"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；在文化和社会科学研究中，这些变化的社会重要性--例如对于促进保健中的自决和对性别多样性的接受--没有得到充分认识。尤其缺少的是以实践和演员为重点的关于德意志联邦共和国艾滋病运动的出现、巩固和摩擦的研究。因此，这场运动的异质性、不同的权力地位以及由此引发的演员之间的紧张关系也没有得到承认。一项关于20世纪80年代和90年代初艾滋病运动形成的历史研究将有助于为这一亟需的研究提供基础。为此，研究人员将首先分析情感事件的作用，以及联合和分离情感(影响和情感习惯)-超越传统身份类别-作为政治动员、联想和内部冲突的一部分。第二，该项目将侧重于谈判集体自我理解(集体认同)--这是社会运动的组成部分--及其同质化和排他性影响。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现形式和互动模式(社会差异、多样性和社会运动文化)之间的相互作用。在这三个研究轴心的基础上，该项目以文化人类学、文化史和社会科学以及性别和同性恋研究对社会运动和政治的研究为基础，以实践为重点，从理论上洞察社会运动的形成--特别关注不稳定和不同的过程。对这三个分目标的分析将基于档案研究和对前活动家的三阶段访谈；为了确保为今后的研究和教育目的提供访谈，将在项目完成后提供给德国艾滋病口述历史档案馆--该档案馆目前正在开发中。因此，该项目旨在为纪念艾滋病危机作出多方面的贡献，并以有区别的、公开的方式参与与艾滋病有关的社会主题。

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.