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Title: | Producing interventions for AIDS-affected young people in Lesotho's schools: Scalar relations and power differentials |
Authors: | Ansell, N |
Keywords: | Development interventions;State/civil society relations;Aid;NGOs;Scale;Schools;AIDS;Lesotho |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Geoforum, 40(4), 675 - 685, 2009 |
Abstract: | Children and youth are a key target group for interventions to address southern Africa’s AIDS pandemic. Such interventions are frequently implemented through schools, and are often complex products of negotiation between a range of institutional actors including international agencies, NGOs, government departments and individual schools. These institutions not only stand in different (horizontally scaled) spatial relationships to students in schools; they also appear to operate at different hierarchical levels. Empirical research with policy makers and practitioners in Lesotho, however, reveals how interventions are produced through flows of knowledge, funding and personnel within and between institutions that make it difficult to assert that any intervention is manifestly more international or more local than any other. Scale theory offers the metaphor of a network or web which usefully serves to move attention away from discrete organisations, sectors and scalar positionings and onto the relationships and flows between them. Nevertheless, organisations and development interventions are often partly structured in scalar hierarchical ways that express substantive power differentials and shape the forms of interaction that take place, albeit not binding them to strict binaries or nested hierarchies. A modified network metaphor is useful in aiding understanding of how particular interventions are produced through intermeshing scales and diverse fluid interactions, and why they take the form they do. |
Description: | This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Geoforum. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2009 Elsevier B.V. |
URI: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718509000700 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8044 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.05.004 |
ISSN: | 0016-7185 |
Appears in Collections: | Human Geography Sociology Social Work Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers |
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