Stigma and discrimination: social encounters, identity and space; a concept derived from HIV and AIDS related research in the high prevalence country Botswana
Abstract: How do social encounters conjure up stigma and discrimination? How do social identities emerge and how do people reject or integrate each other in local settings and social space? How do individuals affected build their self-identities and cope with the socially divisive effects of their stigma? The book provides an unconventional view on the subject matter. It is based on empirical fieldwork on the social effects of HIV and AIDS in Botswana. A broad review of geographical, sociological, psychological and social psychological literature, as well as the consideration of works of applied sciences helps to lift the empirical findings to a more general and theoretical level. Different lines of theory are disentangled and integrated into a concept of stigma and discrimination. With its standpoint of pragmatist epistemology and the special focus on the spatial character of social distances the book is of interest not only for social geographers. Both stigma and discrimination are sociall
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 280 S.
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
- Klassifikation
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Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2009
- Urheber
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Geiselhart, Klaus
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-290930
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Geiselhart, Klaus
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