HIV / AIDS, Health and the Media in China

Hood, Johanna

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“…Alongside the lull of African traders arriving to China on account of the global pandemic, Africans with a more permanent living arrangement in the city face new challenges in terms of their racial positions. Associations of Blackness and disease rooted in other historical moments (Hood 2011) are being redeployed to justify the persecution of Africans in Guangzhou, with COVID-19 prevention now serving as the rationale. Firsthand accounts of discrimination against Africans during the pandemic continue to emerge and are made visible through social media and news reports.…”

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The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa

Braun

Haugen

2021

The Professional Geographer

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Grounded in ethnographic observations, this article offers a commentary on the visible and invisible dynamics of mobility between China and West and Central Africa. It follows the transnational trajectories of African trader women and takes stock of some of the weight that these women shoulder during trips where goods and money are set in motion. The materiality of the transported consumer items shapes traders' experiences of mobility and immobility. Trader women also must carry immaterial baggage relating to what their mobile, racialized female bodies represent to various people they encounter. Specifically, the Chinese state and general public view their bodies as threats to social order and, in the context of Ebola and COVID-19, as threats to public health. Our analysis also attends to the weight that female scholars metaphorically carry while conducting research. We devote space to addressing our presence as White researchers, thus attending to methodological opaqueness alongside issues of hidden geographies in transnational trade and migration.

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Section: Visibility and Invisibilitymentioning

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The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa

Braun

Haugen

2021

The Professional Geographer

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“…A large body of scholarship 1 has helped to elucidate the processes through which scientific and lay narratives about health and disease are absorbed into public imaginations and translated over time into both political responses and individual beliefs about susceptibility, or a lack thereof. Elsewhere I have described this process as one of “imagined immunity” (Hood, 2005, 2011).…”

Section: Race Place and Gender In China’s Health Media: Narrating Difference And Diseasementioning

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“…Although the actual numbers of resulting deaths are unrecorded, estimates are over one million (Wu Chenguang, 2002), and the scandal implicates CCP top brass, while compensation, medical treatment, and access to medication are an ongoing fight for the victims and their advocates. Very few reports in China engage these historical factors or the global and local structural inequalities crucial to the spread of HIV today (Hood, 2011a, 2011b; Hyde 2007; Yu, 2012).…”

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“…Since stories of non-local HIV-positive subjects have been frequently included in the Chinese media since HIV research and reporting in China began (Hood, 2011b), otherness and difference have played a central role in the gradual shaping of conceptions of HIV within the urban Han audience. When I began the research for this project in 2002, I initially was intrigued by the presence of images of HIV-positive “Africans” in the Chinese media.…”

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Distancing Disease in the Un-black Han Chinese Politic

Hood

2013

Modern China

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This article seeks to understand the meanings associated with HIV/AIDS in China’s media and examine how the “distance” many urban Chinese people feel toward HIV/AIDS is sustained, despite major changes in public health campaigns that indicate otherwise. It draws on evidence from China’s press and public health media, which remain overlooked in studies on attitudes toward HIV even though 90 percent of urban Chinese learn about HIV from the media, making it supremely important in informing urban understandings of the virus. In particular, the article examines how susceptibility to infection has become associated with racial and gender characteristics through the early portrayal of Africans in China’s media reports on HIV/AIDS. It suggests that the geographical and corporeal signification of Africa and Africans establishes an understanding that connects the “dark” consequences of HIV with skin color and a supposed lack of sociomoral and economic development, thus enabling Chinese audiences to perceive themselves as distant from or even immune to the virus. Finally, the article suggests that if attitudes toward HIV/AIDS are to be addressed, then the racialized attitudes in media toward HIV need to be analyzed, challenged, and changed.

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“…On another level, as a visible minority group, African migrants are marginalized as a result of Guangzhou's increasing efforts to portray itself as a global city that attracts well-educated workers from throughout the world; small-scale African traders and merchants represent the opposite of this image (see also Wilczak, 2018). Indeed, research has shown that Black Africans tend to face more social discrimination and are more likely to be associated with negative stereotypes than other foreign-born populations (Bodomo, 2012;Hood, 2011;Huang, 2018). They are often the target of police crackdowns, for example, as well as anti-migrant campaigns, visa-checks on city streets, and home raids.…”

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Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China

Jiang

2022

Ethnography

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This paper presents empirical data on how religious giving structures African Muslims’ transnational lives in Guangzhou, China. It provides insight into mechanisms of mutual aid within a socially and economically marginalized migrant group in a Muslim-minority society. I argue that in this context Islamic charitable giving helps enable African Muslims to cope with everyday challenges, especially those related to their tenuous immigration statuses and social exclusion. Giving that promotes mutual charity is especially important for African Muslims in Guangzhou since the city’s formal welfare system is inaccessible to most migrants. The article argues that African Muslims’ religious giving creates a social network that safeguards group members from socioeconomic hardship and offers African Migrants a sense of belonging. It concludes by discussing the limitations of religious giving when ties of religious engagement are weak, with individuals failing to fulfil their religious responsibilities in the eyes of the community.

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HIV / AIDS, Health and the Media in China

Cited by 10 publications

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The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa

The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa

Distancing Disease in the Un-black Han Chinese Politic

Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China

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