CULTURE AS AN OBJECT OF ETHICAL GOVERNANCE IN AIDS PREVENTION.
This paper analyses AIDS-prevention therapeutics as ethical technologies of governance relative to the experience of culture. As a number of AIDS scholars have noted, the concept of 'culture' has been a powerful rubric for organizing evidence about HIV-transmission behaviours and their modification...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 4/5; pp. 672 - 695 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=25507517&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 25507517 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09502386 05G jtl: Cultural Studies issn: 09502386 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul/Sep2007 vid: 21 iid: 4/5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 25507517 10.1080/09502380701279028 ppf: 672 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 115KB tig: atl: CULTURE AS AN OBJECT OF ETHICAL GOVERNANCE IN AIDS PREVENTION. aug: au: Geary, AdamM su: AIDS prevention AIDS & society AIDS education Medical education & society Medical innovations & society Governmentality Political ethics Culture Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 sug: subj: AIDS prevention AIDS & society AIDS education Medical education & society Medical innovations & society Governmentality Political ethics Culture Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 keyword: AIDS culture/theory of ethical governance governmentality self-relation therapeutic education ab: This paper analyses AIDS-prevention therapeutics as ethical technologies of governance relative to the experience of culture. As a number of AIDS scholars have noted, the concept of 'culture' has been a powerful rubric for organizing evidence about HIV-transmission behaviours and their modification in prevention research and programming. Indeed, culture has been one of the most important concepts in AIDS-prevention knowledge through which danger is problematized, or organized as a specific problem that can be entered into strategies and techniques of governance and reform. This is to say that 'culture' functions in AIDS prevention as an object and target of government, toward which instruments, knowledges, and programmes are directed with the goal of transforming the behaviours and meanings said to put individuals at risk for HIV transmission. I argue that culture is experienced in prevention therapeutics as an element of the self toward which one is to form oneself as an active and ethical subject of one's own health. In AIDS-prevention pedagogies, individuals encounter 'culture' as a potentially dangerous element of the self, a force or drive within oneself that will overwhelm one's free and responsible decision-making capacity unless one forms a deliberate and authoritative relationship to it. These pedagogies cultivate in subjects techniques for constituting an authoritative relationship to culture, seeking to guarantee responsible behaviour and decision-making about HIV risk by constituting individuals as authoritative subjects of their cultures. As such, AIDS prevention is best understood as what Foucault called an 'ethical' governing strategy that forms individuals as active and responsible subjects of their cultures. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Cultural Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Cultural Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2007 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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