Politico-moral Transactions in Indian AIDS Service: Confidentiality, Rights and New Modalities of Governance.

This article examines the rise of non-governmental AIDS service in India as a space of cultural politics and of possibilities for social transformation. Drawing on ethnographic material from an AIDS service NGO in an urban North Indian setting, and the network of organizations that it is part of, th...

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Publicado en:Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 33 - 75
Autor principal: Misra, Kavita
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research Winter 2006
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Sumario:This article examines the rise of non-governmental AIDS service in India as a space of cultural politics and of possibilities for social transformation. Drawing on ethnographic material from an AIDS service NGO in an urban North Indian setting, and the network of organizations that it is part of, the article describes the emergence of a transnational!)/mobile community of AIDS experts, their relationship to the non-governmental and the state and the circulation of ideas and practices between the global and the local. It focuses on the politico-moral transactions around confidentiality and embedded within it, the discourse of rights to show how they reflect changing configurations of governance and citizenship, and redefinitions of health. [Keywords: AIDS, biosociality, NGOs, governance, rights and citizenship, cultural politics] Reprinted by permission of the publisher.