Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic : Letters from Uganda (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology)

Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2021/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 246 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030475253

Full Description

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. It is a story of existence under extremely challenging conditions, about belonging and marginalization, about the opacity and ambiguity of social relations, and about growing up in a country haunted by violence and civil war only to be later lifted by optimism and devastated anew by the AIDS epidemic. The story draws on long-term fieldwork and letters from the woman who takes centre stage in the story, while at once providing unique and privileged insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis. 

Contents

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.