Spaces, Times, and Critical Moments: A Relational Time–Space Analysis of the Impacts of AIDS on Rural Youth in Malawi and Lesotho

Nicola Ansell, Lorraine van Blerk, Flora Hajdu and Elsbeth Robson
Additional contact information
Nicola Ansell: Centre for Human Geography, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, England
Lorraine van Blerk: Geography, School of Social and Environmental Sciences, University of Dundee, Perth Road, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
Flora Hajdu: Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 753 26 Uppsala, Sweden
Elsbeth Robson: Centre for Human Geography, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, England; and Centre for Social Research, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, PO Box 278, Zomba, Malawi

Environment and Planning A, 2011, vol. 43, issue 3, 525-544

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a4363 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:envira:v:43:y:2011:i:3:p:525-544

DOI: 10.1068/a4363

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Environment and Planning A
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().