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Crying for Our EldersAfrican Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS$
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Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS

Kristen E. Cheney

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9780226437408

Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2017

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226437682.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

Chapter:
(p.1) Introduction
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Crying for Our Elders
Author(s):

Kristen E. Cheney

Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226437682.003.0001

This chapter introduces the rationale for the book and then lays out the main conceptual and methodological considerations utilized in the study of AIDS orphanhood, including critical children’s studies, posthumanitarianism, generations, and youth participatory research. It then provides an overview of the structure of the rest of the book.

Keywords:   children’s studies, generational analysis, HIV, international development, posthumanitarianism, OVC, orphans and vulnerable children, Uganda, youth participatory research, AIDS

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