Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda
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Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic : Letters from Uganda. / Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 246 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic
T2 - Letters from Uganda
AU - Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis.
AB - 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insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis.
M3 - Book
SN - 978-3-030-47522-2
BT - Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -
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