Stigma and ideological constructions of the foreign: Facing HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Black, Steven P.

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“…The discursive structures or discourses refer to patterns of shared meaning which guide and shape people’s relationships and forms of meaning-making (Parker, 1999). For example, in our analysis, we refer to existing cultural ideologies related to living positively with HIV, the stigma-induced barriers to the accessibility of medical care and ART, and the stigma to reproductive health decision-making (Black, 2013; Phinney et al, 2014; Sayles et al, 2009). On the other hand, material structures or the extra-discursive refer to conditions of possibility that are historically specific and culturally contingent (Foucault, 1981).…”

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Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM

Canoy

Ofreneo

2016

Health (London)

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A discursive-materialist framework of agency asserts the mutual constitution of agency within cultural discursive, economic, and embodied material structures. Understanding how HIV-positive men who have sex with men in the Philippines negotiate agency vis-a-vis wider social structures, we utilized Foucault's care of the self to locate agency in relationships with the self, others, and the broader world. Using data from narratives of 20 Filipino HIV-positive men who have sex with men, we analyzed the negotiation of agency as HIV-positive as embedded in the unique discursive terrain of Roman Catholicism and the economic materiality of a developing country. Three main processes of negotiating agency are elaborated: (1) questioning the spiritual self and the sexual body in the relationship with the self, (2) navigating interpersonal limits to care giving in the relationship with others, and (3) reclaiming human dignity in health care in the relationship with the broader world. Theoretical insights on the discursive and material constitution of healing in light of discursive and material challenges are discussed.

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Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM

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Ofreneo

2016

Health (London)

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“…Because , I will say, my husband, because we were about to get married, this was where he showed me whether he loved me or not, because when I disclosed to him, we separated because I am HIV positive .” Rachel's use of the English “disclose” and “HIV positive” corresponded with a widespread pattern I observed in which choir members often used English terms such as HIV, TB (tuberculosis), CD4 count (a measure of white blood cells) and ARVs even in isiZulu conversation. In my work I have found that the term “HIV” was opposed to a number of other terms in English and in isiZulu , some of which were overtly stigmatizing—for example, i‐slim, referring to the wasting away of the body, i‐Hi Vee, and ingculazi , literally translated as AIDS (Black ). At other times, research participants told me that to use the supposedly neutral term ingculazi felt dirty.…”

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The Morality of Performance: HIV Disclosure in Speech and Song in South Africa

Black¹

2015

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This article synthesizes anthropological research on morality and performance, drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with a Zulu choir that was an HIV support group and AIDS activist organization. The article responds to an increasing level of anthropological interest in the topic of morality and contributes to an emerging body of literature on language and experience. The concept of moral assemblages is used to examine the embodied communicative dispositions of choir members amid two overlapping and sometimes conflicting public discourses about HIV disclosure. Building on previous research on how performance makes it possible to address topics otherwise outside cultural boundaries of acceptable speech, the article explores how framing HIV disclosure as performance allowed some South Africans living with HIV to embody the conflicting prescriptions of two distinct public discourses about disclosure. [Morality, embodiment, performance, HIV/AIDS, South Africa, disclosure]

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“…As someone trained in linguistic anthropology, though, I was oriented toward future linguistic analysis to an extent that I felt that audio recording of this group conversation was indispensable. This allowed for the capture of significant data on the ways that this group of women, including Amahle, engaged in collaborative storytelling practices to narrate their experiences with HIV (see Black ). I found that these and other research participants relied heavily on stereotypical gender discourses—in particular, critical stances on heterosexual Zulu masculinity—to normalize stories that were in danger of not being told due to the threat of HIV stigma (cf.…”

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Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio‐Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory

Black

2017

American Anthropologist

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This article contributes to the development of professional anthropological discourses about audiovideo recording technologies in ethnographic research. Synthesizing scholarship on ethnographic partiality, doing ethnography in sound, and multimedia technologies, the article reflexively applies the concepts of transduction and affordance to analyze how recorders may be theorized as part of fieldwork encounters. This is based on fieldwork with a Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa. Here, I discuss how research participants guided my use of recorders amid inequality and HIV stigma. I analyze the ethical-communicative affordances of recording technologies, examining how the design of audio-video technologies intersects with cultural and communicative conventions for use and evaluation of use of these technologies. This analysis suggests that the ethical-communicative affordances of transducers yield both an extension of an ethnographer's social self and a disconnect from that self in ways that can be productively navigated during fieldwork. [ethnographic methods, technology, stigma, ethics]RESUMEN Este artículo contribuye al desarrollo de los discursos antropológicos profesionales acerca de las tecnologías de grabación de audio y video en la investigación etnográfica. Sintetizando las investigaciones en parcialidad etnográfica, haciendo la etnografía en sonido, y tecnologías multimedia, este artículo reflexivamente aplica los conceptos de transducción y ofrecimiento para analizar cómo las grabadoras pueden ser teorizadas como parte de los encuentros de trabajo de campo. Esto está basado en el trabajo de campo con un coro de góspel zulú compuesto por personas que viven con VIH en Sudáfrica. Aquí, discuto cómo los participantes en la investigación guiaron mi uso de grabadoras en medio de la desigualdad y el estigma del VIH. Analizo los ofrecimientoséticoscomunicativos de tecnologías de grabación, examinando cómo el diseño de tecnologías de audio y video intersecta con las convenciones culturales y comunicativas para uso y evaluación del uso de estas tecnologías. Este análisis sugiere que los ofrecimientoséticos-comunicativos de los transductores generan tanto una extensión del ser social del etnógrafo y una desconexión de ese ser mismo en formas que pueden ser productivamente navegadas durante el trabajo de campo. [métodos etnográficos, tecnología, estigma,ética]

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Stigma and ideological constructions of the foreign: Facing HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Cited by 25 publications

References 41 publications

Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM

Struggling to care: A discursive-material analysis of negotiating agency among HIV-positive MSM

The Morality of Performance: HIV Disclosure in Speech and Song in South Africa

Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio‐Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory

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