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    Therapeutic Citizenship and the Teaching Profession: New Theoretical Approaches of Zambian Teachers Living with Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) and on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)

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    Date
    2020-05
    Author
    Mulubale, Sanny
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    Language
    en
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    Abstract
    Teacher training, teachers’ economic status, their use of effective pedagogy and many other factors have been chronicled extensively by various scholars across disciplines in research on education in developing countries. However, teachers’ experiences of illness and health conditions as key actors in implementing the development agenda of many countries in Africa, have received very limited attention. The HIV and AIDS burden in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is higher than available resources to deal with the pandemic effectively (Kharsany et al., 2016) while the number of people living with the virus and on ART in SSA countries, such as Zambia, remains high (UNAIDS, 2017). This article discusses HIV positive teachers’ medicalisation in the Zambian context. It makes a theoretical appraisal of the dynamics of health in this HIV treatment era, viewing the era as leaving the AIDS pandemic between two streams: a disappearing tragedy and a treatable illness with latent psychological, social and economic effects (Lichtenstein, 2015:858). The above proposition in this paper is supported by three fundamental concepts which can be summarised as: governmentality, identity and chronicity. These three concepts, when effectively synthesised, offer new ways of understanding the medical solutions, normalcy, and their limits in the everyday living of teachers who are on ART. Based on this theoretical analysis and its relation to existing empirical data, the central argument in the paper is that teachers’ daily lives seem to be filled with the sociopolitical and economic consequences of HIV medicalisation and that these consequences seem to shape and limit how teachers manage and make sense of their acquired ‘therapeutic citizenship’ status.
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    http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/6803
    Publisher
    M alcolm Moffat Multidisciplinary Journal of Research and Education
    Subject
    Identity
    Chronicity,
    Governmentality,
    Teachers
    Therapeutic Citizenship
    HIV
    Development,
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