AIDS and Postcolonial Politics: Acting Up on Science and Immigration in France
Author: Bosia, Michael J.
Source: French Politics, Culture & Society, Volume 27, Number 1, Spring 2009 , pp. 69-90(22)
Abstract:
From a postcolonial left that challenges the French state over immigration policy and neoliberal globalization, Act Up has advocated for the social and political rights and needs of women, inmates, drug users, and immigrants with HIV/AIDS. This essay examines as well Act Up's engagement with science and globalization in response to new experimental medical trials in the Global South. Act Up's emphasis on local empowerment against global economic and social actors has earned criticism from American and South African AIDS activists, but at the same time these campaigns stress the universalist impulse imbedded in the Act Up brand of French Republican politics.Keywords: HIV/AIDS; FRANCE; POSTCOLONIAL POLITICS; GLOBALIZATION; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
DOI: 10.3167/fpcs.2009.270104
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