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The power of AIDS: kinship, mobility and the valuing of social and ritual relationships in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Hansjörg DilgerThe HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has become a test case of the effects of globalisation, in that it demonstrates how international processes may affect regional life situations and how 'the local' can simultaneously develop in its own way, through the... -
Does thinking about the meaning of life make you happy in a religious and globalised world? A 75-nation study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohsen Joshanloo --- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Dan Weijers --- Chungbuk National University, South KoreaThis paper reports on a multilevel study of 75 nations, which tests two hypotheses that arose from considering Tolstoy's experience of thinking about the meaning and purpose of life. The globalisation-as-exacerbator hypothesis predicts that as globalisation increases, the relationship between... -
Institutions and social change: a case study of the South African National AIDS Council
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Theodore Powers --- The Human Economy Project, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaInstitutions play an important role in the success or failure of social models, as they promote or limit particular political and economic activities. Central to this point is the understanding that institutions and traditions are in a constant state of... -
Some notes towards a human economy approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Vito Laterza --- The Human Economy Project, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaThe diverse research activities carried out in the Human Economy Project focus on the economic practices that people on the ground perform in their everyday life, and the interactions between these actions and larger-scale political and economic structures and institutions... -
Institutions and social change: a case study of the South African National AIDS Council
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Theodore Powers --- The Human Economy Project, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaInstitutions play an important role in the success or failure of social models, as they promote or limit particular political and economic activities. Central to this point is the understanding that institutions and traditions are in a constant state of... -
Some notes towards a human economy approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Vito Laterza --- The Human Economy Project, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaThe diverse research activities carried out in the Human Economy Project focus on the economic practices that people on the ground perform in their everyday life, and the interactions between these actions and larger-scale political and economic structures and institutions... -
Social models of HIV risk among young adults in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nicola L. Bulled --- Center for Global Health, USAExtensive research over the past 30 years has revealed that individual and social determinants impact HIV risk. Even so, prevention efforts focus primarily on individual behaviour change, with little recognition of the dynamic interplay of individual and social environment factors... -
Contrast and contradiction: Being a black adolescent in contemporary South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Natasha Arndt --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Luzelle Naudé --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study aimed to gain in-depth understanding of the lived identity of black African adolescents in a contemporary South African setting. A purposive sample of 59 adolescents (females = 47%; Sesotho = 46%, Setswana = 36%, Other = 18%) from... -
“I am Malawian, Multicultural or British”: Remote acculturation and identity formation among urban adolescents in Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kim T. Ferguson --- Psychology Faculty, USA Yuna L. Ferguson --- Department of Psychology, USA Gail M. Ferguson --- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, USAWe aimed to better understand multidimensional remote acculturation to South African, United States of America (US), and United Kingdom (UK) cultures among 144 thirteen- to seventeen-year-old (M = 15 0.28, SD = 1.06; 43.1% female; 36.6% Black African, 23.9% Southeast... -
On reading about Lola Fine’s night on the town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Graeme Reid --- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Programme, USAThis is a commentary on Lindy-Lee Prince’s photographic essay about gender and drag featuring Cape Town performance artist Lola Fine. -
Love matters: exploring conceptions of love in Rwanda and Swaziland and relationship to HIV and intimate partner violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Allison Ruark --- Department of Medicine, USA Erin Stern --- Department of Global Health and Development, UK Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane --- Institute for Health Measurement, Swaziland Marie Fidele Kakuze --- Independent Consultant, SwazilandHealth risks such as intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV infection often occur within intimate sexual relationships, yet the study of love and intimacy is largely absent from health research on African populations. This study explores how women and men... -
The interconnection between the global and the local: case study of the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh, Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Richard Atimniraye Nyelade --- University of Ottawa, CanadaThe impact of globalisation on local communities is a widely debated topic in sociology and anthropology. This article explores the dynamics and statics of local communities in the context of globalisation using the concepts of deterritorialisation and imagined community. The...