Secrecy and Responsibility in the Era of an Epidemic: Letters from Uganda
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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insight into the ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Number of pages | 246 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-47522-2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-47523-9 |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
ID: 255553217