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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"AIDS activism"”.
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HIV/AIDS activism in England, c. 1982-1997.
… individuals who responded politically to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in England. It spans the years of the first confirmed AIDS-related death in the UK, that of Terry Higgins in 1982, until 1997. This was the year after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) transformed the …
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From Archives to Legacies: Chicanx and Latinx AIDS Activism and Consciousness
… visual, and cultural productions addressing AIDS demonstrate strategies of AIDS consciousness and activism that are distinctly different from the confrontational and politically symbolic actions of largely white male groups like ACT UP, and, as such, they are often not recognized by scholars …
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Positive Muslims: a critical analysis of Muslim AIDS activism in relation to women living with HIV/AIDS in Cape Town
… Muslim approaches to five women with HIV/AIDS in Cape Town focussing particularly on the approach of 'Positive Muslims' - an awareness-raising and support group for Muslims living with HIV/AIDS. The central question of this thesis dealt with the impact of the norms, values and practices of …
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Furious Acts: AIDS and the Arts of Activism, 1981-1996
… which art and artistic production were used in AIDS activism between 1980 and 1996 by such artistic and activist organizations as ACT-UP, the Radical Faeries, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Gran Fury, the NAMES Project, and the Gay Men's Health Crisis. My project is organized thematically …
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Movement, knowledge, emotion : gay activists and the Australian AIDS movement
This thesis examines community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. Specifically, it looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the thesis argues that AIDS activism …
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Movement, knowledge, emotion : gay activists and the Australian AIDS movement
This thesis examines community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. Specifically, it looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the thesis argues that AIDS activism …
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Predictors of Engagement in the Community Affected by HIV and AIDS
… engagement in the community affected by HIV and AIDS (CAHA). An additional goal of this study was to better understand the relationships between psychological sense of community (PSOC) and social identification (SI), and their connections to two classes of motivations: community concern …
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Civil society leadership in the struggle for AIDS treatment in South Africa and Uganda
… society leadership’ in Sub-Saharan Africa. ‘AIDS leadership,’ which is associated with the intergovernmental institutions charged with coordinating the global response to HIV/AIDS, is both under-theorised and highly context-specific. In this study I therefore opt for an inclusive framework …
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Acquiring Social Capital: the biographical trajectory of long-term surviving HIV/AIDS activist Faghmeda Miller
… publicly disclosed her HIV status on World AIDS Day in 1996. She became the first Muslim woman in South Africa to do so. Her story of courage in the face of the unknown, stigma and discrimination echo the complex social context in which HIV is experienced nationally and globally. It places …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
… racial and gender pluralism with Haring’s HIV/AIDS activism. The second case study analyses Annie Lennox’s and DJ Junior Vasquez’s “No More ‘I Love You’s’” (The Sound Factory Mix), a recording released in 1995, which embodies a proliferating era of LGBTQ civil rights and an aural armament …
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Through the Body: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Empathy in Contemporary American Art
<p>This dissertation considers the relationship between embodied experience, subjectivity, and empathy expressed in artworks created and exhibited in New York in the early 1990s and linked with identity politics. I focus on works that represented or evoked bodies and elicited viscerally somatic …