Thick times – transformation, activism and HIV in Poland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12528176
AutoresJustyna Struzik (0000-0003-3381-6180, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen28
Número4
Páginas570-587
Fecha de publicación2021-07-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Review of History Revue européenne d histoire (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1350-7486 • E-ISSN: 1469-8293
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13507486.2021.1881048
OpenAlexW3191414339
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas21

In this paper, the author explores the entanglements between time and HIV/AIDS activists’ biographies in Poland. More specifically, the aim is to analyse how people living with HIV, activists, professionals, therapists – all of them engaged in constructing and shaping HIV/AIDS policy worlds – experienced the first years of responding to the epidemic and how they frame these past experiences from the present perspective. By looking at different biographies and trajectories of engagement in the HIV/AIDS field, the author examines how various actors conceptualize and reflect upon the ‘thick times’. The intersection of the first responses to the epidemic with transitional changes taking place in Poland in the early 1990s is crucial for understanding the notion of ‘thick times’, its ambivalences and ways in which activists frame their experience from that period

Biology · Gene · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Political science · Transformation (genetics · Central European Literary Studies · European history and politics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Medicine · Genetics · Virology