Author:Meintjes, Helen; Bray, RachelDate:2005Messages conveyed both explicitly and implicitly in the media play an important role in the shaping of public understanding of issues, as well as associated policy, programme and popular responses to these issues. This paper applies discourse ...Read more
Author:Bray, Rachel; Brandt, RenéDate:2007This article draws on ethnographic research with children and their caregivers to explore the interaction between poverty and the nature and quality of child care in a resource-poor urban community in South Africa. The authors attend to issues ...Read more
Author:Bray, Rachel; Gooskens, ImkeDate:2005Guidelines on ethical practice in research with children tend to focus on ways to protect children from potential economic and emotional exploitation. While such concerns deserve attention, we argue that they represent only a portion of the ...Read morecbnd
Author:Bray, Rachel; Gooskens, Imke; Moses, Sue; Kahn, Lauren; Seekings, JeremyDate:2011How has the end of apartheid affected the experiences of South African children and adolescents? This pioneering study provides a compelling account of the realities of everyday life for the first generation of children and adolescents growing ...Read morecbn
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2009This article explores the nature and consequences of residential decision-making for women on treatment for AIDS illness in a poor urban settlement in South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over a two-year period, it points to ...Read more
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2009This paper explores the nature and consequences of residential decision-making for women on treatment for AIDS illness in a poor urban settlement in South Africa. Drawing on ethnographic data collected over a two-year period, it points to the ...Read more
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2008Drawing on qualitative panel data collected in a poor township on the edge of Cape Town, this paper provides a fine-grained analysis of the residential decision-making of five HIV positive women and some of their children. HIV status and ...Read more
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2002The aim of this paper is to examine the available data on children's lives in South Africa in order to see whether we have the necessary tools to trace changes in child poverty and well-being over time, and to link these changes to broader ...Read morecbnd
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2003This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in Southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic. Analysis of the logic ...Read morecbnd
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2003This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic. Analysis of the logic ...Read morecb
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2003This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic. Analysis of the logic ...Read more
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2003This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic. Analysis of the logic ...Read more
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2003This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic. Analysis of the logic ...Read more
Author:Bray, RachelDate:2003<P>This paper examines childrens' participation in housework as a form of child labour. This is a particular concern in South Africa because of the possibility that children are being burdened with additional work due to HIV/AIDS. The analysis ...Read more