Making MSM Biopolitical subjects in Vietnam
This contribution explores the discursive and practical marking of gay males as targets of a biopolitical regime whose aim, ostensibly, was and is to secure the health and well-being of the Vietnamese population. I consider how the contemporary apparatus constructed to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic i...
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| Published in | HAU journal of ethnographic theory Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 1071 - 1073 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
01.12.2020
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| Summary: | This contribution explores the discursive and practical marking of gay males as targets of a biopolitical regime whose aim, ostensibly, was and is to secure the health and well-being of the Vietnamese population. I consider how the contemporary apparatus constructed to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Vietnam, one funded by the United States, operates by inducing adherence to a new regime that turns on subjectivation and risk calculation. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 2575-1433 2049-1115 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/711681 |