Social Movements and HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Social Movements and HIV/AIDS in South Africa
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DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4419-0306-8_11
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2009-01-01
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Robins, Steven
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作者：
Colvin, Christopher J.;Robins, Steven
艾滋病毒和艾滋病在几乎所有地方都引发了激烈的社会和政治争议。关于该疾病的性质和意义以及控制其传播和照顾其受害者的最佳方法的冲突数量众多、激烈、持久且形式多样。正如 Paula Treichler (1999) 所说，艾滋病毒确实是一种“有意义的流行病”，就像它对数百万人来说是一场生物灾难一样。然而，这种病毒不仅在当代世界引发了关于死亡和疾病的多重且相互竞争的含义、象征和话语，而且还激发了非政府组织（NGO）和社区组织（CBO）组成的庞大全球网络的创建。它催生了新的社区、活动家和学者网络，并已成为旨在控制其传播和治疗受害者的全新全球援助机构和发展政策架构的对象。许多这些重要的社会和政治发展都是通过为应对这一流行病而出现的众多地方和全球社会运动的努力而实现的。
There are few places where HIV and AIDS have not inspired fervent social and political controversies. Conflicts over the nature and meaning of the disease and the best ways to control its spread and care for its victims have been numerous, intense, persistent and diverse in their forms. As Paula Treichler (1999) put it, HIV has indeed been an ‘epidemic of signification’ as much as it has been a biological catastrophe for millions of people. This virus, though, has not only aroused multiple and competing meanings, symbols and discourses about death and disease in the contemporary world, but also inspired the creation of a vast global web of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs). It has catalysed new networks of communities, activists and academics and it has become the object of an entirely new global architecture of aid institutions and development policies aimed at controlling its spread and treating its victims. Many of these important social and political developments were made possible by the work of the numerous social movements, local and global, that have emerged in response to the epidemic.