Ambiguities of “Culture” and the Antiretroviral Rollout in South Africa

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116826/1/Ashforth and Nattrass on Culture and ARVs.pd

Human Security and Spiritual Insecurity: Why the Fear of Evil Forces Needs to Be Taken Seriously

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116822/1/Ashforth on Human Security and Spiritual Insecurity.pd

Love in the Time of AIDS

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116819/1/Ashforth review of Hunter.pd

Muthi, Medicine, and Witchcraft: Regulating “African Science” in Post-Apartheid South Africa?

This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign 's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional scientific understanding of HIV disease and treatment; and a Department of Health Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) video which harnesses putative 'indigenous knowledge ' relating to illness and healing. It points out that the latter strategy risks connecting with fears regarding the 'Af rican science' of witchcraft. This can serve to confuse, rather than clarify, ambiguities concerning the notion of 'cure '. Science education is challenging, but has the potential to empower patients to manage their illness effec tively.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116827/1/Ashforth on muthi (Social Dynamics).pd

Charles Tilly

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116823/1/Ashforth on Tilly.pd

Ethnic Violence and the Prospects for Democracy in the Aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan Elections

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116824/1/Ashforth on Kalenjin ethnonationalism.pd

Professor

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/1/Ashforth on witchcraft (for Critical Terms).pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/2/Ashforth Epidemic of Witchcraft?.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/3/Ashforth Letter from Soweto.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/4/Ashforth on Commissions.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/5/Ashforth on Xhosa Cattle Killing.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/6/Ashforth on muthi (Social Dynamics).pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/7/Ashforth on muthi (Social Dynamics).pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/8/Ashforth Weighing Manhood.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/9/Ashforth Will Antiretrovirals Cure Aids Stigma in South Africa_.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/10/Ashforth review of Verheijen.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/11/http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147470/12/Ashforth lineaments.pdfDescription of Ashforth Epidemic of Witchcraft?.pdf : On interpretations of AIDS in terms of a witchcraft paradigm in 1990s South Africa.Description of Ashforth Letter from Soweto.pdf : Description of life in early 1990s SowetoDescription of Ashforth on Commissions.pdf : Analysis of Commissions of Inquiry as power/knowledge forms, interrogating their history and critiquing standard interpretations in Political Science and Public Policy literatures.Description of Ashforth on Xhosa Cattle Killing.pdf : Raising questions about the historiography of a C19th Xhosa millenarium movement.Description of Ashforth lineaments.pdf : Provides a road map to studying the formation of the South African state devoid of teleology

Witchcraft, Justice, and Human Rights in Africa: Cases from Malawi

The human rights approach to witchcraft accusations denies their validity and forecloses the possibility of a trial, fair or otherwise. While there is much to be said for a bracing rationalism in all aspects of life, evidence from Africa over the past couple of centuries shows no sign that witchcraft narratives lose their plausibility as a result of people being told that witches do not exist.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116814/1/Ashforth, Witchcraft, Justice and Human Rights.pd

Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of AIDS

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116815/1/Ashforth and Watkins Narratives of Death.pd

Ambiguities of 'culture' and the antiretroviral rollout in South Africa

This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional scientific understanding of HIV disease and treatment; and a Department of Health Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) video which harnesses putative 'indigenous knowledge' relating to illness and healing.? It points out that the latter strategy risks connecting with fears regarding the 'African science' of witchcraft. This can serve to confuse, rather than clarify, ambiguities concerning the notion of 'cure'. Science education is challenging, but has the potential to empower patients to manage their illness effectively.