Peter Aggleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 104254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Aggleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Aggleton |
| SIGNATURE | AGGLETON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5966-4969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 177 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1032 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 159 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 18 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Aboriginal adults’ perspectives on talking with young people about sexual health and relationships in two communities in Western Sydney, Australia
This strengths-based study investigated Aboriginal adults’ views on young people’s sexual health, attitudes and relationships. Between 2019 and 2020, sixteen interviews were conducted with adults aged 25 and older from two Aboriginal communities in Western Sydney, Australia. In this paper, we discuss adults’ perspectives on intergenerational communication about sex in their communities. Participants highlighted intergenerational learning via talk…
A política de crueldade do governo Trump e seu impacto na saúde global
Este Comentário aborda decisões-chave tomadas e políticas aprovadas durante os primeiros seis meses da segunda administração Trump nos EUA que afetam a saúde global, com ênfase nas suas implicações para o trabalho da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), o Programa Conjunto das Nações Unidas sobre HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a Agência dos Estados Unidos para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (USAID), e o Plano de Emergência do Presidente dos EUA para Alívio d…
Rethinking ‘Strengths’ in Youth Health Research
The language of ‘strengths’ and ‘strengths‐based approaches’ has rapidly grown in health research, yet rarely have these approaches been evaluated for their conceptual adequacy. This paper presents an analysis of recent literature to examine how young people's ‘strengths’ have been represented. We found that most papers use the language of resilience and protective factors to focus mostly on individual traits or attributes. This literature offers…
The Trump administration's politics of cruelty and its impact on global health
This Commentary addresses key decisions made and policies approved primarily during the first six months of the second Trump administration in the U.S.A. that affect global health, with an emphasis on their implications for the work of World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEP…
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Sexual healthcare to meet the needs of sexuality and gender diverse aboriginal young people: Imagined Possibilities
In Australia, Aboriginal young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or otherwise sexuality and gender diverse (LGBTQ+) are recognised within several overlapping priority populations in state and federal sexually transmissible infection and HIV strategies. However, limited research has documented their unique sexual health experiences, needs and preferences. In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 1…
From Aids to Covid-19, and back again
This paper examines the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on memories and metaphors associated with the earlier AIDS epidemic. It argues that while previous research has focused on how HIV informs COVID-19, the reverse relationship has received insufficient attention. The authors propose a more comprehensive understanding of the issues, using insights from the sociology of memory. Experiences during COVID-19 not only reshape perceptions of HIV i…
The Problem With Resilience: Individualisation, Reductionism and Relationality in Health Discourses on Resilience
Narratives of resilience are proliferating in health policy and research where they are used to address problems threatening individuals and communities. Resilience approaches are often considered alternatives to other models of intervention because they signal a shift away from deficit assumptions to more empowering ways of promoting health. To date, however, there has been a lack of scrutiny of the nature, assumptions and effects of resilience …
Beyond controversy – International perspectives on sexual and reproductive health education
Yarning as a method for building sexual wellbeing among urban Aboriginal young people in Australia
This paper describes the strategies used by Aboriginal young people to build positive relationships and sexual wellbeing. It does so to counter the risk-focussed narratives present in much existing research and to showcase the resourcefulness of Aboriginal young people. We used peer-interview methods to collect qualitative data from 52 Aboriginal young people living in western Sydney, Australia. Participants reported a strong desire to stay safe …
Memories of schooling amongst trans women and sexuality diverse men in Papua New Guinea
Drawing from a life history study we examine memories and experience of schooling in Papua New Guinea among 45 trans women and sexuality diverse men. While participants reported regulating their expression of gender and sexuality to 'fit in' and avoid physical and verbal abuse at school, others felt able and supported to express their gender and sexuality diversity more freely beyond stereotypical norms. Schools provided a varietyof experience fo…
