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Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/43299 Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe McNeill, Fraser G. mhafta@yahoo.com Chandaengerwa, Eve UCTD Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2014. This thesis is an ethnographic account of the complex and diverse experiences of children growing up in the context of an AIDS epidemic in Chiweshe Communal lands, Zimbabwe. To capture the personal experiences and views of children in a context of AIDS and political economic change in rural Zimbabwe, fieldwork was conducted over 15 months, from January 2007 to March 2008 for the collection of stories, drawings, dreams, and songs from children aged 4 to 16 years. Analysis showed that, despite their extreme context, the children in Chiweshe created temporary friendships, relations of patronage, and informal organisations with and without adults, to obtain their survival needs. They also appropriated spaces and discourses for play, work, and learning, necessary for their daily needs. It is argued that childhood agency emerged through these self-initiated activities, within multiple contextual constraints of poverty, illness, and loss. These findings challenge the one-sided, adult-centric accounts of childhood which portray children as pre-socialised victims, passive, incompetent, ignorant, and silent, on issues pertaining to AIDS and related notions of sexuality, sickness, death, work and politics. It is suggested that recognition of such instances of children‘s competence and creativity is crucial for interventions aimed at reducing the suffering, untimely deaths, and various forms of deprivation that often characterises contexts ravaged by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. lk2014 Anthropology and Archaeology DPhil Unrestricted 2015-01-19T12:13:25Z 2015-01-19T12:13:25Z 2014/12/12 2014 Thesis Chandaengerwa, E 2014, Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe, DPhil Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43299> D14/9/2 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43299 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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| title | Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe |
| title_full | Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe |
| title_fullStr | Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe |
| title_short | Growing up in the era of AIDS: Childhood experiences in rural Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | growing up in the era of aids childhood experiences in rural zimbabwe |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43299 |