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When bodies remember: experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa
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ColonialismSouth African HistoryDecolonialityAfrican Political ThoughtAfrican DiasporaSocial SciencesAfrican HistoryAfrican American StudiesSouth AfricaMedical AnthropologyCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesAfrican DevelopmentAfrican Social ChangeBiopoliticsDenial 4Global Health CrisisAfrican PoliticsPolitical AnesthesiaAfrican StudiesGlobal HealthAfrocentricityAnthropologyAnthropological Concern 1
The paper situates AIDS in South Africa within a broader discourse of political anesthesia, anthropological concern, and contested histories, highlighting how denial, memory, and embodied experiences shape the epidemic’s public and political narratives. The authors investigate the lived experience of AIDS in South Africa, focusing on the politics of life and death and how individuals confront mortality within the country’s historical context.
Introduction: Political Anesthesia and Anthropological Concern 1. As If Nothing Ever Happened The Controversy A Life Proposition 1: The Structures of Time 2. An Epidemic of Disputes Beginnings Heresy Proposition 2: The Configuration of the Polemics 3. Anatomy of the Controversies Ordeals Arenas Proposition 3: The Figures of Denial 4. The Imprint of the Past Long Memory Bared History Proposition 4: The History of the Vanquished 5. The Embodiment of the World Behind the Landscapes Within the Narratives Proposition 5: The Forms of Experience 6. Living with Death Dying Born Again Proposition 6: Politics of Life Conclusion: This World We Live In Notes Brief Chronology of South African History Maps Bibliography Index