Sex and Gender in the Pacific: Contemporary Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender and Health
Making meaning out of objects: Self, connectedness and belonging among sexuality diverse men and transgender women in Papua New Guinea
Objects in our everyday lives range from the mundane to the highly significant and can be understood and interpreted in various ways. In a Pacific society such as Papua New Guinea, making meaning out of objects and storytelling provides great insight into (our) culture. However, much of the attention given to material culture historically and culturally in Papua New Guinea is directed at documenting objects from the past, and often the objects po…
Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights
Aboriginal young people’s perspectives and experiences of accessing sexual health services and sex education in Australia: A qualitative study
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) young people seek information and access health services for their sexual health needs. This study examined Aboriginal young people's perspectives on sexual health services and sex education in Australia. Overall, 51 Aboriginal people aged 16-26 years were interviewed by peer researchers in Sydney, Australia in 2019-2020. The findings suggest that the internet was used to assess information quick…
Survivor strategies: Rebuilding intimate relationships and sexual wellbeing following sexual violence
Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young Australians’ experiences at school and university: An analysis from the middle
This article explores LGBTQ + young adults’ schooling and university experiences at the intersection of ethnicity and sexuality in Australia. Using the lenses of sexual citizenship and belonging, a sociomaterial polytextual analysis of the ‘middle’ was conducted with data from qualitative in-depth narrative and photo-elicitation interviews among Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young adults. The analysis found that while participants had encoun…
Sex and Gender in the Pacific: Contemporary Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender and Health
Peer Research in Health and Social Development: International Perspectives on Participatory Research
This chapter describes the establishment and achievements of a Girl-Led Research Unit in Kinshasa, involving 15 Congolese girls and young women with diverse backgrounds and life experiences. It discusses the benefits and challenges of a peer research approach in a context in which girls and young women navigate precarious circumstances to survive economically and socially. It also describes the longer-term impacts of these research experiences on…
Working with Aboriginal young people in sexual health research: A peer research methodology in remote Australia
In a context of ongoing colonization and dispossession in Australia, many Aboriginal people live with experiences of health research that is done “on” rather than “with” or “by” them. Recognizing the agency of young people and contributing to Aboriginal self-determination and community control of research, we used a peer research methodology involving Aboriginal young people as researchers, advisors, and participants in a qualitative sexual healt…
Intersex: Cultural and social perspectives
Intersex has been a topic of much discussion in courses on sex and gender in the academy. Much of this discourse has centred on the nature of intersex and how far it challenges the categories of sex and gender. As Emi Koyama and Lisa Weasel pointed out in 2002, this form of academic appropriation risks diverting attention from important \nsocial justice issues towards trivial or reductive theorising about social construction. Academic enquiries i…
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions
Stigma as understood by key informants: A social ecological approach to gay and bisexual men's use of crystal methamphetamine for sex
Priorities and practices of risk reduction among gay and bisexual men in Australia who use crystal methamphetamine for sex
Gender diversity among ‘boys’ in Papua New Guinea: Memories of sameness and difference in early childhood
Childhood is a time when children begin to constitute themselves as gendered subjects largely according to social norms that are rigidly framed within dominant discourses of heteronormative binary gender. This paper is based on the life histories of 42 sexuality and gender diverse adult men and transgender women conducted in PNG. Findings offer insight into the ways in which boys transgressed gender norms through dress, play, work within the home…
HIV and Aids-related stigma and discrimination: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Action
Moving Beyond Biomedicalization in the HIV Response: Implications for Community Involvement and Community Leadership Among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender People
As the world enjoys the promise of biomedical advances against HIV, numerous challenges remain. Some of these are connected to politics, others are connected to resource constraints. Other barriers are linked to the need to ensure that the concepts used to think about HIV remain current. Terms such as “MSM” (men who have sex with men) and “community” require critical interrogation at a moment when their political origins seem forgotten. Likewise,…
