Overview
- By arguing for including indigenous knowledgesincluding initiation rites in the fight against HIV/AIDS the book opens up space for a more varied, holistic and comprehensive approach to the pandemic;moreover, the book discusses, beyond HIV/AIDS, often creative coping mechanisms employed by youth to escape or to mitigate the oppressive and dangerous socioeconomic situations in which they find themselves.
Part of the book series: Youth, Media, & Culture Series (YMCS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Section 1
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Most of the chapters deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in various ways. Because youth are the group most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, the various chapters discuss the complex discursive spaces that youth inhabit and navigate, and where the interlocking concepts of social identity, power, inequality, sexuality, vulnerability, and resilience are brought together.
Many of the chapters discuss the HIV/AIDS pandemic in relation to indigenous knowledges and argue for including indigenous knowledges in the fight against the pandemic. The suggestion to include indigenous knowledges opens space for a more varied, holistic, and comprehensive approach to the pandemic.
The book invites readers to explore the oppressive and often dangerous socioeconomic situation that many youth in sub-Saharan Africa experience, also beyond the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Chapters on street youth in Namibia and youth in a township in Cape Town discuss the often creative coping mechanisms employed by youth to escape or mitigate the oppressive situations they find themselves in.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on Youth, HIV/AIDS and Indigenous Knowledges
Editors: Anders Breidlid, Austin M. Cheyeka, Alawia Ibrahim Farag
Series Title: Youth, Media, & Culture Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-196-0
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-196-0Published: 13 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 184
Topics: Education, general