ANTH 320/DEVS 321 PEOPLE AND DEVELOPMENT Fall 2017

Nov. 8, 15 Gender, sex and development
    READ: Campbell, Catherine and Yugi Nair (2014) From rhetoric to reality? Putting HIV and AIDS rights talk into practice in a South African rural community. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 16(10): 1216-1230, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2014.930180.

    Nelson, E., Edmonds, A., Ballesteros, M., Encalada Soto, D. and Rodriguez, O. (2014) The unintended consequences of sex education: An ethnography of a development intervention in Latin America. Anthropology & medicine, 21(2): 189-201.

Guest appearance: Sarah Anderson, Gender Program Officer, CARE Canada
    - what does CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) do?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgs2JAsQINM
    Links provided by her about internships:
GAC-funded (The COADY internships used to be funded through this program. Hopefully they get funding again!) http://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/study_work_travel-etude_travail_voyage/youth_internship-stages_jeunes.aspx?lang=eng

 https://wusc.ca/volunteer/

http://www.aqoci.qc.ca/?ACIC-international-internships

 This one usually requires 2-3 years of experience and is more of a “professional” placement: https://curaweb.mindscope.com/CUSOIN04387_CURA/aspx/JobSearch.aspx?lang=en

 This one you usually have to pay something, but they are often shorter placements if that is of interest to students: http://eqwiphubs.org/


- Campbell and Nair
    - what is meant by “rights” in international political terms? In the terms of South African villagers? [note that the ongoing anthropological criticism of development practice relates to the cultural mismatch between projects designed elsewhere and the realities where they are implemented]
        - how are rights associated with agency?
        - why did rights seem to be relevant to HIV/AIDS care?
    - note the similarity in circumstances of the project being studied between this article and that by Boesten et al. on volunteer community based workers – compare motivations; do you think this situation might be vulnerable to feeding local inequalities?
    - what were project goals and how successful were they in achieving them?
        - strengthen ability of volunteers to lead local HIV/AIDS response
        - strengthen support structures for volunteers within and outside community
        - improve communication and mutual responsiveness between volunteers and local NGOs and government health and welfare departments
    - what do Campbell and Nair conclude about the circumstances under which rights-promoting projects can be successful (and under which circumstances they cannot be successful)?


Nelson et al.
    - what is meant by “open communication” and “confianza”? How does the ambiguity around how these terms are used relate to this project?
    - why would a project on adolescent sexual and reproductive health want to include “open communication”?
        - do you, as young adults, think that open communication between parents and adolescent children is necessarily a desirable thing? (See Alberta’s discussion on whether schools should have to tell parents if their children have joined a Gay-Straight Alliance group e.g. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/gay-straight-alliance-laws-alberta-eggen-1.4384037)
        - what are the different perceptions and understandings of their role of the male and female adults, and male and female adolescents in this case?
    - based on this case, and your own experiences, what do you think is appropriate in terms of addressing communication/confianza between parents and children in projects seeking to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health?


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