Privilege, Agency and Affect: Understanding the Production and Effects of Action
Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives and engaging with new empirical evidence from around the world, this collection examines how privilege, agency and affect are linked, and where possibili
Beyond deficit: Strengths-based approaches' in Indigenous health research
Health research concerning Indigenous peoples has been strongly characterised by deficit discourse-a 'mode of thinking' that is overly focused on risk behaviours and problems. Strengths-based approaches offer a different perspective by promoting a set of values that recognise the capacities and capabilities of Indigenous peoples. In this article, we seek to understand the conceptual basis of strengths-based approaches as currently presented in he…
The reproduction of privilege: Young women, the family and private education
The paper examines processes of cultural production and reproduction among members of the elite and upper-middle classes. Drawing on findings from a study of private education in England, it explores the utility of a conceptual framework to examine how practices in and across different sites may be reproductive of various forms of ‘privilege’. Three domains in particular – family, the school and individual young women’s projects of the self – tog…
We call it a virus but I want to say it's the devil inside: Redemption, moral reform and relationships with God among people living with HIV in Papua New Guinea
Gender and HIV/Aids: What Do Men have to Do with it
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis as a result of HIV/AIDS. The global epidemic is the most devastating in human history - shortening many lives and affecting the economic and social structure of many countries. Central among the factors influencing vulnerability to infection and its consequences are systems and structures of gender. Dominant ideologies of gender influence how women and men see themselves and the social relations into wh…
Agency in action – young women and their sexual relationships in a private school
Agency among young women is often understood as fleeting in nature, and studies rarely offer insights into how agency could become a more sustained position. Using data from 54 young women discussing their sexual and intimate relationships, this paper suggests a new way of understanding agency beyond that found in work which stresses agentic practice as resistance or the challenging of dominant expectations and understandings. Instead, through th…
Telling the truth is the best thing: Teenage orphans' experiences of parental Aids-related illness and bereavement in Zimbabwe
Rebels without a Cause? Socialization and Subcultural Style Among the Children of the New Middle Classes
This article presents the results of an ethnographic investigation into the subcultural practices of a group of new-middle-class students undertaking academic study in an English college of further education. It seeks to contribute to debates stimulated by neo-Marxist writing in the sociology of education concerning the radical significance, or otherwise, of student resistance to schooling. Sets of responses to aspects of the schooling process ar…
Restricted modes: Social media, content classification and LGBTQ sexual citizenship
In the context of recent controversies surrounding the censorship of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer online content, specifically on YouTube and Tumblr, we interrogate the relationship between normative understandings of sexual citizenship and the content classification regimes. We argue that these content classification systems and the platforms’ responses to public criticism both operate as norm-producing technologies, in which th…
Creating Cosmopolitan Subjects: The Role of Families and Private Schools in England
This article examines the ways in which cosmopolitanism is imagined and planned for by 91 young women attending four private (elite) schools in one area of England. Despite many study participants coming from families where parents travelled internationally for business, few had a strong desire to reproduce such orientations in their own futures. Moreover, the elite schools attended placed relatively little emphasis on cosmopolitanism and transna…
Between Individual Agency and Structure in HIV Prevention: Understanding the Middle Ground of Social Practice
When HIV prevention targets risk and vulnerability, it focuses on individual agency and social structures, ignoring the centrality of community in effective HIV prevention. The neoliberal concept of risk assumes individuals are rational agents who act on information provided to them regarding HIV transmission. This individualistic framework does not recognize the communities in which people act and connect. The concept of vulnerability on the oth…
Sexuality Education and Young People's Sexual Behavior: A Review of Studies
