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At Risk - Gowri Vijayakumar

At Risk

Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2021
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-2752-9 (ISBN)
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In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort to prevent it. HIV prevention programs channeled billions of dollars toward those groups designated as at-risk—sex workers and men who have sex with men. At Risk captures this unique moment in which these criminalized and marginalized groups reinvented their "at-risk" categorization and became central players in the crisis response. The AIDS crisis created a contradictory, conditional, and temporary opening for sex-worker and LGBTIQ activists to renegotiate citizenship and to make demands on the state.


Working across India and Kenya, Gowri Vijayakumar provides a fine-grained account of the political struggles at the heart of the Indian AIDS response. These range from everyday articulations of sexual identity in activist organizations in Bangalore to new approaches to HIV prevention in Nairobi, where prevention strategies first introduced in India are adapted and circulate, as in the global AIDS field more broadly. Vijayakumar illuminates how the politics of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape global crisis response. In so doing, she considers the precarious potential for social change in and after a crisis.

Gowri Vijayakumar is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.

1. Introduction

2. India and the Specter of African AIDS

3. From Containment to Incorporation

4. At-Risk Citizens

5. Risky Selves

6. Making It Count

7. India in Africa

8. After AIDS

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Globalization in Everyday Life
Zusatzinfo 2 tables, 2 figures
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-5036-2752-7 / 1503627527
ISBN-13 978-1-5036-2752-9 / 9781503627529
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