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Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis (Hardcover)
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Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis shows readers how
the advent of HIV-disease has brought into question the utility of
certain forms of "activism" as they relate to understanding and
fighting the social impacts of disease. This informative and
powerful book is centrally concerned about the ways in which
institutionally governed social constructions of HIV/AIDS affect
policy and public images of the disease more so than activist
efforts. It asserts that an accounting of the power institutional
structures have over the dominant social constructions of HIV
disease is fundamental to adequate forms of present and future AIDS
activism. Chapters in Activism and Marginalization in the AIDS
Crisis demonstrate how, despite what is thought of as the
"successful activism" of the past decade, the claims of the
HIV-positive are still being ignored, still being marginalized, and
still being administratively "handled" and exploited even as the
plight of those who find themselves HIV-positive worsens. Although
chapters reject the assertion that activism has been a highly
effective remedy to HIV-positive voicelessness, authors do not deny
that activists have been vocal, but that they continue to be
ignored despite their vocality.Contributors in Activism and
Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis offer numerous examples of
institutional control and demonstrate that institutional
structures, and not activists, are controlling the public meaning
of HIV-related issues. Readers learn how messages about HIV/AIDS
are produced, negotiated, modified, and sustained through
institutional mechanisms that serve mostly institutional interests
rather than those of the HIV-positive. In gaining an understanding
of these issues, readers will begin to learn how to modify and
strengthen activist efforts with valuable insight on: the lack of
HIV-positive voices in mainstream news portrayals of HIV/AIDS
research on constructions of HIV-disease at the state government
level social constructions and how they affect HIV/AIDS policy the
political construction of AIDS and interest-based struggles the
emergent "bio-politics" of HIV and homosexuality in the U.S. how
institutional power works to govern public understanding of HIV
diseaseInstitutional structures are defined in this book as groups
engaged in and defined by the production of various "truths" which
sustain them. Institutional power may be defined as the capacity to
regulate, constrain, and disseminate versions of "truth." Activism
and Marginalization in the AIDS Crisis reveals how HIV activist
groups have been outmaneuvered when it comes to the production and
dissemination of various "truths" about HIV/AIDS by institutional
structures more deeply steeped in social legitimacy and which have
a superior capacity for message dissemination.HIV/AIDS activists,
HIV-positive persons and those with AIDS, HIV/AIDS educators,
public and institutional policymakers, health professionals, and
the general public will find this book essential to understanding
the social constructions of HIV/AIDS, how these affect
HIV/AIDS-related policy and public opinion, and how to begin to
cipher through the plethora of information to find and promote the
"truth."
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