To assess the effects of HIV/AIDS and sexuality education on young people's sexual behavior; a comprehensive literature review was commissioned by the Office of Intervention Development and Support within the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS. Fifty-two reports were reviewed. Of 47 studies that evaluated interventions, 25 reported that HP//AIDS and sexuality education neither increased nor decreased sexual activity and attendan…
Teenage Pregnancy among Young People in and Leaving Care: Messages and Implications for Foster Care
Previous research has shown that looked after children and young people are vulnerable to poor life outcomes, including early pregnancy. Abigail Knight, Elaine Chase and Peter Aggleton discuss findings from a Department of Health-funded study on teenage pregnancy among young people in and leaving care. Using in-depth interviews, data were collected from 63 recently looked after young people aged 15 to 24 and from 78 associated professionals from …
HIV- and Aids-Related Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights: A Critical Overview
®Al over the world, the epidemics of HIV and AIDS have been capable of bringing out the best and the worst in people: the best, when, in solidarity, people join together to combat government, community, and individual denial, and to offer support and care to people living with HIV and AIDS; the worst, when people are stigmatized and ostracized by their loved ones, their families, and their communities, and discriminated against individually as we…
Agentic Practice and Privileging Orientations Among Privately Educated Young Women
This paper examines factors driving the agentic practices of young women who are privately educated. The analysis informing this paper comes from a three-year study, in which 91 young women aged 15-19 years were interviewed. Four private schools in one area of middle England participated in the research, and over half of the young women were re-interviewed 12-18 months later. Our starting point is the degree to which particular orientations withi…
The bubble of privilege. Young, privately educated women talk about social class
Conceptualisations of the self in relation to others are examined among a group of young women attending a fee‐paying school in England. As part of a larger study exploring intimacy and agency among young women from relatively privileged class backgrounds, 54 young women participated in focus group discussions and interviews. Findings reveal that young women strongly positioned themselves in relation to ‘others’ – both those they saw as ‘chavs’ a…
Discourse in Cross‐curricular Contexts: Limits to empowerment
Although the 1988 Education Reform Act legislated for a National Curriculum for England and Wales defined in subject terms, the National Curriculum Council suggested that schools should also concern themselves with five cross‐curricular themes related to the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. This paper reports on a study of the implementation of these cross‐curricular themes in secondary schools. It draws upon a posta…
Just a Snip: A Social History of Male Circumcision
THE last seven years have seen growing advocacy for male circumcision as a means of HIV prevention commencing first among public health specialists working mainly in the USA then among some of those working in international organisations and more recently endorsed as part of a comprehensive package of measures supported by both the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. Opinions continue to differ sharply as to whether or not to implement this for…
I shouldn't talk of medicine only: Biomedical and religious frameworks for understanding antiretroviral therapies, their invention and their effects
Medical pluralism offers a long-standing means of analysing the different ways in which health and illness can be interpreted and responded to. It is not unusual for multiple health systems and meanings to co-exist at any one moment in time, offering different ways of understanding and responding to illness and disease. In addition to biomedical frameworks, religious beliefs offer another important means of facilitating healing. Based on qualitat…
Heterosexuality and Race in the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey
This article argues that race and class are central aspects of sexual citizenship in a Australia. It does so by investigating representations of heterosexuality that were produced and circulated during the 2017 same-sex marriage postal survey. Engaging with feminist and critical race theorists, we position same-sex marriage as not exceptional but part of a wider distribution of sexual citizenship within Australia's ongoing settler colonial histor…
Schools, schooling and elite status in English education - changing configurations
À partir des données d'une étude longitudinale portant sur quatre écoles privées d'une zone géographique d'Angleterre, cet article cherche à com- prendre comment distinctement ces écoles cherchent à se placer comme 'élitistes'. La recherche met en évidence l'héritage continu des Grandes Écoles (pensionnats) des xviiie et xixe siècles dans la formation de pratiques contemporaines et modernes. Un accent mis sur l'excellence universitaire et le déve…
Constructing commonsense-young people's beliefs about Aids
