Beyond agency and victimisation

Re-reading HIV and Aids in African contexts

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3617320
AutoresKatarina Jungar (Åbo Akademi University), Elina Oinas (0000-0002-4340-465X, University of Helsinki)
Ano2011
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas248-262
Data de publicação2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02533952.2011.603192
OpenAlexW1997047457
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas24

We explore a range of projections that, we argue, are increasingly characterising much applied research on and popular representations of HIV/AIDS, gender and embodiment in Africa. Showing how the image of the victim is being challenged by a growing emphasis on agency, we identify continuities between these approaches. It is argued that both the insistence on victimisation and the celebration of agency naturalise neo-liberal ideas about the autonomous individual. Our paper reflects on our work on the South African Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), focusing on how we have confronted issues such as research design, reflexivity, methodology and ethics. We also show how TAC activists have redefined entrenched ideas about agency and victimisation. In developing a language and politics of activism that radically unsettles conventional understandings of embodied acts in the context of the HIV epidemic, TAC raises challenges for research, writing and media representations of embodiment and social marginalisation in African contexts

Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Media studies · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Victimisation · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues