Strings Attached
AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa
Edited by Nadine Beckmann, Alessandro Gusman, and Catrine Schroff
A British Academy Publication
Table of Contents
1. Strings Attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa, NADINE BECKMANN, CATRINE CHRISTIANSEN, ALESSANDRO GUSMAN AND RIJK VAN DIJK
Part 1: Transnational Relations and Conservative Agendas
2. Sponsored Sexuality, AIDS and Tough Choices, CHRISTINE OBBO
3. Hands across the Sea: Religion, politics, gender and sex, in the US and Africa, BROOKE GRUNDFEST SCHOEPF
4. From an Activist's Point of View: Experiencing transnational dynamics among African migrant communities in the UK, IJEOMA AJIBADE
5. Global Moralities, Local Responses: Interpreting sexual morality and social belonging in Uganda, JOANNA SADGROVE
Part 2: Transnational Power and Local Agency
6. Transnational Religious Networks Encounter Community Realities: HIV prevention in Zambia, AMY PATTERSON
7. Condoms, Pills and Professional Identity: The transnational ART Scale-up Project and Catholic HIV/AIDS counsellors in Uganda, LOUISE MUBANDA RASMUSSEN
8. Contested Sexualities and Shared Concerns: Power dynamics in a transnational network of faith-based organisations, BRENDA BARTELINK AND ERIK MEINEMA
9. 'I don't want to hear': HIV, AIDS and the power of words in Bushbuckridge, South Africa, ISAK NIEHAUS
Part 3: Transnational Ideas and Local Discourses about Sexuality
10. 'If you cannot control yourself': Christian leaders as HIV preventers in Malawi, ANAIS BERTRAND-DANSEREAU
11. Let's talk about sex: Islam and sexuality in positive Muslims' 'Theology of compassion', JONAS SVENSSON
12. The Choice of Health: Christian family planning among cosmopolitan educated professionals in times of HIV/AIDS in Botswana, ASTRID BOCHOW
Part 4: Transnational Identities and Homosexuality
13. 'Decadent Imports', 'Vile Abominations': (Under)developing discourses on male- male sex and the missionary position in Buganda, 1875-1910, LINDSAY EHRISMAN
14. A Backlash of the Hegemony of Human Rights Discourse and Transnational Moralities: The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, ALEXANDRA MULLER
15. The Mode of Transmission that Dare not Speak its Name: Islam, AIDS and the public secret of homosexuality in Northern Nigeria, JACK UME TOCCO
Epilogue
16. Strings, Strains and Strides of Transnational Competence: Complex ambiguities, RIJK VAN DIJK