There is growing interest amongst social researchers in enquiry related to lay beliefs about HIV infection and AIDS. Research of this kind is important not only theoretically, in that it may help us to understand more clearly the interface between professional and lay beliefs about health and illness, but also practically, in that it may lead to more effective policy interventions.This paper reports on findings from a series of in-depth interview…
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Rebels without a Cause? Socialization and Subcultural Style Among the Children of the New Middle Classes
This article presents the results of an ethnographic investigation into the subcultural practices of a group of new-middle-class students undertaking academic study in an English college of further education. It seeks to contribute to debates stimulated by neo-Marxist writing in the sociology of education concerning the radical significance, or otherwise, of student resistance to schooling. Sets of responses to aspects of the schooling process ar…
Participation and Popular Control on School Governing Bodies: The case of the Taylor Report and its aftermath
This paper argues that in making sense of events leading up to and following the Taylor Report which recommended changes in school management in England and Wales, a number of principles should be borne in mind. First, that instances of policy‐change such as this can not be fully understood except in the context of contemporary economic events and social circumstances. Secondly, that it is useful to view policy‐change as the outcome of ideologica…
Constructing commonsense-young people's beliefs about Aids
There is growing interest amongst social researchers in enquiry related to lay beliefs about HIV infection and AIDS. Research of this kind is important not only theoretically, in that it may help us to understand more clearly the interface between professional and lay beliefs about health and illness, but also practically, in that it may lead to more effective policy interventions.This paper reports on findings from a series of in-depth interview…
Constructing commonsense - young people's beliefs about Aids
Social Aspects of Aids
When will they ever learn? Young people, health promotion and HIV/Aids social research
The chronological age biological maturity and personal and social behavior of adolescents and young adults are not directly linked with each others as most social and biomedical researchers would have one believe. Researchers however traditionally portray youths as being inherently deviant irresponsible and prone to take sexual risks. It is true that youth may tend to experiment sexually as they develop. This experimentation should not however be…
Aids: Individual, Cultural and Policy Dimensions
Aids: A Moral Issue/The Aids Notebooks (Book)
Young people, HIV/Aids and the promotion of sexual health
In the lay and professional literatures on HIV and AIDS, young people are frequently characterized as being at high risk of infection. Their social immaturity, their spontaneity, their emotional volatility and their propensity to risk-take is said to render them specially vulnerable. This paper questions the appropriateness of such a view and argues for a more socially differentiated understanding of young people and their HIV/AIDS health promoti…
Aids: Social Representations, Social Practices
This book brings together specially selected papers addressing themes discussed at the Eighth Conference on the Social Aspects of AIDS held in London in late 1995
Community, solidarity and action—grupo pela Vidda, brazil
Non-governmental community-based organizations have been identified as central to effective HIV/AIDS related prevention and care. This paper reports on the activities and achievement of one such organization--Grupo Pela VIDDA, Brazil. It details the philosophy and commitments which have underpinned the group's action in three related fields--care and support, prevention and advocacy. The paper traces the origins of these commitments to ideals art…
Discourse in Cross‐curricular Contexts: Limits to empowerment
Although the 1988 Education Reform Act legislated for a National Curriculum for England and Wales defined in subject terms, the National Curriculum Council suggested that schools should also concern themselves with five cross‐curricular themes related to the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. This paper reports on a study of the implementation of these cross‐curricular themes in secondary schools. It draws upon a posta…
Subjects and themes in the secondary‐school curriculum
Although the 1988 Education Reform Act legislated for a National Curriculum for England and Wales defined in subject terms, the National Curriculum Council suggested that schools should also concern themselves with a number of cross‐curricular elements. It offered non‐statutory guidance on the implementation of five cross‐curricular themes ‐‐ economic and industrial understanding, careers education and guidance, health education, citizenship (com…
Sexuality In and Out of School
It was exciting to be asked to review a book such as this, which promises boldly on its back cover to examine how 'masculine and feminine identities are formed', how 'girls are increasingly adopting strategies of resistance', and how programmes of sex education can better respond to 'the AIDS crisis at a time when premarital sexual behaviour has become the norm'. And who better to perform such an analysis than Sue Lees, whose earlier work (Losing…
