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“Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“in the run-up to South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, Nelson Mandela was reportedly advised not to make AIDS into a campaign issue for fear of offending culturally conservative constituencies. ‘I wanted to win,’ said Mandela, ‘and I did not talk about AIDS.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“the philanthropic NGO has long been decried by the left as a means of addressing only the symptoms of poverty and thus obscuring the political strategies needed to overcome it. NGOs are criticised for creating Potemkin villages not replicable at scale. their limits are often painfully apparent. some are ‘briefcase’ NGOs, to give their founders income or profit.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“In 1994, the PFDJ established the Hidri Trust as a corporate umbrella for the Red Sea Trading Corporation – which maintained secret offshore accounts – plus banks, construction companies and manufacturing plants.8 The Red Sea Corporation and other party”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“the AIDS pandemic is a disaster with few parallels, because it is so easy to make it invisible or to pretend it is something else. an earthquake, flood or famine is dramatically visible and politically salient, because it affects entire communities in a spectacular fashion, including their leaders and spokespeople. AIDS is more like climate change, an incremental process manifest in a quickening drumbeat of ‘normal’ events.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“in the higher stages of denial, ever-more-complex mechanisms are developed for explaining the unacceptable while maintaining a façade of social and moral normality.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“if spiritual forces operate in a different sphere to the rule of law and human rights, then democratic politics is failing to deal with a fundamental problem in people’s lives and after-lives. the repercussions of AIDS for the moral cosmology are profound indeed. the secular frameworks of epidemiology and public policy will not by themselves be enough to make sense of the virus and epidemic. we need to develop and deploy metaphors that speak to the social world, constructed around moral imaginings which are impacted by AIDS and which in turn constrain social capabilities to respond to AIDS. we should also be alert to the fact that scholars and policy makers themselves are unable to think about the crisis that is AIDS without using language and imagery borrowed from another realm of human experience. how we think about the AIDS epidemic becomes its own reality. yet we must not lose sight of the virus and the disease. (…) AIDS represents the ordinary workings of biology, not an irrational or diabolical plague with moral meaning. HIV transmission is preventable and medication is available that can extend a healthy life for those living with HIV. science can triumph, given resources, policies and the right social and political context.”
― AIDS and Power: Why there is no Political Crisis - Yet by Waal, Alex de [Zed Books, 2006] ( Paperback ) [Paperback]
― AIDS and Power: Why there is no Political Crisis - Yet by Waal, Alex de [Zed Books, 2006] ( Paperback ) [Paperback]
“it is from such diverse sources with varied networks and linkages that the response to HIV / AIDS has been patched together. it is an NGO model of response, uneven in coverage and quality, responsive to the particularities of local circumstance, the character of local leaders, and the availability and types of funds available.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“the Cold War thaw brought a rising tide: a series of waves that swept in and receded, slowly and unevenly bringing new political waterlines”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“for the women [sex-workers], all poor and competing in an oversupplied market for sexual services, the ‘choice’ of unprotected sex is simply a financial trade-off between less money today (and the threat of physical violence from a dissatisfied client) and the far-off danger of developing AIDS. this has echoes, too, of the risk of a ‘bad reputation’ weighed by women [in the area] who too rarely insist on condom use to protect themselves.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“Most members of the political elites of north-east Africa have come to resemble gangsters rather than civic political leaders.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“for them, forecasting the end of the world is quite routine, and, as believers in the afterlife, they expect to be able to bask in glory when their prophecies of doom are proven right.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“the study of socio-political denial is the study of how appearances are kept up, the moral order is sustained, and necessary changes are pressed up into the service of existing interests. this can be seen at the family and community level, and in the way that national and international politics is managed.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“HIV prevalence is an abstraction. the time-lag between infection with HIV and illness with AIDS is so long - eight to ten years - that a new epidemic consists mostly of symptom-less HIV infection rather than visible sickness and death from AIDS”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“there is a missing link. people overwhelmingly acknowledge that there is an AIDS epidemic, but do not take the next step of accepting the consequences. this is familiar territory for those concerned with trying to change risky sexual behaviour: knowledge about how HIV is transmitted and the dangers of certain kinds of practices does not seem to translate into behavioural change.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil wars; international military interventions and maritime piracy; genocidal massacres and non-violent popular uprisings; conventional wars fought in trenches and irregular wars fought by jihadists and followers of a messianic cult.”
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
― The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
“the most sophisticated form of denial is ‘normalization’. the intolerable becomes ‘no longer news’ and people invest in ‘not having an inquiring mind about these matters’.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
