Postcolonial Constructions of HIV/Aids
Meaning, Culture, and Structure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7098571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shaunak Sastry (0000-0003-3404-8283, Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author), M J Dutta (0000-0002-2228-8100, Purdue University West Lafayette) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 437-449 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-0236 • E-ISSN: 1532-7027 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10410236.2011.554166 |
| PMID | 21432702 |
| OpenAlex | W2004189697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 23 |
As a field of inquiry, postcolonial health communication seeks to apprehend processes implicated in the construction of "primitive" versus "modern" with respect to issues of health. In the case of HIV/AIDS, the sociocultural representations of the disease have a profound impact on how the disease is configured medically and symbolically in dominant cultural imagination. Postcolonial constructions of disease are mobilized around the political and economic interests of the dominant power structures in global spaces. In this article, a thematic analysis of the constructions of HIV/AIDS in India in the mainstream U.S. news media was conducted. A corpus of news articles from the Lexis-Nexis database was created with the keywords "HIV," "AIDS," and "India." Three themes emerged from the study: (a) India as a site of biomedical control; (b) the economic logics of HIV/AIDS; and (c) AIDS, development, and the "Third World
Disease · Family medicine · Field (mathematics · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Lexis · Linguistics · Mainstream · Meaning (existential · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Thematic analysis · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Law · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |