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Grounding 'Responsibilisation Talk': Masculinities, Citizenship and HIV in Cape Town, South Africa

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  • Christopher Colvin
  • Steven Robins
  • Joan Leavens

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This paper investigates how the South African state has understood the relationship between HIV and poverty and how individuals and community-based organisations have responded to these state interventions. It considers the ways in which liberal forms of government frame people living with AIDS as a particular category of 'deserving' and 'entrepreneurial' citizens, and then re-frames them through a package of health and welfare interventions. Based on ethnographic research with the members of Khululeka, a support group for HIV-positive men, the study pays particular attention to how masculinity has shaped the ways these men have experienced and transformed these state interventions.

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  • Christopher Colvin & Steven Robins & Joan Leavens, 2010. "Grounding 'Responsibilisation Talk': Masculinities, Citizenship and HIV in Cape Town, South Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(7), pages 1179-1195.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:46:y:2010:i:7:p:1179-1195
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2010.487093
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    1. Reynolds, Lindsey & Cousins, Thomas & Newell, Marie-Louise & Imrie, John, 2013. "The social dynamics of consent and refusal in HIV surveillance in rural South Africa," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 118-125.
    2. Beth Vale & Rebecca Hodes & Lucie Cluver & Mildred Thabeng, 2017. "Bureaucracies of Blood and Belonging: Documents, HIV‐positive Youth and the State in South Africa," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 48(6), pages 1287-1309, November.

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