Thinking differently about HIV/AIDS : contributions from critical social science

372 Pages·2019·2.605 MB·English

by  Mykhalovskiy, Eric, Namaste, Viviane K.

Thinking
Differently about
HIV/AIDS

Thinking
Contributions from
Differently about
Critical Social Science
HIV/AIDS
Edited by
ERIC MYKHALOVSKIY
and
VIVIANE NAMASTE
© UBC Press 2019
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Thinking differently about HIV/AIDS : contributions from critical social
science / edited by Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane Namaste.
Names: Mykhalovskiy, Eric, editor. | Namaste, Viviane K., editor.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190055790 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190055863 |
ISBN 9780774860703 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780774860727 (PDF) |
ISBN 9780774860734 (EPUB) | ISBN 9780774860741 (Kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: AIDS (Disease) – Canada. | LCSH: HIV infections – Canada. |
LCSH: Social sciences – Canada. | LCSH: Critical thinking – Canada.
Classification: LCC RA643.86.C3 T55 2019 | DDC 362.19697/9200971—dc23
UBC Press gratefully acknowledges the financial support for our publishing
program of the Government of Canada (through the Canada Book Fund), the
Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council.
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian
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We dedicate this book to
George W. Smith (1935–94),
whose intellectual and political influences
flow throughout its pages.

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Knowing and Responding to
HIV/AIDS Differently 3
Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane Namaste
Part 1: Critical Dispositions
1 | On the Possibility of Being Governed Otherwise:
Exploring Foucault’s Legacy for Critical Social
Science Studies in the Field of HIV/AIDS 39
Adrian Guta and Stuart J. Murray
2 | Tracking Treatment Adherence: Should Critical
Social Scientific Accounts of HIV Theorize
Non-Human Actants? 72
Martin French
3 | Institutional Ethnography as a Critical Research
Strategy: Access, Engagement, and Implications
for HIV/AIDS Research 103
Daniel Grace
4 | Conversation Analysis and Critical Social Science:
The Interactional Organization of HIV-Positive
Disclosures 134
Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo
5 | Indigenous Knowing in HIV Research in Canada:
A Reflexive Dialogue 161
Randy Jackson
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Part 2: Empirical Case Studies
6 | Thinking Critically about HIV Prevention for
Gay and Bisexual Men 189
Barry D. Adam
7 | Undetectable Optimism: The Science of Gay Male
Sexual Risk-Taking and Serosorting in the Context
of Uncertain Knowledge of Viral Load 213
Mark Gaspar
8 | A Critical Case-Study Analysis of the Logic and
Practices of Prescribing HIV Pre-Exposure
Prophylaxis (PrEP) to At-Risk Adolescents 249
Chris Sanders, Jill Owczarzak, and Andrew Petroll
9 | The Social Relations of Disclosure: Critical
Reflections on the Community-Based Response
to HIV Criminalization 278
Colin Hastings
10 | Epidemiology, the Media, and Vancouver’s Public
Health Emergency: A Critical Ethnography 302
Denielle Elliott
Conclusion 332
Viviane Namaste and Eric Mykhalovskiy
List of Contributors 340
Index 346
Acknowledgments
This anthology is the result of the labour of many individuals
in addition to the support offered by different institutions. The
project emerged from two meetings that brought scholars together.
Financial support for those meetings was provided by Concordia
University (funding for a Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual
Health, Office of the Vice-Provost Research and Graduate Studies)
and York University, for which we are most grateful.
Logistical coordination and preparation for the meetings were
done by Natalie Duchesne, Nora Butler-Burke, Laura Bisaillon, and
Colin Hastings. Mark Gaspar and Colin Hastings produced a
bibliography on critical social science that guided the scholarly
conversations of the group. Natalie Duchesne offered expert copy-
editing on the manuscript as it moved through the peer review
process. Developing this book involved conversations with many
scholars and potential contributors who did not write chapters for
the current volume. We thank, in particular, Marilou Gagnon, Eli
Manning, Nicole Greenspan, Alex McClelland, Laura Bisaillon,
and Cindy Patton for their engagement with this project.
The presentation of this project was met with immediate sup-
port and enthusiasm from UBC Press. In particular, Darcy Cullen,
Megan Brand, and James MacNevin nourished and fostered this
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