Spaces, times, and critical moments : a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho. / Ansell, Nicola; van Blerk, Lorraine; Hajdu, Flora; Robson, Elsbeth.
In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 43, No. 3, 03.2011, p. 525-544.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Spaces, times, and critical moments
T2 - a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho
A1 - Ansell,Nicola
A1 - van Blerk,Lorraine
A1 - Hajdu,Flora
A1 - Robson,Elsbeth
AU - Ansell,Nicola
AU - van Blerk,Lorraine
AU - Hajdu,Flora
AU - Robson,Elsbeth
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - <p>Southern Africa's AIDS epidemic is profoundly spatially and temporally structured; so too are the lives of the young people whose families it blights. In this paper we draw on qualitative research with AIDS-affected young people in Malawi and Lesotho, and recent work theorising time space in human geography, to examine how time spaces of AIDS-related sickness and death intersect with the time spaces of young people and, importantly, those of their relations with others to produce differentiated outcomes for young people. We also explore the time spaces of those outcomes and of young people's responses to them. We conclude that a relational time space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on young people helps explain the diversity of those young people's experiences and allows AIDS to be contextualised more adequately in relation to everyday life and young people's wider lifecourses and their relationships with others. Moreover, the research points to the significance of the time space structuring of society in shaping the outcomes of familial sickness and death for young people.</p>
AB - <p>Southern Africa's AIDS epidemic is profoundly spatially and temporally structured; so too are the lives of the young people whose families it blights. In this paper we draw on qualitative research with AIDS-affected young people in Malawi and Lesotho, and recent work theorising time space in human geography, to examine how time spaces of AIDS-related sickness and death intersect with the time spaces of young people and, importantly, those of their relations with others to produce differentiated outcomes for young people. We also explore the time spaces of those outcomes and of young people's responses to them. We conclude that a relational time space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on young people helps explain the diversity of those young people's experiences and allows AIDS to be contextualised more adequately in relation to everyday life and young people's wider lifecourses and their relationships with others. Moreover, the research points to the significance of the time space structuring of society in shaping the outcomes of familial sickness and death for young people.</p>
KW - SOUTH-AFRICA
KW - LIFE-COURSE
KW - MIGRATION
KW - MOBILITY
KW - TRANSITIONS
KW - CHILDHOOD
KW - GEOGRAPHIES
KW - POLITICS
KW - CONTEXT
KW - FAMILY
U2 - 10.1068/a4363
DO - 10.1068/a4363
M1 - Article
JO - Environment and Planning A
JF - Environment and Planning A
SN - 0308-518X
IS - 3
VL - 43
SP - 525
EP - 544
ER -