About the Book
This book explores the relationship between COVID-19 and AIDS. It considers both how the earlier HIV pandemic informed our engagement with COVID-19, as well as the ways in which COVID-19 has changed how we remember and experience AIDS.
Individual sections focus on sexual and intimate relationships, inequalities and injustice, the progressive biomedicalisation of the response (in the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment or cure), and professional, practitioner and community perspectives on the pandemics. The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds – including public health, nursing, law and legal studies, political studies, and the humanities and social sciences. The book contains contributions by established writers such as Dennis Altman, Shalini Bharat, Tim Dean, Deborah Lupton, Shubhada Maitra, Pauline Oosterhoff and Michael Tan, as well as chapters by Chris Ashford and Gareth Longstaff, Bernard Kelly, Dean Murphy and Kiran Pienaar, and Theodore (ted) Kerr.
This thought-provoking and timely volume includes case studies from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, the UK, the USA and Vietnam. It has been written for students and scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, healthcare, public health, social work, anthropology, and gender and sexuality studies. The book will also be of interest to the general reader who wants a better understanding of the social and cultural dimensions of modern-day pandemics and the personal and community responses to which they give rise.
Table of Contents:
1. Viral times: HIV, COVID-19 and beyond
Jaime García-Iglesias, Maurice Nagington and Peter Aggleton
Part I Intimate relationships
2. Navigating dating and sexual intimacy in viral times: How people adapt their sexual relationships to pandemic risk
Barbara Rothmüller and Anna-Greta Mittelberger
3. 75 loads in LA: Situating the 'queer mundane' in viral times
Chris Ashford and Gareth Longstaff
4. Narratives of pandemic lives: Everyday experiences of the plague, HIV and COVID-19 in literary fiction
Deborah Lupton
5. The politics of epidemics: From the local to the global
Dennis Altman
6. An unlimited intimacy of the air: Pandemic fantasy, COVID-19 and the biopolitics of respiration
Tim Dean
Part II Biomedicalisation
7. How to survive another plague: Autoethnographic reflections on antiviral medication, cultural memory and dystopian metaphor
Max Morris
8. Thinking with HIV in pandemic times: A diffractive reading of COVID-19 and mpox
Kiran Pienaar and Dean Murphy
9. People, politics and death: International, national and community responses to HIV and COVID-19
Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton
10. Viral times and governance: The Philippines
Michael Lim Tan
Part III Professional, practitioner, and community perspectives
11. When The Clapping stops: Mourning and the spectacle of public sacrifice during COVID-19
Bernard Kelly
12. Memorialisation within an ongoing crisis: Learning from COVID-19, HIV and AIDS, and the Overdose Response Activists
Theodore (ted) Kerr
13. Critical hope and responses to pandemics: From HIV to COVID-19
Carmen H. Logie and Frannie MacKenzie
14. HIV outreach for men who have sex with men during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, 2020–2021
Benjamin Hegarty, Amalia Puri Handayani, Sandeep Nanwani and Ignatius Praptoraharjo
15. Equitable access and public attitudes to prevention of HIV and COVID-19 in Vietnam
Pauline Oosterhoff and Tu Anh Hoang
16. COVID-19 stigma and discrimination in India: Parallels with the HIV pandemic
Shubhada Maitra, Shalini Bharat and Marie A. Brault
About the Author :
Jaime García-Iglesias is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Maurice Nagington is a lecturer, researcher and registered nurse at the University of Manchester, UK.
Peter Aggleton holds senior professorial positions at The Australian National University, UNSW Sydney, and UCL. He is an adjunct professor in the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
Review :
“Viral times: reflections on the COVID-19 and HIV pandemics explores how the COVID-19 pandemic can shape our understanding of the HIV pandemic, and vice versa…This book contains an important balance of personal and data-driven arguments, and the editors correctly identified how necessary both sides are given the prevalence and sensitivity of the issues discussed. They have carefully curated a selection of sharp, nuanced viewpoints and research. A wide range of topics are covered, with an important amount of diverse voices being heard: all contributors should be proud of their work here.” – Emma Starbuck, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
