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CfP - Aegis Panel No. 73
HIV/AIDS as a Threat to Human Security in Africa?
Call for papers for a panel at the AEGIS First European Conference of African Studies
London, 29 June to 3 July 2005
Convenors: Angelika Wolf (Bayreuth), Hansjoerg Dilger (Berlin)
Discussant: Fred Krueger (Erlangen)
The AIDS epidemic in sub-Sahara Africa has been perceived as a threat to security - globally as well as on national, local and individual levels: as HIV infection rates continue to rise the AIDS crisis weakens economies; leads to the depletion of the workforce; impoverishes families and communities; leads to shortages in food supplies; and finally creates a generation of orphans which lacks social as well as educational support and which even is predicted to turn into criminals roaming the streets of African towns.
This panel aims to explore the relationship between HIV/AIDS and issues of human security from an interdisciplinary perspective and to illustrate this relationship by drawing on case material from sub-Sahara Africa. Contributions to the panel should bring into play the shift in the security discourse that has been relocated from its emphasis on social security based on national interest to human security as the security of the people.
On the one hand, we want to explore the empirical ground of the developments mentioned above, f.e.:
. Have high infection rates among army members or among state employees endangered people`s security?
. Has the rising number of orphans caused an increase in criminality rates?
On the other hand, we intend to find out what strategies states, communities, families and individuals have developed in order to cope with different kinds of human insecurity, f.e.:
. How have households come to deal with the illnesses and deaths of numerous people?
. How do communities and state organs respond to cases of deliberate HIV-infections?
Abstracts of proposed papers should be sent by October 1, 2004. Selected paper givers will be contacted by the convenors by November 1, 2004.
Full papers should be sent by May 15, 2005.
Address all correspondence to:
Angelika Wolf
Institut fuer Medizinmanagement und Gesundheitswissenschaften
der Universitaet Bayreuth
Prieserstr. 2
D-95444 Bayreuth, Germany
Email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: +49-(0)921-55 4802
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