"Don't criminalize passion!" The Aids Crisis and Political Mobilization in 1980s and early 1990s Germany

在1980年代，艾滋病毒/艾滋病引发了各种形式的政治动员和自助结构;这些变化的社会重要性-例如促进保健方面的自决和接受性的多样性-在文化和社会科学研究中没有得到充分的重视。尤其缺少的是对联邦德国德国艾滋病运动的出现、巩固和摩擦的以实践和行动者为重点的研究。因此，该运动的异质性，不同的权力地位和任何随之而来的演员之间的紧张关系也没有得到承认。对20世纪80年代和90年代初艾滋病运动形成的人类历史研究将有助于为这一急需的研究提供基础。为此，研究人员将首先分析情感事件的作用，以及团结和分离情绪（情感和情感习性）-超越传统的身份类别-作为政治动员，结社和内部冲突的一部分。第二，该项目将侧重于集体自我理解（集体身份）的谈判，这是社会运动的组成部分，具有排斥和排斥作用。第三，研究人员将研究习惯性社会差异与艾滋病运动特有的表达形式和互动模式（社会差异、多样性和社会运动文化）之间的相互作用。有了这三个研究轴，该项目建立在对社会运动和政治的研究，从文化人类学，文化历史和社会科学，以及从性别和酷儿研究，以获得以实践为中心，理论洞察社会运动的形成-特别关注不稳定和异质的过程。对三个次级目标的分析将基于档案研究和对前活动家的三阶段访谈;为确保访谈可用于未来的研究和教育目的，在项目完成后，将提供给目前正在开发的德国艾滋病口述历史档案。因此，该项目旨在为艾滋病危机的记忆提供多种声音的贡献，并对与艾滋病有关的社会主题进行有区别的公众参与。

During the 1980s, HIV/Aids provoked diverse forms of political mobilization and self-help structures; the societal importance of these changes - such as for the promotion of self-determination in health care, and the acceptance of sexual diversity - has gone underappreciated in cultural and social scientific research. Especially missing are praxis- and actor-focused studies on the emergence, consolidation and frictions of the Aids movement in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). As a result, the movement`s heterogeneity, varied positions of power and any consequent tensions across actors have also gone unacknowledged. An anthro-historical study about the formation of the Aids movement during the 1980s and early 1990s will help to provide groundwork for this much-needed research. To this end, researchers will analyze, firstly, the role of affectively charged events, and uniting as well as dissociating emotions (affects and emotional habitus) - transcending conventional identity categories - as parts of political mobilization, association and internal conflicts. Secondly, the project will focus on the negotiation of a collective self-understanding (collective identity) - which is constitutive of social movements - with its homogenizing and exclusionary effects. Thirdly, researchers will examine the interplay between habitual social differences, and those forms of expression and patterns of interactions that were characteristic of the Aids movement (social differences, diversity and the culture of social movements). With these three research axes, the project builds on research about social movements and politics from cultural anthropology, cultural history and the social sciences, as well as from gender and queer studies, to gain practice-focused, theoretical insight into the formation of social movements - with a particular focus on precarious and heterogeneous processes. Analysis for the three sub-goals will be based on archival research and three-phase interviews with former activists; to ensure that the interviews are made available for future research and educational purposes, they will be offered to the German Aids Oral History Archive - which is currently in development - upon completion of the project. This project thus aims to offer a multi-voiced contribution to the memory of the Aids crisis, and a differentiated, public engagement with those societal topics that are connected with Aids.