Identity and Audience: Living with HIV disease
Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, perhaps the majority of interventions to prevent HIV transmission, as well as numerous interventions to promote health and well‐being among people living with HTV disease, have assumed a relatively unproblematic relationship between pedagogy, identity and the anticipated outcomes of health promotion intervention. This paper reviews what has been learned from such initiatives in relation to dominant constructi…
Community and contracts: Tensions and dilemmas in the voluntary sector response to HIV and Aids
Voluntary action rooted in community activism was central to the earliest collective responses to AIDS in Britain and the US, and resulted in the emergence of a wide range of community and non‐governmental organisations working to alleviate the impact of the epidemic on affected communities. Drawing on data from a series of in‐depth case studies conducted among voluntary agencies working in the field of HIV and AIDS in Britain, this paper illumin…
Bisexualities and Aids; International Perspectives (Social Aspects of Aids Series)
Vancouver Conference Review
Sexuality Education and Young People's Sexual Behavior: A Review of Studies
To assess the effects of HIV/AIDS and sexuality education on young people's sexual behavior; a comprehensive literature review was commissioned by the Office of Intervention Development and Support within the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS. Fifty-two reports were reviewed. Of 47 studies that evaluated interventions, 25 reported that HP//AIDS and sexuality education neither increased nor decreased sexual activity and attendan…
The global epidemic
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is comprised of a series of overlapping micro-epidemics, each with its own structure and dynamics. However, at the global level, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continued to grow throughout 1996, with an estimated 3.1 million new infections occurring, or 8500/day. About half of those new infections were among women. The majority of newly infected adults in 1996 were under age 25 years. Worldwide, more than 23 million people are…
Aids-related illness trajectories in Mexico: Findings from a qualitative study in two marginalized communities
This paper describes findings from a recent study examining how people affected directly and indirectly by the HIV/AIDS epidemic cope with HIV-related illness in Mexico. One-hundred-and-thirteen in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants in two contrasting communities: Ciudad Netzahualcóyotl (an economically marginalized community) and the gay community in Mexico City (a sexually marginalized community). This paper describes the AIDS-…
Migration, the Family and the Transformation of a Sexual Culture
This paper describes findings from a study of factors affecting sexual beliefs and behaviour among young people in Zimbabwe. The study, which involves a contextual analysis of sexual beliefs, meanings and cultures, was conducted as part of a multi-site research programme funded by the World Health Organisation's (then) Global Programme on AIDS. Data were collected through historical research, community observation, group interviews and in-depth i…
Social enquiry and HIV/Aids
Nearly a decade and a half into the AIDS epidemic, there are reasons for cautious optimism, both in relation to prevention and care, and with respect to the capacity of social enquiry to make a meaningful contribution to the development of programmes and interventions. This paper offers a critical review of some of the ways in which social enquiry has contributed to a better understanding of the epidemic and its dynamics, and has informed prevent…
Changing gender relations among young people: The global challenge for HIV/Aids prevention
The worldwide epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has affected different populations in different countries. Yet, every country has recognized the particular vulnerability of its young people to possible infection. This vulnerability is commonly thought to relate in the main to young people's assumed universal interest in sexual experimentation. Various studies have demonstrated not only both worrying levels of sexual risk-taking among…
Conspicuous by their absence? Men who have sex with men (msm) in developing countries: Implications for HIV prevention
Men who have sex with men remain conspicuously absent from the HIV policy and programme agendas of the majority of developing countries despite efforts by activists and community groups to draw attention to their existence and needs. This paper charts the existence of male to male sex across much of central and south America, Africa and Asia and describes governmental and international responses to date. In contrast with the denial and homophobia…
Sociology (138 works) · Psychology (101 works) · Gender Studies (92 works) · Political science (88 works) · Medicine (69 works) · Social Psychology (54 works) · Human sexuality (49 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (47 works) · Gender Studies (47 works) · Sex work and related issues (42 works)