Language and HIV/AIDS / / ed. by Christina Higgins, Bonny Norton.
This volume focuses on the role of language in the construction of knowledge about HIV/AIDS in diverse regions of the world. The collection of studies yields helpful insights about the discursive construction of this knowledge in both formal and informal contexts, while demonstrating how the tools o...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Language and Literacy Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Lengths of Life: Stories of Being with HIV
- 2. Ugandan Students’ Visual Representations of Health Literacies: A Focus on HIV/AIDS Knowledge
- 3. Is it Safer to Talk about Sex in Spanish or English? Performing Young Adulthood in Oaxaca, Mexico
- 4. Safe Sex – Not So Straightforward: Intersubjective Positioning in Gay Men’s Accounts of Sexual Exposure to HIV
- 5. Dangerous Dogmas: AIDS, Discourse and the Rakhel System in India
- 6. Discursive Constructions of Responsibility in HIV/AIDS Prevention: Re-entextualization Practices in Tanzania
- 7. Uganda’s ABC Program on HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Discursive Site of Struggle
- 8. Learning about AIDS Online: Identity and Expertise on a Gay Internet Forum
- 9. Contextualizing Local Knowledge: Reformulations in HIV/AIDS Prevention in Burkina Faso
- 10. What Difference Does This Make? Studying Southern African Youth as Knowledge Producers within a New Literacy of HIV and AIDS
- 11. Articulations of Knowing: NGOs and HIV-Positive Health in India
- 12. Signs Show the Way: Reading HIV Prevention on the Andaman Islands
- Author Index
- Subject Index