Between Discipline and Empowerment: Temporal Ambivalence at a Sleepaway Camp for HIV-Positive Children in Botswana

Recreational camping is increasingly popular among US-based organizations as a means of socializing HIV-positive African children. Drawing on research conducted at a week-long sleepaway camp in Botswana, I argue that the US pediatricians and other volunteers running the camp sometimes undermined their own efforts to orient HIV-positive children to a fantasized future of independence and self-management, thereby evincing tensions between the camp...