Dependent Agency in the Global Health Regime: Local African Responses to Donor AIDS Efforts

ISBN-13: 9781349954315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 141 str.

Emma-Louise Anderson; Amy S. Patterson

Spis treści

1. Dependent Agency and the AIDS Enterprise: Global Programs, Local Actions

2. Unique Opportunities in a Dynamic Aid Architecture: The Conditions for Agency 

3. Performing, Extraverting, and Resisting: The Strategies of Dependent Agents 

4. Complex Power on the Margins: The Implications of Dependent Agency

O autorze

Emma-Louise Anderson is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Leeds, UK. She is author of Gender, Risk and HIV: Navigating Structural Violence and has also published on gender and HIV in the International Feminist Journal of Politics and the politics of Ebola in Third World Quarterly. 

Amy S. Patterson is author of The Church and AIDS in Africa: The Politics of Ambiguity and The Politics of AIDS in Africa. She also is editor of AIDS and the African State and co-editor of The Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements: Religion and AIDS in Africa. She has published in numerous African studies and global health journals.

Blurb

This volume examines how local actors respond to Africa’s high dependence on donor health funds. It conceptualizes dependent agency, a condition in which local people can both influence and be dependent on donor programs. Focusing on AIDS projects in Malawi and Zambia, the book questions the role of Africans in a dynamic aid architecture and their responses to the myriad of opportunities and constraints that accompany it.