Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic

Letters from Uganda

AvHanne Overgaard Mogensen

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront people with decisions about life and death.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-31
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:361 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030475253

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Människans biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Hanne Overgaard Mogensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She has published broadly on international health, poverty and access to health care in Africa, as well as on the moral world of anthropologists both inside and outside of academia.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface.- Chapter 1: The Missing Letters.- Chapter 2: Girls with Fast Legs.- Chapter 3: Women on the Move.- Chapter 4: Intersecting Trajectories.- Chapter 5: Questions of Belonging.- Chapter 6: Stories that Alter Life.- Chapter 7: Dying Poor.- Chapter 8: Feeling Stuck.- Chapter 9: Closeness and Distance.- Chapter 10: Knowing what to Hide.- Chapter 11: The Order of Secrecy.- Chapter 12: Shifting Secrets.- Chapter 13: Whose Responsibility – and what Happened to the Letters?.- Chapter 14: Moving on.