Full Description
Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems.
Contents
Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Uneven Anthropological and Epidemiological Stories in Historical HIV Context
2 "The Postelection Violence Has Brought Shame on Us All": HIV and Legacies of Racism, Political Violence, and Ethnic Conflict
3 Stigma and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty
4 "We Call HIV a Sex Worker Disease": Economic Inequalities, Social Change, and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality
5 (Re)Imagining Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Mental Health Statuses
6 "What Has Happened to You?" HIV and the (Re)Making of Moral Personhood
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
