Biosocial Activism, Identities and Citizenship

Making up 'people living with HIV and Aids' in Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID2489045
AuthorsCarlos Guilherme Do Valle (0000-0001-5855-7774, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume12
Issue2
Pages27-70
Publication date2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412015v12n2p027
OpenAlexW2336234962
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412015000200027
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited27

This article discusses how Brazilian AIDS activism has emerged and been reconfigured over the last 25 years. I analyze how societal forms were created and particular problems emerged in a specific context affected by the AIDS epidemic. Based on ethnographic research in concrete contexts in Brazil, I follow the ways by which people have united around various ideas and practices related to life, health and illness, morality and politics. People affected by the epidemic were engaged in sociality, identity formation and the definition of a wide range of health, political and judicial demands, which take a particular biosocial activism as their main form of collective mobilization. My main aim is to reflect, therefore, on the formation of particular biosocial worlds, socialities, collectivities and identities related to specific modes of subjectification surrounding life and death, biomedicine and biotechnologies, politics and citizenship

Biomedicine · Biopower · Biosocial theory · Citizenship · Criminology · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Politics · Racialization · Sociality · Sociology · Subjectification · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology

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