GGRB28H3 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Democratic (we care for our people and value their opinions) Irrational (based on religion and something mystical) Despotic (they are a dictatorship and they work backwards) A continent"s agony - undifferentiated (majority look at africa as homogenous) Traditional cultural practices e. g. dry sex" that explains why aids is so high in africa (this assumption is wrong) Politics of representation is ignored (the way things get repented is extremely political, and groups that have power tend to portray other groups the way they want. Quantitative methods dominate (statics play a big role in the way we view things: mohanty: third world women . In haiti it was said to be spread by voodoo . Advocated critical epidemiology phases of aids in haiti american phase: male-male sex -- lots of tourists that went to america and slept with haitian men caused aids in africa. Feminization of the urban epidemic: then these men that slept with american tourists slept with haitian women.
