The life and death of a street boy in East Africa: everyday violence in the time of AIDS.
This article focuses on the life history of a single street boy in northwestern Tanzania, whom I name Juma. I suggest that Juma's experiences and the life trajectory of himself and of significant individuals around him (particularly his mother) were structured by everyday violence. I describe everyday violence in terms of a conjuncture between macrostructural forces in East Africa (including a history of failed development schemes and the contemporary political economy of neoliberalism) and the lived experience of individuals as they negotiate local, contextual factors (including land-tenure practices, the power dynamics between immediate and extended kin, life on the streets, and constructions of gender and sexuality). I suggest that AIDS and its many impacts on Juma's life course can only be understood in a broader context of everyday violence. From this basis, I draw several general conclusions regarding AIDS prevention and intervention strategies.
Lockhart
Chris
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Round River Conservation Studies, Utah State University, Utah, USA.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D000351:Africa, Eastern / Q000453:epidemiology; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D018453:Homeless Youth / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D010379:Peer Group; D011287:Prejudice; D012307:Risk Factors; D013636:Tanzania / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology