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This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the
treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of 'ending AIDS'.
Exploring what it means to 'end AIDS' and how responsibility is
framed in this new discourse, the author considers the tensions
generated between the individual and the state in terms of notions
such as risk, responsibility and prevention. Based on analyses
public health promotions in the UK and the US, HIV prevention
science and engaging with the work of Foucault, this volume argues
that the discourse of 'ending AIDS' implies a tension-filled space
in which global principles and values may clash with localised
needs, values and concerns; in which evidence-based policies strive
for hegemony over local, tacit and communal regimes of knowledge;
and in which desires compete with national and international ideas
about what is best for the individual in the name of 'ending AIDS'
writ large. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and
media studies with interests in the sociology of medicine and
health, medical communication and health policy.
This book provides a textual analysis of the implementation of the
UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in health care. Using
sexual health as a case study, the authors apply Foucault's notions
of biopower and biopolitics to discuss the power struggle between
local needs and wants and universal ambitions embedded in the SDG
ideology. Reproductive and sexual health are settings where health
policy, religious and cultural norms, and gender policy meet
personal and moral standards. As such, tensions, dilemmas, and
conflicts are powerfully demonstrated in this interdisciplinary
field of public health. Tensions, dilemmas and conflicts are
particularly visible in reproductive and sexual health settings,
where health policy meets personal or moral standards, gender
policy, and religious and cultural norms. This book will be
valuable supplementary material for graduate students and academics
wishing to enhance their knowledge in the fields of global health,
sexual health, reproductive health and rights, and cultural
studies. The book will also be of interest to professionals and
students within the disciplines of medical sociology, medical
anthropology, sustainability studies, gender and sexuality studies,
and public health.
This book considers the change in rhetoric surrounding the
treatment of AIDS from one of crisis to that of 'ending AIDS'.
Exploring what it means to 'end AIDS' and how responsibility is
framed in this new discourse, the author considers the tensions
generated between the individual and the state in terms of notions
such as risk, responsibility and prevention. Based on analyses
public health promotions in the UK and the US, HIV prevention
science and engaging with the work of Foucault, this volume argues
that the discourse of 'ending AIDS' implies a tension-filled space
in which global principles and values may clash with localised
needs, values and concerns; in which evidence-based policies strive
for hegemony over local, tacit and communal regimes of knowledge;
and in which desires compete with national and international ideas
about what is best for the individual in the name of 'ending AIDS'
writ large. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and
media studies with interests in the sociology of medicine and
health, medical communication and health policy.
This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in
Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines,
arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a
"post-racial" or "color blind" era, color still matters in the
lives of people of mixed ethnic descent. Drawing on research from
people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the author offers insights into
how color matters and is made to matter and into the ways in which
terms such as "ethnic" and "ethnicity" remain very much indebted to
their older, racialized grammar. Color that Matters moves beyond
the conventional Anglo-American focus of scholarship in this field,
showing that while similarities exist between the racial and ethnic
discourses of the US and UK and those found in the Nordic region,
Scandinavia, and Norway in particular, manifests important
differences, in part owing to a tendency to view itself as
exceptional or outside the colonial heritage of race and
imperialism. Presenting both a contextualization of racial
discourses since World War II based on documentary analysis and new
interview material with people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the
book acts as a corrective to the blind spot within Scandinavian
research on ethnic minorities, offering a new reading of race for
the Nordic region that engages with the idea that color has been
emptied of legitimate cultural content.
This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in
Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines,
arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a
"post-racial" or "color blind" era, color still matters in the
lives of people of mixed ethnic descent. Drawing on research from
people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the author offers insights into
how color matters and is made to matter and into the ways in which
terms such as "ethnic" and "ethnicity" remain very much indebted to
their older, racialized grammar. Color that Matters moves beyond
the conventional Anglo-American focus of scholarship in this field,
showing that while similarities exist between the racial and ethnic
discourses of the US and UK and those found in the Nordic region,
Scandinavia, and Norway in particular, manifests important
differences, in part owing to a tendency to view itself as
exceptional or outside the colonial heritage of race and
imperialism. Presenting both a contextualization of racial
discourses since World War II based on documentary analysis and new
interview material with people of mixed ethnic backgrounds, the
book acts as a corrective to the blind spot within Scandinavian
research on ethnic minorities, offering a new reading of race for
the Nordic region that engages with the idea that color has been
emptied of legitimate cultural content.
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