Marseille 2007
| Abstract #679 - Exploring discourses and practices of responsibility in the context of HIV:Symposium. | ||||
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Session: 52.1: Exploring discourses and practices of responsibility in the context of HIV (Workshop) on Tuesday @ 13.00-14.00 in CP Chaired by Jeanne Ellard Authors: Presenting Author: Dr Martha Chinouya - London Metropolitan University , United Kingdom |
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| Additional Authors: Mr Dean Murphy , Dr Jeanne Ellard, Dr Catherine Dodds , | ||||
| Aim: This symposium explores the ways in which discourses and practices of responsibility have framed individual, community, government, legal and public health responses to HIV/AIDS and the sexual and social cultures of affected communities. The papers in this session will explore and critically reflect on the multiple meanings of responsibility, its conceptual strengths and weaknesses in relation to HIV prevention and sexual negotiation. Also explored will be how notions of responsibility have shifted across time, and vary according to culture, gender, and sexuality. The early years of the 21st century have seen increases in HIV infection rates among gay men and CALD communities in many western societies, including Australia, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. A range of factors have been linked to these increases including, complacency, treatments optimism, marginalisation and the increasing emphasis on western notions of individualism. The ways in which responsibility and agency are deployed and interpreted has ongoing implications for the production of effective education and the management of sexual risk among affected communities. In the context of HIV increases in many western societies and new treatment and prevention technologies this symposium will question the binary of individual vs. collective responsibility and in particular the proposition that individual responsibility and agency is antithetical to a broader notion of social or public responsibility. The papers will collectively address both theoretical and empirical issues around agency and responsibility. The presenters will draw on a diverse range of material, including textual analysis of education campaigns, experiences of heterosexual Black African men and women living in the United Kingdom in relation to transmission and responsibility. Also explored will be the criminalisation of HIV transmission and understandings of risk and responsibility among individuals from different populations diagnosed with HIV. | ||||
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