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This chapter discusses pedagogical approaches to Julia's confusion and the lure of the "we". The paradox of learning and unlearning; absorbing and deconstructing leaves room for the university to weigh its criteria so that only some students easily pass as the precisely suitable ones, the ones with a perfect balance between qualities. Exposing "West" as a political commitment to a certain version of global capitalism may act as "demystificatory criticism". The multicultural, transnational class with students from a rich variety of backgrounds, albeit mainly European yet also globally diverse, is not an element against a homogenizing "we". When a longer legacy of feminist thinking is needed an appropriate framing of older texts, explaining why certain discussions were essential in different points of time, is useful. The "we" was constructed around a few discursive tropes, often through dichotomous juxtapositions. The low score is compensated by his current education, indicating that his privilege is not a stable position depending on background. ; Peer reviewed

This paper is a feminist reading of HIV activism in South Africa, of a social movement that does not describe itself as a women's movement: it advocates both women's and men's, trans, hetero- and homosexual peoples' rights for adequate health care and antiretroviral medication. Like many others, Chandra Talpade Mohanty suggests that today's powerful feminism is found in anti-globalization movements that do not necessarily call themselves feminist. These critiques maintain that the theory, critique and activism of grass-root women across the globe, for example around anti-globalization, should also inform academic feminist discussions. This article studies discourses on HIV in Africa by contrasting the politics of the Treatment Action Campaign, a South African activist movement, with social science research literature on HIV in Africa. The contextual and political dimension of the illness is a central feature in activist discourses, a feature that can be described as inherently feminist. The representations of HIV/AIDS in Africa and the policies these imply are strikingly different in the activist and academic discourses. We argue that activists' political orientation and the consequent anti-individualism are key dividing features that lead the activist and research discourses down divergent paths. In contrast, HIV research inhabits a de-politicized and individualizing tendency.

An examination of the South African activist organization, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), which charged two politicians with homicide for failing to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focuses on whether it is reasonable to interpret the mismanagement of health issues as intentional violence/murder. The theory of politics of embodiment underpinning the activists' point of view is considered, along with the kind of relationship with the state suggested by TAC's accusations. Theoretical approaches on embodiment offered by mainstream social scientists & post-structural theorists are used to explore the link between state responsibility & individual AIDS-related deaths. Examples of different body politics found in official TAC documents are explored, including those that claim a structural link between health & political action, those that focus on the larger context, & those that illustrate a Foucauldian perspective by highlighting discursive elements & how embodiment is shaped by global biopolitics. It is concluded that the activist agenda illuminates the political nature of biomedicine but also tends to operate with a double agenda that is both politicizing & neutralizing. References. J. Lindroth

What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today's Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions.