th, 2011

Panel title:   " HIV/AIDS in Global Africa: Tracing the Past in the Present "

Organizer:   Rhine, University of Kansas

Discussant:  Janet McGrath, Case Western Reserve University

Panel abstract:

Even before medical anthropology was identified as such, Africanists have

been studying its canonical themes: from the body, personhood, and kinship

to ritual, spirituality, and science. Nowhere have the traces of these

theoretical interventions been more visible – or vital – than in

ethnographic investigations of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. First, this

panel traces the legacies of Africanist anthropologists and the influences

their scholarship have had on current studies of the epidemic’s global

reach. And second, we focus upon the empirical question of “the past in

the present” as we seek to understand these emergent epidemiological,

political, and social trends.

Ethnographic studies of sub-Saharan Africa have illuminated fundamental

questions over the nature of life and death, violence, suffering, desire,

constraint, action, and fulfillment, offering invaluable contributions for

scholars of the HIV epidemic. These questions include: In what ways have

ethnographic inquiries on witchcraft and rationality – for example, E.E.

-Pritchard and Max Marwick – revealed the ways jealousy, hatred,

misfortune, and memory have (re)configured families affected by the virus?

 How have studies of urbanization, migration, and forced resettlement in

colonial Africa – exemplified in the works of Colson, Thayer

Scudder, and Max Gluckman, among others – demonstrated important insights

for investigations on the associations between HIV, mobility and social

disruption?  How might the now classic findings of Victor and

Janzen, whose research situates illness and affliction in the domains of

social and moral relationships, inform the challenges of implementing

universal HIV treatment programs?

This panel will bridge the contributions of these scholars to critical

questions on the importance of history and social change in ethnographies

of the HIV epidemic. Collectively, we ask: What particular notions of the

past are employed by our interlocutors to explain, justify, question, or

resist present concerns? In what ways are these understandings

geographically bounded and in what ways do they traverse spatial divides?

Finally, how have current and past anthropologists crafted, troubled, or

otherwise engaged with these histories? Recognizing that patterns of

health and illness are responsive to local and global transformations over

time, our panel also looks to sub-Saharan Africa as a place where global

flows of capital, technologies, information, and people devoted to HIV

prevention and treatment circulate within and beyond its boundaries.

Further, we examine the continent itself — both its representations and

its distinguishing political economic, social, and epidemiological

features — as a product of historical processes and material conditions.

We invite papers that engage, but are not limited to: colonialism and the

emergence/consolidation of the African state; humanitarian and religious

governance; neoliberal healthcare policies; transnational and local

migration; biomedical research, pharmaceuticals, and ethics; families,

gendered inequalities, and structural violence.

**250 word abstracts should be submitted to Rhine (krhine@...) no

later than Tuesday, April 5th. Deadline for panel submission is Friday,

April 15th.

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A. Rhine

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

University of Kansas

1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Rm. 631

Lawrence, KS  66045

Phone: (785) 864-3102

Email:  krhine@...

-- Chifu

[Guest guest]

From:     " Rhine " <katierhine@...>

Subject: CFP: AAA, " HIV/AIDS in Global Africa "

Date:    Tue, March 29, 2011 9:55 am

Call for Papers: Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological

Association, Montreal, Canada

November 16th - November 20th, 2011

Panel title:   " HIV/AIDS in Global Africa: Tracing the Past in the Present "

Organizer:   Rhine, University of Kansas

Discussant:  Janet McGrath, Case Western Reserve University

Panel abstract:

Even before medical anthropology was identified as such, Africanists have

been studying its canonical themes: from the body, personhood, and kinship

to ritual, spirituality, and science. Nowhere have the traces of these

theoretical interventions been more visible – or vital – than in

ethnographic investigations of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. First, this

panel traces the legacies of Africanist anthropologists and the influences

their scholarship have had on current studies of the epidemic’s global

reach. And second, we focus upon the empirical question of “the past in

the present” as we seek to understand these emergent epidemiological,

political, and social trends.

Ethnographic studies of sub-Saharan Africa have illuminated fundamental

questions over the nature of life and death, violence, suffering, desire,

constraint, action, and fulfillment, offering invaluable contributions for

scholars of the HIV epidemic. These questions include: In what ways have

ethnographic inquiries on witchcraft and rationality – for example, E.E.

-Pritchard and Max Marwick – revealed the ways jealousy, hatred,

misfortune, and memory have (re)configured families affected by the virus?

 How have studies of urbanization, migration, and forced resettlement in

colonial Africa – exemplified in the works of Colson, Thayer

Scudder, and Max Gluckman, among others – demonstrated important insights

for investigations on the associations between HIV, mobility and social

disruption?  How might the now classic findings of Victor and

Janzen, whose research situates illness and affliction in the domains of

social and moral relationships, inform the challenges of implementing

universal HIV treatment programs?

This panel will bridge the contributions of these scholars to critical

questions on the importance of history and social change in ethnographies

of the HIV epidemic. Collectively, we ask: What particular notions of the

past are employed by our interlocutors to explain, justify, question, or

resist present concerns? In what ways are these understandings

geographically bounded and in what ways do they traverse spatial divides?

Finally, how have current and past anthropologists crafted, troubled, or

otherwise engaged with these histories? Recognizing that patterns of

health and illness are responsive to local and global transformations over

time, our panel also looks to sub-Saharan Africa as a place where global

flows of capital, technologies, information, and people devoted to HIV

prevention and treatment circulate within and beyond its boundaries.

Further, we examine the continent itself — both its representations and

its distinguishing political economic, social, and epidemiological

features — as a product of historical processes and material conditions.

We invite papers that engage, but are not limited to: colonialism and the

emergence/consolidation of the African state; humanitarian and religious

governance; neoliberal healthcare policies; transnational and local

migration; biomedical research, pharmaceuticals, and ethics; families,

gendered inequalities, and structural violence.

**250 word abstracts should be submitted to Rhine (krhine@...) no

later than Tuesday, April 5th. Deadline for panel submission is Friday,

April 15th.

---

A. Rhine

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

University of Kansas

1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Rm. 631

Lawrence, KS  66045

Phone: (785) 864-3102

Email:  krhine@...

-- Chifu